Gracie on being a coach and preventing her students from a paralzing fear of failure: “I’m a pretty good teacher. But you know who’s the best teacher? Failure…If we’re so afraid of failure that we don’t try, how will we ever improve as skaters and grow as people? I’ve fallen a hundred thousand times in my skating career…so when a student describes themselves as ‘garbage’ after falling twice, [I respond] ‘What does that make me? The city dump?’ I don’t know when, where, or why, but falling has gotten a bad rap…I tell my students that the real failure occurs when they’re so afraid to mess up that they don’t make an effort” (318-19). She’s concerned when her students skate so cautiously that they never fall during a lesson.
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Gracie’s answer to a young fan who asked, “Why did you stop eating?”: “I explained that I went through a period where a lot of stuff was happening in my life that was beyond my grasp and way beyond my ability to change or fix. I felt lost and lonely and confused and sad, and I didn’t know what to do. I stopped eating because the amount of food I put in my mouth was the single thing I could control. I hurt myself before anybody else could” (310). On recovering from ED: “I was ready to build an identity outside of my disordered eating, which had been a part of my life longer than most of my inner circle. I knew it wouldn’t be easy. My food issues, however destructive, had served a purpose. As long as my energies were focused on my diet, I didn’t have to confront my parents or unpack my emotional baggage…I recognized that saying ‘I feel fat’ or ‘I’m out of shape’ was easier than giving voice to what was really gnawing at me, like ‘I’m afraid to live up to the expectations people have for me’ ” (196).
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Gracie reflects on the backlash to being open about her mental health: “By sharing the story of my mental health struggles…[I] put an ugly face on a beautiful sport. No longer could the public live in denial about the cost of excellence…I had betrayed the convenant of skating: Thou shalt not expose the pain behind the performance” (205)
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Gracie’s memoir is one of my favorite feminist books: “Women spend almost every waking hour on guard-hyperalert to the vibes we are sending off and receiving, and hyperaware of the need to control our tempers, appetites, sexuality, feelings, and ambitions. And then people wonder why we often seem to be ‘hysterical’ ” (158).
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For the story behind this performance, read Gracie's memoir..Reflecting on the ’16 Worlds: “I was an addict craving that adrenaline rush…a perfectly accessorized package of anxiety in fight-or-flight mode.” (111) “My drug of choice, skating, is viewed as a healthy addiction…Sport is the opiate of the elite athlete” (204)
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Gracie describes how it feels to end a disappointing performance: “Imagine: You’ve just fucked up royally. Your worst nightmare has come to pass. But instead of disappearing behind a thunderhead of shame, you now have to stand at center ice and curtsy to the judges who are marking you down as you acknowledge them; to the crowd who has just witnessed your biggest failure in person; to the folks at home who gasped and then grabbed a handful of mixed nuts while you, after starving yourself for two years, hit the ice so hard that you’ll have a bruise in the morning. There you are, mouthing the words ‘Thank you’ ” (pgs. 112-13 of her memoir).
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Topics from Gracie’s memoir (SPOILER ALERTS). Scroll down. She reflects on: Overcoming her ‘ice princess’ image Hiding dark family secrets Struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thinking, an eating disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Interacting with abusive coaches Coping with a gruelling training schedule Making the decision to return to figure skating after inpatient therapy Being diagnosed with ADHD in her 20s Finding joy as a skating coach for children, teens, and adults ***Sexual assault survivors may find chapters 11 and 17 distressing.
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One of my favorite memoirs…Gracie Gold’s bestseller Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out (2024). Gracie exposes the toxic culture of professional figure skating, and reflects on her fight to overcome mental health disorders and reclaim her authentic self. In my opinion, Gracie earns a goal medal for exposing the pain behind this beautiful sport.
@화윤-z9bАй бұрын
아름답고 우이한 예술적 표현력 둘도 없는거 같아요!!!!사랑합니다❤❤❤❤❤
@henriquemonteiro7245Ай бұрын
I find this program gorgeous
@cinziaborgo76672 ай бұрын
La maestosità dell' interpretazione e l' eleganza su una musica da brivido
@ОльгаВшивкова2 ай бұрын
Сколько лет прошло,а программа до мурашек трогает каждый раз. Восхищаюсь. Талантище❤❤❤
@OLEG-gt2yt3 ай бұрын
милый зубастик. люблю Ленку особенно " с зубами"😁
@stevechappellie9043 ай бұрын
Flexibility, Precision, Speed, Focus, Artistry. Yulia had it ALL!
@bettycurry67523 ай бұрын
Perfection….
@evgeniimatiukhov79093 ай бұрын
❤она такая нежная ! Так красиво катается ❤
@ЕленаАльшевская-н9м4 ай бұрын
Лёгкость, великое чувство музыки, невесомость, красота, гибкость, плавность, необыкновенная привлекательность, незаурядная женственность во всех движениях - вот все, что отличает нашу императрицу от других наших и зарубежных фигуристок, да, ещё - неповторимая индивидуальность!!!
@debussy84854 ай бұрын
11 years have passed since, but I still visit this video on a weekly basis.
Невероятная Красотища Лизы Ее обояние грация Великолепны ! Летает легко Кайфует Восхищение Самая Лучшая Фигуристка Планеты Всех Времён и народов ! Она Царица Льда !
@Blair2746 ай бұрын
와..여나야 너무 멋지다 역쉬 김래리😂
@marinabell50796 ай бұрын
Лиза куколка...)
@SHBYESYO6 ай бұрын
she is amazing!!!
@miidnxghts6 ай бұрын
almost eleven years later and this performance still remains one of the most fun i’ve watched so far. not a single jump and it’s still better than all of sotnikova’s programs
@wlchan72117 ай бұрын
She shed tears when she was back to audience bench
@SobrietyandSolace7 ай бұрын
The spiral transition into the black swan was amazing