The ladies at this year's NHK Trophy provided an interesting insight into the potential future of ladies skating, this season and beyond. The return of Satoko Miyahara adds another element of suspense in the selection of the Japanese ladies skating team.

The ice dance event at NHK Trophy was another exciting and odd one. We break down the results, who's likely to make the GPF and where we think the season is headed.

This is the first episode of our updated format. In an attempt to make the exporting process faster, we're bringing you four episodes for each event.

The men's event at NHK this year was odd, with Hanyu withdrawing at the last minute, the event was pretty wide open, and though the results were not what we expected, that only added to the excitement.

Our (very much delayed) Cup of China episode. We talk Hanyu's injury at NHK, the results of the events at CoC and who's likely to make the GPF.

This week was our second Grand Prix of Figure Skating competition. This time in Regina Saskatchewan, Skate Canada International featured a number of showdowns with some very high highs and some very low lows. Our frustration in the Canadian broadcast network responsible is palpable, but our excitement for the season ahead has not been tempered (too much). This is a big one, so settle in.

The senior Grand Prix series is here! We discuss every entrant in all four disciplines at Rostelecom (and whether they skated as well as we predicted), plus inappropriate lyrics for skating, whether it's a better strategy to skate clean with easier jumps, or throw in all the quads you can, how a fall should affect PCS, and lots more. Join us for Hanyu vs. Chen, Medvedeva vs. Kostner, and Russia vs. the world in pairs and dance in this exciting start to the Grand Prix season!

In this episode we circle back to the fourth Junior Grand Prix competition in Minsk, Belarus to discuss the strength of the junior ladies, and also engage in a lengthy discussion on body image issues in figure skating.

The 2017 Finlandia Trophy was one of three events this past weekend, and the competition was tough. Our thoughts on the outcomes, the trajectories and the long term plan of the skaters here.

The 2017 edition of the Japan Open provided some interesting head-to-head match-ups between skaters early on in the season. We break down all of the new programs and come-back skates from this event.

Nebelhorn Trophy 2017 was the final qualifying event for the 2018 Winter Olympics. We discuss the skating, the qualifiers, what that means for the team event and what the qualification of North Korean skaters mean for the politics of the region. It's a long one, so settle in.