On a totally different note: The Regionals are here! The Regionals are here!

[icarus]

The Regionals are here! The Regionals are here!

Yes, Out Of Bounds fans, I'm going to watch boys in tight costumes compete Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. No top-ranked skaters, alack and alas, but there are Intermediate Men skaters which should be fun.

The boyfriend has seen fit to remind me that 15-year-old skater boys are not legal. *g*

I sent perfica my updated Out of Bounds outline. She said, "I'm lucky to be reading this without having to write it." She seems well pleased with the direction of the story.

A (small) Out of Bounds update is coming this week.

To get you in the mood, here's Evan Lysacek and a and a really brutal fall. And a very Sheppard-esque look in program to Forever Young (he skates with such power and passion here, a lot better than John). Here he skates in jeans. And talk about a hot starting pose. Muh.

The Regionals, as an FYI, are the first tier that skaters have to win in order to work their way up to the National Championships. The top four skaters from that region move on the to their Sectional in November (the West Coast sectional is being hosted by San Diego this year). Then in January... the Nationals. *eyes agleam*

The schedule this week:

Thursday
12:30 - 1:20 - Intermediate Men's Short Program ... Here the boys have 2:50 minutes to squeeze in a number of tough moves.

Friday - the boys' day
11:25 - Intermediate Ladies Short Program

1:30 - Junior Men's Short Program
1:45 - Intermediate Men's Freeskate ... Here's the finish line, the long program. Medals awarded at 3:45pm.
2:35 - Pre Pre Boys Freeskate
2:50 - Pre Boys Freeskate
3:05 - Pre Juvenile Boys Freeskate

3:35 - Juvenile Girls Freeskate
4:55 - Pre Juvenile Girls Group A Freeskate

5:55 - Novice Ladies Short Program
7:10 - Pre Juvenile Girls Group B Freeskate

8:10 - Junior Ladies Short Program
9:15 - Senior Ladies Short Program

Saturday
12:20 - Open Juvenile Girls Group A Freeskate
12:35 - Junior Men's Freeskate. Medals awarded at 2:30pm.
1:10 - Juvenile Boys Freeskate
1:40 - Open Juvenile Girls Group B Freeskate

2:40 - Intermediate Ladies Freeskate
4:00 - Pre Juvenile Girls Group C Freeskate

I may take wildernessguru to see these Saturday, though he'd really be interested in the Intermediate Men's competition and above. Sadly, he'll be unavailable Thursday afternoon. Still, the juvenile girls are not to be missed. They look like kittens! They're so good, and have such spring, and they're in sparkly dresses! Five on the rink at a time is the best.

I remember a Chinese woman who'd never seen figure skating before walked into the rink this summer. She saw the little girls and stopped. "Ooooh, cuuuuuute!" she said.

Lucky me, my Chinese History class is cancelled for Thursday afternoon. So I get to go. And wildernessguru is making noises about going to the Men's Freeskate at the Nationals. He's a Johnny Weir fan (he loves flamers).


Translation ETA: Thanks to lavvyan's translation mojo, we now know why Lysacek had that brutal fall:

"Oooh, the quadruple [insert skating term I don't know][Icarus guesses toe loop], I think he even hit his head there! I don't understand why he's taken such a big risk here during the qualification in the first place." And then something about him just needing to qualify because he won't get to keep the points, and the commentator wondering if Evan's going to make it through the rest of his program. Then the second fall, "Yeah, I was afraid that would happen. That was a bad fall he took with the quadruple [something][probably toe loop], he's visibly battered. Now it's fingers crossed for Evan Lysacek that he can at least make it through this."

Icarus checks out vid: roaringmice can correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like a quad toe loop he tried. (It's easier to guess than you'd think. The quad comes in only two flavors so far, the salchow and toe loop. The salchow makes the skater look like he's doing an antelope jump, and the toe loop looks like Najinsky.) Turns out that the fall knocked the wind out of him and his leg went numb for two minutes. He pulled into third by improvising and tacking on extra jumps later in his program.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I have entirely selfish reasons to want you to go. I'm very happy to go to the regionals, but it works out that I'm going to miss all the warm-ups. Can't cut Sanskrit.

Icarus