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A Very Merry Skate Guard Christmas
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It's that time of year again when we gather with loved ones, break out the booze and bird and have a ball! I kicked off my Christmas ce...
From Sendai To Sapporo: A Whole New Meaning To Illegal Lifts
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When Toshikazu Katayama joined forces with eleven other Japanese skating coaches (many of them former champion skaters) to organize and...
Hungary For Gold: A History Of The Városligeti Műjégpálya
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With the medal drought for Hungarian skaters in recent years in the marquee events, it may come to some surprise to many readers to put ...
The 1951 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
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Held from January 31 to February 3, 1951 in conjunction with Seattle, Washington's centennial celebration, the 1951 U.S. Figure Ska...
An Apfel A Day Keeps The Russian Judges Away: The Arthur Apfel Story
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Photo courtesy BIS Archive, Gerschwiler Family Collection I love unique stories and Arthur Julian Apfel's is most certainly righ...
How Ice Skates First Arrived In South America
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Back in August, Allison Manley and I dived in and explored the startlingly unconventional history of figure skating in South America in t...
A Little Housekeeping: Upcoming Blogs And An Announcement!
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It is no secret that figure skating history is my passion. Ever since I have started writing this blog, I have explored hundreds of fasc...
Skating On The Wrong Side Of The Law
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Over the course of history, many skaters have almost found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Insert bad Tonya Harding joke here. H...
Nudes On Ice: Yes, It's A Thing That Happened
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On an episode of "Murphy Brown", stoic anchorman Jim Dial responded to someone saying "We're all naked under our clot...
Decorum And Double Threes: Skating In The English Style
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There's a little private irony to the timing of today's subject matter. I actually lay out a calendar of when each blog will be...
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