Corinna
Given name / last name?
Corinna Diamond
Age / year?
40
Born / where?
1968 / Edmonton - Canada
Star signs?
Sagittarius
Nationality?
Canadian
Where do you live?
Edmonton
Occupation?
Dental hygienist - Masters Student in Rekreation (2010 graduation)
On the subject: Single / family / children?
Single
Do you still have other leisure interests
Reading, Academics, Sports in general.
You are a club member in …. ?
Royal Glenola
Your sporty development: Tests, competitions, results?
as an adult:
Tests:
- my Gold Dances
- some of my Diamond Dances
- my Junior Competitive Singles Test
ISU:
my Gold Freeskate
Competitions:
3rd at 2007 ISU Adult Worlds in Ladies Masters
Which section (Ice-dance / Free Skate Singles / Pair-skating / Free style / Synchronized Skating) do you skate and why no other?
Free Skate single and Ice dance
Since when do you ice skate ?
4 years to 18 and 30 to now
By which released?
I realized that it is my life’s passion.
What inspires you in the active ice skating ?
It is the only sport that I have experienced that is so complete.
Figure skating is an amazing Kombination of the mind, Body and spirit.
Are there circumstances (skating-technically) you are irritated with this sport ?
nothing
A skating-technical sense of achievement which you remember with pleasure?
Landing my double axel.
A bad luck (funny / sadly / painfully) on the ice that would not have happened best of all?
The wipe out I had with Vaughn Chipeau. Amazingly, neither one of us were hurt from it.
Your average training per week / also off-ice training?
5 times
Which skating element do you like especially well / I am able or not able to do yet?
I love jumping and the turns.
Which skating element do you coach at the moment especially intensely?
Nothing / all the same.
An aha experience and an experience in the training which you would like to divide with pleasure because it is maybe helpful to others?
My skating is for me first.
What would you still like to reach anyway / are there limits in this sport for you?
My potential / what ever I am capable of.
To what kind of music do you like to skate / or would you like to skate once?
“Heal the World” by Michael Jackson.
Which ice skater inspires you particularly and why?
Toller Cranston, because he was authentic.
Is there a seen free skating programm which has impressed you with lasting effect?
Alexander Yagudin (his skating programm at the 2002 Olympics).
Is there a programm / Free skate / Spotlight you are working at the moment ?
Yes, freeskate.
Which music choice have you met / why this / what you would like to point with it? Your costume? How did you get you outfit?
Irish Symphony that my musically gifted coach chose.
/ Do not have one yet.
Which challenges position themselves to you, besides, particularly (tempo, jumps, steps)?
Jumps
What is important for you with competitions?
That I enjoy it.
Is there a certain ritual / luck bringer / that is important for you before competition?
Be kind to my competitors.
Your next aim is in ice sport?
Trying to figure it out.
A skating fairy fulfils to you 3 wishes. Which are they?
1. the answer to my question “What next?”
2. the means to do it.
3. to skate in ice shows
Your exclamation / encouragement / message to all skaters?
Follow your heart !
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*Interview, Berlin 19.08.09
Dear Corinna,
thank you so much for making my first interview in englisch language for a “skate’n smile”- portrait.
Thank you also for your patience.
“good vibrations”
Edmondo
Lena and Corinna