How to pronounce “figure skating” in English

And Maia definitely loved figure skating.

because we're figure skating.

And especially with figure skating, it's one of those sports where you see the culmination of a lot of work, but in seven minutes over the course of two days.

So the path was figure skating.

She was a figure skating queen of the day, and they turned her into--

She was a figure skating instructor in New York in Manhattan.

I saw figure skating and hockey and I saw Eric Heiden win his medals.

He actually used figure skating as an example.

And so while it wasn't figure skating, I was doing some form of mock skating.

Ice dance is a discipline of figure skating.

is a different sort of subdiscipline of figure skating.

I'm part of the US Figure Skating Mentoring program, where some of their past skaters are mentoring the younger skaters coming up.

So I guess, if figure skating is the main umbrella, there are skaters that skate by themselves.

If you haven't made it to the Olympics yet in figure skating at 24, it's, like, time to maybe hang them up.

I know you said that your daughter started figure skating, which you would think, as a hockey player, would be great to be back at the rink.

But both of them actually did trend towards figure skating early on.

But I mean of course there's a figure skating community and they started reaching out to us.

And results is not-- it's not a guarantee in figure skating.

And the limited amount of money that I had was from a little bit of funding through US Olympic Committee and US Figure Skating.

So I think what's interesting is nobody thinks of figure skating as this bastion of masculinity where, like, oh, it's such a shock for a figure skater

Well, I think related to that is that I think figure skating is really interesting because there's this tension between the technical aspects

She's, like, the Simone Biles of figure skating.

and grew-- like, these people were going through real hardships to make their ice dancing or figure skating dreams a reality.

That's really who we've met, people who like figure skating documentaries and people who like kitsch and camp.

Klara, Johnnyís second wife, who was the champion figure skater of Hungary, national figure skating champion at age 14, paid no attention in school but Johnny taught her

But, guys, I'd love to pivot to-- can you ground the audience in, really, what the difference is between ice dancing and figure skating?

Yeah, ice dance has all of the disciplines of figure skating.

Because the team event that we worked together with our teammates to win a bronze medal, that is a relatively new event in figure skating.

And so we were able to-- we're able to laugh at ourselves and even at training, at the-- at figure skating.

So my oldest daughter, Ava, she made a big jump from figure skating to rugby.

And then we launched the Kickstarter and then I mean we didn't really think ahead of time, oh there is a figure skating community.

And the first person we met that really took it from joke to like, oh this is going to change everything was Lois Elfman who was a figure skating reporter, journalist.

So, Kristi, I thought we would just start by talking a little bit about figure skating and your journey.