Interview with John Nicks
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- John Nicks is a legendary figure skating coach and former pair skater. With his sister, Jennifer Nicks, he is the 1953 World champion. As a coach, his skating pupils have included Peggy Fleming, JoJo Starbuck and Ken Shelley, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Tiffany Chin, Kristi Yamaguchi and Rudy Galindo, Christopher Bowman, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, Sasha Cohen, Rory Flack and Ashley Wagner. We had to interview Mister Nicks, who at 91 years old, is planning to run a 5k in April and still shares his knowledge with students on and off the ice.
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I love this man! He speaks highly of literally everyone, and would much rather blame himself than anyone else. Such a gentleman.
He was always a class act. Great coach, great man.
Exactamundo. Today's skaters can only dream of having a coach like him. As somebody said, always a Class act.@@theprinceoftides6836
Love interviews w legends of the sport like Mr. Nicks, Frank, etc..This was fabulous! He is remarkable!
This was wonderful thank you! Mr. Nicks is a legend and Sasha is still my favourite female skater. At the 2010 US Nationals you could see the relationship between them. I always remember “stay on your feet” before Sasha skated.
I can't believe he's 92. He looks incredible for his age. And preparing for a 5K? He's way more active than me lol He also has a great sense of humor. Sharp as a tack
As much as I dislike Eteri, she would have had Sasha drilling programs and landing the quad. Look how she has been able to make Daria consistent after she was a Sasha-like mess last season. Sasha also had an excellent rotating position that Eteri would have loved. I can't imagine Sasha with Daniil's choreography, though. Yuck
Sasha with Daniil choreography...I think I will take the falls and what might have been!
@@TheSkatingLesson Fair enough lol
@@TheSkatingLesson What did you think of Phil Hersh Tweeting that Valieva's lp is the best use of Bolero since Torvill & Dean? I consider Phil to be pretty elitist, and I know he loves opera and considers himself to be extremely cultured, so I found that hilarious. I often think he cares more about the technical side of the sport and is a sucker for anyone who is technically brilliant. He really seems to be on the Eteri bandwagon.
@@evanperilstein5308 I think if Kostner were brought up, he would mention her imploding at 2009 Worlds. He never forgave her for that performance.
@@TheSkatingLesson yes, any day of the week!!
Thank you for this! I will always remember his kindness to Tai and Randy when they had to withdraw from the Olympics.
My moment of the week is the burst of laughter as soon as Jenny brought up Marjorie Chin. "Many deep conversations with Mrs. Chin." Oh, I'm sure.
If only he would've pulled a Megan Duhamel and spilled everything, LOL. I'm sure many fans would've loved to hear the juicy details of Mr. Nick's "deep conversations with Mrs. Chin." But he was being a gentleman and diplomatic.
John Nicks looks and sounds great for 92.
Absolutely love this interview! Thanks so much Dave and Jennifer. Mr. Nicks is truly remarkable!
You are very welcome!
Jenny, you are stunning! The lighting, the hair, the sweater, the makeup. Great packaging overall!
Agreed!
I will always have memories of skating on sessions with Mr. Nicks in Ugg boots. He’s the best! ❤️
This is another good interview with a legendary coach! Who will you do next? Since Dick Button was brought up, would you be able to interview him? (Please get him on here before he passes!)
I agree. It will be a very sad day when skating has to say goodbye to that once in a lifetime personality...
This has made my day!! Will be settling in to watch later on!! TY!!
I hope you enjoy it!
This was such a good interview! I didn't get to see it all tonight, but I will definitely watch the first hour or so once it posts "for real." Thank you, Dave and Jenny! And of course, thank you Mr. Nicks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Kudos Dave, Jenny and Jonathan on the success of TSL. So many subscribers, and followers from skating fans and famous skaters, coaches, choreographers and high level positions in the skating community. Most effective is the content and commentary. Great interview with Mr. Nicks. Such a legend!
Mr. Nicks... I may be wrong and I apologize if I don't know, but have you thought about writing it an autobiography? It would be wonderful to get your thoughts down on paper with your British rye humor and your infinite skating knowledge. Anything that happened in the last 70 years of skating you were there for the personal perspective from the 1961 plane crash to Coaching Sasha at a home Olympics ( for her). Tai and Randy... Galindo / Yamaguchi... Kuchiki and Sand... Your pair knowledge has been an international treasure.... Thank You Mr Nicks.☺️
OMG Mr. Nicks' reaction to talking about Mrs. Chin re: 1985 and all that mess "I asked Mrs. Chin that same question, we had many deep conversations about it." then silence... LOL!!!! So. Good.
Oh wow John did a skating course in Johannesburg, he trained me for a week, I was coached by Marge Chase. All the SA solo champions and pair skaters had special attention, we had so much fun with jojo Starbucks and Ken Shelly ❤️school figures, rockers Counters ...
He truly understands what figure skating is about
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Mr. Nicks was straight up like "Tai likes to make shit up! Half the time I dunno what that chick is sayin!" but in the kindest, most British way possible! "Tai is a wonderful storyteller, always entertaining and so creative, a real fun joy she is." LOL. Oh the British of it all!
"You don't have to be a great skater to be a great free style skater" Doesn't that ring sort of true in this day and age?
Little story... I was coached by Jan Prasnewski (who passed away last year), who was coached by Mr. Nicks back in England in the 60s or 70s. I remember seeing Mr. Nicks' name listed under the bio of my coach, but didn't know who he was until Sasha Cohen came on the scene in 99/00. I was 13 at the time and starting to take skating more seriously. In 2002, I called and spoke with Mr. Nicks, told him my back-story and asked if he would be willing to coach me if I came to Aliso Viejo. He said he would, though ultimately I decided to stay.
Mr. Nicks was very kind and receptive. I always remembered that about him.
Do you have a link to Jan?
A true legend!!!
Indeed!
Omg! A shout out to Terry Rudolph! I think she taught ALL of us skaters in L.A. to be more artistic!
David, your sweaters need their own RUclips channel. Great interview, thank you!
Glad you like them!
Have you seen my new costume?
@@TheSkatingLesson Not yet....where can I see it?
Or their own Twitter account!
Fascinating interview. As always, great job Dave and Jenny!
I've missed you Jenny!!!! Jonathan is great eye candy and has an amazing perspective from an artists point of view and an eye for the creative aspect but not your expertise as an athlete....Hugs from Paris
Legend!
That was fantastic! I enjoyed every second.
Gentleman of the First Order! Love him. I know Tai & Randy from Back in the day and what he did with them is monumental! Understated and classy!
Wonderful interview!
What a treasure! Thank you for sharing it!
this is just great content, thank you!!
Ugh I love him
OMG !!!!! This is such a thrill! Thank you ! To me he represents the rock of the true root of contemporary american skating along with Frank and the Scotvolds. He is an expert of performance wisdom and he would make wonders with Alysa Liu. Also, it seems it was never about him and it was all about the skater and that me is awesome!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Dave red is absolutely your color... striking
Thank you!
Dave's outfit with homage to aljona/bruno 2016 SP outfit with a dash of tarasova/morosov 2018 SP
I really dont wanna live this long but if I do I hope I do it half as well as mr nicks
He has lived a very rich life!
What an awkward and morbid first half of your comment. Let’s just say “what a wonderfully full life he leads.”
With last years ladies Champion, did he mean Alina or Sherbakova?
The stalking was in LA US Champs 02..and I thought it was on the Leno Show that MK made that comment. Sasha also stalked Angela there...and then there was SA 03..Shiz was having none of it.After 02 Nats. MK, Sarah and Angela were huddled..Sasha not included. Truth
It did happen at LA and allegedly at the practice session(s) at the Olympics. There was a three-person interview with Bob Costas, Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes where Michelle definitely said it. She may have said it on Leno as well.
@@TheSkatingLesson Tried to c/p a Brennan article from La. when asked about stalking in an interview
CB: Now, now, now, I didn’t create that story. It happened and I wrote about it. I wrote that Sasha was getting in Michelle’s way, and turned it into a funny (I hope), cynical (at times) and pointed (at other times)
column. Four or five other reporters wrote the same news for their newspapers. Michelle said the near-collisions distracted her. And on and on… It was news, pure and simple. People seem to forget that this was one column I wrote, one of - what? - about 25 this year alone on figure skating. It got a lot of attention, and I hear the internet went wild, but I don’t control that. I just did my job and wrote a column on something I thought was very interesting. And I was not the only journalist who felt that way.
CB is Christine
It might not have been intentional, though. Jenny once said that she thought Sasha was in her own world during practices and warm-ups and didn't really pay attention to where other people were going.
I’d almost venture to say Sasha had/has undiagnosed adhd. She’s impulsive, has difficulty concentrating, requires regimen, and is super creative. Sasha may not have taken a lot of ballet, but she did have a gymnastics background and practiced Pilates. I recall her mom being a ballerina, so I wonder if she had any help at home with that.
Oh that explains it. Her positions were gymnastic, not balletic.
I seriously don’t understand how you can be a figure skater and not take ballet classes. Especially when you start so young.
92 - 👍.
Саша Коэн мне нравилась в свое время, но и российские девочки не хуже.
Саша Коэн тоже половина русский
So charming-and then: *Orientals*… 🤦♂️ [But hey, he's 91… and at least he said "Blacks" and not, uh, other outdated terms… right? 😬 ]
as an asian american, i forgive john nicks on behalf of my people for that remark. :-)
oh no the pc police have made their way into figure skating