Jo Ann's Figure Skating Blog March 2007 Archive

A few days ago, I witnessed something really funny! I saw 2007 U.S. World Figure Skating Team member, Ryan Bradley, goofing off with U.S. National Junior Pairs Bronze Medalst, ... Read More

Watch Other Users' Videos Submit Your Own Video Figure skater, Natalia Kanounnikova, has set a new Guinness World Record for fastest spin on ice skates. This YouTube video clip, ... Read More

Australia's figure skating community is in shock. At about 11:00 PM, on March 28, 2007, two Australian figure skating officials were killed. A promising young Australian skater ... Read More

Newlyweds, Zoe and Don Timperon, met at an ice dance weekend. They consider their romance a genuine figure skating romance since they met while skating and enjoy ice ... Read More

I met Frank Carroll when I was a child. I saw him train a young and talented girl named Linda Fratianne. I grew up with Linda, so I ... Read More

My family went to see Disney's Monsters, Inc. On Ice this past weekend. We love Disneyland, so for a few hours, we felt like we were there, but we ... Read More

On Edge: Backroom Dealing, Cocktail Scheming, Triple Axels, and How Top Skaters Get Screwed tells the story of Jon Jackson, who was a top official in figure skating. The ... Read More

Right after they won the 2007 World Pair Skating title, China's Zhao Hongbo proposed to his pair skating partner, Shen Xue. The couple has skated together for fourteen years. ... Read More

The 2007 World Figure Skating Championships is over. Japan's Miki Ando won the ladies event. Brian Joubert, from France, took the gold in the men's event. ... Read More

This past week, in Tokyo, Japan, French figure skater, Brian Joubert, won the men's title at the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships. Joubert won the short program. That short ... Read More

Watch Other Users' Videos Submit Your Own Video French figure skater, Surya Bonaly, is famous for doing a backflip on the ice and landing it on one foot. A backflip ... Read More

Watch Other Users' Videos Submit Your Own Video Igor Bobrin submitted some wonderful figure skating videos to About.com. He is an ice show choreograher and skating champion. His ... Read More

The first time I went skiing, I decided to take a group lesson. The ski instructor told my class to wait at the top of the mountain once we ... Read More

It is almost time for Worlds! Most ice skating fans are wondering who the next figure skating champions of the world will be. Will Kimmie Meissner win another ... Read More

I first met Kathy Casey when I was a teenager. I qualified for the Pacific Coast Sectional, and Kathy had some talented students in that competition. She spent ... Read More

Today, I saw an "unusual" looking young man wearing a mohawk haircut. I thought to myself, "That young man has no idea that figure skaters don't think of hair ... Read More

Until I read Cracked Ice - Figure Skating's Inner World by Sonia Bianchetti Garbato, I knew very little about the International Skating Union (ISU) and its officials. Now, I've ... Read More

I have received permission to reprint part of a recent interview with Johnny Weir. The interview is from a Russian figure skating site. In this interview, Johnny Weir ... Read More

Watch Other Users' Videos Submit Your Own Video Ice skaters spend much time jumping and spinning, but footwork is also an important part of every figure skater's program. This ... Read More

Watch Other Users' Videos Submit Your Own Video Sometimes people think adult figure skaters "can't really skate." After seeing this video of Denver Synchronicity, the 2007 United States National Adult Synchronized ... Read More

Denver Synchronicity, an adult synchronized skating team, won the 2007 United States Adult Synchronized Skating title on February 24, 2007. The team is made up of accomplished figure skaters ... Read More

Watch Other Users' Videos Submit Your Own Video Mark Cohen, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, is fifty years old. He began skating only two ... Read More