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Australian Skaters Return from German Cup

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Lauren Nash and Robert Karp have returned from the German Cup after competing against some of Europe’s finest last month.

Both skaters were chosen to participate after their success in the 2012 National Championships, held in Liverpool last year.

Lauren competed in the Cadet Girls Figures and the Cadet Ladies Freeskating, and Robert competed in the Cadet Boys Figures and the Cadet Freeskating.

Skate Australia had a chance to briefly catch up with Lauren on her return from Germany to ask a few questions about her experience!

Skate Australia (SA): How did you feel when you were competing?

Lauren Nash (LN): When I was competing I didn’t get as nervous as I thought I would, I just enjoyed the whole experience of performing for people from around the world. It was so much fun and I felt proud to be representing Australia.

SA: How this experience has further progressed your passion and drive for world competition in artistic skating?

LN: After experiencing the German Cup I would like to be able to go again and hopefully make it to the world’s team one year. International competitions are so much better and beneficial than the competitions out here I believe.

SA: What did you learn whilst you were there?

LN: One of the main things I learnt from this experience was that I need to skate faster and stronger, compared to everyone else in the event I was one of the slower skaters. I also learnt that I just need to get out there and push myself to do harder items.

SA: Who was your favourite skater?

LN: There were so many amazing skaters over there it’s hard to choose a favourite but a few skaters that were amazing were Rebecca Tarlazzi in my event, Alessandro Amadesi and Andrea Girotto- all from Italy of course.

Click here to read the excerpts from Lauren’s blog whilst she was away.

Click here to see the German Cup results for Lauren and Robert.

Australian Skaters at 2013 German Cup

alt Robert Karp and and Lauren Nash are in Freiburg to compete in the 2013 German Cup, this week.

Both skaters were chosen to participate after their success in the 2012 National Championships, held in Liverpool last year.

Lauren will be competing in the Cadet Girls Figures and the Cadet Ladies Freeskating, and Robert will be competing in the Cadet Boys Figures and the Cadet Freeskating.

Skate Australia would like to wish you both good luck, we hope you enjoy this experience!

Click here to read the Gold Coast Bulletin’s story on Lauren, last month.

2013 Artistic Oceania Championships

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The 2013 Artistic Oceania Championships start tonight at the Whitlam Centre in Liverpool, NSW.

To access the official program of the Championships, click here.

Click here for the final results!

Results will be updates once received by the office.

China and Japan to Send Skaters for Artistic Oceania

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Japan and China will be sending skaters to participate in the 2013 Artistic Oceania Championships next month in Liverpool, NSW.

It has been confirmed that China has 6 skaters competing in Junior Mens Figures, Junior Mens Freeskating, Senior Ladies Freeskating, Senior Mens Solo Dance and Senior Ladies Solo Dance, including Zhi dou Don who placed 7th at the 2012 Artistic World Championships in Junior Ladies Free and 5th in Junior Ladies Figures.

Japan are sending 2 skaters competing in Junior Ladies Figures, Junior Ladies Freeskating, Junior Ladies Solo Dance and Masters Ladies Figures.

Skate Australia would like to welcome all visiting athletes participating in the 2013 Artistic Oceania Championships.

Event Info:

Dates: April 2 - 5

Location: Whitlam Leisure Centre, Liverpool, NSW

Times and schedule to be released soon.

Skaters Prepare for Sk8Off

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Cooking, singing, dancing, diving and renovating all have their own reality TV show — so why not roller skating?

Scoresby-based former men's figure skating world champion Jayson Sutcliffe believes skating is an ideal candidate to be the next hot show.

As well as being world champion in 1993, 1995, 2002 and 2005, he was also part of a skating troupe that competed in the 2010 finals of Australia's Got Talent.

Hoping to persuade television executives that skating could be the next incarnation of shows such as The Voice, Sutcliffe is hosting a reality-style skate competition at Caribbean Rollerama in Scoresby next week.

Nine teams of up to 20 skaters will perform a routine at the 2012 Roll-Line Team Sk8 Off to a song by a "music legend" — like Lady Gaga, Pink or Madonna.

A celebrity judging panel, including singer Lydia Denker, and the audience will decide the top three finalists, and eventually, the winner.

Sutcliffe said the teams had been preparing for about seven weeks. Each group had a cross-section of ages and experience and four teams from Scoresby were set to compete.

"It's a really nice mix in the groups. The younger ones are excited to be skating with their idols and said to me that they wouldn't even normally say hello to them."

Sutcliffe said the competition between teams had been "really hardcore and quite fierce".

"The teams in Scoresby are even hiding their props and costumes from each other."

The former world champion was also keen to make the event as interactive as possible.

To read the full article written by Tara McGrath at the Knox Weekly, click here.

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