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Ice Academy of Montreal Live panel part 2  9/5/20

Jamal: Patrice, how do you deal with that on the ice? How do you in daily training motivate your skaters in this time of the unknown?

Jamal Othman competing in the 2006 Olympics.

IAM Live Panel Discussion 9/6/20

Jamal: Can you tell us what is IAM Live?

Romain: So IAM Live, so we were, we were back on ice, all our skaters were back on ice here in Montreal the 15th of June, so we have still during the summer we have worked a lot. We've made new programs, new elements, new choreography. Even the program we kept, in particular the rhythm dance for most of the teams, we have changed it a lot, so what you are going to see is a regular practice.

When after the period of the summer, it's time for us, the team of coaches, to see how it looks in a big section in run through, and so basically it's for us, it's a work and you are going to- don't expect to see a competition or a show or something. We did not prepare, it's just the next step after the summer- how to say, the work of the- we have done all the summer. So it won't be perfect. It won't be - there is some lift missing maybe, some transition. it's not safe, but for us the coaches, it's how we are. It's from an event like that we usually do. We are building, the step by step the performance to, to be ready for the future competition.

So yes, it's a practice-  no costume. Just we, we want to show you the how difficult is ice dance, how physical it is. And with the help of Jordan, who is going to film the, the skaters in every angle, we want to show like also a three dimension performance. And so you will be able to, to see from very close the the nice thing they do, the nice thing that we all created, but also the maybe some mistake and the, the thing we, we are going to adjust in the future.

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IAM Live Panel Discussion 9/6/20

Jamal: Marie-France, if you had to, if you had three words to describe the last five months, what would it be?

Marie-France: Oh my god, this spring of 2020 was very interesting for sure, but i think Jamal, if I have a word for myself for these five months, would definitely be challenging... i think the whole world was challenged with, you know, a lot of unknown and, and uncertainties, but for us, one of our main challenges is to know that most of our skaters were in Canada because of Worlds, of course, because they train here, but they were away from their family, so that created a lot of challenges for us, because as coaches, as iAM, we felt very responsible.. of our skaters and knowing that they were isolating by themselves far from their family. 

We wanted to even though if they were physically distant we wanted to keep them engaged and in a community, so they don't feel the weight of being alone in Canada, so... i think we had those challenges. We had ice challenges, we had so many challenges, but as a team, you know what? I think we successfully went through most of these challenges, and it opened up some opportunity and.. yeah we created new things because of those challenges. So i guess you know there is a positive to all this.

Patrice: It was actually, it became very an interesting time. Although when you said five months, i, i feel like it's been two years already. (laughs) So many, so many different things happen, and so many different stages like that from the from the pure confinement, to now, and figuring out everything. But i, i would say it brought out some very interesting time, like especially at the beginning when we saw the Zoom, and then we could see like 40- 50 people at a time on on Zoom

Marie-France: Doing ballet, doing hip-hop training together