Cohen & Nicks will Stay a Team

[lotusland]

Sasha Cohen has announced she will be staying through the 2006 Olympic year with John Nicks:

http://www.sashacohen.com/journal.shtml

[shadymc]

:D I am so happy to hear this.

[Schmeck]

He's 76 years old this month - hope he stays healthy.

[icedancer2]

When the saw the title of this thread -- I thought, "Oh, no not another April Fool's Joke!

I'm glad they are sticking together. I hate to see people coach-hopping and I assume that Mr. Nicks is good for her.

Now all we have to do is wait and see what happens next!! :lol:

[skateflo]

Other than the mention of looking for music, her whole post is "all about the points" and racking them up....it saddens me and I see a future decline in truly great skating, choreography, and artistry.

[loveskating]

Other than the mention of looking for music, her whole post is "all about the points" and racking them up....it saddens me and I see a future decline in truly great skating, choreography, and artistry.

Well, actually, she said that she and Mr. Nicks would take some time to find really great music and that they would work on "new spins and new elements".

Sasha's and Tarasova's Swan Lake was totally COP freindly...and amazingly "artistic" IMHO.

Since COP ties down "artistic" points, racking up the points no longer means merely technical points, and I think most people know that.

COP is much more fair than the totally subjective OPINION of a judge as to what is artistry (I recall Stojko getting a 5.9 from the Canadian judge at Nagano in the SP, no way did he deserve that, and that was the only 5.9 he got)...no one could ever get away with this in opera, except perhaps in the corporate controlled US. There are certain technical necessities that you MUST have to sing in a top opera, like a great, blooming B, at least the ability to hit the high C and sustain it a bit, you must be able to color the voice by singing at full voice, pianissimo, etc. , you must have that "ring" and lots of other things to even be considered for a job as an opera singer!

My main beef with the COP is that they need to make the classic layback a level 3 -- that they have not is evidence of RUSSIAN corruption in the ISU in my opinion!

[doubletoe]

My main beef with the COP is that they need to make the classic layback a level 3 -- that they have not is evidence of RUSSIAN corruption in the ISU in my opinion!

B]Why?[/B]

[Schmeck]

If anything, they should knock the bielman down to a 2. Either you were born with the flexibility to be able to do some moves, or not. I guess the ISU could just turn figure skating into a circus side-show freak-a-zon, or the ISU could reward more balanced programs, where skaters use a variety of positions to get a level 3. Maybe over using the same position could even become a deduction? Or , doing a bielman in one section could be a level 3, but using it again makes it drop to a level 2.

What is the perfect classic layback position? I don't think it's Sasha's bend-so-much in the lower back, although her free leg gets nicely parallel to the ice, doesn't it? Or am I getting it mixed up with Sarah Hughes' layback? I think Angela N. got great, complete, arch throughout her back as well.