Pete, Are you part of the reality-based community, or just cynical? :) Renee Six months and a resignation! Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... selling ... Your comment about this new guy treating skating like a real sport assumes that skating IS a real sport. In the real world, that point is ...
... Trophy today (looks like both teams want a warm-up competition before Skate America), while Navarro/Bommentre were shifted from Nebelhorn to Vienna Cup...
... So how did you feel about world bronze medalists competing at Finlandia? ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! -...
... And roller skates are even heavier... by a factor of two or three times. dej -- ... I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when ...
When USFS(A) was gearing up to hire the previous ED I know I wrote that, from many years experience in assn mgt, I really didnt think it was that important...
... I forgot who got the Bronze ... Goncharov's right? It's weird. The prestige of being a world medalist has traditionally kept skaters from entering...
... Maybe Igor Shpilband has figured out that USFSA judges are worse than useless about giving CoP evaluations (witness the fiasco with Jordan Brauninger...
A big snip from the latest SkateFAIR blog entry: Unfortunately, not all ISU Members have a well-thought-out education program for their national judges....
How about equal parts of both! LOL Pete ... From: <skatfan@...> To: <SkateFans@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:07 AM Subject: Re:...
... Yeah, but will he stand up to the ISU and not let USFSA get pushed around by them. That's the question. I've always felt the USFSA was the "little kid"...
... than ... show the ... Very likely. I attribute the cluelessness of USFSA officials in assessing the COP value of our skaters' programs, as a covert verdict...
... But has the USFSA *ever* had any power or influence? I well remember how Morry Stillwell came back from the 1998 ISU Congress (after having sold out over...
... Jordan Brauniger and Johnny Weir were just two of many that screwed themselves last year with the COP. I mean, HOW DIFFICULT would it have been for...
... influence ... USFSA ... Note, regarding my previous points, that Sandra refers to Morry Stillwell as having done, or not done, this or that..not the Exec. ...
... that ... wanted ... this ... I've worked at four nonprofits and have had dozens more as clients. The organizations in which the volunteer leadership...
It turns out that I'm going to be in Ukraine the latter part of December and into January. Does anyone know when and where Ukrainian Nationals is going to...
... Katie Sackhoff on "Battlestar Galactica". I figure it's the off season so why not? Sackhoff's bio mentions that she was a jock and I was trying to figure...
... Ukrainian ... some, ... I would contact the federation directly. Here is their contact info. UKR Address: KYIV-01054, Str. Gogolevskaya 10, Office 1 ...
Golden West - Junior Men Short Program - Final Result 1. Austin Kanallakan 2. Dice Murakami 3. Casey McCraw 4. Stanislav Samohin 5. Peter Lindstrom 6....
Janet wrote: "To me, Yma Sumac has to be Surya Bonaly ......" and Lois wrote: "For whatever it's worth, Garnet Ostermeier is the only skater I can remember...
In a message dated 9/2/2005 12:57:41 AM Mountain Daylight Time, kidknickerbocker@... writes: Has Surya Bonaly already done an Yma Sumac program (that...
When is the long program.. GO CASEY MCCRAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I grew up with him and I wat him to go to nationals this year..... Dick Schlaff...
According to a brief segment on Good Morning America, there is a hurricane-related scam already circulating through email. It will appear that someone is...
... Someone may have. Weir said in several interviews last year that he wasn't paying attention to Code of Points, just to skating well. There were so many...