And frankly I quite liked Shoma as well, even with the fall. I liked the pace of the program among the cuts (even if there's this one cut I don't like because it cuts a cadence off #musician)
Because it is a interrupted cadence?
And frankly I quite liked Shoma as well, even with the fall. I liked the pace of the program among the cuts (even if there's this one cut I don't like because it cuts a cadence off #musician)
All I'm hearing here is more men should go the Adam Rippon route and wear makeup at competition (I think he looked quite lovely at NHK and he was definitely wearing makeup. He looked quite youthful for 28!).
All I'm hearing here is more men should go the Adam Rippon route and wear makeup at competition (I think he looked quite lovely at NHK and he was definitely wearing makeup. He looked quite youthful for 28!).
And yes! Flu shots for everyone!
Vincent Zhou
Ouch, a technical disaster for Zhou here. Fall on the 4Lz and another fall on the 4F so he couldn't tack on any combo so it's not worth anything. And then a shaky 3A. Zhou is definitely capable of doing a technical program as difficult as Chen's but he hasn't been successful with these two new jumps, either falling on under-rotating. He may need to change up his strategy of having strong triple and choosing the quads he can perform well (though I know he can land that 4Lz). Unfortunately, his interpretation and choreography is limited given how open it needs to be to have the speed into the quads. Hope he does better in the free.
Denis Ten. Let me just say that, regardless of his first jump, these are the kind of performances that I live for in figure skating. I've already rewatched it several times (and I just finished watching the men's competition a short time ago this evening, lol). Also, wonderful to see Javi back on his game!
I am so confused by this kind of judging really, Samarin got 40 PCS for a program that has nothing in between jumps and spins, but I also thought calling his lz ur was unfair, if samarin's lz was ur they should have given downgrade to Uno's flip. Uno's pcs are very questionable to me, how he got one point less than clean Javi with a fall and 2 shaky jumping passes I have no idea,also I am not talking here about complexity and transitions Javier has compared to Uno.So now judges are telling us that flawed Shoma is almost on same level on pcs as pristine clean Fernandez? Sorry, I have to disagree strongly.
I think Javier´s SP is ok. But, he is old and talent enough to use some classical music now. It would not have worked maybe five years ago, but I now it would. He does not need to be comical every time any more. I would love to see him skate something "serious".
I am so confused by this kind of judging really, Samarin got 40 PCS for a program that has nothing in between jumps and spins, but I also thought calling his lz ur was unfair, if samarin's lz was ur they should have given downgrade to Uno's flip. Uno's pcs are very questionable to me, how he got one point less than clean Javi with a fall and 2 shaky jumping passes I have no idea,also I am not talking here about complexity and transitions Javier has compared to Uno.So now judges are telling us that flawed Shoma is almost on same level on pcs as pristine clean Fernandez? Sorry, I have to disagree strongly.
Nah, we got too much serious already. I mean, ofc he could do another Carmen.
If anything, we need more fun and weird programs.
I'll have to look at Samarin's 4Lutz again but it didn't at all look underrated, that seems to be a strange call. He was undermarked on GOE either way and his overall skating has already seemed to improve since his last Grand Prix. This guy could become really great.