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Lady Skates To Final Fantasy

Posted on Monday, May 23 @ 13:44:37 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Rarely does my love for video games and figure skating intersect. (I won't bore you with what I know about flutzes and backward outside spin entrances.) I was recently sent a video of a figure skating exhibition featuring Mario music to the Russian pairs team Volosozhar and Trankov. But I didn't find that video game tribute to be the most exciting over the course of this year's World Figure Skating Championships.

No, that honor goes to Karina Johnson from Denmark for selecting Final Fantasy for the very traditional and formal short program competition. The only reason she wasn't noticed was because she just doesn't happen to be famous and was skating in an earlier group. It's not the best video quality, but it's the only one without annoying commentators blathering over the crap out of it (which I will link here in case you can tolerate it).

For a clearer picture, some live footage of her short program at the Danish Nationals.

And if you want a real skate to Mario Brothers, look to Nobunari Oda's short program during the 2005 Junior Worlds (which I would have embedded here... if I could).

Tags: final fantasy, goodies

Comments

TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 4:40 pm
For those trying to figure out the song, it's actually a compilation of three songs. She starts out to "Don't Be Afraid" from FFVIII, then at about the 1:30 mark it switches to "Theme of Love" from FFIX, then at about 2:15 it moves into Terra's Theme from FFVI.

What can I say, I love me some Final Fantasy music. A couple years ago I even got to see it performed live when Arnie Roth brought Distant Worlds to Baltimore. It was a three hundred mile drive, but so worth it.

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TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 4:41 pm
I should totally get a prize for piecing that together by the way. Just saying.

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 6:47 pm
@TurinAlexander
Good sir I believe you are in-titled to a prize if you can get a stripper to strip to this compilation. i will then buy you personally a Arabian camel

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