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The demise of, The Skating lesson.
For those who don’t know, Dave Lease the co-creator of the Skating lesson has deleted his twitter account used for the show. Apparently a few members of the skating community including a coach allegedly have threatened and intimidated him for reporting the news that John Coughlin had been suspended. Dave had also been sent death threats and recently decided it wasn’t safe to attend US Nationals. There are also rumors that there are other skaters involved in harassing him.
THIS IS WHY I KEEP MY LIFE PRIVATE.
I watched his video with Christine Brennan that he took down where he implied that a skater skating at Nationals was one of the people who filed a report against Coughlin and that this skater has been getting harassed by judges and others because they blame her for reporting him.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SKATING PEOPLE?
To be honest I am not really a fan of Dave Lease but his videos at the skating lesson were excellent. He is an asshole when it comes to gymnastics ( making fun of Shannon Miller for shaving her head when she had cancer comes to mind. Selling out his morals by accepting an invitation from Nastia to go to lunch then never reporting anything negative about her again…) but NO ONE has a right to send him death threats for simply reporting the facts. That’s all he did. He put a notice on his facebook page that Coughlin had been suspended.
Anyone that wants to do some research on the alleged coach I give you this tweet.
NOW MY OPINION:
Before I started this blog I had heard from people that certain members of a now differently named gymnastics message board had tried to break into bank accounts of ex members of their board . Ex members they deemed unworthy. They had also spent time trying to get these members fired from their jobs. That is when I decided I wouldn’t be attaching my name or past handle’s of different internet sites to this blog. Looking this situation with Dave makes me know I made the right decision.
It’s crazy enough that no name, fools are sending death threats but to hear that coaches and skaters and judges are harassing him for reporting the facts is down right insane.
If a skater/coach/fan has an issue with Dave’s opinion that is something he has to deal with. He decided to put his name and face out there and that comes with the territory ( Hi Gabby fans. All 3 of you:) but there is no need to sending the man death threats.
I had always thought the skating community loved Dave so I was surprised to hear so many skaters coaches etc… had issues with things he has said. I shouldn’t have been surprised though considering the bull shit I have had to deal with concerning this blog and so called members of the “gymternet” community ( still a stupid nick name for a bunch of adults) but I have always considered us the rebels of the gym world ( mostly because I know for a fact some of my biggest detractors have tried to post here multiple times and that one psycho that makes up lies about me. Hashtag Whatever 🙂 Hypocrisy at it’s best.
Dave seems to have disappeared from the internet but I hope he doesn’t cave to the pressure of this idiot coach and her cohorts and get rid of his vlog for good. Don’t let them win, Dave. You have a right to make these videos.
In other skating news….
Europeans is happening right now…
Gracie gold won’t compete at Nationals ( someone finally talked some sense into her )
DAISUKE TAKAHASI HIT A QUAD IN WARM UP of Nationals and it was a thing of beauty.
And some gymnastics rumors sent to me from Gigi from Paul Ziert’s facebook.
Apparently Paul Ziert put this up on his facebook page and then he was called out by someone who thinks he put it up knowing it was untrue just to cause an uproar. God I love people who still have facebook in 2019 🙂 The last one is hilarious because it’s just factual proof that Ziert is bitter he isn’t in the loop.lol
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