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Go Johnny !

Nationals men’s competition Short program will be coming tomorrow. It’s already tomorrow !!! Seems like the starting order might change, and Johnny will skate in last at third group. All his main competitors will be in first group. I don’t know this position is good for Johnny or not, but hope he will focus only himself. Starting order for SP Warmup Group 1 1. Evan Lysacek, DuPage FSC 2. Jeremy Abbott, Broadmoor SC 3. Stephen Carriere, SC of Boston 4. Adam Rippon, SC of New York Warmup Group 2 5. William Brewster, Detroit SC 6. Shaun Rogers, University of Delaware FSC 7. Tommy Steenberg, SC of Northern Virginia 8. Jason Wong, SC of Boston 9. Scott Smith, Salt Lake Figure Skating Warmup Group3 10. Nicholas LaRoche, All Year FSC 11. Parker Pennington, Winterhurst FSC 12. Jonathan Cassar, Detroit SC 13. Eliot Halverson, Ann Arbor FSC 14. Johnny Weir, SC of New York Warmup Group 4 15. Douglas Razzano, Coyotes SC of Arizona 16. Ryan Bradley, Broadmoor SC 17. Dennis Phan, All Year FSC 1...

Right Brain ? or Left Brain ?

I found a very interesting info about our brains , and how it influences our taste and our view points when we see things. People’s taste and view points are usually different, so I’m not surprised that people see things totally different from me. Actually, it’s so unbelievable Ray and I have similar taste for so many things. Maybe that’s one of the reasons, it’s so comfortable to be with him. Recently, I happened to find a comment which bugged me a little because it was about Johnny’s “ The Swan “ program in Nationals 2006, and comparing with Patrick Chan’s SP for this season in Canadian Nationals. The comment was this “ I found the swan is too old for Johnny. He has no creativity, no genius to skate such music. I don't know why he continues, every year, to skate to classical music that he interprets with such an old style (and not old in a good way, for me). Patrick‘s term of creative is brilliant. ” When I read this comment, honestly, I thought “ Huh ???” I...