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Kaetlyn Osmond || 2018 World Champion

#three years ago today!! #kaetlyn osmond

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Kaetlyn Osmond || 2018 World Champion

#kaetlyn osmond #worlds 2018 #black swan

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Kaetlyn Osmond’s 2017-18 free skate program to Black Swan by Clint Mansell

Made by Jan Longmire

#kaetlyn osmond #black swan #costume

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Kaetlyn Osmond || 2017 World Championships, FS: La bohème.

#kaetlyn osmond #la bohème #one of my fav fs of her

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Could you wax poetic about Kaetlyn Osmond’s skating?

There are so many things that I enjoy about Kaetlyn Osmond’s skating: her running edge, the height and length of her jumps, her perfect, textbook landing positions, how she grows over the season, her (often under appreciated) spins, her spread eagle, the musical touches in the choreography, the commitment, etc. 

All of this is what makes the 3-time Canadian champ, the 2018 world champ, and the owner of every colour of Olympic medal, so special:

I always laugh at the fact that at her very first senior worlds in 2013, she had such an amazing outing and the BESP uncles already clocked that she would one day become world champion. It just makes my heart happy.

She came out strong, finishing 8th at her first worlds, not to mention being in 4th after the short program! Not too shabby at all. Let’s also not forget she won Canadian Nationals her first year as a senior.

Despite injuries she also won nats the next year before sochi, where she would earn her first Olympic medal, silver in the team event. Her short program that year to big spender is an all time favourite of mine. She had her best performance of the program during the team event; it had the coolest step sequence, such interesting movements, like a twizzle right into an illusion spin, or the catch foot twizzle moment where she ends it in a sort of biellmann position? It was an excellent program and it really highlighted how well Kaetlyn shines and has this very strong sort of old-time show girl quality.

I always loved this quote:

“Growing up, I’ve always been the biggest fan of being the center of attention. I always wanted to show off… I even tried doing dance when I was younger and being on the ice with another person. Nope, nope, I have to share the spotlight then. Don’t like that.”

Girl after my own heart. 

She just owns the ice, I love that she makes direct eye contact and there is this obvious fire in her eyes almost like she is challenging anyone to not pay attention to her while she’s skating. She is captivating.

From a technical perspective, just in basic skating skills, she is wonderful. I think she was one of the most complete/well rounded skaters we’ve had in recent years. She skates with her legs, has excellent posture, clean edges, excellent knee bend, etc. Not to mention her speed and power across the ice is unbelievable, a few pushes and she’s across the rink, it’s amazing to watch. 

I think especially now with the IJS, skating programs can get repetitive and the step sequences, with all their requirements, can be clunky and slow and Kaetlyn has lovely, fast, interesting, and powerful step sequences that are a joy to watch. I truly believe she is a 6.0 skater in an IJS world, she attacks her step sequences rather than going through the motion and her musicality just heightens that.

Her spread eagle.

That’s it, its very lovely and I enjoy it a lot.

Now her jumps! 

Her jumps.

We will forgive the flutz (because 98% of the ladies has one, sigh) and the slight-ish-maybe pre-rotation she gets on her flip. No one else has speed into jumps quite like her, and she has such speed that she can sometimes get a little off axis in her jumps, but that was something she worked a lot on, the control she has in the air in the Olympic season was stunning.

Her speed and power OUT of the jump is something I have always admired about her. 

I’ve talked about it before, but Kaetlyn is the perfect example to why learning to jump from your legs rather than with your arms is so vital for technique and longevity in the sport. It is definitely what helped her be able to come back, and come back so very strong.

Look how she just steps up into the jump, doesn’t swing her arms back to propel herself forward, she gets unbelievable height and distance (I’m convinced it was one of, if not the, largest double axel in the ladies field for the past decade or so), not to mention the tight air position and just LOOK at the edge she has, AND HOLDS, out of the jump! Her back is straight, her shoulders are open, she doesn’t break at the waist at all. It’s pure textbook.

I adore how Kaetlyn holds her edge out of jumps, I am not a fan of cluttering a program just for the sake of putting in an empty and poorly done transition -- it is, in fact, much harder to land on a deep edge and hold that edge than it is to quickly just step out of a jump into something else.

Not to mention, she holds this edge, changes edge, then goes right into a spin. 

Also, let’s take a moment for this short program, it was the perfect vehicle for her and I am so glad she kept it for the Olympic year, I have watched this short program an enumerable amount of times and have yet to get sick of it.

To quote Ryan Bradley:

“She’s the best female jumper in the world, one of the best jumpers, period, in the world.”

Just look at this combination! I love her flip-toe so much. One thing you will often see with skaters (see eteri skaters especially) is that they really have to check between jumps: they will land, break at the waist, and sort of reset their bodies to enter into the next part of the combo or the sequence. Kaetlyn Osmond, however, makes her combinations one complete movement from start to finish.

Look how, before she has even landed (!!) the flip, she is already opening up, bringing her free leg back so that her phenomenal knee bend can just spring her back up into the air while her free leg picks in for the assist. Zero hesitation, zero check, zero issue.

Breaking a the waist? KO don’t know her.

The power she has, in and out of those jumps, is just unmatched. 

This is such a beautiful example of her technique, and why seeing off ice training is so interesting! It practically looks like she is levitating up into the air: weightless and ethereal. Look how quickly she gets into her air position, feet tight together, all coming from her legs, she isn’t wearing her shoulders for earrings and isn’t tilting her chin upward for momentum. I highly recommend checking out the other off ice jumps in the gif set I linked to, it’s very telling who is jumping from their legs and who is not.

(Also moment of appreciation for Ravi chilling in the corner like the king he is, I love you Ravi Walia)

I just admire her perseverance so much! To come back from two horrible injuries, one of them a broken leg while on the ice and only only come back, but to come back stronger and better than before, is just amazing.

Not only did she get all her triples back, she also improved her skating skills, and her interpretation. She is just a lovely lovely soul.

I mentioned briefly how much I loved how she grows over the season, I highly recommend watching black swan from skate canada and then watching olympic black sawn -- it is like night and day and really shows her growth, commitment, and excellent.

She came back, not only helped Canada towards a team gold medal, but won herself an individual medal (although I still 100% believe that if everything was scored properly, and backloading hadn’t been allowed to such an extent, she should have won and 100% deserved the gold medal, but alas) and then turned right around and went to worlds, skated her long program with an ankle injury, and ended up setting herself up for a medal.

Who knew it would end up being gold?

I remember her saying that after she did her final jump in her long program at the 2018 worlds, she saw Ravi jump and clap from the other end of the rink right before she went into her step sequence and how she said that was the first time she had ever seen Ravi do that in her entire career of him as her coach.

I love that so much because I remember also jumping for joy the second she landed that last double axel.

Here is an incomplete list of some of my favourite moments in Kaetlyn Osmond programs, complete with hyperlinks:

During the choreo sequence in black swan, when she flicks her hands out during the spiral sequence right on the music

Her arm movements in this spin right when the music booms in sous le ciel de paris/milord

This spiral in la boheme

This entire step sequence 

Nothing but love for the cutest world champion there ever was:

#it’s always a good time to love and appreciate kaetlyn osmond #thank you konner #kaetlyn osmond #she’s truly exquisite

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Split Screen Time !

Kaetlyn Osmond FS at PYC and team Canadas reaction 

#kaetlyn osmond #team canada #pyeongchang 2018 #thank you op #i love this

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February 23, 2018: Kaetlyn Osmond, cheered on by Team Canada, wins bronze after her “Black Swan” free skate. She won Canada’s 27th medal at PyeongChang 2018, officially making it their most successful Winter Olympics yet.

#two years ago today! #kaetlyn osmond #pyeongchang 2018 #black swan

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protect and cherish kaetlyn 

bonus scott “nothing to see here - just keep dancing” moir:

#poor kaet lol #throwback #kaetlyn osmond #ttyct

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today, like every day, feels like a good time to appreciate kaetlyn osmond 

#valid. #mood. #same. #kaetlyn osmond

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#kaetlyn osmond #interview #thanks for sharing this maria #sorry that i’m a terrible mod everyone lol

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Start @ 2:05.

#kaetlyn osmond #patrick chan #tessa and scott #rtr 2019 #kaet is very cute #(and extremely valid for picking tessa)

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Kaetlyn Osmond For a little over a year, I have been having a lot of an identity crisis. From retiring from competitive skating to not really knowing what comes next, I’ve lost sight of who I am as a person. .

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Today I got this tattoo to remind me that I only have to be me. I only have to love me. And the rest will sort itself out eventually. .

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Thank you @clobot for doing such an amazing job! Your art is always so incredible!

#kaetlyn osmond #instagram

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https://youtu.be/pXgUOl4SERM

Kaetlyn’s solo at for Rock The Rink in Abbotsford

#kaetlyn osmond #rock the rink #rtr 2019

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Someone gif those cute lil shoulder touches KO does to all the girls at the start of the oldies number

#cute #kaetlyn osmond #rock the rink #rtr 2019

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𝑬 𝒅 𝒈 𝒆 𝒔 • 𝒐 𝒇 • 𝑮 𝒍 𝒐 𝒓 𝒚’s Instagram Story (October 1st)

#kaetlyn osmond #carolina kostner #tatiana volosozhar #tessa virtue #rtr 2019 #rock the rink

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KO being a role model.

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