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The Modern English School
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"The art of attention or concentration must be cultivated; its possibilities are quite startling. Attention is the distinguishing ...
The 1931 North American Figure Skating Championships
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Last held in 1971, the U.S. versus Canada equivalent to the European Championships was, as far as international figure skating competiti...
Progress And John Curry's "Icarus"
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"I feel like I was working all year to recite a poem and I was reciting it to deaf people." - John Curry The fable of Daedal...
The Vasilyevsky Island Rink
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Bordered by the Bolshaya Neva, Malaya Neva and Smolenka Rivers and the Gulf Of Finland, Vasilyevsky Island is a historic island in St. Pe...
Overruled: The Stories Of Two Forgotten Skating Lawyers
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Writing about skating's rich and colourful history has taught me many lessons and one that seems to recur time and time again is that s...
The 1981 Australian Figure Skating Championships
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In August 1981, it was a balmy twenty four degrees Celsius in Brisbane, Australia. Not exactly the temperature most skaters are used to...
The Sabena Aftermath, Part Three: The Patterson And Radix Report
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Even so many years later, the 1961 Sabena crash seems almost surreal. How could have something so horrific have even happened? Why were t...
The Sabena Aftermath, Part Two: Gertrude The Gallant
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Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine They say that no parent should ever have to bury their own child. Horrifically, as a result of ...
The Sabena Aftermath, Part One: An Unlikely Comeback
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One question I always seem to get asked is why I haven't really covered the 1961 plane crash that tragically claimed the lives of the...
Patinage Poetry: The Language Of The Ice (Part Six)
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How doth I love skating? Let me count the ways... Just prior to the Sochi Olympics, I put together the blog's first collection of poe...
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