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#5 yrs of college (engineering) cause im doing it #i would rather not do it though

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winrar is so important to me

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dipping my toes into the tolkien wiki bc i was sad gandalf and frodo sailed west after watching the lotr trilogy for the first time and learning gandalf is like 11 thousand years old

#🧍‍♀️ #i domt understand the lore at all lmfaoooo #its so funny how the movies didnt even try explaining any of this to us like hello??? if u had to explain that aragorn is half immortal #maybe you should also tell us gandalf is a super ultra powerful immortal spirit from the gods?? wtf #also i hated aragorns ass #feudalist ass THEMES!! GET AWAY #like i get why grrm was like what are aragorns tax policies #asoiaf 🔛🔝 #m

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just randomly remembered anna is an olympic champion

#x #madness luv lit rally madness x

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I'm feeling vintage, so I'm going waaaaaaay back to a time when spiral sequences were a required element in the SP. Few skaters mastered the spiral sequence like Sasha Cohen, so let's take a look at the sequence from her 2005-06 Dark Eyes short program.

First, I-spiral (which Sasha popularized!) into a fan. No struggle for the I position and superb balance into the fan position.

The sign of a great fan spiral position isn't just the height of the free leg but minimal bend in the working leg. Bending the working knee can help cheat the position by offsetting a lack of strength or flexibility. Note the minimal knee bend here! Then the spirals dreams are made of: a nearly 180 degree arabesque held over a change of edge. I love how she tugs it just a little bit higher to get the full extension and the point in the toes is *chef kiss*.

And finally, just because she can, a Beillmann position to round out the ice-spanning set:

Spiral sequences are a hallmark of early IJS programs. When I watch them now they feel like an attempt to reconcile some of the showiness of 6.0 skating with the bullet points of IJS. Not every skater survived the transition. For every sublime Sasha Cohen moment there were a dozen skaters with limp Kerrigan spirals and dodgy catch-foots.

The spiral sequence was replaced with the choreographic sequence as of the 2012-13 season, a nod to changing tastes and shifting technical priorities. Few skaters now could hit a 180 arabesque, which is why I get so excited when I see a classic, well-supported spiral in the competitive wild.

#adna she had spins and stage presence going for her too cmon 😭😭 #SHE IS MY . well not ogm. but my artistic princess i love her programs she unironically is one my fave ladies skaters #yes she couldnt put two clean programs together and her edges were 90 degrees with the ice and yea maybe her jumps sucked #but who cares #sasha cohen

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Deanna Stellato-Dudek: 2000 Junior World Silver Medalist → 2024 World Champion

At the age of 40, Deanna Stellato-Dudek is the oldest woman to win a World Championships title in figure skating, with her pairs partner Maxime Deschamps for Canada. Deanna Stellato was the 1999 Junior Grand Prix Final Champion and 2000 Junior World Silver Medalist in the women's singles discipline. She retired from competitive skating in 2001, and returned as a pairs skater in 2016.

40 years is the new 20. That's what I'd like to say. [This record is] not something that I ever set out to do when I came back to skating, but I knew that if I were to accomplish my dreams, it would inevitably occur, because I'm the oldest everywhere. But it's something I carry with pride, and I'm very proud of it. I hope a lot of athletes stay around a lot longer. I hope it encourages people to not stop before they reach their potential. And I hope it transcends into other areas, not just in sports, but also in other areas of life [...] [My 15-year-old self] would say, why did we stop? We're still skating, you know, 25 years later? I think my younger self would think I'm crazy, so she wouldn't think much of it at all. And she wanted to win the 2006 Olympics [...]

-- 2024 World Championships Free Skate Press Conference

#wait thats amazing 🥺

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Piper and Paul's Wuthering Heights from Worlds because:

it's Wuthering Heights and their performance is hauntingly beautiful

I am going to miss this program so so much next season

#im the local who wanted kate bush LMAKSLSKLALA #HEATHCLIFF. ITS ME IM CATHY IVE COME HOME IM. SO COOOOOOLD LET ME IN YOUR WINDOOWWW #gilles / poirier

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Well, I have already ranted on what makes this one of the best programs I have ever seen here! so I will not rant here, except say that that 4F was a textbook example of a +5 quad jump.

This is Yuma Kagiyama of Japan with his Rain, In Your Black Eyes free skate last night at the 2024 World Championships, and I woke up my parents by how loud I was clapping for every clean element.

#162K NOTES YALL!!!!! #yuma kagiyama #sidenote i was watching suihan rain in yout black eyes this morning and i got so emo. #and on both literal chills during the stsq god i love when the crowd starts clapping during That part of the music #i miss REAL skating

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Re costume violations at worlds:

#wait i genuinely thought the violation was that they were too boring and i was like wait why werent we handing those out before #its because theyre too theatrical?! #its just a little low decolletage... just a little bit of chest showing #theres not even any chest hair like get serious....

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0 (zero) costume violations at euros vs 4 (four) at worlds is so funny to me

north america wasn't ready for european men's tits & dramatically ripped clothes X"D

#whattttt? #why??

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one of my friends is THREE SEASONS LATE IN F1 WHINING TO ME ABOUT LEWIS CELEBRATING SILVERSTONE 2021 WHEN WILL IT END

#im like 1. monza 2021 2. jeddah 2021 3. brazil 2021 #and hes like ok yeah maybe max is the same or worse but its bad to celebrate when someone is in the hospital if lewis really was better #he wouldnt do that #and im like WHY would he give him respect when he wasnt given it? when red bull spent the entire season saying racist shit??? #when max fans were being rancid all season?? #stfuuuu #x

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stoppp i miss fs

#i will genuinely try to pay attention next year omg pls i will watch the gp assignments

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Where were you when Hubbell and Donohue's stationary lift was called 1 BV during the 2019 Four Continents free dance?

Lest you think I exaggerate, I bear receipts!

I'd like to nominate this as a future Canadian Heritage Moment for putting Gilles & Poirier and Weaver & Poje on the podium.

#STATIONARY LIFT BASE???? #this is what the sport should be... like if we had judges like that ur jumping specialist faves would be getting 3s in pcs.

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watching ilia go viral among people who aren’t actively following figure skating is wild. it’s like your neighbor barging into your house while it’s on fire and saying they love what you’ve done with the place.

#he can jump a 4A :) our sport is DYING jennifer #<- :(

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not ilia fanfiction in the figure skating tag

#nooooooooooo

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called clean deniss in both sp and fs 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel anything.

5 minutes later: dude i swear figure skating is the greatest sport ever created

my buddy benoit richaud, pacing: i'm going to create something drastic

#LMAKDKDJSKSKLSLLALA

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a triple lutz from ilia malinin, adam siao him fa and lukas britschgi

#so synced