For everyone still rooting for Kimmie Meissner to make a return to form in the coming year—here’s another sign that she’s not just going through the motions.
The Baltimore Sun ran this article over the weekend discussing the newest member of Team Meissner, a charming former dancer with the Hungarian Ballet by the name of Gyula Pandi. The description in the first paragraph is enticing enough, if you ask me:
The newest member of Kimmie Meissner's coaching team is a free spirit who cheerfully concedes that he knows nothing of figure skating, travels the country in a clunker Jeep with a bungee-corded tarp for a roof and 260,000 on the odometer, and keeps his clothes in a waterproof plastic box.
Apparently he comes in at the suggestion of none other than Peggy Fleming, so really… what more do we need to know?
The Baltimore Sun is apparently one of those newspapers that now accompanies some (or all?) of its online stories with a video piece, so if you click the above link you’ll get a chance to see Pandi and Meissner in action. Kinda cute. Hope he’s got one of the keys to unlock her from whatever’s holding her back—be it her body, her spirit, her mind… whatever.
I decided to make her 2006 Olympic SP the Clip of the Day. Maybe you can watch this, then compare it to the new video at the article website…
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I tweeted her about Gyula and she replied stating that working with him is amazing and they are accomplishing a lot. She means business this season!
For some strange reason, watching him with her made me think of the relationship between Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita in "Karate Kid"...
Wax-on, wax-off... :-)
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