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The Daly Show

Pro golf's best soap opera has more sex, booze, gambling, gluttony and jail time than Jersey Shore.

The fog was thick at Kohler, Wisconsin's famed Whistling Straits Golf Course. San Francisco thick. It made it impossible to see down the fairway of the first hole. The green 408 yards away was not visible, nor was the lake just beyond it. There were no spectators, marshals or other golfers in sight. John Daly's golf partner for the day, Rickie Fowler, joked that visibility was at three feet. Daly's caddy wasn't quite as affable about the weather, acknowledging under his breath that if this was a game day and not just a practice round, the PGA would enforce a fog delay. But Daly said nothing. He was perhaps assessing how to tee off into the unknown. Or he was thinking that even if he golfed his worst golf, it wouldn't be his fault.
Daly has a knack for thinking things aren't his fault. Three stops in rehab and some ongoing therapy with a psychologist in Florida have given Daly a definite mantra, which he pulls out of thin air when need be, saying, in effect, "It's not all my fault. I'm a good person. I have a good heart. I care about people. I'm not a bad guy." But not everyone agrees.
By tee time, seven a.m., Daly was just a silhouette against that fog. He looked like any other professional golfer on the course at that hour, except for the bold black pants with a neon kaleidoscope pattern and the ubiquitous cigarette dangling from his lips. At 45 he was a beacon of unconventionality in a sea of peers dressed uniformly in basic solids.
Had Daly slipped into a pair of flat-front khakis, though, he would still have been nothing like the others. His square-peg-round-hole routine has always defined him. He put in a special order for Diet Coke at the Pepsi-sponsored event, just to goad his hosts. He tells endless pussy, beaver and tit jokes no matter who can hear. He requested steak and mashed potatoes during the PGA Past Champions four-course Korean barbecue dinner. And while other pros traveled the rugged links-style course respectfully, Daly tossed lit cigarette butts wherever he damn well pleased—on the contoured fairways, in the fescue grasses that flank them and in bunkers that litter the course. The world is his ashtray.
Daly's demeanor continued to reveal itself hole after hole, so that by the time he'd finished up on the 18th green and ascended the cobblestone stairway off the course to have lunch with his oldest daughter, Shynah, it was fitting that he barely said hello to her. There may have been a nod or a hushed "Hey," but Daly was not about to fall all over himself for anyone. That's just not in his nature. He keeps to himself when he is surrounded by others, even at lunch in the players' clubhouse. His daughter to his right, his girlfriend and her daughter to his left. He gave more attention to his hamburger patties.
If Daly is aloof around his daughter, it's not without precedent. His father was the same. "If I did something good, it wasn't good enough," Daly recalls. "We're just not real close like a father and son should be."
His upbringing was straight out of some old-school country song. Born in California, Daly and his family moved when he was four to a log cabin in Dardanelle, a tiny town in Yell County, in the middle of Arkansas. It was the epitome of redneck life, one in which his mother made chocolate gravy and biscuits in the kitchen and homemade shirts on her sewing machine. He and his brother Jamie would drag a trampoline up to the house so they could jump off the roof onto it, just for kicks. Their father made his own muscadine wine and stored it in mason jars. All the Daly kids risked a belt whupping when trouble came around. "I got beaten so many times by hoses, sticks and belt buckles," he says. Now that he has three kids of his own, plus a stepson, Daly says he's never going to be the kind of father his father was.
From an early age, Daly wanted golf to be his life, not just a hobby or a way to put himself through college. He dropped out of the University of Arkansas in 1987 to launch his career as a professional. In 1991 he came out of almost nowhere to win the PGA Championship in an unlikely turn of events. Nick Price had dropped out of the major because his wife was about to give birth, creating a slot for an alternate. The first round of alternates couldn't make it, but Daly could. He threw his clubs into the trunk, got in his car and drove from Memphis to Carmel, Indiana to the Crooked Stick Golf Club. If nothing else, Daly figured, at least he could have a few drinks with his hero, golf legend Fuzzy Zoeller. He left Memphis on Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon he was teeing off without a good night's sleep or even a practice round. By Sunday he was the PGA Champion.
The big-money sponsorships and appearance fees that followed that pivotal day are likely behind him. While major tournament purses get bigger (the 2010 PGA winner Martin Kaymer received a check for $1.35 million, compared with Daly's paltry $230,000 win in 1991), Daly's chances of even making the cut become very slight. But his past is scattered with some vital wins: the 1991 PGA, a onetime comeback at the 2004 Buick Invitational and then the one he calls the most important, the 1995 British Open. "That's the hardest one because the golf courses are so different. And it's like Jack Nicklaus said, 'If you win the British Open at St. Andrews, your golf career can't get any more complete.' Or something like that," Daly says.
Daly has married four women, some with careful consideration, others on a whim. But the picture he paints is of four women who had all the flaws. The first was too young, he says. Then, he claims, the second was too dishonest, hacking 11 years off her age, telling Daly she was 27 when she was really 38, a significant age difference that Daly didn't notice at the time. The third was too much of a homebody. The fourth one, Sherrie Miller…well, she was bad news from the start of their 2001 marriage. According to Daly, she wanted him to pay her $2,500 every time they had sex. "She was playing like a hooker. She wanted her husband to pay her to have sex with him," he recalls. "How bad is that?" Daly is adamant that her body was gorgeous but she was horrible in bed. "She wasn't worth a cent," he says.
Miller also went to prison in Lexington, Kentucky in 2006 on a federal charge involving a drug ring and an illegal-gambling operation. Having a wife in federal prison would be the nadir of most marriages, but Daly insists she came out even worse than when she'd gone in. "She just wanted to party every night. She was out all the time. My seven-year-old son says 'My mom's never home. She's always out,' " he says. Daly is still bitter. "It was a sad, sad marriage," he says. "I held on as long as I could. I was the most miserable, loneliest man you could ever be."
His new love, Anna Cladakis, has filled the ex-wives' shoes for now, but Daly says he has no intention of marrying her. His complaint is one countless men have. He laments the faltering libidos of women after a wedding and a couple of kids. "You marry somebody, that's one of the perks of being married—you get to have sex anytime you want it," he explains. When his wives stopped giving it to him, he says, he'd flat-out tell them, "The hell with it. I'll go get it somewhere else."
"I'm real close to being a nympho, if I'm not one," he admits. He and Cladakis try to have sex at least once every day. "If I'm with somebody, I want to be with that person. I wanna have sex a lot. Anna's been great. We're both nymphos, I think. We like each other's company. We like making love to each other," he says as his eyes wander to the front door of the remote Sheboygan Falls house he's rented west of the golf course. "If somebody's relationship is great, I don't want nobody else." Daly calls Cladakis the first woman in his life who truly loves him for him, not because of the celebrity status or money. On paper she's just the latest in a long line of women who've come and gone through Daly's life. But this time around he found love when he was not at the top of his game.
Aside from their shared hypersexuality, Daly seems just as effusive about Cladakis's independence. She has her own life, a daughter, a house where they live together in Clearwater, Florida and a job. She says it, too. "I have my shit together," she says defensively. When Daly met Cladakis, a few years ago, she was a promotional director with Hooters, one of his sponsors. She was also in the process of filing a suit against Outback Steakhouse chairman Chris Sullivan, her daughter's father. Cladakis now receives an estimated $7,500 a month in child support, meaning that she collects close to $100,000 a year for raising her daughter. Sullivan testified in court that during one of their sexual encounters, Cladakis "removed the condom from me, saying I didn't need that with her." Daly himself seems to have wised up about the allure of love, lust and promises of forever. Marrying Cladakis wouldn't be good for his sex life or his erratic financial highs and lows.
Daly estimates that his monthly expenses these days add up to a staggering $43,000. It used to be around $120,000, but with the sale of a couple of Hummers and some other asset reductions, he's whittled his liabilities down. A bus payment of $16,500 every month is, to him, a necessity to get to tournaments. Then there are the child-support payments to two of his ex-wives for his two younger children. "Sherrie is probably $5,000 and Paulette is $2,000 a month. Two house payments, the bus," he says with a heavy sigh. "It's a grind."
Cladakis tightened the reins on Daly's legendary gambling, which saves him untold amounts. "Anna hates gambling," he says as if he has a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Of all Daly's addictions and excesses, gambling had the tightest noose on him. "If he had the money, the gambling might still be a problem right now," says one friend.
It wasn't just the simple gambling of the common man that thrilled Daly. It was how he played big. Vast amounts of money changed hands in his most moneyed years, from the tournament purses to the casinos, with Daly acting as the sieve. Every chance he had he'd retreat to the high-limit rooms upstairs at the Wynn or Bally's or any other swanky casino in Vegas that would welcome him. A waitress would be at his side, the gawkers kept at bay. A balcony overlooking the pool awaited him when he needed to clear his head and strategize his next move. The risks felt less perilous when he was surrounded by the luxury he deserved.
Despite losing, by his own estimate, at least $50 million, Daly talks about the time he spent in casinos from Tunica, Mississippi to Las Vegas as if remembering his first love. "It felt better than golf," he says, "because you're sitting there and you don't have to work at it. Gambling is adrenaline. You wanna beat the blackjack, you wanna win the slots. You get the adrenaline rush. I absolutely loved it. Bally's was my favorite until they built the Wynn. That high-limit room? When I walk in there, I get that chill rush." His first taste of playing and winning big was in the early 1990s, when he fell in love with the $100 slot machine in Tunica. "I was the first one to win the jackpot of $100,000. I won, like, three or four nights in a row, and I'm going, 'I could never lose.' Next thing you know, you lose $500,000." He starts talking fast and furious, telling blackjack stories with the same gusto someone else might reserve for tales of catching monster tarpon. "Back when I was playing, you could play seven hands at $5,000 and have $35,000 on the table. Sometimes 10. You could have 70 grand sitting up there. You don't have that chance on a dollar slot or playing $25 at blackjack. I won $400,000 to $500,000 in blackjack sittings," he says mournfully.
Eventually mistakes were made. The losses started catching up with Daly. He used to have markers in six or seven casinos, he says. "I was always trying to pay markers off. I'd owe $800,000 at Bally's or at Caesars. I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul," he confesses. Then after Harrah's bought up all the Vegas casinos he cherished, the company banned Daly for life. "I've written letters to try to get back in, but they don't want me," he says. That underscores Daly's compulsive relationship with risk: He'd try to get into a club that didn't want him as a member. When he looks back on those gambling days, Daly is a paradox of self-love and self-loathing. Golf pro Fuzzy Zoeller says it best. He explains how Daly can love and loathe himself, and the world can do the same, but true fans and friends of Daly will always look beyond that. "He is a great young man, and deep down he has a big, big heart. Some people just see us when we're out and about, but on tour, we know," Zoeller says. "We see the other side of John Daly."
Daly easily admits his gambling came at a high price but is more dismissive about his other addictions and the trouble they've created. In his 2006 New York Times best-seller, My Life In and Out of the Rough, Daly casually remarks that he was not exactly a poster boy for moderation. His binge drinking made him a textbook case of conduct unbecoming. There have been numerous emergency room visits for whiskey overdoses, a hotel-room trashing in South Africa, quickie Vegas weddings, fines from the PGA, a mandated tour hiatus and 18 days at the Sierra Tucson treatment center, an outpatient stop at the Betty Ford Center and a couple of serious suicide contemplations.
His first beer came when he was just eight years old, his first Jack and Coke at 14. Then, after a grape-stomping session turned their feet purple, he and his brother Jamie progressed to drinking the homemade wine their dad was making. "It actually tasted pretty good. It tasted almost like Kool-Aid. That's why we each drank two jars. Man, were our heads spinning," he recalls with a laugh. But, Daly reveals, his worst whiskey days came in college. His coach told him he needed to lose at least 60 pounds to play. "I didn't like eating salads, so I ate dry popcorn and drank whiskey out of the bottle—straight Jack Daniel's. I lost a ton of weight, and he still didn't play me," Daly says of his coach, Steve Loy. (Loy won't comment on that incident or any of Daly's other stories. But he does say Daly was in a bad place and not happy with most things in his life and that he hopes Daly continues to work on his health and vices.) "What's funny about me is that people think I'm some raging alcoholic who drinks every day. I'd classify it as more of binge drinking. When I'd drink, I'd drink to get absolutely hammered," Daly says.
"I never drank on a tournament. I've been hungover many times. I could play some damn good golf hungover," he says with a laugh. "But not once have I ever drank on a golf course on tour." If you subjected him to a random drug test right now, as he says the PGA did five times in 2010, all you'd find is a lot of caffeine, nicotine and a couple of Viagras every now and then. Daly knows the gastric band surgery he had in 2009 has everything to do with his 120-pound weight loss, and he nonchalantly admits it has also got something to do with his newly sober spirit. But Daly truly believes that he simply outgrew the bingeing. He grew weary of the late nights. "I just didn't like to drink anymore. I don't know why. I just like getting in and getting to sleep at a decent hour now and not hanging out with nothing going on. Everybody goes through that," he says.
Glen Waggoner, co-author of both of Daly's autobiographies, says that what went wrong with Daly's kind of excess was that his abuse was extreme. "When you smoke and eat the way he did, then self-medicate with alcohol and beer, then get up and shake it off and play golf, it takes a toll," he explains.
Not all of Daly's obsessions had to go. There was no real need to quit sex. "I got my first piece when I was 17 years old, and then I was crazy about it," he says. His sexual summit was during the 1991 Masters, when he and his second wife, Bettye, had sex 10 times in one day. He hadn't qualified and was in a foul mood, so he got in bed with Bettye, turned on the last round of the tournament, turned off the sound and went at it. They listened to country legend Randy Travis and screwed like crazy. "For me it was a personal record," he claims in his book. Then there was a girlfriend he met in 1998, who had a more fluid sexuality than Daly was used to and was open to threesomes. Daly speaks wistfully of those days. "She liked other women. I loved it. I'm not gonna lie. What man wouldn't?" he asks. He claims he never touched the other girls. She would "do things" with the girls while he "did things" with her. "I loved watching her get it on with another woman. It's beautiful," he says.
Another story about her sounds like a scenario straight out of a soft-porn movie. She and Daly went to a club in Augusta, Georgia during Masters weekend in 2000. High-end strippers had been imported from Atlanta. Private rooms were available. They started calling in more strippers as though ordering rounds of Jack and Cokes. She took her clothes off, started dancing on the pole and again ordered in more strippers. Daly says, "This goes on for four or five hours," sounding quite proud and not the slightest bit remorseful.
Nights like that weren't an issue back then, because money was never an issue. Even with the gambling tribulations and casino-marker debt, Daly says, "money was nothing and it kept coming in and kept coming in." There was a big deal with Reebok and one with Wilson. Wilson gave Daly a 10-year deal for $30 million but let him go in 1997. But he still had $9 million in his pocket. "I wasn't used to that," Daly says. He gave an ample supply away to help his parents, his siblings, his friends—and then people who, he says, would leech, leech, leech from him. "When I got a lot of money, I was trying to buy friends, I think. I was paying people to love me."
The fans, though, seem to love him rich or poor. During the PGA practice round at Kohler, Daly never said no to a fan wanting an autograph, nor was he sanctimonious about the disruptions. Instead, he appeared to be basking in the adoration, which would fuel his next hole. The steady stream of encouragement came not just from spectators but from tour marshals as well. "Go get 'em, John," "Nice job at the British, John," "Good luck, man," "Love your pants," "Bring back the mullet, buddy" and "You're not stuck up like the other guys, Mr. Daly." In one round of golf he signed about 30 autographs at each hole.
As Zoeller says, the fans seem to be able to see the other side of Daly, the side that has a passion for more than just the game. He has squandered some years, but Daly's gift for golf is the thread that connects the highs and lows. He remembers having the same daydream over and over as a kid. "I would always dream about me and Palmer or me and Nicklaus coming up the 18th hole when I was practicing as a young kid. 'I gotta make this 20-footer to beat Jack or Arnold or Watson or Fuzzy,' " he says, praising the Bay Ridge Country Club for being his milieu to play out his boyhood fantasies. "You know, every sport has boundaries, but in golf there's a lot more of them. You got OBs, you got hazards, you got lakes, you got layups. It's not like tennis, where you see the court and you just gotta keep it in that little bitty square. In golf, you're looking at 300 acres sometimes, and every hole is different," he explains. "Every boundary is different."
As Daly glances at the guitar he has leaned against the couch, he smiles. Country music, even just the talk of it, is his favorite subject. He rattles off his favorite singers, such as Kenny Chesney, George Strait and Lynyrd Skynyrd. He talks about playing his own country music live and recording a little, but really, he's trying hard to get the hang of songwriting, he says. "I'm usually on my bus, and I have a lot of downtime. You write it, you sing it," Daly says. Daly's friends Kid Rock and Darius Rucker, formerly of Hootie and the Blowfish, who have both had success in country music without taking the straight-to-Nashville path, always told him to write everything down on a music pad. And Mark Bryan, another member of Hootie, thinks that's what makes the music on Daly's most recent album, I Only Know One Way, good. "This is not about having a bunch of Nashville cats behind him. It's about his sincerity," Bryan says. "He has this all-or-none attitude. He bares his soul." Daly may be slim and sober now, but Bryan says that has little to do with his personality. Drinking didn't make him who he is. "A little less crazy, a little less apt to go to a strip club at two a.m.," is how Bryan describes him now. "But you'd never be able to change the intrinsic character that is John Daly. He's John Daly, regardless."
The only addictions Daly still clings to are Marlboros and Diet Coke. From the early-morning tee time till he finally goes to sleep, not much stops the constant back-and-forth of both. He claims he goes through at least 15 Diet Cokes and two packs of Marlboros a day. When he finishes one Diet Coke, the can becomes an ashtray for his next cigarette. Daly gives in to these last two cravings, plus one more: a postgame soak in the tub. It is the refuge he deserves, despite what the day brings.
If you could see Daly naked as he emerges from the bathwater, you'd see two small scars. The first is on his right shin, from a blow with a sand wedge that Daly says Loy delivered in college. The second is where a port sits under the skin in his abdomen, from the gastric band surgery. Those two scars may fade in time, but the ones on his psyche are permanent. They come from a life lived by putting himself first, and while they've taken some of the swagger out of him, they've left plenty of ego intact. So by the end of PGA Championship week in Kohler, Daly has withdrawn from the tournament, claiming he tore his rotator cuff on a bunker shot on the first hole. It turns out it isn't torn, just sprained. Regardless, he is not going to make the cut at the last major of the year. And that's not a score a man like Daly wants to post.


text: Hi! I have decided I would like to try pairs and it would be great if I could find a partner and compete in it. Anyways, a couple days ago, I was notified of some news to do with one of the pairs teams at my rink - the boy dumped his partner. Anyways, before I get into it any further, maybe you should first know some background info, to help you better understand. The top skaters at the rink where I train are 2 boys and myself. We are all at about the same level and then below us there is really no one. Anyways, both boys were also doing pairs too. However, both were doing it with partners that, (let's just say in my opinion, were not strong enough even singly to be doing pairs with either of these boys.) Both these boys have clean double axels and are working on making their 3S and 3T's more consistent. Their partners on the other hand, had only a single axel, 2S and possibly 2T and were weaker just overall in their skating. By watching their pair practises together, I can see why the boy dumped his partner because it was very boring and frustrating for him because his partner was so much of a weaker skater than him. Also, he is a hard worker (like I am) and doesn't like to fool around, but his partner was more of the social type and often likes to stand around and 'diddy dottle.' Anyways, him and I (and the other pairs boy too) have the same coach (who coaches both pairs and singles) and I would really like to give pairs a try and I think this boy would have no problem working with me - I am at about the same level as him and am a strong singles skater and take my skating very seriously (don't fool around), we also skate a lot together and have group lessons sometimes together, so are pretty comfortable/get along with each other fine. However, the only problem is my height. I am almost as tall as him. (I mean I'm not taller, but we are pretty close in height.) I'm 16 years old and am about 5' 4" and he's about 15 and about a couple inches taller. Now, I am a bit tall, but I am light weight and have a very small build. My coach (who has coached lots of successful pairs teams) has said that I should be a pairs skater, so doesn't think my heights a problem, I guess. Anyways, the boy will get taller, as he is about a year younger than me, but I guess what I was really wondering was if you think it would be a problem with us being almost the same height? Like I said, it will probably only be for a bit, until he gets a bot taller, but what do you think? I have seen quite a few pairs teams (especially at the Intermediate/Novice levels) where the the girl is almost as tall as the boy and it doesn't seem to be a too much of a problem, but I wanted to knows what you thought? Let me know. All comments/replies/responses greatly appreciated. I will reply and follow the tread, (so your posts won't be for nothing.) Thanks, Kaylee

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text: The evolution of this board this season has been entertaining, to say the least. As we trundle off into the future, the internet has become so much of the Cowboy and NFL experience, it has changed the dynamics of watching this sport. Gone are the days of reading every newspaper and waiting for Sports Illustrated, which was always a week behind. There is a lot less chatting around the water cooler, and a lot more digitally arguing with people you couldn't pick out of a photo. So when one side of the yin and yang coin has now morphed into accepting what is being displayed on the field and finding it something to cheer about, it makes me wonder. Bottom line is this. The Process means there could be more years, and that is multiple, of waiting for a return to being relevant. As Opie stumbles through his day trying to figure out his job, we watch and wait, some more patiently than others. This is why I am anxious, and no amount of "don't care, we won," will soothe my angst. Father Time is walking behind Romo in a race that Romo will not win. Is this season an aberration? Maybe. Certainly that display of taking the team on his shoulders and winning the game yesterday was just like so many we've seen over the Romo tenure. But the first half was littered with miscues, and not all of them were the fault of the WR's. Romo was sailing passes, throwing short, and as accurate as a game of horseshoes. So I'm just posing this question. What if this is the first signs of his decline? Subtle, almost unnoticeable, but to be sure the beginning of the end. Now think on that, and factor in The Process. Because none of us truly know when Jerry will pull his head out and make a move to fix the offensive line, or get another great receiver to move Austin to the slot where he belongs. Or Opie puts together a game plan that keeps the defense reeling because they cannot figure it out. As much as we argue over what we see now, and its importance, there is one thing that is not static in this argument. Romo is aging. And that is supremely significant. Witten is aging. Not as big a deal, but a big deal nonetheless. How much time does the team truly have factoring in the snail's pace of The Process versus Father Time? So when you are pleased with a team that is consistently mediocre, how long will it stay even at that level when the eye of the storm is growing a long gray beard before our eyes? Something to ponder that has zip to do with the Rosebud attitude or the Negative attitude.


text: When spring came I was down to one langstroth hive and one top bar, so I bought 4 packages. Then my beekeeping buddy called me and in short order I had two more small swarms. Next a neighbor, and today the operator of a nearby nursing home called me about a swarm that turned out to be at least three and a half pounds. Suddenly I'm back in beekeeping mode. Now let's see what I can do with them!


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I have a Ciener conversion. It's pretty accurate, although I would not use it to shoot a pistol match, and mine does not have easily-adjustable sights.
One thing I've learned: Unlike most major-caliber pistols, Ciener .22 conversions need to be kept well lubricated. Otherwise they don't return completely into battery.


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Karbid Book Giveaway - The Winners
Time is up to enter our competition to win one of 15 copies of the new Karbid: Berlin - From Lettering to Type Design!
Thank you for all of your beautiful and inspiring entries, we wish we could have given each one a prize, but here are the 15 images that really caught the eye of FF Karbid's designer, Verena Gerlach:
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Published by Ypsilon Éditeur in trilingual (French, English and German) format, the Karbid book is a text and pictorial archive telling the complete story behind Verena Gerlach's typeface FF Karbid that also pays homage to the history of German lettering and the letter paintings of Berlin.
Once again thanks to all those who took part, it was fantastic to see what lettering in and around your city inspires you!permalink
Karbid Book Giveaway
To celebrate the recent release of the book Karbid: Berlin—From Lettering to Type Design, we have 15 copies to giveaway.
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Entries close 31st January 2014: 15 winners will receive a copy of the book and submissions will also be featured on our FontFont Flickr page. Winners will be announced on the fontfont.com news page.
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New Release: FF57
BERLIN, GERMANY, October 2011 – FontShop International announced the latest additions to its award-winning FontFont® typeface library.
Redesign and new styles
FF Karbid: Revised & extended
FF Karbid Slab in use, Book design Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller 'The Murder of Crows' (Hatje Cantz, 2011)
Originally published in only three text weights and one display version in 1999, the original FF Karbid is an interpretation of vintage German storefront lettering from the early 1900s. Verena Gerlach collected and documented a lot of these alphabets in the Berlin quarters Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte. Although they have now almost completely disappeared due to the renovation works in the unified German capital, the spirit of those characteristic letters lives on in the concept of FF Karbid.
FF Karbid now offers a balanced range of five weights—from Light to Black—each with matching obliques. All versions of FF Karbid offer numerous alternate characters that alter their appearance and mood. These are based on the rather eccentric forms of Art Deco lettering—low- and high-waisted capitals; round versions of A, C, E; single-storey a & g, and many more. The fonts include numerous figure sets, arrows and bullets, and offer Latin Extended language support.
The new FF Karbid is a harmonized redesign of the original typeface. Rounder and less narrow letters lend the shapes more space and balance. Although the contrast was reduced to obtain a harmonious monolinear typeface (without losing its liveliness) it was increased in the bolder weights to improve legibility and achieve a certain elegance. FF Karbid Display is the most obvious spin-off of the original FF Karbid. More than merely having been assimilated, the letter forms were revised according to the new concept. The FF Karbid family has been augmented with two entirely new sub-families. The first one, the Text version, is intended for body copy in small sizes. The eccentric, serif-like swashes in select letters have been abandoned, while the friendly, lively forms of l, y, z and Z show the close relationship to the FF Karbid family. The other new sub-family is a Slab version. It has a sober, journalistic character, inspired by the typography in magazines of the 1920s (see Memphis, etc.). The strong serifs lend the typeface footing and an air of reliability. To improve legibility and balance the contrast was increased in comparison to the sans serif version.
Updated and extended FontFonts
FontFont continues its steady conversion of its library in Web & Office versions. This time FF Nexus and FF Signa Serif were released in both font formats.
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|2012-05-22, 14:00
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Senior Member
Or, for that matter, Games Workshop and Relic (I wonder how hard it would be to take the core mechanics of Dawn of War 2 and spawn an ARPG from them)...
|2012-05-22, 16:38
|Link #1882
Tumble Rumble
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Imagination Land
Age: 32
Just found a set piece, helm really nice for monks, sadly as I am a witch doctor it was useless, got 450k for it though
|2012-05-22, 17:23
|Link #1883
Goat Herder
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: The middle of the Middle of Nowhere
Age: 29
Still can't get my gemmed helmet back. I'm seriously angry about it at this point. I can only get (very rare) chipped gem drops at this point, and that was a full ruby, not a chipped, and it's lost to me forever. Combine that with my absolutely horrid luck with item drops regardless of my magic find equips...
|2012-05-22, 17:38
|Link #1884
Just get the jeweler quest-- by the time the loss of the ruby becomes an issue you'll have it. You're close to it by now, I'd think.
Also, have you tried just dropping the item w/o the trade screen?
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|2012-05-22, 18:44
|Link #1885
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Lol, got peer pressured into playing more Diablo 3 by my friends. And while a whole lot has not changed, those random events got me hooked. Kinda had a falling out with the friends I was grouping with though, as they wanted to finish the acts ASAP while I wanted to explore every nook and cranny for random quests/unique monster fights et all.
But looks like it's all for naught though, as my character has no equipment anymore for some reason. I dunno if something glitched, or someone had access to my account and duped the items to their accounts. Not sure if it is the latter though, as I'm only lvl 19 with trash gear lol.
Hmm.... wonder what really happened.
|2012-05-22, 19:05
|Link #1887
Tumble Rumble
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Imagination Land
Age: 32
I think its a glitch, unlikely to have account hacking already, I may be wrong though.
I just found a 2hn axe which has better stats then my main hand and off hand I look like a idiot running around with a axe now. So much more intellect and vitality I guess I cant complain.
|2012-05-22, 20:29
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
Chipped ones are completely wothless, as combining them costs more than its value.
Even flawless and perfects are pretty worthless, you only get radiant and above to drop in later stages anyways.
I have dozens of gems way higher quality than a full that has no value to me.
If you're playing in the American server I can just give you some.
I seriouly doubt that helm you lost is worth much more than 1000g at the rate of AH deflation.
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|2012-05-22, 21:20
|Link #1890
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 36
p.s. I now am starting a habit of keeping at least 5 rares at the auction house at all times. And to make sure I have something for sale every night when I log off. More exciting to see bids happen the next day when I log in again.
|2012-05-22, 21:28
|Link #1891
Join Date: Dec 2003
Perfect squares drop often enough in inferno (sometimes it drops in Hell Act3/4). Anything below that would be vendor trash. It is not worth the gold to combine any lower level gems. You will need a ton of perfect squares if you are looking into making star gems (the last one I made costed me >300k iirc).
|2012-05-22, 21:41
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
As for the gems though, due to the ridiculous frequency of its drops, and the high price the NPC charges to combine them, the lower-tier gems, basically anything radiant and lower, are worth nothing... it's so expensive to "build" a square gem, when they drop like nothing in Hell/Inferno.
|2012-05-22, 23:11
|Link #1894
Tastes Cloudy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
Age: 28
|2012-05-22, 23:42
|Link #1895
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
I do not know why it never hit me that you could use it offensively.
|2012-05-23, 00:01
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 36
|2012-05-23, 01:04
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Bearly Legal
Join Date: Jun 2004
Try to get an authenticator either via mobile app/dongle and have it set to authenticate everytime you log in. It's an extra hassle but well worth the effort considering the popularity of blizzard games makes it an enticing target to attack.
Been working a bit more on my Monk, NM Hell now @ lvl 51 hasn't really pose much of a challenge to me with my tank set up. I noticed once my dodge is high enough, i can tank most of the champions easily.
Currently using
Crippling Wave (Mangle)
Fist of Thunder (Thunderclap)
Cyclone Strike (Wall of Wind) = dodge buff and vortex
Sweeping Wind (Blade Storm) = pbaoe dmg
Serenity (Peaceful Repose) = invunerablity + heal + cc breaker
Mantra of Evasion (Hard Target) = dodge + armor aura
Resolve, Seize the initiative and Transcendence.
The only thing that it's lacking is single burst dmg for getting those damn goblins.
|2012-05-23, 01:17
|Link #1898
Join Date: Dec 2003
On Monk attacks:
On Inferno (w/o quickening bug), I like Way of Hundred fists. While it does not have debuffs built into them, the AoE Knockback associaated with the 3rd strike (and each is made rapidly) is one form of damage mitigation in inferno mode while your range dps kill things.
A friend of mine tanks with tempest rush and runs in circles .
The gold cost for combining low level gem, or even crafting things from BSing atm does not truly justify their creation. Inferno recipes cost 130k gold alone just for the craft + ~50-80k worth of mats. You are better off just spending 500k on something on the AH rather than gambling 2.5 times.
Right now there are some specs that are completely broken. Monk's Healing Mentra just got nerfed. Mage's armor nerf is rumored. Demon hunter can stealth through Inferno cow level wearing full MF and loot all the chests and pinata while stealthed yielding act 4 lvl loot... It is rather discouraging knowing those who "exploit" are ahead of me in the game already. As a barbarian (who play with a DH and a mage) we work really hard to progress through acts and killing each elite pack "properly". If it wasn't because the support of my friends I might have given up on my barbarian a long time ago.
Even after the nerfs they can keep the millions that they have made. As soon as RMAH rolls out (I don't think the game is prepared for it yet) they will be the ones who will flood the AH with various items they have farmed so far....
Want to buy stormshield @>27% block and "decent" stats, will pay 2.5mil.
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|2012-05-23, 02:00
|Link #1899
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
I just had an illusionist elite. With minions. Who were all illusionist.
And the mob type for all of them were "fly away and shoot missles".
Like a bazillion enemies all over the screen, except next to me.
Yeeeaaaah I don't think melee can handle this
|2012-05-23, 02:14
|Link #1900
Join Date: Dec 2003
Solo melee is fine, because the illusion provide targets for revenge (or quickening bug for monk). The "real" mob will always have more hp/seem more durable. Mobs who fly away though, is another story... monk can attempt to spam cyclone strike, barbs... well... should prob just fight another pack.
Illusionist really hurt range dps if they are not in an AoE spec because the clone will soak attacks intended for the real target.
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As a white man living in a patriarchal society, you have privileges that WOMYN don't. This law helps make things balanced.
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Funny, I thought we solved this problem in the 60's. Mah bad. Also, the way you spelled women comes off as slightly condescending. So to keep in the spirit of things: Did you bother to look at what I typed? The Violence Against Women Act isn't an "equal pay for women act" and it doesn't somehow address the dire condition of those women all over the evil US being beaten as sport by their confederate flag flying bigotted white supremacist boyfriends and husbands. (/s) It one-ups laws already on the books to protect people who are the target of violence, this is where it gets tricky so keep up, based solely on their exclusion from the elite "conservative religious straight white male" protected class.
I'll be the first to admit that white males get the raw end of the deal when it comes to protected classes, affirmitive action, freedom of speech, etc, but VAWA doesn't fall into those infringements.
40% of the victims of domestic violence are men and VAWA provides basically nothing for them.
VAWA refers specifically to physical violence. The vast majority of domestic assault/battery, sexual assaults, violence and stalking cases are initiated by men against women. Given the intimidation tactics used in many domestic violence cases, especially among poor women with no financial resources or legal means to fight back, VAWA is a good thing.
Statistically speaking, men earn more money than women, are stronger than women and harder to rape than women. I'm sure in trailer parks across America women hit back too, but men in general have more options available to them when being domestically abused.
I just gave a generic feminist response to any problem that involves women. I wasn't trying to make a serious or logical response.
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So true! Completely agree, very special stuff.
I have been in search for the ultimate dandy fragrance: something suitable for a 6'3" tower of raw, testosterone-filled Gallic masculinity encased in a Savile Row suit, brimming with indoles and leather straight out of the 1830s.
I tried A La Nuit and Molinard Jasmin and really enjoyed the jasmine, but it needed more "tally ho" sporting punch, suitable for wear at the opera or ballet, over the gaming tables and then to the flat of one's mistress. Enough longevity to return back to one's mother-in-law's house and one's wife, who may well be in the arms of her latest lover.
This is a scent suitable for the boudoir or the Hyde Park hack.
You know who I mean...
I found all this in SL Sarrasins. It has longevity plus a wonderful jasmine with leather. Jasmine with no apologies.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
So true! Completely agree, very special stuff.
Sans parfum, la peau est muette.
What I'm wearing:
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2. Annick Goutal Sables
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It's so funny you posted this because I just received my bottle yesterday.
I had only had previous experience with the wax sample of it...let me tell you it's 1000x better than that! The actual juice is a gorgeous and rich jasmin with fruits and leather. I honestly don't find it too dirty or indolic, but I know it's been described that way. The more I explore Serge, the more I find that while the sweeter fragrances are popular the real standouts are the florals.
I swear I can still see the stain on my skin from applying it. That is some DARK juice.
Here is a picture I took with the flash actually behind the bottle, letting almost no light through.
Agree with the love for Sarrasins. And also agree that to me it is not "dirty" in the usual sense. Yes, indolic jasmine, but not dirty. Rather, closer in spirit to osmanthus. I just bought a backup bottle in my last trip to Paris.
To me it doesn't smell leather at all, but i adore this scent.
Beyond the jasmine i smell the carnation, fruity osmanthus with a more animalic base.
I really like Serge Lutens perfumes, am passionate about jasmin (A la Nuit is one of my most enjoyed frags) and I love animalic and leather fragrances. Sarrasins is in my wish list. How about its projection?
The leather is not like in Cuir Mauresque, but is evident in the drydown.
The top notes of jasmine pack a punch in the first hour or so, but it calms down for a wonderful blend of fruits and florals.
I actually prefer the Sarrasins to A La Nuit.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
A very nice scent indeed.
It took a few tries, but I do love it. And I don't even care about jasmine all that much. I put on a sweater that had remnants of Sarrasins from a prior wearing of it, and the ethereal scent that surrounded me was incredible.
I would love a bottle but I think La Myrrhe is a higher priority.
I think the more I wear this, the more I am happy to get past the strong opening of jasmine.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
It has a leathery facet on me, too. I agree it's a lot about osmanthus, too. One of the very few Lutens in a bell jar that works better sprayed than splashed. Sarrasins on a summer's night? I think it would be too much for me. I prefer it in the cool.
It definitely has a more masculine presence than A La Nuit. One of the best from the house imo.
I don't get the leather that much either. I definitely like it WAY more than À La Nuit. It's just better balanced and not screechy at all. Probably my favourite jasmine fragrance, and I like jasmine a lot!
Kurt smells like Teen Spirit
A beginner question: what does Jasmine smells like? I think I never tried a jasmine soliflore fragrance...it sounds very feminine to me, but maybe I'm wrong. And I love leather scents, so I'm curious
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Apart from that, in some cultures it is not associated with femininity at all. I think I remember reading that in Arabic countries it is a very common male fragrance note. Please someone correct me if I am wrong.
I, for one, wear jasmine proudly. It brightens up my day.
Kurt smells like Teen Spirit
In Europe in the 19th century, men wore orange blossom, lilac, ylang ylang (in hair dressing oil) and violet, as well as jasmine.
Jasmine and orange blossom have these indoles. We are not talking "fresh" floral, but scents men can easily wear.
I would say a sampling of something like Molinard Jasmin EDT is a good, inexpensive way to sample jasmine.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
I love many jasmines, but this one is the one I always return to.
Thanks for mentioning this scent, I only ask myself why on earth I have never tested it so far (will have to catch up).
*sigh* I still want a bottle of Sarrasins. I got a 5ml roller bottle (decant) and I love it more and more.
Sadly, so far only available at the extortionary prices of Barney's NYC, or, still expensive but more manageable, at the Paris boutique.
As for Paris, I guess one would use that shopping-service lady on Ebay? Does she still do that? I'm definitely not going to Paris any time soon.....
But at the end of the day, I could see myself saving up some money over time and just paying whatever for it.
I tested Sarrasins side-by-side with A La Nuit. I'm getting a little powdery feeling from A La Nuit....which isn't always a bad thing, and I do like them both.....but of the two, I far prefer Sarrasins.
I have not ordered the Lutens, but customer service at Barney's is good. the matter is price.


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sooooooo good to see Yuna on ice again. To me, her movements / jumps look good as ever!!
Wow, not just "good as ever," much, much better! Thank you for the links! All of Me is somewhat unconventional for Yuna and I mean this in a good way. Wow. What a girl.
I can understand her jumps are not as sharp as before, but spins? skating skill? It seems like everything went out the window the moment she stopped competing. Other girls like Kimmie, Sasha, Sarah etc... who stopped competing for years can still spin. Her spin looks novice-level.
If she wants to come back, she will need to work on everything. At least her dress is flattering.
Yuna's programs are not designed to show off her TES skills but she certainly shows so much flair and artistry. She is special.
Speaking as someone who found Yuna's previous exhibition programs really empty and lackluster, this is a very pleasant surprise. Both programs actually contain a decent amount of intricate skating. There are enough moves and movements I don't see a lot from Yuna or anybody else to make each performance worth rewatching. So I'll just at the haters.
"All of Me": Cute idea that's well executed. Yuna certainly looks sharp and suave. However, I do feel like the hat hinders more than it helps, though not to a distracting degree.
"Someone Like You": I am not fond of people skating to this song (or doing anything with the song, really). But I actually really liked this program. The choreography is brilliantly put together, and Yuna realizes it perfectly. My favorite moment is the spiral and the subsequent series of steps. Lovely and unusual. If the proposal to turn the choreographic spiral sequence into a spiral/step sequence hybrid, maybe we'll see something like this.
All of Me! Very cool.
You know how on opening day of a play the audience shouts "author, author!" at the end until the playwright comes out and takes a bow? Do they ever do that at skating shows for the choreographer?
Someone like you. The program was OK, but I agree with Serious Business about the song. How many teenaged "woe is me I'm no good I guess I might as well kill myself" songs do we really need?
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Wow that was quick with the upload of the videos. Loved both of YuNa's programs. I am so happy to see her
skating again. To my eyes she skated beautifully.
Adele said afterward that breaking up with her boyfriend was the best thing that ever happened to her, careerwise. Every song on her blockbuster ablum ("21") is about it.
Coolest break-up song: Carly Simon's "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you."
Of course, if you are talking about when I was a teenager, you'd have to go back to "It's my party (and I'll cry if I want to)." (To show how the younger generation has gone to the dogs, if this song came out now the subtitle would be ""and I'll cry if I wanna." )
Anyways, I like these new ones better than her more recent galas like Fever.
I absolutely love All of Me. It is very different from her other galas in a good way. And very nice and interesting steps and movements. Feels a bit like Kurt-ish to me. Unlike Fever which I didn't really care for, this one seems very rich and full without jumps. Love it.
As for Someone Like You, I'm not a fan of the music so I didn't have high expectation to begin with. At first it was about okay to me, but the more I watch it, the more it grows on me. It's quite beautiful. I wish she does another show in the US again!
Good fancam angles...
1. All of Me
2. Someone Like You
Best fancam of "Someone Like You": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOscm...layer_embedded
The audience is better at filming that the TV crew.
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Many (300+) pictures from Day 1:
Some notes on Day 1:
- During skaters introduction each skater was escorted by a fan, and some escorting fans were doing three jumps, single jumps, spirals or (waist-level) lifts with their partners.
- Again DW and the skaters did a great job with opening and finale. I really liked the Avatar Mix opening.
- Carolinas Hallelujah costume was amazing under gala lighting. Great skating and speed.
- S/P gave two solid performances, drew a lot of cheer for Scream.
- Both V/T programs were well received. I liked Bring Me To Life.
- Alissa was so pretty with her ever-present smile. Audience responded well to her I Like The Way You Move.
- Stephane changed the program order and did My Body Is A Cage in the first half. I liked Regoletto more. Standing O.
- Haejin did very well. Promising.
- Chan was great. I liked both programs, especially the Elegie. It seems hes adding more emotional depth to his skating. Superb.
- Minjeong has grown a lot. Nice program.
- S/Z never disappoint. Classy champion couple. I liked they chose another beautiful Chinese song. Standing O for Ill Be There.
- For young Jinseo it was a difficult spot to skate following Chans Elegie and Kostners Hallelujah, but he held his own with a K-Pop dance number and the audience loved it.
- Evans lengthy frame is rare visual attraction. Underrated as a performer I think. Big ovation for Roxannes Tango.
- Biggest surprise of the night was the acrobats Besedin/Polishchuk. Their Swan Lake was so entertaining. Standing O.
- Yu-Nas All Of Me was a smash hit. Superb choreography and skating to match. It was visible she was using a lot of caution not to lose or drop the hat during spins, windmill and steps. But with the way she completed every choreographic move and seamlessly connected to the next move, it was not distracting. What she did with the hat during the ina bauer and the final FSSp was clever.
- Liked her Adele too. Reminiscent of her Thais Meditation. Adele songs in its original versions I think are tricky as skating music. They typically dont have enough spacing between bars and refrains for emotional buildup in a skating program. And while her singing is terse, they have some intricate voice passages which cant be easily displayed by motion performance. I think DW and Yu-Na did a great job.


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Discussion in 'Moves In The Field' started by Aussie Willy, Mar 10, 2012.
You really have no idea what you're talking about...
For the majority of the pattern tests I would agree that they suit the levels that skaters should be at those levels.
With one exception. I think the novice level tests exceeded not only the current abilities of our top Australian novices, but would have also been to impassable for majority of novice level skaters in top skating countries as well.
In particular novice pattern 4.
I attended a camp in Australia with the aim of teaching the patterns to skaters, as well as a seminar for judges in which the top skaters from the first camp demonstrated the patterns for the judges.
I was also present for the filming of the pattern test dvd as an advisor.
Based on this, not only our novices but many of our junior and senior skaters would not have passed the novice test, where as the majority were capable of passing the junior and senior moves. Lochran Doherty, Australia's junior world representative ice dancer was woeful at the novice patterns, how could you expect novice level skaters to pass when a senior dancer was practically falling on his face.
Queensland had several senior level singles skaters present at one seminar who managed a passing standard after almost an hour of critique, where as they were mastering the senior patterns in near 5 mins in one case.
Obviously these tests are relatively new, however I would hope that there is some on going evaluation and trial/error process planned to continue to improve these tests.
All in all however, the pattern tests can only be a positive for Australian skating.....
So adult skaters aren't actual athletes???
Many of the adult skaters on this board, including myself, have skated on sessions with national/international skaters without any problems whatsoever. It works just fine as long as everyone (and that includes the elite skaters) is respectful of everyone else on the ice, and gets out of other people's way when it's their turn.
AusTechSpec, I suggest that you learn more about adult skating so you won't make such ignorant comments. Here's a great place to start (there's plenty of stuff on You Tube):
ETA: Here's Charlie Tickner's take on adult figure skating (I assume you've heard of him, right?)
I've been on the ice with elite skaters, and based on conversations with them, they are "in my way" more than I am in theirs. It is hard for me to adjust to multiple skaters going that fast, but they say we move so slowly it is easy for them to judge where we will be. Practicing waltz jumps next to someone doing a 3A is incredibly motivational.
Our senior men (and also the novice pair, when they were together) do generally get clear ice when they do program run throughs. It is rare for that level to be at our mall rink, so we all want to watch, and also make sure we aren't in their way when they need to be in specific places. For the pair, no one wanted to be the cause of a fall, so they got a lot of space for lifts.
"Actual" athletes is so condescending. Adults are actual athltes too. The word you were likely looking for is elite.
I thought this was the case for most of the figure or freestyle sessions around Australia. Where in Australia are the adults not allowed on those sessions?
Years ago at Oakleigh we would have lost the figure sessions if it hadn't been for the adult skaters turning up and supporting it because the "actual athletes" didn't have the numbers. In Victoria the adult skaters have been an integral part of the skating community and the figure skating economy.
Canterbury has mixed session, anyone can get on. It's becoming very dangerous for a number of reasons and not condusive to producing top level skaters
I should add its more the younger skaters and Aussie skate kids that don't or can't move and are not taking notice of what is going on around them!
Australia's team at the recent ISU Adult Figure Skating Championships in Germany did brilliantly, too. I believe our team of 12 won six medals between them.
"Lochran Doherty, Australia's junior world representative ice dancer was woeful at the novice patterns, how could you expect novice level skaters to pass when a senior dancer was practically falling on his face." quote from Austechspec
Without wanting to be nasty, is Lochran Doherty really a Senior Ice Dancer? having seen the results from Preliminary round of Jnr Worlds, where I think they placed last, it would appear he is not very experienced or is lacking in strong skating skills, so it would not be a surprise for him to struggle on a difficult pattern. Also looking at Aus Nationals results he skated Junior and another team won, wonder why the stronger team did not go to Jnr Worlds.
Matilda and Patrick are not age eligible (Matilda is to young) Such a shame really because they have been working really hard and have twice been to Russia to train. I'm actually wondering how the new age for men in Junior Ice dance will effect them, Hopefully it will not keep them out of international competition, that would be a shame!
Will they be age eligable this year, from the results they are clearly way better than Lochran and Hannah
To qualify to skate at any level of dance in Australia, you need to pass the pattern dances for that level as listed in the ISA rulebook. Pass the test for Senior and you are a Senior ice dancer.
I wonder that myself, I assume they probably didn't meet the age criteria.?
Also makes me wonder why they received scholarship money for what was clearly a last min slap together team, which have now broken up. Seemed like there were many much more worthy and dedicated skaters who could have been better off with the money....
Wow. Ignorant, much?
I would much rather skate with the Primary-Senior skaters at my rink and they would rather have me than the younger Aussie Skaters. Adult skaters tend to have more of a sense of where they're going/where other people are going than younger kids.
It's driving my coach to distraction because I'm so hyper-aware of the more senior skaters and am forever jumping out of their way, even if I have right of way.
It's a good thing the Primary-Senior skaters at my rink have a better attitude than you. Respect begets respect. I respect the other skaters at my rink, I respect their right of way, and they respect me and my right of way.
Not one adult skater in Australia is an athlete, nor trains like an athlete. I have been to adult nationals and multiple other adult competitions. Every last one is a social competitor.. There was nothing ignorant about my comment, I know full well what the genre of Adult skating involves.
No the word is athlete.
It's not that I find adult skating as a bad thing.. It is a great way to keep people who are no longer athletically capable in the sport, which in sure anyone will agree is definitely needed in Australia.
However they should not be allowed on the same sessions as the competitive skaters...
That is great, as i said, having people stay in the sport is vital for the growth of the sport as a whole in Australia.
However we just don't have enough ice....
Absolutely, as the first person said, the fact that adult skaters are actually still moving makes them easier to dodge than the 5 skate school children playing tiggy in a lutz corner...
This is all moving off topic for an off hand comment, but what I want to get at is that I am not against adult skating, but it is a social sport, and therefore requires different training sessions from the elite.
You are confusing my actual intent here, my own fault of course as i shouldn't have put it so bluntly.
But you don't have right of way over the primary to senior genre.. But you do have a right to the ice.
Environment helps everything in training, thats why you have rinks all over the world where the elite gather to train, because being around other high level helps you.
It is the same here, it provides no benefit to the skaters to have adults on their sessions, often it is detrimental as they unknowingly get in the way.
It works both ways though, adult skaters should have their own time slots. So they can train and skate with other adults. Adult skating is a social sport, and this would run with that concept.
Many rinks in the past have had a coffee skate program. A session twice a week specifically for adult skaters, often with a coach present in case anyone wants some tips.
Definition of the word "athlete":
I don't see any qualifiers about age in there.
Strength agility and endurance...
I can come up with perhaps two adult skaters in Australia...?
Adult is a division meant to be fun, it is not a serious competitive sport, it is not one that requires day after day training.
Many of our adult skaters performed equal or less to what our skateschoolers perform, skateschoolers who certainly don't have strength agility and endurance...
They aren't athletes... just like going to the gym to lift weights doesn't make one a weight lifter.
Could you be any more full of sh*t?
If you don't think adult skating "requires day after day training", then you know nothing about adult skating or what it involves. Just because the skaters are sociable with each other doesn't mean it's not a sport or it's not athletically demanding.
If my music is playing and I'm in program, absolutely I have right of way, and the other skaters are very polite about it (most of the time). If their music is playing, absolutely they have right of way. Of course, if I'm setting up one of my piddling toeloops and I see one of the Juniors coming at me setting up a double Lutz, of course I will move! I do not have a deathwish!
If it is the week before Hollins/Wintersun/Championships/Nationals, I just don't go on those sessions. If that means I don't skate that day, so be it. Their practice is important, and I've seen how highly-strung people get. Better they have one less skater to worry about.
It's all fine and dandy for you to say "adult skaters should have their own timeslots", but what about at a rink where figure skating in general is lucky to get sufficient ice time?! And "coffee club skating"? Could you possibly be any more of a condescending twat?
Look pal, I am not going to the Olympics. I am not going to Worlds. I may not even ever make Adult Nationals. But I AM A FIGURE SKATER. I have goals. I test. I compete. I work my backside off on the ice. And I am not any less of a skater or a person simply because I did not have the opportunity or the money to start when I was five years old.
No, you are fooling yourself if you think performing singles requires day after day training.
As i said, I have seen on multiple occasions the standard of adults in Australia, I have many at my home rink, and have also attended adult nationals many times to watch the top of their abilities.
With exception of a few ex skaters that have retained their triples, the rest are performing at a level that requires once a week practice, the same as skate schoolers...
There is no argument on that, you do not need day by day training to perform singles and a level one sit spin.
I actually find this to be the most sensible approach.
My talk about coffee skate was not meant to be Condescending. I was being serious, it is merely the name of a session they run at some of the Queensland and WA rinks. It is simply an adult only session, in at least one of these rinks I know the adults named it Coffee Skate themselves...
Unfortunately, we don't have enough ice in many of our rinks and this is not a problem we can easily get around...
So how do you think lower-level kid skaters do those things? By showing up once a week at the rink for 15 minutes?
I don't care how many times you have seen adults skate, you obviously know next to nothing about how adults train or what adult skating requires. And your attitude is just about insulting as your pride in your lack of knowledge. If you are actually a technical specialist, I sincerely hope you are not being assigned to any adult competitions.
YES, that is how the kids do those things.
As a coach, you never tell skate schoolers to train more than twice a week.
Any coach who is forcing that on a skate school level is doing it purely for the money....
Almost half of the skate schoolers who enter the aussie skate comps learn their programs during aussie skate as part of the curriculum and perform them just off that alone...
For someone who has only posted about 16 posts in all on FSU, you certainly have made some pretty patronising and disrespectful comments.
As an adult skater myself, I certainly don't view myself as an athlete, but if I was training for a test (having worked through half of Novice dance), I think I would be fully entitled to participate in any figure session because that is where I am going to get the best training conditions to work on my test. And there are many adult skaters doing the same. Thus I pay for the session, I pay for coaching and I pay for the test. My money is worth the same as every other skater and I follow the same rules. And that includes when I pay money to clubs and associations to do competitions and tests.
Recently test standards were set for adults who do plan to compete so they are going to have to go through the same as all those other skaters doing the tests. Maybe some of the adults may like to work through all those new tests to the senior patterns, because whilst they may not be able to get the same technical content to do the programs, they will be able to do the patterns and achieve something for themselves.
There are certain things I do draw the line on when it comes to adults and I have had more than my fair share of issues with regards to adult skating. But to say that all adults should only be entitled to skate in coffee club, really is pretty offensive.
Coffee club sessions usually happen during the day, when most adults are at work. I don't see that many rinks would be prepared to offer adult skating sessions at times that when working adults are able to attend. Not everyone has flexible working hours.
I'm happy to admit to being a recreational adult skater (in the sense that I don't test or compete), but that doesn't mean I don't want to improve my skills, and I definitely need more than one session a week to do that. I've done the oone session a week thing in the past and ended up giving up because I was frustrated that I wasn't able to get any better. Now that I can skate several times a week, and can see progress, I'm a much happier skater.
I'm sorry, my poor wording on that one. I would not intend to confine all adult skaters to only coffee skate.
I agree with everything you say and am in full support of the new testing system.
What I am saying is that adult and competitive skaters on the same Ice is a negative to both parties.
Obviously there is little we can do to facilitate that in Australia with our limited ice availability however would no substituting one of your training sessions to a coffee skate session help you out more.
It would give you clearer ice to train, often more affordable as well. Also puts you in a training session with other adult skaters.
I am not saying you can never skate on the figure sessions, if you have the test requirements and have paid for it there is no one who can stop you... But a couple of sessions a week where we can split adults and competitive skaters apart is a good thing is it not?
And I hardly think my post count on a figure skating forum affects my credibility here?
I see your point about the poor timing of most adult skate sessions.
My overall point is that adult and competitive skaters need their own ice, it works better for both parties. Unfortunately it is a pipe dream with limited ice time in Australia.
I was merely proposing the <b>addition</B> of coffee skate sessions as a half way solution...
I understand where AustTech is coming from even though it was badly worded .. Senior and Junior level skaters should have their own Ice and they DO want to go to the Olympics or worlds, they NEED space and to be stoping half way through programs or constantly pull out of jumps because people are in the way (Kiddies or Adults or even primary level skaters) there is a kid at the rink my kids skate at who is primary level and I can't tell you the amount of accidents this kid has caused to the higher levels.
We have far to many people on in the figure sessions and it's the High level skaters who really suffer.
But the rinks need money to survive so the sessions are packed
How naive are you? Do you really think the rinks are going to create separate sessions for adults and elite skaters? If you have any knowledge of how most rinks operate in Australia, then that will never happen.
When it comes to credibility, I think you have already proven by the number of patronising comments you have made, including the one above, that it is seriously in doubt. You have already p*ssed off a number of people with the little time you have spent on the forum. But well we can't stop people like you from participating in this forum, even though we think you probably belong in another forum where your level of comment would be more suitable.