Jordyn Lewis moving to Montreal to skate synchro

Re: the "one year ago" carnival -- Tessa and Scott performed at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in summer 2012 (there are still videos on YouTube from it), so it's probably supposed to have been filmed then.

ohh interesting - somehow i never registered that CNE is in Toronto lol but "supposed to" - do you mean that footage isn't from 2012?

i guess either way, i have questions - if it's from August 2012, they knew a year prior that they'd do the reality show? before Carmen season

Tessa and Scott episode 1 (pt 1 pt 2) sorry i'm not giving any useful context if you've never seen it - it's a good (bad lol) piece of VM history the opening at the carnival in Toronto says "one year ago" - it looks like warm weather, but the show premiered Jan 2, 2014, so when did they film that?

the first performance of DALD 🥺 (seriously, who has those hard drives with the footage lol). interesting to see part of the no touch here compared to the legendary one from Sochi

Marina saying "love you love you a lot" to them when she's about to stab them in the back 💀

Jean-Marc Généreux, the dance/connection coach - Scott says they've been working with him since 2002. VM would have been 12/13 and 14/15 yo they're supposed to be playing out a romantic storyline in the SD: T: right away he (Jean-Marc) saw there was something missing J: so, i want you to look at this guy like he's uh T: like he's David Beckham? J: uhh maybe, or a piece of meat, like a good - like filet mignon - and you'd really like to have a bite (why does she do this? if it was reversed, and Jean-Marc said to Scott, look at her like you think she's attractive, and he said, oh, like she's Jennifer Lopez? that would be rude and invalidating)

i'd forgotten how strange it is, the way they talk about each other -

S: "Tessa and i have a -- *very* -- complex relationship" (arching eyebrow, significant look) ok, how 😅

T: "sometimes we are best friends, sometimes we're just business partners, there's an ebb and a flow to our relationship that is ongoing" -- spending more and less time together is normal, but does your status as best friends change so much? do your friendships work like this? these two were working so closely together, but they'd grow apart enough that she'd call it being "just business partners"? that feels off. from other stuff they've said, it feels more like there were reasons one would hold the other at arm's length and that they didn't talk these things out

Scott seems very inside himself and high key conscious of the camera. very little of the lighter side of him in this show. Tessa also very conscious of the camera but more wanting to do a good job - like watching someone inexperienced acting in a high school play - a little stilted. these producers didn't know what to do with them to get them to be more natural. too bad they wanted to make a reality show and didn't focus more on the skating and the training and let their personalities show in the process

S: VO "after this season, our lives are going to be totally different" T: "what are you going to miss the most" S: "i'll miss - i'm going to miss the structure. 5 o'clock in the mornings" T: "yeah 😐" lol not going to be baited into saying anything personal for national tv. either he thought it was going to be a different kind of show or was talked into it and never bought in. i wonder what the two of them really think of this now

tw:

thank you for this info. both of these are very much worth the time. oooof. the W5 documentary - my heart hurts for those girls and women. it's harrowing even to read the transcript. i started watching and had to stop and read the rest. completely devastating. and at the same time infuriating

the Future of Figure Skating podcast - the process in Canada very much sounds like it shields the institutions and therefore the abusers during investigation. Amelia Cline says they've found that going outside the systems in place is often the most effective route. which is damning about the system. Abby Spadafora says complaints often aren't taken seriously, or can be kicked around from Office of Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) to the National or provincial sporting organization. they've had cases where the person reporting the abuse was put in the same room with their abuser to recount their complaint. horrific stuff. independent investigators who have conflicts of interest or are otherwise unsuited to the task, the list goes on

not only is the process itself and the timeline not made clear by OSIC to the parties involved, OSIC has strict confidentiality clauses that keep people from speaking while the process is ongoing. once a case is brought, there might be news stories in the beginning, but then there's silence because of this. no further bad press for the abuser or the institutions involved. and the victims can't speak about their own experiences for fear that it will be used against them in the case. they're saying that if you were involved in a criminal case, you'd have more right to speak than in these OSIC cases. [so this could be why we haven't heard more in the Soerensen case]

they said the solution is to treat these like any other human rights issues - in any other circumstance, it wouldn't be this hard to fire and remove adults abusing children. that the process needs to be consistent and more transparent and public. that there needs to be a top down, bottom up reassessment of the entire system so it can be figured out where and how it's broken. they started out investigating gymnastics and found the same stories in so many other sports - that it's an issue in all sport

OSIC was modeled after the US Center for Safe Sport which is a system they have no confidence in. this is an in depth discussion where they bring up so many facets - like how it would be important for role models and more of the public to speak up, to say they believe survivors - and not just the famous ones - when these survivors risk so much in speaking out

many singles skaters announcing their program music and choreographers - where are the dancers? 🤔 i guess many of them get in house choreo so we don't get to hear from them until much later 😢

"i don't think she realizes she keeps me alive" Is that really the quote? Because I always heard it as “I don’t think she realizes she keeps me in line.”

VO: “their 17 yr rls will be tested- there will be tears, tension, and tenderness- “

and that’s where they put the “I don’t think she realizes she keeps me - “ quote

“in line” doesn’t go with 'tenderness.' though who knows. i don’t hear an N sound to make it “in” but i also don’t hear a clear V or N at the end either - it sounds more like “a- lie” than anything. i asked my friend from Ontario bc she's much more familiar with the accent than i am, and she hears "a-lie" too. but that's not a word 😅 so that's why i'm more inclined to think it's 'alive' than 'in line'

i have some down time so rewatching the VM reality show - haven't seen this in a while, and lol what's jumping out now -

episode 1: VO: to succeed, they'll need to build on their unique, indefinable connection with each other

Scott: the questions that we always get - are we dating, are we together, it's hard to explain

🤦🏻‍♀️ how is it hard? if it's no (since you clearly had a gf then) then just say no. that's one syllable lol the only other answers are, it's not clearly no, or you're shipbaiting 😂 (and of course there's the quote they never put in context: "i don't think she realizes she keeps me alive")

the first competition they show is in Laval, before they go to High Performance Camp, and it isn't listed in skating scores or on wiki - but luckily there was a record of it -- it's Championnats d'Ete, which was held August 8-13, 2013. they scored 76.51 in their short dance and withdrew before the FD

every time i see this show, it's not the show itself i think about most, it's all the footage that didn't get used - everything that was filmed that we never saw. and the skating is a huge part of that. this performance is nowhere that i can find except the snippets in the episode. so the crew sat there with their fancy cameras, filmed the whole thing, and it's sitting somewhere on a hard drive 😭

they say they were still choreographing (in August) - connections, transitions, that the lifts weren't comfortable. that's late for most teams to still be making programs, especially in an Olympic year? but they probably toured that year after Worlds, and idk what state her legs were in, if they needed a decent sized break after the season for recovery. he's huffing and puffing and saying he's disappointed in himself how exhausted he was after the SD

the scoring system was kinda different, how each program component is weighted differently. but 10s for a program they're saying is unfinished and feeling foreign to them-- they were 22 pts ahead of 2nd place in the SD. they show a medal ceremony, but it must be small medals? bc they didn't skate the 2nd day

as part of AAPI Heritage month in May, Mattel has made a Kristi Yamaguchi Barbie

lol someone was watching PYC and taking notes

2025 US Nationals will be in Wichita, Kansas, and 2024 Skate America will be back in Allen, Texas like is was in 2023

👀 inchresting

she's retired, but he's not, and she's staying at IAM. so is he looking for a new partner to train with there? to skate for which country? he has Japanese citizenship but was born in Montana and has previously competed for South Korea and Norway. he and his previous 2 partners trained with Igor, he and Misato previously trained with Barbara Fusar-Poli before IAM

Marjorie's fundraiser to benefit Fondation Autiste et Majeur 💜💙💗

omg. Maria Kazakova and Giorgi Revia have ended their partnership 😢

Kaitlin’s website is very polished and so awesome to see so many accomplishments. Really excited for her. I don’t judge or begrudge skaters who leave the sport after they are done competing, but I do have a really soft spot for those who love it so much they want to stay involved professionally! Just watched the U2 RD again and can’t believe we never saw it competed - hopefully the magic is passed along to lucky lucky teams 💫🪩✨

they’re skating shows on April 27 and May 4 - someone pls take video for us - i wonder what programs they’ll skate. that U2 RD is amazing😭

i’m glad they’re both staying involved in skating too. too bad there’s barely a professional skating circuit to speak of, but when we start seeing teams with programs by them or coached by them 🥺

Skate 🇨🇦 will be in Halifax. why is Skate 🇺🇸the first GP on the calendar but the last to announce its location every year 🙃

Misato Komatsubara retires from competitive skating

Their agency says Tim is contemplating various opportunities. Misato says they intend to skate in shows together

That she was injured all season and still did some of their best skating ever 🥲 This was unexpected- wishing them well

aww Kaitlin 🥺

it hasn't felt like there was much hope that they were coming back to competition, but she's setting up her post-skating career

musicality training, skating skills, choreo, coaching - she has so much to offer, i hope she thrives 😭❤️