ti," a SENIOR \ eae ET racy ‘Drilling’ for gold Being prepared key to victory for Davis and White By Lynn Rutherford memes inthe mide of analaing. dement levels rads of erection and Progam components, we fone what takes Mer! Dis tnd Char White pci Theyre just alot of fun watch, rom te dazling playfulness of 2 Ballywod inspired. Tian fal dance othe pasion and dr ta of Phantom of the Ope anda Ghlkinducing exhibion o David Cooks cover of “Ble Jean” the Young team makes the impossible Took xy and keeps auienes 3 theedge of thi sats “Beryone i ling us what eat mati we gave Meryl and Em hi soon sid Marna Zora one of thi aces snd Choreographers. "Bu the. mate tal weave co ork within these Karis absolutly amazing” Sof, ts been a golden se son for Das and Whi, Since debuting thelr new programs at the 2009°Nebelhors ‘Trophy In September, theyve racked” up accolades and sot new personal bests winning all five. evens theyve enered while defing traning mates and evo-time Ca tadan World medals Tessa Vie tue and Scott Moira he Grand Prix Final and former wsining partner Tait Belin and Bene Jamin Agosto a the 2010 ATCT US. Figure Skating Champion thipsin Spokane, Wash Coming Inco national, we jase fk completely comfonable wih ll of the progzams” Davis 33s caid "Satng the seion ely fat Neblhorn} give ur aboot of confidence By mid-season, welt tmove confident than eve and fe ally prepared" fe hing iso dal shed fel ks, but make i all net Smooth s0 nothing sends out td call blends i, and weleepin Sharacert White 22, aed All those months of experience with 34 MARCH 2010 the proms aly ap" MTheet no sew thir 1 weve. just been ding ding, dling thse programa? Whi id, "Wve atthe point now where the hardest move, he tmos complicated lif are coming he dates both june at the Univer of Michigan - Di iste ung alu sthropol ogy snd eemines ngage, wl Fite ie imerewed in pola scence and lav = lightened thle conde ths Olympic soon and pln wo catch up wih some tougher cours this samme, That Ietmore dime develop aco ice fis and perf der om Ibka, right down to acsoren, inding the ese” omamena tarings Dav wea in tht now Emo oil ance, which ha tacked up) 25000 views and ter counting on YouTube. “Thad eo practice, but T guess my ears are really strong,” Davis laughed. “They are really heavy ics par of Indian tradition. They're not just hanging by the lobes, there’ a piece that fis over my ears.” By the time they got to Spo- ane, ‘Shpilband was comparing both’ their Bollywood original dance and Phantom fie dance ‘works of at "We didn't make any changes afer the Grand Prix Final [in De- ember)” he suid. “Why change something that is perfect? Did you ever see Amadeui? When [the Em- peror] cells Mozare there are too many notes, Mozart says no — itis perfect a itis ‘After che Grand Prix Final, the eeam focused on its weakest competitive point: compulsory dances, in this case, the Golden Gown - Meryl Davis/Charlie Pre ee pee eae, Sen cen ea ie Wale, a novoriously difcue dance that has troubled chem in the past. The Tango Romantica vwas competed at the Vancouver Olympics) “Now you can sce cheircom- pubtory dance is equal t0 their Sriginal dance and fee dance Zolieva sid after Davis and White ‘won the compulsory evene in Spo ane “That is exactly what we were working on. For four weeks after the Grand Prix Final ie was the compulsory, That was steaepcs tall of the competitions before, that was thei lowest score At the Olympics i has to be equal. They cannot win, gold stating fom a lower place" Flom he sar, the ss aligned in this partnership. Born ins nearby Michigan towns just nine months apart, the youngsters were reamed by former coach Seth CChafeer at the Detoit Skating CClalb(DSC) in 1997, While bot ako pursued singles, they skated together at DSC from 1997 0 2005 before moving to Canton Mich, co ain under Shplband and Zoueva Luck a big pat of” Da vissaid.“Charliend I grew up 10 minutes down dhe road from each other, and our patents are best, frends. Our personalities, the way we ace, mesh wel wogethce, We never but heads, So it ck, hard work and respect, Ina way, things were alte easy for us as kids,” Whice added We never had 0 make that big, move across country or anything like that. ot of times ie doesnt happen like shat” "The experience of & lifetime together has helped them shrug cof any presre thee popular pro- rams, ever increasing scores and itores might bring es enjoyable to have chis reac exponure” White sid. Weve had 13 years of experience