Javier Fernández achieves his work visa in Canadá

Yes! At least he has it!. After a few years Javier Fernández has obtained a work visa which not only does he allow to work and drive there in Canadá, but it also allows him not to go out each 3 months. This visa is requested for every single ice skaters who are training there. However, it is always refused by the Ice Federation, even knowing the dramatic situation the ice skaters are living there regarding to that. What I want to say is Spanish figure ice-skaters cannot live for their achievements. Their Federation barely gives them a minimunt amount of money. Moreover, they have to pay to the coachs, coreographers and the competitions where the take part. Apart from their homes, flies, hotels and so on. If Javier hadn't won three times the Europe Championships plus once the World Championships, he would be in the completely poverty!
To sum up, there are many others ice- skaters in the same situation than Javier Fernández and the Ice Federation has promissed them thier respectives work visas in the near future. I hope that.

Pray for Paris

With things like happened in Paris, everyday problems are entirely tiny. My condolences to the families and my encouragement to the security forces of France to detain scum attacking our values.

Technique versus Artistic Skills

Hi everyone!!!

Last weekend took place the Cup of China, where participated our world championship Javier Fernandez. Boyang Jin, Chinese, also participated. He is 18 years old and, of course he has much potencial for jumping. In fact, he did two quads in his short program plus four quads in his long program (two of them were quad luzt, the most dificult one). In contrast, Javier Fernandez did only one quad in his short program and three in the long program.

Who of them won? Easy. I´m not going to be exhaustive, altohugh I would like to explain only one thing. Not only is the tecnique important on figure ice-sakating, but the artistic skills are also necessary. You can have a fantastic and refined technique (jumps, spins, secuency steps and so on) but if you don´t have a marvellous and completey riveting artistic skills (interpretation, choreography, skating skills and stuff like that) you cannot achieve a great mark.

To sum up, here you have the four programs and judge yourselves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ZmfHHD79I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDj5AfgRUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2YYZsa-OE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBoekjYtOuA

Aphorisms

Here are my three aphorisms:

- Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn

- Don´t be sad about getting older: the dead don´t

- You cannot command your heart, only your actions