And so our coaches and our parents and onlookers thought that it would be a good opportunity for us to improve our skating skills, skating together, because one of the things that ice dance is known for is the quality of the skating itself.Albeit, there aren't jumps or throws or twists.
What's the difference? And also, maybe, now talk about, too, what the critical components of partnership in that, and why it's maybe unique to ice dancing versus other parts of figure skating and ice skating .OK. So this is a common question that we get asked.
So that was exciting. Skateboard? No. Roller skating .
You see someone driving a Jeep. Skateboarding. You could take skateboarding as a brand and overlay it over that x,y axis, right? So functionally there are tricks that you can iterate upon, and the fundamentals.
Like I'm showing skateboarding at its best here in a commercial that's going to be seen by people who have never seen skateboarding in their life. And this might be their entry point to it.
We're like family-slash-coworkers. skating to life after that competition.
between these riders. So think about these riders riding for 42 minutes, and they're literally at that point on those motorcycles, ice skating around, because that's how these bikes are.They're so powerful, and they're so fast.
My mom introduced me to skateboarding and rock climbing, and I absolutely love her for that. Skateboarding-- it gave birth to a style for me. It wasn't just the skating .
but just for a second um indulge me and think about a a spinning ice skater right when she puts her arms um close to her body close to her axis um she spins quicker when she extends her arms she spins
The night before the competition, I did a lot of imagery and walking through what I wanted to do and going through the Skating 's popular here and we have a great set of rinks, but maybe we just have a bigger pool of talent to pull from.
The night before the competition, I did a lot of imagery and walking through what I wanted to do and going through the Skating 's probably not the number one sport to go into, but there's still places to train and focus on it.
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um I uh we have a young demographic well we have a demographic all over the board but it's cu's young and I thought skateboard fun cool released one with one of our you know art that fits on it and it's sold really really slowly and the skateboard producing industry is totally mobbed up it's a really really awful industry to deal with you wouldn't
addressed in a field so again back to the skateboard you see that board there that a person built by and skate wheels he basically took a board and unscrewed his or her uh Escape wheels and put them on this thing and had a skateboard that gave the initial novel functionality and he could zip around or
I learned how to skate-- we grew up in Connecticut-- so in the Northeast. And skating being, generally, you find it via the climate that you live in. I don't know too many people living in tropical locations that are like, ice skating , that's something I want to do competitively.
And each person has an equal say in what gets done. And skaters, in previous generations, didn't necessarily have that opportunity.
And each person has an equal say in what gets done. to skate-- it was a real wow.
So that was exciting. Roller skating . OK. OK.
And we had been to Surfing 4 Peace, out in a village where it brought different religions out into the water, and they left politics on the shore. And skateboarders. Oh, yeah, of course. We have our photojournalist, who is also a skateboarder that, as a teenager, got a skate park built so that the kids could
And that was the first time that people saw a big commercialized version of something using skateboarding because they had huge marketing dollars. And I mean, what I did and how I did it, I presented it as very authentic.
But I also had this overwhelming feeling that I wouldn't be my best unless I was really honest. In skating , you have to perform different characters along with doing all of these elements and tricks. But I felt that I wouldn't be able to portray these characters through myself if I didn't know who I was.
He was eight. So he needed to find just a young lady who was a good physical match for him and in terms of skating and stuff like that. And so when we started, we didn't really have an idea of what ice dance was, or-- go skate with this little boy.
We have the three alumni down there, Guy Lafleur, Maurice Richard, and John Béliveau, and they're all anxious to get the cup in their hands and take that skating moment. It was on national television here and up in Canada. And well, about 30 seconds later, I get this really wonderful call that the Stanley Cup
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A skateboarder would consider our wheels a bit hard on that durometer side.
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I skated with my friends.
You skate together. But we don't do the trick together.
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skateboard fun cool released one with one of our you know art that fits on it and it's sold really really slowly and the skateboard producing industry is totally mobbed up it's a really really awful industry to deal with you wouldn't think so you know it's really really it's really shady like I finally threw
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We were in ice skating classes.
So the figure skating was a little interest that I had, and they invested in that.
is like at the skate rink.
How do they skate on stage?
It's ice skates . Yes.
seriously incomplete as you may know or may not know at this stage long before skateboards were on the market you had DIY skateboard Pioneers making and using their own skateboards and in fact this is true for essentially all sports basically uh every sport you can think
and skate wheels he basically took a board and unscrewed his or her uh Escape wheels and put them on this thing and had a skateboard that gave the initial novel functionality and he could zip around or she could zip around on this skateboard and see sort of how it worked and what techniques were desirable
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And the capsule was skating a little bit out of alignment, like a car with its wheels out of alignment.
And that was not the case for me at all. I learned how to skate-- we grew up in Connecticut-- so in the Northeast. And skating being, generally, you find it via the climate that you live in.
But we both enjoyed it equally. And once we started skating together, things really clicked into place. We have always had a really good relationship.
But if you can remember why you love what you're doing, then you can find what makes it worth it. And before we started skating , before Maia was born, when they were prepping me for the arrival of a new human being in my life, they did a really amazing job of teaching us to care about each other and care for each other
So I guess, if figure skating is the main umbrella, there are skaters that skate by themselves. And then there are skaters that are part of teams. So for us, there's any Olympics pairs and ice dance.
Got it. Yeah, ice dance has all of the disciplines of figure skating . So there's single skating , like Maia mentioned, pairs skating , and ice dance, and synchronized skating . And all of them have different specifications and rules and unique qualities that the skater has to have that makes them, I guess,
And each person has an equal say in what gets done. because we're figure skating .
And each person has an equal say in what gets done. We weren't skating to a song that a lot of people knew, where it's skated to before.
And each person has an equal say in what gets done. And so we would skate, maybe, in the morning.
So that was exciting. I like to go skating .