Skate Detroit (July 22-25, 2009)

[iluvtodd]

Thanks for the Fedor videos! Good for him!!!

Looking forward to seeing Jonathan Cassar's FS again. he skated beautifully at Liberty last week.

[Joesitz]

Thank you mystic chick, it will make my cloudy sunday afternoon more meaningful.

[Tonichelle]

Hi all. I am uploading videos from this week at this link. I have uploaded tonight so far
Fedor, Grant Hochstein, Jon Cassar FS from today. Brook and Ben, Becky Bereswell and many more. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...ic&view=videos

When I have sometime Ill fill you in on more of todays events

thanks so much for these!

[Mysticchic]

Here is Maria and Max's SP in Pairs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84Nhc1E83w

[Kasey]

Like you, I'm interested to know what happened. Did they all really underperform, or were the judges stingy with the scores? .

M/T only did a double twist, she doubled the SBS jump and then fell on the throw. And you can tell it's still a new program, it was a little tentative in parts. But has the potential to be something really beautiful when they get it down.

[Tinymavy15]

M/T only did a double twist, she doubled the SBS jump and then fell on the throw. And you can tell it's still a new program, it was a little tentative in parts. But has the potential to be something really beautiful when they get it down.

The program does have potential, but the lack of connection is really significant. If they don't learn to at least fake some unity they will never get to where they want (and deserve to be).

[oleada]

They connected very well in their SP from last year. It's still really early on.

[lmarie086]

Here is Maria and Max's SP in Pairs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84Nhc1E83w

Thanks for posting! What gorgeous music, I agree Kasey that it has great potential as they get more comfortable with it. Like last season's SP I think this has a chance to be my favorite of all the teams (though of course I'll have to wait and see what everyone else comes up with). But also like last season's SP, I wish it didn't end with the spin; I don't know if it bothers anyone else but I tend to think a spin (for pairs primarily at least) is a weak way to end a program.

Still, wishing them all the best of luck for the season!

[Mysticchic]

Ive posted a few more videos. If you go to Maria and Max's SP then click on Mysticchic it will show all my videos.

Laura Lepzinski and Ethan Burgess pairs SP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPBFyPuohI

Kendra Moyle and Steven Pottenger SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye1FlRMruf4

[Mysticchic]

Ive posted more. Here is Becky Bereswells sp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLpD681wV9E

[Joesitz]

Ive posted more. Here is Becky Bereswells sp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLpD681wV9E

The potential of Bereswells is very much shown there. She'll be on my list to watch closely at her one GP and Nats.

[dorispulaski]

http://twitter.com/SylviaUnseen

For those looking for results, all I've seen are those tweeted by Sylvia at the link above.

[fairly4]

my impression is that they overscored Alissa . her opening jump combination-her first jump was UR and the last triple was UR. she shouldn't have got a 63. but than again neither should have Patrick got a 127 at liberty for his lousy skate his double jump(hardly even tried the quad) did the double and sat down, didn't try,
but then again -this goes to show the change in judgjng allows cheating. for the ones they want up there.

[i love to skate]

but than again neither should have Patrick got a 127 at liberty for his lousy skate his double jump(hardly even tried the quad) did the double and sat down, didn't try,

How did Chan hardly attempt his quad? He attempted four rotations and fell.

[Medusa]

How did Chan hardly attempt his quad? He attempted four rotations and fell.

Take some posts with a grain of salt... Especially those with strange interpunctation and capitalisation.

It was actually a really good attempt by Chan. It was barely underrotated.