2011 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo Postponed
Now the ISU and JSF have announced that the 2011 ISU World Figure Skating Championship scheduled for March 21st to 27th in Tokyo has at least been postponed and may be cancelled (or, as many are speculating, moved). With fears of Japanese volcanos rea...
Dai-chan, Arigato Gozaimasu!!
Daisuke Takahashi won the ISU's Four Continents figure skating competition today, on the Full Metal Archivist's birthday. That's a better birthday present than anything I can get her. Way to go, Dai-chan!Here's how he did it, first in the short progr...
Figure Skaters Have More Fun
Check out this Japanese game show with Daisuke Takahashi, Mao Asada, Miki Ando, Takahiko Kozuka, and Nobunari Oda in a heated table tennis match against a couple of comedians (who have never won in this annual competition with different athletes)....Lo...
Dear Santa: All We Want for QSMS Is…
...for you to cure Daisuke Takahashi's whiplash in time for the World Championships!We know this comes a little late and you're really busy this time of year, but onechan and imoto have been really good, The Constructivist really likes Terry Pratchett'...
Dai-chan Did It! Your Turn Now, Ai-sama!!
Despite flying across the country to Portland, OR, The Full Metal Archivist didn't turn out to be all that much in the inspiration department for Daisuke Takahashi at Skate America, as he got outskated in the short program by rival Nobunari Oda----and ...
Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia Sunday: Jimin Kang Fires 65 to Deny Juli Inkster
Jimin Kang was only 3 shots off the lead heading into the final round of the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia event, but I never considered for a second that she would be the one to prevail in the end--and in so doing take her 2nd career LPGA title. Sure, I h...
The Full Metal Archivist on Daisuke Takahashi
cross-posted at Dai-chan's 2009-2010 SeasonLuv Letter to Daisuke TakahashiThe Full Metal ArchivistMy first experience of watching Dai-chan live at Skate Canada was something I will always remember, and I want to experience it again. I had heard of his ...
On Yu Na…and T-Joh!
I hope everyone reads Happy Fan's fantastic essay on Olympic gold medalist figure skater Yu Na Kim. It provides a great window into the difficulties and pressures of not only training to become a world-class athlete, but to have the hopes and dreams o...
Let’s Hear It for the Boys!
Daisuke Takahashi became the 1st Japanese men's skater to win an Olympic medal last night--a bronze, behind Evgeni Plushenko and Evan Lysacek. And he did it his way. He could have played it safe like Lysacek and not put a quad into his free skate--an...
Dai-chan, Mao-chan, Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Meet your 2009 Japanese national figure skating champions, Daisuke Takahashi and Mao Asada!That was the closest Dai-chan's come to landing a quad in competition since his knee surgery, but even though he had shaky landings on a couple of other jumps, h...
Dai-chan, Arigato Gozaimasu!
Nice QSMS present from Daisuke Takahashi to the Full Metal Archivist:A season-best performance in the short program at Japanese nationals! (We still love his Skate Canada performance--nothing like being there.)Dai-chan, all the FMA wants for her birth...
On Being an Ai-sama and Dai-chan Fan
Sure, we're dealing with head lice and what seems to be H1N1 here in the Constructivist household the last couple of weeks, but you want to know what's really gotten us down lately? No, it's not Tiger's inability to win from the final pairing yet agai...
