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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 boards and not in anyone's way and Mariah was behind her when her blade hit Eunsoo's leg, thus they claim the collision must have been intentional. ATS reports that Eunsoo feels Mariah has been interfering with her practices and bullying her for months. The rink allegedly knows about Mariah's behavior and has separate their lockers, practice times, etc. ATS has asked KSA to file a complaint with USFSA. There are many sources from Korean media about the complaint. My summary above was paraphrased from this tweet thread, which includes translations and links to sources: Is this is true, these are serious allegations.I hope USFSA takes these complaints seriously and investigates the situation. What a terrible situation all around

what about now? :)

Good luck Yuzu

careful what you wish for! but at least there's this cutie

If that's true, I'm glad. Any less time and it would be hard to get properly adjusted to jet lag and all...

Doesn't it make the most sense as he's not in the TCC send-off pics?

Thank you, I passed here was the scoresheet:

I might try to get to the skating rink earlier tomorrow to practice right before my test because I tried to go through the test stuff today and I'm definitely not that solid (I almost never practice it )

Wait Yuzu is quading all over today? one more 👀

More of Yuna

Worlds is over a month later than the Olympics, and CoR was earlier in the season than NHK that year........I truly hope Yuzu's had more time to "heal" compared to last year!

Thanks. It's this Wednesday and I'm nervous

Media: Yuzuru's biggest rival is our ***! Yuzuru: My only rival is...gravity. #NoTruerTruths

I need this

Straight to the skating god's mouth please Hahaha those are easy choices for now though.

would love this scarf too if anyone wants to knit them and sell in an etsy store or something xD while we're at the the sweater looks soooo comfy

#ZhenyaDavai!! Also Alina davai and Sofia davai!!

(uhh click thru the link, there's a video that doesn't seem to embed...)

Yeah most of the time coach IS the choreographer. But tbh choreographers aren't unusual with non-elite skaters since many of them have a separate coach for jumps, spins, moves, etc. so a choreographer could just be another coach you see less frequently. So instead of seeing one coach X number of times a month you see them less frequently but work with more coaches.

Haha so I've been taught (aka corrected) recently that even when doing crossovers you don't ever spend that much time with both feet on the ice. When you cross your front foot you should be pushing your underpush at the same time and the amt of time you spend with both feet on ice is only a half second or so. You could try to glide longer in the underpush position if you're going to fast. I also can't manage the speed which is why I'm scared to do crossovers on a crowded rink because it would be hard for me to stop suddenly (especially with feet crossed) or change directions. So I try to push very little I first worked on single pulls on one of the hockey dots for a while. Basically you just slide on one foot towards the dot and do one single pull around the dot and come back where you came. So you do a 180 degree lobe basically, or half circle. And power pulls are just...many of these single pulls connected together alternating inside and outside edge.

Like guitarist said, you do for Freestyle tests but not for MitF which is a lot more like figures/skating skills. Like the first (pre-bronze) test has all 4 edges (forward, backwards, inside, outside) on a line, crossovers in a figure 8, waltz 8 pattern, forward spirals on a line, and perimeter stroking. I'm doing my pre-bronze test in...10 days? I hope to pass the Silver test by the end of this year and start working on the Gold! And maybe do the first Freestyle test I'm definitely thinking of cutting my own music! But that's because I've been thinking about my music/choreo for a long time haha. I imagine not every skater wants to spend time thinking about that stuff so they get their choreographer or coach to do it for a fee.

LOL haven't checked this thread in a while. This weekend I will go through and make new emojis

Congrats! 3-turns are really hard (for me) haha. Learning them is a continuous process but you're forced to do it to go into jumps and spins etc. I'm actually looking forward to the Bronze Silver MitF test which trains your 3-turns so I'll be forced to work on them. Crossovers are sooo much harder than they look especially for something you learn in like, Skating 101. Like it's easy to speed up and when you do it's one of the most terrifying things ever? To control the speed just do fewer of them...like make sure your rhythm is the same but just reduce the tempo I guess. So you aren't pumping as much. But for "correct" crossovers you do want to complete your pumps instead of just doing the motions without pushing. Eventually you'll feel comfortable getting faster! I think I finally can do power pulls on my right leg? Now that was another slow process. I learned to do them really fast on my left leg but my right leg took literally forever! My right blade is a bit less aligned than my left and it can't be moved any further unless we take the whole blade off and drill new holes. Which tbh they're not misaligned enough to do. But glad to know that, while small, improvements can still be made