• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Bev Smith Writes

An Insider's Look at Figure Skating by Beverley Smith

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Archives for Jason Brown

Jason Brown

Nathan Chen Finds his Feet

October 31, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Nathan Chen crushed them. Just crushed them. If ever there was a wobble in your thinking about Chen’s prowess on the men’s figure skating scene after Skate America, then straighten yourself in your seat, find a crutch, get a new pair of Birkenstocks, anything, and get ready to marvel again. After he finished third at […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen, Skate Canada

Nathan Chen Finds Redemption

October 30, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

So Nathan Chen had a couple of bad days at Skate America last week. He wasn’t about to hit the panic button, he said. His long winning streak, back to the 2018 Olympics, was bound to end sometime, he said. However, the three-time world champion got back into the saddle at Skate Canada on Friday, […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen, Skate Canada brow

Nathan Chen’s Epic Adventure

March 27, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Nathan Chen is ever thus: calmer than a pool. And focused like a laser beam, although he doesn’t look it. He won his third consecutive world title with explosive point totals on Saturday. He had come to Stockholm, grateful to be there. He had shaken off his woolly lockdown curls, shrugged off a hiccup in […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Boyang Jim, Jason Brown, Mikhail Kolyada, Nathan Chen, world figure skating championships, Yuma Kagiyama, Yuzuru Hanyu

“Keegs”

October 18, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

What a night. Keegan Messing finished third in the men’s short program at Skate America. But he won much more than a placing. About a month ago, his younger brother, Paxon, a father of three little ones, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Alaska. I heard the news by text in the waiting room […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Charles Aznavour, Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen

Jason Brown: His Light Falls on Toronto

September 26, 2018 By Beverley 3 Comments

  Everyone needs a little dose of Jason Brown now and again. Feeling the blues? Brown will wrap you up in the little tornado of his personality and make you forget it all. Feeling lonely and alone? Brown will bounce off to the airport and pick you up, just because that’s what he does. Loving […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic, Brian Orser, Evgenia Medvedeva, Jason Brown, Kori Ade, Tracy Wilson

Jun-Hwan Cha Comes of Age

September 23, 2018 By Beverley 5 Comments

  OAKVILLE, Ont. This weekend Jun-Hwan Cha, he a dreamy child not so long ago, grew into something else. A dreamy-eyed young man with a presence. The 16-year-old South Korean skater has been around, for sure, the dark locks of his bob flying out in all directions on a spin. At first sight of a […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autumn Classic, Brian Orser, Jason Brown, Jun-Hwan Cha, Tracy Wilson, Yuzuru Hanyu

Jason Brown: bouncing back

March 23, 2017 By 2 Comments

If Jason Brown ever found himself in the Hundred Acre Wood, he would be Tigger, hopping and bopping, swinging his arms around everybody with glee, smiling until tomorrow. “Tiggers are wonderful things,” the song goes. “Their tops are made out of rubber. Their bottoms are made out of springs.” The young American is irrepressibly positive, […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Jason Brown, Nathan Chen, Patrick Chan

To quad or not to quad: that is the question

March 23, 2015 By 2 Comments

His Four Continents experiment – putting the quad in the short program  – was a learning experience that cost Canadian champion Nam Nguyen nothing but a few lumps. He took his lumps (11th overall at Four Continents) and will compete at his second world championship with an eye to the future. In other words, although […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Brian Orser, Jason Brown, Nam Nguyen

Day Three, Four Continents, men's final

February 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Denis Ten knew he wasn’t in his best condition when he contested the Four Continents championship in Seoul on Valentine’s Day, exactly one year after his Sochi Olympic medal-winning effort. What’s he going to do when he is in top shape? The 21-year-old from Kazakhstan gave a drubbing to all competitors when he won the […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Denis Ten, Four Continents, Han Yan, Jason Brown, Joshua Farris, Nam Nguyen

Things are not always as they seem

November 16, 2014 By 3 Comments

  So had people written off the smiley Jason Brown after he finished fifth at Cup of Russia (seventh in the short) with a host of bobbles? Not so consistent any more, some said. Not so easy with the mantle of the U.S. on his shoulders? Brown’s face when he finished his free skate told […]

Tweet
0 Shares

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Jason Brown, Shep Goldberg

Primary Sidebar

Your Support is Appreciated!

You can encourage me to write more and to maintain this website with a donation in any amount.
Thanks in advance!

Recent Comments

  • Sonja on Karen Magnussen passes the torch
  • Amelia on Yuzuru Hanyu: Higher and Higher
  • Kho Bee Maiy on Yuzuru Hanyu: Higher and Higher
  • From +3/-3 to +5/-5 | sportlandia on Scoring changes afoot because of Hanyu
  • Racille North on A Proposal, Alaska Style
  • Sally Rehorick on Keegan Messing: Canadian Champion.
  • Lori Nichol on Keegan Messing’s Odyssey

Archives

Copyright BevSmithWrites.com 2014-2018