Ting-Yun CHENG (TPE) | Junior Women Free Skating | Riga 2024

And now to 14-year-old Ting-Yuan Cheng, coached by Paul Parkinson and Andrew Evans. 14-year-old Ting-Yuan Cheng. Fun music to the artist. Haven't heard it as much of late. It's a great vehicle with so much. Energy. Energy and light and shade throughout it. Yeah, nice and light. And for Ting-Yuan, she's recently just her training base, her coaches, have just moved two weeks ago Wow, that's nice. Maple Leafs being a hockey team. Yeah, even a hockey team. Here's the triple salchow. You'll see the under-rotations on the landings. The wrap-free leg is slowing the rotation down. But the basic technique of the takeoffs is good. It's just when you are not sleek and strong. I took this as a replay. Just look how well-centered it is and the good speed. Yeah, really good speed as we see another triple salchow. And that hook of the free leg just disguising some of the lack of rotation. It slows it down. And that really takes too long to get out. And you don't get a hold of it. But that's something they're working on for sure. It'll come in time. Get those ankles together. Keep them tight. A great coaching staff of Paul Parkinson and Andrew Evans. And it's interesting. Yeah, they have a good school that really does that. Yeah, and kudos to the coaches. We saw them doing the admin earlier on. And that just says to me about the coaches have made such commitment to traveling year to year to support their students. And there's so much work that they have to do, so much work that they're away from us making the support for the athletes. And there's two sides to that. The athletes, the coaches love to do that. They want to have their own attention. But on the other hand, they, because they make a living at doing this, they lose when they go away. Because you're with one athlete about the same things as being at home and teaching a bunch of skaters. So OK, he can work on that. But no, it's tough. But it's one of the reasons that you coach at this level. You want to have international athletes. You want to bring them up and see how well they can do and how well you can do as well. The blessing and a curse of being a successful coach. Yes. The excitement of traveling the globe and supporting your students to hopefully elite success. But equally, then it does take them away from the business. And we can't thank them really enough for that. It's enough to the families. And the problem is that the business model for a coach is not a great business model. No, because, you know, it's not stable. You don't have all the health benefits. You don't have, you know, your your salaries can change from day to day, depending on whether the athletes come or go. And they they retire. So it is a difficult business to be in. These coaches are here because they love the sport and their passion. You know, for a coach, it would make more sense to teach beginners and keep it recreational because that's more consistent business. But that's the problem in our country. Most coaches, you know, 98% of the coaches, it's working. So it's great to have a big membership in our country, which we do. But it's tough getting people to want to follow this path. Yeah. So we thank them all. Fifty two point nine zero. That is third of the program with a total competition score of. It is eighty four point two two. And you're currently in third place.