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Musicality tessa virtue1/12/2023 ![]() Igor Shpilband, who once worked with Zueva to coach teams like Davis and White, the Canadian world and Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, continues to train skaters at the Novi Ice Arena.Ī decade later, she paired with Donohue and began training at the Detroit Skating Club, before heading to Montreal in April 2015. Some of the top dancing couples have changed coaches and moved to Montreal, from where the wife-and-husband coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon hold increasing influence in the sport.Īnd, this month, Marina Zueva, the coach who trained medal-winning Olympic ice dancers in 2006, 2010, 20 at the Arctic Edge in Canton, announced that she is moving to Florida. In ice dancing, while the influence of Michigan has begun to wane, skaters born or trained in the southeastern part of the state are competing. But, obviously, he still has the jumps, and that’s what’s made him the kind of skater that he is.” “He inherently naturally has the knack for musical skating, and it hasn’t been that difficult for him to sort of redefine himself as an all-around skater rather than a jumper. ![]() “It’s the combination of those two, and he’s been working a lot on that. “There’s the combination of the all-around basic skating, foundational skating, and then the artistic choreography, musicality, interpretations of music,” Wong said. Jackie Wong, an analyst who hosts the Ice Talk podcast on Ice Network, said Chen’s development is addressing the balance between technical strength and artistry. championships to grow and compete and mature,” White said. “So, it will be about him preparing for the next competitions, the Four Continents and the worlds and how he does that, and how he uses these U.S. “And, he’s coming in as a heavy, heavy favorite. “The fact that he is going to Yale full time while competing at the highest level and, indeed, pushing his level higher, is just such a spectacular story. “He’s just proven himself to be such a dynamic person, in every sense. “Headlining the excitement of it all is Nathan Chen,” he said. White, who won the 2014 Olympic gold medal in ice dancing with Meryl Davis, will provide online commentary for NBC at the nationals. and I have to skate, basically, as well as I can and regardless of any of the external things.”Īs he walked between undergraduate classes on campus in Ann Arbor last week, Charlie White marveled at Chen’s career. ![]() “But, at the same time, it is what it is. “I think I do actually prefer being in sort the underdog position,” he said of the nationals. Championship is almost assured, Chen’s performance will indicate how he is preparing for his defense of the World Championship. But I definitely don’t want to carry my past mistakes and successes too much into the future.” “I learned a quite lot from last season, the Olympics, the worlds and all of that. ![]() “Every competition, you come in fresh,” he said. In Detroit, Chen said, his focus will be on current affairs. His electrifyingly brilliant finale vaulted him 12 places, but left him off the podium. But, his fall at PyeongChang on a combination quadruple lutz, triple toe loop resulted in 17th place after the short program. The king of the quads, Chen landed a historic half-dozen of them at the 2018 Winter Olympics, 30 years after Kurt Browning, of Canada, landed the first in competition.Ĭhen has dominated recent men’s events. His considerable training in ballet is an advantage for a skater well-practiced in the pyrotechnics of quadruple jumps. Chen is continuing a career transformation from great athlete to stylist, all while he attends Yale full time. ![]()
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