Priscilla Hill
Priscilla Hill
Priscilla Hillis an American retired competitive figure skater who works as a coach. She was a two-time medalist at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and competed twice at the World Figure Skating Championships. She was the first American woman to land the triple loop in competition...
bit deal dealt great ordinary pressure schedule
Personally, I don't think the schedule had anything to do with it. He may have been a little bit rushed, but not out of the ordinary and he warmed up well. I feel it was a great deal of pressure he's never dealt with before.
final finally gave grand help listened missed needed normal point smart time training
He's been smart and he's listened well. He's at the normal point of preparation for nationals. All the other things didn't help in the Grand Prix season, but he really missed training only for the Grand Prix season. Skipping the Grand Prix final gave us the time we needed to finally train and that was all he really needed.
likes respect
He likes that they respect the sport there, not like in America, where it's all about football.
gets program second thinking
He just wasn't comfortable with it. The new program is still Johnny. But as a skater, when something isn't second nature, you find yourself thinking about it and it gets tougher.
johnny next standing type
The next thing I knew, there was Johnny standing there. He went through the whole thing with me. That's just the type of person he is.
skating
He has no idea what his skating does to people.
actual along cut half happens kept kinds normal system time top training week
A week and a half of actual training did not cut it. Then the frustration on top of it ... made it more difficult. There were all kinds of things that went along with it. It just kept going and there was no time for him to get into his normal training system that happens in the fall.
bits found half literally pieces practice program threw totally week
We weren't totally surprised, because during the summer, we'd get bits and pieces from the judges. When we found out for sure, it threw him for a loop. He literally had a week and a half of practice with his new program before he started competing.
change course cringe era experience grew learning skating talk wonderful
Yeah, of course I cringe because I grew up in the era of skating when you couldn't talk to a judge. You couldn't talk to anyone. And so it's a big change. It's been a whole learning experience for me and yet a wonderful one, and I would never change it.