Knickknacks: General Skating Chat

Disclaimer: We have only heard from Eunsoo's management agency about this so far, so take everything with a grain of salt. Keep speculation to a minimum! Thanks! https://sports.v.daum.net/v/20190320205655077 Apparently Eunsoo Lim and Mariah Bell collided in practice today, resulting in Eunsoo's leg being cut and her being in enough pain to leave practice and seek medical attention. She was in pain and had muscle damage but resolved to skate anyway. Korean media reports that Eunsoo and her management company ATS filed a complaint saying that Mariah did it on purpose. An ATS rep was there to observe the incident and claims that Eunsoo was at the boar…

This thread is the newbie version of the general skating chat! If you feel like you want to discuss things but you don't feel confident about your skating knowledge yet, or if you have any questions you've always wanted to ask about anything skating-related (I know I do), let's discuss here (Of course, you can ask relevant questions anywhere, but this is an expectations-and-judgment free zone )

Every once in a while one of those special moments will happen and we’ll be left with the impression of a timeless program, that will linger long in our memories for years to come. With the Olympics of 2018 right around the corner we thought we’d revisit some of those programs and enjoy them once again or perhaps even introduce some of you to some things long past but never forgotten. We’ll be posting one video per day or two, so hopefully everyone can join in and watch and talk a bit, and once we’re done with our list, you’ll be of course welcome to present us with your own additions! (the cut off time for programs is Sochi 2014) ________ The …

So they finally decided. Somehow, I feel sad for Liza...

This thread is inspired by the Nebelhorn Trophy 2017 announcer wherein they comment on interesting facts about skaters while introducing them. If you find skaters with interesting and weird/wacky hobbies feel free to share that information this thread!

Hi guys! Over the past couple of months, my friends and I have been working on a project together in hopes of creating a small difference for our fs online community. We are reaching the home stretch on this project; however, we still need to lot more resources/helpers who are willing to help us put together a few more things and provide feedbacks. We are looking for people who are into downloading and archiving a lot of videos, hardworking, organized, and willing to help! It would be great if you could read/write another language other than English (Chinese, Russian, Japanese...etc) but that's not necessary. If all of these qualities sound like yours, please…

This is the thread for ISU Communications for the season 2018/19 For all up-to-date ISU communciations click here: https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/fsk-communications 2018/19 ISU Communications: Ice Dance - Requirements for Technical Rules with ongoing validity, effective July 1st , 2018 Communication No. 2164 - https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/fsk-communications/17126-isu-communication-2164/file Ice Dance - Scale of Values (revised) Communication No. 2167 - https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/fsk-communications/17140-isu-communication-2167/file Single & Pair Skatin…

Hi~ A small project is being born and i'd like to invite you guys to participate A good amount of people from the forum (including myself) will be attending GPF, despite the likely announcement of Yuzu's withdrawal. However, Yuzu's birthday is getting closer, and we had the idea of doing something for him. Initially it would be just by us, the ones attending and i thought, why not ask the rest of the members of the forum if they have a message they'd like to send? A lot of things have happened and from the TCC family we have Jun Hwan Cha in the final, and Zhenya out of it too. So the idea of: doing something to congratulate baby Cha for…

For up-to-date ISU communications : http://www.isu.org/en/media/isu-communications [*] Indicates communication was released within the last 14 days. 2017/18 Communications (Singles, Pair & Dance): * Decisions of the ISU Council June 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands Communication No. 2097 : http://static.isu.org/media/525122/2097-decisions-of-the-isu-council-amsterdam.pdf Ice Dance - Scales of Values, effective July 1st 2017 Communication No. 2094 : http://static.isu.org/media/518264/2094-id-scales-of-values-2017-18.pdf Entries/Participation 2018 Olympic Winter Games (OWG) for Single & …

Post information about skater's programs for the upcoming season.

Trying to decide if I will re-subscribe. I liked that you could easily replay a lot of old competitions, but they suddenly removed all the programs before last year's GPF with no warning. I've been too lazy to learn how to use VPN's or sign up for Fuji. I've noticed a lot of comments about other streaming services crashing so as long as Yuzu competes, I'd rather pay money than deal with the stress of worrying about not being able to see it, especially with the way ISU's been cracking down on YouTube. And competitions are more fun to watch when I can watch with you guys. But beyond Yuzu, I doubt it's worth it for me. I still have to look for …

Anyone know? Curious how each segment has been selling. Which events sold out. NHK, Rostelecom, Helsinki, and Autumn Classic all sold out right? What about the non-Yuzu/Japanese events? Was GPF sold out?

Ok, making a separate thread for this because I would like to keep updating this and keep it easy to follow. Hi fellow satellites! Because I'm mildly insane, I decided to compile all of the judges scores from the Grand Prix events in order to make it easier for fans to examine the judging records of judges throughout this season and determine whether and which judges exhibited evidence of bias in their scoring. I figured I would post it now in anticipation of the Grand Prix Final, especially as some of these judges will inevitably show up on the judging panels of the events there. First, I created event reports which detailed how much a judge over-…

Now that everyone has 2 Grand Prix events, I compiled some different projected scores. I go back and forth on whether it makes more sense to add this to the other thread or make a new one but concluded that it might be confusing to open a thread to a dead poll. obviously mods should combine threads if they disagree Average GOE received for clean(ish) elements across the Grand Prix - did not drop high and low. If an element was never performed cleanly, I subbed the average of that type of element Nathan - layout keeps changing so hard to tell what he’s planning. PCS: 8.88, 8.74, 9, 9.06, 9.07 = 44.75/89.5 SP- 3a, 4f, 4t/3t* = 101.26…

So, we'll be seeing The Murderface a lot this season I guess Opening a thread for it, as requested, feel free to contribute source: asverit on twitter

Figure Skating Event Previews & Recaps In this thread I will write event previews and recaps for major & interesting figure skating competitions! I will only write about singles because my knowledge in the other disciplines isn't as strong. If you would like to write recaps and previews with me, especially on other competitions or disciplines, let me know! The recaps were previously posted in this blog I made: http://planetfigureskating.blogspot.com I'll try to start off being really objective and just stating facts, but if there are any mistakes, please let me know!

With the season done, we're back to this. Top 12 skaters at Worlds have 2 spots guaranteed, and 1 spot per top 24 SB/WS. Link to Worlds results Link to World standings Link to Season Best results Place Date Skate America October 19–21 Skate Canada October 26–28 Cup of China November 2–4 NHK November 9–11 Rostelecom Cup November 16–18 IdF November 23–25

Hello, good morning and welcome to all of you orbiting through fluffy Pooh space With the Olympic season already underway and the GP series quickly approaching, it is about time we come together to unleash our inner prophets, oracles, fortune-tellers, doomsayers, jinxers and coin flippers – and meet in an epic battle about points, points, points and bragging rights to see who’s tea leaf reading skills will proof the best. Are you ready for 7 rounds of nail bitingly suspenseful horoscope creating? 7 Weeks of nerve shatteringly difficult crystal ball visions about those golds and silvers and bronzes? Well, I sure hope so! (because otherwise, this is awkward ) …

Since announcements are coming out and there're usually plenty of retirements post Olympic season, we thought we'd put all of the info into one thread, with a place to chat. Some of the names already known Elladj Balde Patrick Chan Dylan Moscovitch (Lubov hasn't decided) Alex Benoit Misha Ge Takahito Mura and others, please feel free to add any names. No news on Han Yan yet, guess we wait.

I'm not sure if this is the best place to start this topic, but I was just looking through Announcements for ISU FS events and I saw only the Grand Prix Events mention prize money. Does that mean the other competitions don't have any prize money? I had already noticed nothing of the sort for the Olympics (aside from each federation/Olympic committee having its own prizes, I guess), but now I saw that neither 4CC, nor Worlds had it either, last year. I know money is one of the big issues in figure skating, because everything is so expensive. But I was under the impression that even though the sums were small, there was prize money for all competitions. So now I…