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A SYNCHRONIZED SKATERS’ MAGAZINE championscoach of Irina Yakovleva Finlandia Trophy 21st Edition #ISU PRESIDENT Make it more exciting! “To live my biggest dream.” Saara Shephard published by synchrophoto.eu Second Edition / 2017 / $ 8,55 / € 7.95 SYNCHRONICEHi There, FANS Did you really believe we would It’s our goal to present this high-qua- leave it at that... at that one maga- lity magazine to you at no cost. By zine? No Way!!! We are very proud including some pages containing to present to you a second issue of commercial messages we hope to “SynchroNice”. The first and only be able to continue this. If you’re full color, glossy magazine, interested in using our magazine for exclusively for the Synchronized a commercial message, we will gladly Skating community. get in contact with you. Although the first issue of Synchro- SYNCHRONIZED Publishing a magazine is Nice was highly appreciated quite a challenge. The and well received, we 03 only way to accom- still found that some SKATING plish a project like improvements could #WhyNotSynchro2022 this, is with the un- be made. We since- conditional help of rely hope you like all portrayed in this SynchroNice 2 even magazine, skaters, better. coaches, officials and others. It’s because of Please like our Facebook them, all sharing the same pages or take a little time to goals… to make Synchronized rate us, your support for Skating bigger, more popular, more SynchroPhoto.eu and SynchroNice is exciting and more professional, that necessary to keep us going. we did succeed. We would like to express our sincere Thank you for reading and we hope gratitude, to all of you, who participa- you all will be waiting for ted and contributed in the realiza- SynchroNice 3 next year. tion of this new SynchroNice. We especially would like to thank Mr. Jan Dijkema, ISU’s new Council President Richard & Patricia, who despite a tight schedule, mana- SynchroNice ged to plan lunch with us and do an SynchroPhoto.eu interview. Photo: Val Photo Design SYNCHRONICE CONTENT Erikacoach “Team Gulyás Passion” 94 FinlandiaTROPHY ESPOO 14 2016 06 ALAIN DANIEL FINLANDIA TROPHY HOSTACHE 104 22 interview76 JAN DIJKEMA 14th ISU Synchronized Skating Junior World Challenge Cup 2016 BerlinCUP OF BERLIN GERMANY 34 48 136 COLOFON IRINA YAKOVLEVA (RUS) CHAT 30 64 Chief Editor; Patricia de Ley Copyright & liability: Perfect just isn’t perfect enough A chat with Mr. Christopher Asst. Editors; Kimberly de Ley & Cooper ;) © 2017 Synchrophoto.eu. No part of this publication (Chris) Buchanan Online Editor; qlant Image & Design (qlant.nl) may be reproduced, copied or published without prior NEXXICE 41 Photography; SynchroPhoto.eu consent. This magazine has been compiled with the Emily van Berkel ONETEAMMVMT Art Director; René Teloh utmost care, however Synchrophoto.eu cannot accept Sales & Marketing; Richard Seijger any liability whatsoever for the veracity and accuracy Synchronized Skating redefines 82 ANA CECILIA CANTU FELIX of all the information and images included in this 44 Subscription & Information; publication. Synchrophoto.eu is not responsible Inspired by the Olympic Games [email protected] for actions of any third parties that may result from MOZART CUP 2017 116 Missed your copy of Synchronice? information found in this publication. LEE CHANDLER a story by: Theresa Katzlinger Get your own copy now for only € 7.95 (excl. shipping) Interview 56 Send an E-mail to [email protected] Don’t miss out on this beautiful Collectors Item. SYNCHRONICE FinlandiaTROPHY ESPOO 2016 Every year near the end of a season, we’re sort of done with Synchronized Skating. Spending 5-6 months traveling from competiton to com- 2107 petiton, spending every weekend in some ice rink and every spare hour behind our iMacs post processing the photos, isn’t that easy. Af- ter such a period, one starts longing for some time off to do other stuff like a walk in the park, visiting family or a concert or doing some major shopping. But we have a hunch you all know the feeling. You all spend so much time training for and traveling to competitons and then there’s choreography lessons, fitness or other work-out time. For a big part of the year, the team is your family and you spend hour af- ter hour together. We can imagine that you’re all tired at the end of any season and longing for the necessary break. SYNCHRONICE Once season has ended however… there’s only Too bad Synchronized Skating is just nervous and shaky, we were treated one thing on our minds… The new season. While such a small part of this whole Tro- to some really high level Synchronized working through our final and unpublished pic- phy. We saw 5 teams performing their Skating. Beautiful performances whe- tures we already started talking about our Short and only their Short. We saw re World Champion Team Paradise ap- plans in the new season. As the summer holiday the defending World Champion Team peared to be quite confident but World progresses the talking about the new season Paradise from Russia and from Fin- Champion runner up the Rockettes flows over from longing for the new season into land we saw Marigold IceUnity, The bumped into a bit of bad fortune and yearning for the new season. Synchronized Rockettes, The Revolutions and Team took a fall probably due to the excite- Skating is addictive… Unique. As the teams entered the Me- ment, but costly in points. Never the tro Arena building one could immedi- less we enjoyed their beautiful mirror This season we made an early start by visiting ately feel the tension rising. More vi- dresses and performance enormous- Espoo in Finland to capture the Finlandia Trophy sitors entered, there was more noise, ly. So it’s not the quantity that matters - the season’s first competiton with some of the more movement, more laughter and here, it’s the quality that is important. finest Synchronized Skating teams in the world. more merchandise selling…. The start We can’t wait for the next competiton Finlandia Trophy was held 6 - 9 October 2016. of a new Synchronized Skating Sea- and see all the other teams. Good luck son had arrived. We did a final check to you all in your preparations and Finlandia Trophy was organized for the 21st on the camera equipment, made sure don’t forget to smile…… because we’ll time and already for the 5th time in cooperation the battery packs where fully charged be capturing you and your team. with the City of Espoo. Espoo can be found at a and the memory cards empty. Yes we ten-minute car drive west of Helsinki. The Event are ready for a new season. Happy Skating. is part of the Challenger Series of the Internatio- 5 Teams proudly showed off a new nal Skating Union. Short Kür. Of course all teams were in By developing year after year it became one of the new dresses or costumes fittng this 09 more important competitons for Single Skating, year’s chosen theme and although Ice Dance, Synchronized Skating and also - back most of the teams where still a bit after a long break - Pair Skating, at the beginning of a new season. For SynchroNice and SynchroPhoto a first visit to this Mecca of Winter sports. From our hotel in Helsinki we took a taxi to the Espoo Metro Arena where the Event took place. We had our hopes up high towards the quality of the Ice rink and in- deed we weren’t disappointed. What a warm and great atmosphere we found here in this arena. Clean, perfect lighting and everything extremely well organized. A special area for the press and photographers with all the facilities one might Senior final result need. Our first impression was, it’s just perfect 1 Team Paradise RUS 65,61 and we knew we were up for a great weekend of 2 Marigold IceUnity FIN 64,57 skating. 3 Team Unique FIN 62,04 4 Revolutions FIN 54,52 5 Rockettes FIN 48,76 MUSICFINLANDIA TROPHY2016ESPOO Team Paradise Listen Marigold IceUnity El Toreador Team Unique Ramalama Revolutions Wololo Whetenoyou Rockettes Mirror Mirror 11 SYNCHRONICE FINLANDIA TROPHY2016ESPOO Comments #SYNCHRONICE Press, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram; We get a lot of positive feed- back, some of it we would like to share with you. Christopher Buchanan The SynchroNice Magazine is a wonderful innovation. Congra- tulations on producing an amazing magazine that is loved by all that have the good fortune to get their hands on a copy - now the world will see the love and passion you put into producing this wonderful publication! JenniferGomesx #awesome #love #it Giulia Gandini The magazine is really stunning with those photos! Sarah Baatout Wonderful initiative. Great pictures & great articles to read. Chantal Coderre I had the chance to read it and it’s indeed a very ‘NICE’ publication! Taryn Morgan We all enjoyed reading this in Budapest! Budapest Cup We love your pictures! Thank you for this awsome SynchroNice magazine. Jorik Hendrickx Belgian Olympic Figure Skater Ex- 13 panding my figure skating knowledge in my break! Very interesting magazine about the synchronize skating world! Several interview with world class coaches in this discipline! Also cool insights from a few synchronize skaters. What makes this ma- gazine so special, are the amazing shots of this beautiful sport! Taking pictures in motion is very difficult and they are taken spot on! A must read for the figure skating community! Thanks Synchrophoto.eu for the copy! Keep up the good work! Chiara Arienti, former teamcaptain Hot Shivers Very nice job with the magazine! Sharp brilliant photos.