Emily Hughes on Today Show
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Emily can't drop out of her Grand Prix; if she does, she has to then go to Sectionals. I think she would rather gain the competition experience at Trophee Bompard than Sectionals.
This Emily Hughes update article was posted in an earlier Hughes thread in this forum when it was published in mid-September: http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080916&content_id=51825&vkey=ice_news
The videos of Emily's performances at Regionals are on IceNetwork.
She landed one triple in the SP (the 3Z in combo); she underrotated the flip. She landed just one triple (a salchow) in the FS. It was rather alarming to see her stalk each jump almost the entire length of the rink, then underrotate it. The landings on the URs are wonky as well. Her one consistently good jump is the 2A.
Emily used to get L4 on most of her spins and on her spiral sequence, and at least L2 on her footwork, but now the only spin that got L4 was her ending combo spin. Her layback was L3 and her flying sit spin, L2. The footwork was only L1 and looked labored, as did her L3 spiral sequence.
She displays her usual energy through much of the FS, but the choreography is nothing special---and she does lots of crossovers while she builds up speed to stalk the jumps.
She landed one triple in the SP (the 3Z in combo); she underrotated the flip. She landed just one triple (a salchow) in the FS. It was rather alarming to see her stalk each jump almost the entire length of the rink, then underrotate it. The landings on the URs are wonky as well. Her one consistently good jump is the 2A.
Emily used to get L4 on most of her spins and on her spiral sequence, and at least L2 on her footwork, but now the only spin that got L4 was her ending combo spin. Her layback was L3 and her flying sit spin, L2. The footwork was only L1 and looked labored, as did her L3 spiral sequence.
She displays her usual energy through much of the FS, but the choreography is nothing special---and she does lots of crossovers while she builds up speed to stalk the jumps.
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I wonder whether Emily will decide to drop out of her Grand Prix event and concentrate on nationals instead.
If she did, that would open up a spot for a second event for Alissa Czisny, especially if Alissa wins Skate Canada, which I am pretty sure she will.
Emily cannot drop out of her event, because I don't think she is skating well enough right now to make it out of sectionals. If she wants to go to Nationals this year, I think it would be better for her to do her GP event, even if she skates poorly, and still have a bye to Nats, than to go to sectionals and quite possibly not make the top 4 there.
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she can't possibly be THAT bad.
Wasn't she only third at her regionals? Or third in the FS, maybe? She's not at the top of her game, that's for sure. Her jumps, unfortunately, are badly underrotated, the kiss of death these days it seems. As much as I love Emily and would love to think that she'd have no problem at all getting through Sectionals, she's just not skating that well right now. Though, I don't know exactly who she would be competing against in her section, so maybe it wouldn't be that bad.
She'd have to face Forte and Firth again, and Blake Rosenthal posted a higher score than Emily at South Atlantics. Brittney Rizo and Melissa Bulanhagui don't have byes, so that makes 5 ladies at Easterns that could beat Emily.
She's MUCH better off skating in the GP.
She's MUCH better off skating in the GP.
How old is Joelle Forte? I cannot find her biography on the web.
I think Joelle Forte is a great "unsung" skater story this season. Forte last qualified for U.S. Nationals back in 2000 at the Novice level (9th place).
From an article on the Senior Ladies Group A Free Skate event at Liberty this past July: http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080719&content_id=49522&vkey=ice_news
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I love the idea of an older female skater who is doing well and expectations are high.
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here is the link to all the regional videos:
http://web.icenetwork.com/events/schedule.jsp?mode=all
You need to go to "schedule & results" from icenetwork homepage, than choose "complete events schedule".
http://web.icenetwork.com/events/schedule.jsp?mode=all
You need to go to "schedule & results" from icenetwork homepage, than choose "complete events schedule".
If you have a subscription for this season, the North Altantic videos are at:
www.icenetwork.com/events/detail.jsp?id=47069
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Do you know if you could (or someone) post on youtube her long program? (and possibly her short program, as well)
I really want to see it.
I really want to see it.
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No, I'm not outside the US, yeah I'm aware of the copyright stuff (illegal stuff...).
Thanks for the info.!
Thanks for the info.!
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I happen NO idea the watching the videos were free! Thanks great. I'll try to do that and see if it works for me.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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