Craving for a peek behind the cultures of our ISU Senior teams preparing for the Worlds? We asked them of the quirks of their skating language, and got responses that spoke of creativity, vivid imagination, and individual coaches’ influence – but also of similarities between the teams.
In this article, we discuss skating traditions from the welcoming of new team members to annual team hangouts and competition superstitions. We asked for skaters input and got answers from 15 different ISU Senior teams from Montreal to Milan.
Twenty-three teams from numerous country make their way to Lake Placid, New York to Skate at Synchro Worlds. This year, the scores ranged by over sixty points, making the competition fun to watch as a viewer!
Emotions and good energy! The international competition of the Neuchâtel Trophy 2022 ended on Saturday evening in Switzerland. The public was able to appreciate some wonderful performances and saw some changes at the top of the podium.
The Neuchâtel Trophy got off to a strong start on Friday evening in the presence of spectators. Here's what happened in senior division!
The second day of the Mozart Cup saw a great competition, especially in the senior division. The American teams kept the lead in the junior division.
The Mozart Cup 2022 started on Friday in Salzburg, Austria. Teams from the United States unsurprisingly dominated the junior competition, while the senior category was more competitive.
The victory, they wanted it and they got it. After beating Team Paradise a few weeks ago, the senior team Tatarstan from Russia won again at the first stage of the Challenger Series in Poland. Crystal Ice (RUS) and Dream Edges from Finland got the silver and the bronze, ending with tight scores.
Organising camps, competitions, athletic sessions, booking flights, planning journeys, competitions and camps... Marlies is the team manager of the German team United Angels. She lives nearby Stuttgart with her daughter Hannah who is also a synchro skater.
Kilian Madeja answered our questions while sitting in the train on his way to his office. He works and lives in the south of Germany in the city of Stuttgart (where the companies Mercedes and Porsche come from). Let's learn more about this coach!
For their new free program, the German skaters from Team United Angels experienced a particular working method. Marilyn Langlois, the famous Canadian coach from Montreal, should have joined the team during their camp in Oberstdorf, but due to the COVID-19 and the travel restrictions, the synchro coach wasn't able to come to Germany. Therefore, the team coach Chrisi and Marilyn Langlois decided to maintain the camp... via video call.
You miss winter, and we completely understand! During the season, Jura Synchro asked several international senior teams what their favorite costume was. Relive the best winter moments by discovering their response in a video!