Boyang Jin, 2017 Four Continents Championships - Spiderman (soundtrack)

Boyang Jin, who is representing China, is the 2016 World Bronze medalist. While watching the Four Continents Championships, I notice his top. It reminded me of the web design on Spider-Man's outfit. Unbeknownst to me, his short program this season is Spiderman Theme (Junkie XL Remix) performed by Michael Buble. Well, that explains the outfit! While watching his performance, I can see that he's channeling the character through the choreography of Lori Nichol. It includes the iconic web shooting and some poses that reminds me of the character. Also, the piece is jazzy, so there will be some dancing. Enjoy!

Alena Leonova as Harley Quinn at the 2016 Trophee de France

I'm not sure what to think of this...when I saw her costume I was like "ehhhhh...Judges might not like itttt." Yeah, if the judges were traditional, they may not be open minded to a non-skating dress without bedazzle. I cosplay and figure skate, and I went bug eyed on the costume. She could have dressed up as Harley Quinn, but visually, the costume quality does not meet the same standards as other skaters in her level. Unfortunately, the costume did not look professionally done. For goodness sakes! She's skating at a Grand Prix competition! If you can make it to that competition, you are pretty high in the rankings. Also, the music...it's "It's Oh So Quiet" by Björk and I remember hearing it in the movie "Ice Princess." Not sure how the music relates to Harley Quinn though.

Evgenia Medvedeva Performing to Sailor Moon Theme Song

There's one where she does a cosplay version, while the other one is in an elegant blue skating dress.

The Super Mario Brothers...Wearing Ice Skates?!

I was doing a general browsing for Richard Dwyer, who was "Mr. Debonair" and an Ice Skating Show Star. Currently, he's a 70+ year old, who wows us skaters with his Axel jump. Yes, he can still do the hardest jump in figure skating! While looking through a photo gallery, I discover something unexpected. The Super Mario Brothers in figure skates?!

Spike Spiegel at 2016 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships

Yes, you read that correctly. Spike Spiegel, the male character with his iconic blue suit, yellow shirt and black tie from Cowboy Bebop, made an appearance at the 2016 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in the Short Program. He was portrayed by Kevin Reynolds, a senior level Canadian skater, who is a three-time Canadian silver medalist. Except this time, he ended up with the bronze medal. Unfortunately, he will not be making an appearance at the 2016 ISU World Figure Skating Championship in March, he was not assigned to that competition. Thinking about it though, if he did compete, how would the international judges panel score him? Would they like the music? Some conservative judges may not. Would he have made it to the podium? I guess we will never know.

Oh yeah, he also skated to Chrono Trigger by Yasunori Mitsuda and The Legend of Zelda by Koji Kondo as his Free Skate program for 2011 to 2012 season and 2014 to 2015 season, respectively. Too bad I can't find his National competitions for these programs.

© 2016 Linda Thai