Worlds Video Links
This kind YouTube user has uploaded a lot of videos from Worlds. Thanks placeabonament!
When a team skates like this, it makes the argument that synchronized skaters are not as skilled as freestyle skaters null and void. Thank you, Team Paradise. If this is the future of synchronized skating, they won’t be able to ignore us for much longer. Hallelujah.
Yeah I can’t stop watching this. I keep repeating their circle step sequence over and over and over…I swear I’m about to go to the rink and learn it. I can’t get over how well it goes with the music. I love the twizzle with the leg crossed in front but what gets me is the head roll when they check out of the twizzle…it just looks like they’re all losing themselves in the music and really skating from the heart.
Synchro on TV!
SportsCenter on ESPN has a video they do called “Not Top 10 Plays” which basically features 10 sports bloopers. At #9 this week is a video of the Star Mates’ warm-up block from Easterns. While we probably shouldn’t be laughing at this, they went on to win gold, so I’m sure the team is treating it pretty lightheartedly. Anything to give synchro some exposure!! And good for them for pulling themselves together after a warm-up like this!
“Sh*t People Say to Figure Skaters”
By the Maryland Synchronized Skating Team!
Here’s a video of Central Park Ice Open Juvenile where the one skater gets stuck to herself!
Videos from Winterfest 2012
This is actually just a link to GIDad2009’s channel, I figured it was easier than posting many separate links. Thanks Gold Ice Dad!
EDIT: Nexxice Junior and Les Supremes Junior qualified for JWCC. You can watch their performances on GIDad2009’s channel.
“How to make the perfect synchro skating bun”
If you don’t trust bobby pins, I think most teams use clear fishing line and a big needle to sew in the bun. When I got to a high-level team we had to sew our own buns. I remember holding one end of the fishing line in my teeth and getting a line across my face from where it would press in…I was always good at sewing other people but never myself….
