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Podcast: The Iron Butterfly
Episode: Triple Axels and Current Skating (feat. Kimmie Meissner)
Description: I talk to 2006 World Champion Kimmie Meissner about triple axels: we discuss her own experiences landing it at Nationals in 2005 at the age of 15, competing at the 2006 Olympics and winning the World Championships at age 16 a month later. We talk about skating in the 6.0 system vs. the IJS system, the surge of triple axels in today's ladies skating, her thoughts on the wave of young skaters on top, what she'd change in the judging system, social media and negative comments online, what she's doing now, and her thoughts on US Ladies skating heading into this next season. ...