Staycation Challenge 5/20

DAY 2: PODIUM RESULTS - Too Much Tuesday!

GOLD: Maddie C - 34 Points!!!!

SILVER: Sydney R - 32.5 Points!!!

BRONZE: Sasha S - 28.75 Points!!

PEWTER: Mia C 26.75 Points!

I know some people can't participate every day for various reasons. DON'T SWEAT IT! Every day is a new day!! I think it's awesome that everyone is doing what they can when they can. KEEP IT UP!

STAYCATION CHALLENGE: Monday - Friday

OFF-ICE JUMP CLASS: Tuesdays - 3:00 ET

SHARP4SPORTS: Wednesday - 1:45 ET

SHARP4SPORTS: Thursday - 1:15 ET

OFF-ICE JUMP CLASS: Fridays - 3:00 ET

CLASSROOM: Saturdays - 12:00 ET

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CLICK HERE to join Off-ice @ 3:00

Meeting ID: 842 1053 6504

Password: 008059

DAILY WORK OUTS SENT IN:

SEND A QUICK CLIP OF YOUR DAILY WORKOUT: 5 POINTS!

I know some of you worked out and didn't have a chance to record it. IT'S A NEW DAY! Send one today!

• Joy X

• Mia C

• Maddie C

• Sam R

• Sasha S

• Sydney R

• Tahani D

YESTERDAY'S PHYSICAL CHALLENGE: Heel Drop Butt Lifts!

Everyone who enters gets 3 Points!

WINNERS: TIE! Maddie C & Sydney R

YESTERDAY'S VIDEO CONTEST: Too Much!

WINNERS: Maddie C & Sydney R for this CLUTTERED Zagitova!

FASHION POLICE CATEGORY: Too Little Too Late

WINNER: Tahani D & Maddie C For this BARELY THERE feathered look...

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Fabric must be expensive!

2 FOR TUESDAYS TRIVIA: Questions

• Send me the longest list of SINGLES skaters who've won both the Junior AND Senior US National titles.

• How much is a PLUS TWO +2 worth on an element? Scale of Values: HERE

YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA: Answers

MEN

• Sherwin Badger: Junior 1918 Senior 1920-1924

• Roger Turner: Junior 1926 Senior 1928-1934

• Robin Lee: Junior 1932 Senior 1935-1939

• Eugene Turner: Junior 1938 Senior 1940 and 1941

• Arthur Vaughn: Junior 1939 Senior 1943

• Robert Specht: Junior 1940 Senior 1942

• Hayes Jenkins: Junior 1948 Senior 1953-1956

• David Jenkins: 1953 Senior 1957-1960

• Tim Wood: Junior 1964 Senior 1968-1970

• Scott Hamilton: Junior 1976 Senior 1981-1984

• Brian Boitano: Junior 1978 Senior 1985-1988 

• Christopher Bowman: Junior 1983 Senior 1989,1992

• Todd Eldredge: Junior 1988 Senior 1990,1991,1995, 1997, 1998, 2002 

• Scott Davis: Junior 1990 Senior 1993, 1994 

• Michael Weiss: Junior 1993 Senior 1999, 2000, 2003 

• Timothy Goebel: Junior 1996 Senior 2001 

• Ryan Bradley: Junior 1999 Senior 2011

• Evan Lysacek: Junior 2000 Senior 2007, 2008 

• Jeremy Abbott: Junior 2005 Senior 2012, 2014

• Jason Brown: Junior 2010 Senior 2015

• Nathan Chen: Junior 2012 and 2014 Senior 2017-2020

LADIES

• Beatrix Loughran: Junior 1921 Senior 1925-1927

• Maribel Vinson: Junior 1924 Senior 1928-1933, 1935-1937

• Suzanne Davis: Junior 1927 Senior 1934

• Joan Tozzer: Junior 1937 Senior 1938-1940 

• Gretchen Merrill: Junior 1939 Senior 1943-1948

• Yvonne Claire Sherman: Junior 1947 Senior 1949,1950

• Sonya Klopfer: Junior 1949 Senior 1951

• Tenley Albright: Junior 1950 Senior 1952-1956

• Carol Heiss: Junior 1952 Senior 1957-1960

• Barbara Ann Roles: Junior 1958 Senior 1962

• Laurence Owen: Junior 1959 Senior 1961

• Janet Lynn: Junior 1966 Senior 1969-1973

• Elaine Zayak: Junior 1979 Senior 1981

• Jill Trenary: Junior 1985 Senior 1987, 1989, 1990

• Kimmie Meissner :Junior 2004 Senior 2007

• Mirai Nagasu: Junior 2007 Senior 2008

• Gracie Gold: Junior 2012 Senior 2014, 2016

• Bradie Tennell: Junior 2015 Senior 2018

• Alysa Liu: Junior 2018 Senior 2019,  2020

+2 is worth 20% of the base value of the element.

YESTERDAY'S GAME: You Be The Judge!

Picking a Partner! I want you to SELECT A PAIR PARTNER for these skaters and give me a quick 1 sentence reason WHY you chose that partner for them. (1 point each)

• Michelle Kwan

• Jason Brown

• Alysa Liu

• Bradie Tennell

• Nathan Chen

YOU BE THE JUDGE: Who You Picked

Michelle Kwan

• Evan Lysacek: they are both technical and artistic.

• Todd Eldredge: because there is a good height difference (6 inches), there jumps look similar and it would be cool to see a righty/ lefty pair.

• Patrick Chan: Their both artistic and strong on the component side

• Yuzuru Hanyu: because they are both super awesome and have really good technique.

• Adam Rippon: because they are both very flowy and expressive skaters

• Max Aaron: because they both represent strength.

Jason Brown

• Mirai Nagasu: they are both so sweet and both artistic and technical. Their personalities will click.

• Amber Glenn: because they both perform with so much emotion and incredible skating skills

• Mariah Bell: because they are both smooth on the ice and have fun personalities

• Alena Kostoryana: because they both are amazing artists on the ice who could skate an amazing program together

• Evgenia Medvedeva: because they both show emotion in their dances, their performance is really good and might be even better together.

• Sasha Cohen: They can do matching Russian Splits

Alysa Liu

• Vincent Zhou: they are both young, so it will give them a lot of time to progress and excel.

• Vincent Zhou: because they match on jump levels

• Johnny Weir: because I think seeing Alysa with fancy clothes on would be amazing.

• Huzuru Hanyu: because there is a huge height difference and their jumps are similar

• Nathan Chen: because side-by-side quad lutzs would be tough to beat

• Shoma Uno: because they are both good jumpers

Bradie Tennell

• Yuzuru Hanyu: They are both really graceful, so they will flow together.

• Evgeni Plushenko: because they are both awesome skaters.

• Javier Fernandez: because they are both very dramatic skaters

• Evan Lysacek: because they are both tall.

• Evan Lysacek: They are both from Chicago and their jumps are almost identical

• Evan Lysacek: because they are both very tall and have a similar skating style.

Nathan Chen

• Karen Chen: Nathan Chen is pretty short for a guy, and Karen Chen is pretty short as well, so height won’t matter. They are also both really strong skaters.

• Alexandra Trusova: because they could dominate technically 

• Sasha Trusova: because then they are the quad queens and kings 

• Yuna Kim: because they have both been a two time world champ and both have set records and they might be even better as pairs.

• Alexandra Trusova because they are both powerful jumpers

• Yuzuru Hanyu: Because they're rivals.

GREAT JOB!!!

TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED YESTERDAY!!!

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