how the us figure skater jason brown built his program for the olympics creditmatthew staver for the new york timesfeb 12 2014sochi russia many of the fans in td garden were on their feet before jason brown finished his free program at the united states figure skating championships last month in bostona standing ovation had been part of the plan for brown and his team since the beginning with no quadruple jump to pile up points brown and his choreographer rohene ward and his longtime coach kori ade knew that brown needed a dense and transcendent program to have a chance of reaching the olympics this year at age 19everything about the program is meant to bring the audience up to such a high that those judges cant help but reward reward reward ade said last month at their new training base in monument colo thats how the program is constructed the way it buildsbrowns powerful joyful performance in boston which secured him second place at nationals has been viewed on youtube more than 37 million times and brown an olympic rookie with a signature ponytail and unselfconscious enthusiasm is now a bronze medalist after the team event herenext is the mens competition with the short program thursday and the free skate fridayin a series of recent interviews brown ade and ward described how that program set to reel around the sun from riverdance was conceived constructed and polishedthey provided a window into the challenges faced by elite figure skaters who begin preparing programs long before the season robin wagner the former coach of the 2002 olympic champion sarah hughes said many of the methods that ade and ward used to build browns program were not uncommon but the attention to detail particularly in browns mental approach has been remarkablethis is a very thoughtful process and certainly she has left no stone unturned wagner said of adethe three strong personalities involved in the process interact more as family than as colleagues ade who is married with two young children has coached brown since he was 5 ward joined the team in 2009 ade had never been to the olympics as a coach and ward never made it to the winter games as a competitive skateri think that makes this more special for all of them browns mother marla said they are an outsidethebox trio but it worksthe diagramwitty driven and huskyvoiced ade 40 uses an ipad to film and guide her skaters during training she navigates between multiple screens and her pupils programs during practice sessions in monumenti have more than a slight case of add she saidbut this free program began in march with a single sheet of paper before there was a soundtrack before there was a story line ade drew 13 boxesshe also did what a coach at any level might do consult the technical information on the united states figure skating association websitecreating a timeline she filled the rectangles with the eight jump elements the three