Skating Fridays

Partner Dumping Season

Now that Nationals is over, it’s officially Partner Dumping Season! Don’t be surprised if you see several teams part ways and new teams form. Around this time every year (let’s be honest… this is a year-round thing), I joke with my partner that it’s time for us to break up so we can find new teammates.

The joke gets even better when my coach, Olympian Phil Dulebohn, gets in on the fun. He will make comments like, “Oh, Kenneth is going to be jealous!” or “Let’s show Kenneth how it’s done.” I half kid when I ask him when I can team up with him and finally dump my partner. Ha ha ha!

Anyway, here is a fun exercise we did in my lesson earlier this week. Phil and I worked on the back outside death spiral. We’ve done this once before, but this time I was able to get further down in my knee and get closer to the correct position.

Do you know of anybody who needs a male pairs partner? LOL

2 Comments

  1. Van
    January 18, 2026 / 9:53 pm

    Hey now…

    • evabakes
      Author
      January 22, 2026 / 12:34 pm

      😂😂😂

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