spins and the two step sequences required for a senior mens free program for the 201314 season she then chose the details including the types of jumps placing five triples in the second half of the program in search of bonus pointsits almost like playing bananagrams she said referring to the childrens word game its like you have all your letters and you just have to construct it into the perfect personal crossword puzzle and when it needs to morph it needs to morphade wrote reminders of the free program rules outside the boxes like jump combinations limited to two jumps but one threejump combination is permittedi do that she said so if we need to swap out a spin or change a position in a spin i dont miss the rulewith the puzzle done if only for the moment she flew to italy for a competition in early april leaving brown and ward to brainstorm in monumentthe musicon her laptop ade has a folder titled jason maybe in which she includes pieces of potential music she and brown had considered the soundtrack to pearl harbor for his olympic season long program but no decision had been made until ward sifting through ideas on the internet had a eureka momenthe had this burning fire in his eyes brown said and it was like this is what you are going to doimagecreditchang w leethe new york timesward 30 said brown had not heard of riverdance the hit show based on irish step dancing that was first performed in the 1990s and was once used with some frequency for figureskating programsafter hearing reel around the sun the flutepunctuated opening number brown was reeling at the uptempo cardiovascular challenge it would present on skatesi was like rohene you are crazy i cannot pull this off brown saidwards response was immediate brown said he looked me in the eye and said jason this is something youve never done before and thats what the olympic year is all aboutthey spoke with browns mother a former executive producer for the arsenio hall show who liked the idea then they called ade in europeshe was like riverdance thats so corny ward said and i said no no its just that a lot of people havent done it justice except for a couple of ice dance teamsa lot of people try to reinvent themselves in olympic years and i feel like sometimes its best to do classic things but modernize that classic piece i felt like with jasons youthfulness it was the best time to use that piece of music because his endurance and stamina would work the best right now versus four years from nowward and brown cut the music nearly in half to fit a 4minute30second free program they removed some slower sections and focused on building narrative power to the finish by the end of the night they had a rough cut with ward well aware that brown and ade were skepticalrohene took that as