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A Personal Note from Kurt Browning about All That Skate 2011
Kurt was kind enough to send along this note to his
fans about his experience at "All That Skate" in Korea. Thanks,
Kurt!
- Tina (webmaster)
Just wanted to let you all know about what an amazing adventure we
had in Korea.
Now, off the ice we did some shopping until 5am and saw amazing
ancient sites and explored the city a little bit and ate and ate and
ate, but the real amazing part was the show itself. I know that
skating is stronger in certain parts of the world than it is in North
America, but everything everybody told me did NOT prepare me for that
first step out on the ice.
The opening number felt more like a rock concert, and I do mean the
Beatles, than it did an ice show. Then, for your solo, really all you
had to do was be skating one direction and quickly look back over your
shoulder at a different part of the crowd and boom, they would react
like you had split in two and both of you had just done a back flip
with a triple axel all while licking an ice cream cone. OK,, who
knows how anybody would react to that??? BUT, it was simply
unbelievable. In all my years skating I have never skated in a vibe
that strong and I will not lie when I say it really plays with your
ego. Yup, it was fun to feel like a skating rock star.
The hard part was being on the ice rehearsing for over 6 hours a
day, including the first show day, because it made my thighs so sore
that I really did not have the power and control I usually have and so
my shows were sub par for sure. Darn !! But, by the 3rd show I felt
a bit better and my Steppin' Out Of My Mind solo, with Geoffrey Tyler
singing live in Korea, went very very well. This was good timing
because they said there was around 5-8 million people on tv watching
LIVE. Whew. Too bad my legs were not there for the second half of
the show but age does sneak up on you sometimes so what can you
do?
Also, wanted to write something to say thanks to Tina.. she has
been helping me with a few things lately as well as putting together
such an amazing site.. what a caretaker of my image. Thanks
Tina.
Kurt
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