Extreme Ice Skating

Extreme ice skating is very impressive. It consists of acrobatics, circus and contortion.Raised in a circus family, Violetta Afanasieva now is a Moscow Circus on Ice and Holiday on Ice performer and has performed at Battle of the Blades on CBC last year and this year. At last year’s season, she finished 6th overall and raised $25 000 for Onexone, a non-profit organization with the mission to preserve a basic quality of life for children locally and globally and this year, she was competing for the Canadian Cancer Society.

In 2006, she and her partner who is also her husband won the first “Extreme Ice Skating World Champions” title in St. Petersburg.

Here is a video of their Hula Hoop Act.

First female hockey player becomes battle of the blades’ winner

The decision was made by Canadian viewers based on their last performance of Sunday night. "I had the time of my life, and I would do this 20 times over." Bonhomme said after her victory.

The two Olympic gold medalists won the $100,000 prize, which will be divided between their selected charities, the CIBC Run for the Cure in Sudbury and Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta. Bonhomme chose this charity since her grandmother is a breast cancer survivor.

The battle of the blades

The battle of the blades is a Canadian Figure Skating reality show where the competitors are judged by a panel of figure skating experts and a rotating guest judge. Elimination occur every week but the judges have a one-time save to use on a couple when they want to. The show airs on CBC Sundays and Mondays at 8 p.m. The grand finale is approaching with only three couples left. David Pelletier and his partner Tessa Bonhomme, Marie-France Dubreuil and her partner Bryan Berard and Tanith Belbin and her partner Boyd Devereaux. People buy tickets to assist the competition and the professional skaters, which were named first in the upper list of the couples are skating for causes that they believe in while the hockey players do it for the competitive aspect. Best of luck to all couples and hope you guys tune in to CBC!

A Minute With…

Skate buzz is an interesting website containing all the figure skating gossip and news. There is new content every week on this site. A minute with… consists of short interviews with your favorite skaters that will be regularly posted on the website. You will get to know off-ice aspects of their lives as well as habits or superstitions that they have before or after they skate. Fans will get to know theirs idols. 

Below is a link to the website where you can see interviews of Dylan Moscovitch and Kaithlyn Weaver

http://www.skatebuzz.com/default.aspx

Cynthia phaneuf makes the cover of Fitness Quebec magazine

Cynthia talks about her path and the highlights of her career and the interview. She says that her supportive family and friends have helped her get to the point where she is right now. This is, an athlete who participated to the Olympic games of 2010 and the Canadian Figure Skating Champion of 2011. Phaneuf has won her first national title at the age of 15 in 2004!

Her best figure skating moment is her qualification to the Olympic Games not the actual games. She says having worked very hard to accomplish this and admits having lost faith at some point. This is why she is grateful for all the support that her entourage has gave to her.

Sandhu’s Comeback!

The soon to be 31 years old skater who has been retired for four years now will be competing at tomorrow’s British Colombia sectional qualifying event on November 11th.

During his off-ice years Emanuel Sandhu did not rest. He went on the television show So You Think You Can Dance Canada and made the top four and launched a singing career! Emanuel wanted to keep this secret for as long as possible because he says he isn’t doing it for publicity or press to help his singing career…



The competition will be live streamed on www.skatinginbc.com. 
The men’s event is at 2:35 p.m. tomorrow afternoon!