I saw this on the ISI's 2011 Conference Schedule, but there are no details yet on what Olympic Champions are skating in this exhibition. (Might be something in-house or special olympics athletes.)
May 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Olympic Champion Exhibition
Galleria Ice Rink
Galleria, Texas
If I get more details, I'll let you know.
I doubt it's Special Olympics. I think they would have said that if that were the case. At the first conference I attended, the Special Olympics seminar was on-ice, and the athletes did do an exhibition for us as part of the seminar.
There was a list of activities in the PSA Magazine and one of them said Virtue & Moir would be at the Conference with Marina Zoueva. I'll bet that's who is skating - how exciting!
Short exhibition - local singles skater and synchro team, Virtue & Moir, Jason Brown, and a Junior Nationals Pairs team!
Very interesting to see all the people lined up around the atrium, looking down at the skaters.
Jason Brown is just charming and he has an awesome hydroglide-into-Russian Split jump that was awesome.
Which synchro team?
The "Toe Pixies," a local beginner synchro team - they may have been an ISI team; I'm not sure. Very cute in pink flapper dresses. A few trips and falls, but they were troupers and got right back up and rejoined the team! Bravo!
Some videos:
Toe Pixies (from another event): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-HLtjJiLs
Ashley Cain & Joshua Regan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGAMHeULR2Q
Jason Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1Qje6ZTr4
Virtue & Moir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgku3MfE9Q
Bows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRltOywvtvw
The little girl is a local skater who, along with several other girls, helped out by demonstrating on various sessions throughout the conference.
More video on YouTube:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gm4X3lohz8
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONQulNWXDc
thanks for all the links, they were fun to watch! (I miss skating so much!)
The Toe Pixies are definitely ISI - USFSA has much smaller beginner teams (8-16) although juvenile can have up to 20? They didn't look like a juvenile team though. Good to see such a large group of girls interested in synchro!