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Spark
08-09-2003, 02:45 PM
Shanfan has put together a series of skaters' falls, set to "Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls. It includes ice dancers tripping over one another, male pairs skaters dropping their partners, Jamie and David's fall on their ending pose in Salt Lake City, Midori Ito tripping right off the rink, falls in practice, warm-ups, the Olympics, pro competitions, you name it. Here is a direct link to the video:

http://www.icechampions.com/videos/montages/skatingfalls.wmv

If you've never seen Shanfan's homepage itself, that's definitely worth checking out too. She's added a lot of new figure skating montages:

http://www.shanfan.com
skatepixie
08-09-2003, 03:57 PM
i know. Its great.

Jamie and david didnt fall in salt lake. It was B&K.
Smiley0084
08-09-2003, 04:05 PM
Originally posted by skatepixie
i know. Its great.

Jamie and david didnt fall in salt lake. It was B&K.

Jamie and David Fell out of their final pose in the SP.
Lark
08-09-2003, 04:06 PM
Originally posted by skatepixie
i know. Its great.

Jamie and david didnt fall in salt lake. It was B&K.

Uhm, S&P ***did*** fall on their ending pose in the SP.
danibellerika
08-09-2003, 08:29 PM
if i'm not mistaken, she made a new one for this season with the song "Bringing me to Life"
Azlynn
08-09-2003, 09:57 PM
That's so good... terrible, but good, lol. For all the falls, thankfully only a few seem rather painful. And probably left scars. :D
ceceB
08-10-2003, 02:47 AM
Man, a couple of those pairs falls made me cringe. W&S's one where she hits her chin always got to me.

I think Midori Ito's is the most spectacular. But there's some close competition.
DancinDiva
08-10-2003, 05:28 PM
I've seen this before, and I love it. I love the part that shows B&S practicing the quad throw something and she falls over and over and over, and on the last try she just lays down on the ice. It's cute! Some of the falls are just hilaious, others are outright scary.
mountains4me
08-10-2003, 05:57 PM
And they give my son a hard time about skaters being wimps! I'd rather watch him take a hockey puck in the gut! Please, oh please, don't let the pairs partner see this!8O
blurrysarah
08-10-2003, 11:32 PM
That was great, I feel a little better about my various toepick falls now after watching the pro's do the same thing :D
Aimless
08-12-2003, 04:01 PM
Nobody else has trouble viewing these? I just get text garbage on all of them. Boo hoo.
BittyBug
08-13-2003, 06:21 AM
It streamed for me, but it took forever to download (and I have a high-speed connection). At any rate, this was hilarious in a sick, sick way. Some of those pairs falls from lifts were just too much - I don't know how anyone skates pairs.
blurrysarah
08-13-2003, 11:44 PM
Sasha really does have the most wince-worthy falls, the standout one for me being that incredible camel spin of hers, watching it slowly become more and more unstable until...plop. :lol:
Rachel
08-14-2003, 01:21 AM
It streamed for me and was fast loading too, she said smugly.

Every time I see Tristan Vega go splat, I hurt all over. Same for poor Isabelle Brasseur--yowch! I still remember Lloyd saying he couldn't do anything for her but put out his hand to catch her face so it wouldn't smash into the ice.

It takes a really exceptional woman to do pairs.
AshBugg44
08-17-2003, 10:02 PM
Wow I wish I had high speed it's going to take forever to download and then I know it's not going to stream! I give up! lol