#figure Skating

[labelleizzy]

I'm in love with the little comedic tumbles to the ice and the immediate roll back up. I've been gimpy for years off and on and getting down and back up like that I can only do in my DREAMS. so elegant, he makes the whole routine look EASY

[figureskatingpenguin]

2024 ISU Grand Prix Finalists: Women

aka japanese nationals lite ft. amber:

🇯🇵 Kaori Sakamoto 🥇🥇 🇺🇸 Amber Glenn 🥇🥇 🇯🇵 Wakaba Higuchi 🥇🥈 🇯🇵 Hana Yoshida 🥉🥇 🇯🇵 Mone Chiba 🥈🥈 🇯🇵 Rino Matsuike 🥈🥈 ***

alternates: 🇯🇵 rinka watanabe 🇰🇷 kim chaeyeon 🇯🇵 rion sumiyoshi

[lines-on-ice]

So Skate Canada started this year Open Partner competitions, where gender doesn't matter as long as you bring the swag, and of course LGBTQIA+ grabbed the opportunity with both hands, which allows us to witness pure art:

If that doesn't convince the other federations to do the same, I don't know what will.

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Mone Chiba: Ariana Concerto » 2024 Cup of China

[capsensislagamoprh]

The beauty of it all.

45 years ago today, John Curry skated a gorgeous free skate at the 1976 Olympics and won gold, on the heels of winning the European Championships and on his way to capturing the world title less than a month later.

In this program, Curry combined his dance training and love of ballet with (for his time) solid technical skills in jumps and spins. The choreography is both elegant and lighthearted. Each extension and movement is finished and flows from one to the next; he constantly creates lovely lines. There isn’t an empty moment in the program, and even his crossovers are timed perfectly to the music.

He deliberately slowed down his spins, preferring instead to emphasize his control over them and the beautiful positions he could make. He also demonstrated his ability to spin in both directions in two of them. All of the spins are a showcase, never an afterthought.

It was a complete package of both athletic jumps - including a double axel in the last few seconds of his five-minute program - and graceful artistry, combined with Curry’s abilities in school figures that helped him flow over the ice. And like all the best skating, it looks completely effortless.

After his Olympic victory, Curry was apparently pressed by journalists who wanted to drama-monger about the fact that he was gay. (Sources are all over the place as to whether he was outed or had some amount of volition in coming out, and whether this information was public before the Games or only after he won.) Curry said much later that he never attempted to hide his sexuality.

He retired from amateur skating to create his own ice theater for a time, performing stunning solo and pair programs and working with future coaches and choreographers, such as Lori Nichol. He later danced on stage as well. Unfortunately, after watching his ‘whole circle of friends’ die to AIDS, Curry passed away in 1994 due to complications of the disease.

But let’s end on a happier moment: after skating this amazing program, before he picked up his flowers, before he bowed to the judges, John Curry looked up into the audience, smiled, and waved at his mom.

[dozydawn]

[ghostsoforpheus]

Amber Glenn wins her second Grand Prix assignment, becoming the first American woman to do so in 12 years, to qualify for the Grand Prix Final for the first time.

[thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai]

So today will go down in history as the day Mikhail Shaidorov almost kicked Grassl out of the GPF with a 3A+4T but couldn't because he made a tiny mistake and Shun Sato wasn't slightly underscored for once.

Honestly, I would have preferred Misha over Grassl in the GPF a 1000 times. His skating looks pretty, he fully rotates his jumps, he has cool costumes, and he doesn't miss his doping tests.

[junhwabauer]

very tired of "haha, man in dress funny" but. does this not serve absolute cunt??? proof that everyone loves drag

[outofcontextfigureskating]

[swan-lutz]

Boom roasted

[sywtwfs]

2024 Grand Prix Final Qualifiers: Women, Men, Ice Dance, Pairs

Top 6 qualify, 7-9 alternates

[allekha]

The skater, the coach

[raininyourblackeyes]

Still thinking of how close we were to Misha with his gorgeous 3A+4T in the Final instead of Daniel 🤢

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Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha: The Sound of Silence » 2024 Cup of China

[denissvasiljevs1999]

2024 Cup of China: Skating School update