Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates Make Coaching Change to Shpilband and Zoueva
Press release: http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=44554&type=media
Press release: http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=44554&type=media
This makes me think V/M aren't going to compete competitively for at least this upcoming year.
I want to say that with Shpilband and Zoueva, Evan and Emily will be able to beat D/W sometime in the not-so-distant future.
but even though Evan and Emily are just friends like D/W are, they are pretty talented at emoting the romantic vibe. I see great Zoueva programs for Evan & Emily this year! Especially looking forward to a FD that isn't cheesy
Havn't Evan and Emily trained at that rink the past years? I thought they were actually working with Shipilband/Zoueva already. This is a great move for them, since I think they are a beautiful tram to watch. This does seem to hint that Virtue and Moir won't be returning, i really hope not though. They are so young and so much more to accomplish that cannot be measured in medals alone.
This does seem to hint that Virtue and Moir won't be returning.
They look like a very young team of big boy and a big girl....
Suggesting that they will beat Davis and White just because they moved to their coach is kind of ridiculous imo. It's along the same lines as saying Volosozhar and Trankov will win worlds next year, or Bobrova and Soloviev will. Such statements I've been hearing are all rather farfetched.
Being Canadian , I'd like to point to Allie Hann-McCurdy and Michael Correno as an example, though not everyone here will be so familiar with them . Their improvement since going to Z/S was practically instantaneous, and since they were with them for such a short time, a great deal of their success this year has to be credited to their programs , which were utterly charming and really suited to them. It really makes me excited to see what S/B could have in store for us next year.
If I were Lane& Razgulajevs (sp?), I'd be jumping right to it to get Crone & Poirier the costumes and presentation skills they need and be working Vanessa's shoulders and upper back like mad in the off-season. S/B already have it over them in presentation and costumes and I can't imagine either of those will suffer under Z/S . Technically, they've always been very close , so to me ,it all comes down to S/B solving their FD dilemmas , and C/P the above polishing. The race is on.
Moreso than Davis and White or Virtue and Moir? All three teams have a youthful vibe, in comparison, say, to Delobel and Schoenfelder. (Or Anissina and Peizerat,or any combination of Grishuk,Platov, Usova and Zhulin. )
About Delobel and Schoenfelder, you don't have to be all lovey-dovey all the time to be "man and woman." Both Davis and White and Virtue and Moir have a lot of "kids playing grown-up" in their performances, in my humble opinion.
...In all my years watching Ice Dance, I have come to believe a successful Ice Dance team requires a very strong male partner... Not only does the man needs to be a strong skater, in Ice Dance, the man also needs to have a complementary charisma and emotional maturity that will allows him to accentuate the presence of his female partner.
[virtue and Moir's] Umbrella FD in 2008 was age appropriate when they were only 20 and 18 respectively, but yet, their emotional maturity in that program makes people forget their physical age was only 20 and 18. At the same time, they weren't trying too hard and come across as unsuitable.
Even Frank Carroll recognized early on that Michelle Kwan missed that, hence she missed the World podium in 1995.
I would be curious to know your opinion of Victor Kraatz, in terms of "complementary charisma." To me, he seemed to be the perfect frame for Shae-lynn, yet one hardly noticed he was there.
Well, Frank's solution was to cake on the make-up until Dick Button literally didn't recognize Michelle the first time she took the ice as Salome. If I remember correctly, Frank had to do some fancy talking to Michelle's parents to get them to go along.
But I see what you mean. Emily and Evan do have a sort of boy and girl next door thing going on. (As opposed to Meryl and Charlie, who have a boy-and-girl-next-door- trying-out-for-the-lead-roles- in-the-high-school-production- of Phantom- of-the-Opera thing going on. My problem is that I have seen these teams grow up in local club shows for so long I can't see them as all sophisticated maturity now. )