Adam, I feel is one of America's best skaters, but for me he is not really a competitive skater.
Adam, I feel is one of America's best skaters, but for me he is not really a competitive skater.
I love Adam's skating, and hope he does well at 4CC. He's definitely one of my favorite eligible US men now (along with Armin, Jeremy, Keegan, Jonathan Cassar, ... ). Really like the "new" guys - Ross, Richard, Grant, ...
he was labeled as the next big thing in 2008, but i didnt get the excitement. Still dont. Just not my cup of tea.
His skating skills still need a lot of work to be considered among the best. His back pumping gets on my nerves when he does crossovers and he could definitely use more speed. I also feel his style is too one dimensional, always skating to classical music pieces. Where is a different mood to his personality? Can he do modern music? Can he skate to an upbeat number? All in all though, I think he is ranked where he belongs, 5th in USA quality and 6th-10th in the World quality. He really needs to sort out his inconsistency issues with the 3Axel as well as his issues with blowing the SP at US Nationals. He has shown that he can be elegant; now we need to see power and attack too!
Last edited by museksk8r; 02-09-2011 at 10:54 AM.
That's how I feel.Originally Posted by museksk8r
Adam is one of those skaters whom I could acknowledge the beauty in his skating but I was never crazy about it. And I agree with people who said that he is over hyped.
I love his curly hair too!
I don't really get the hype either. I don't mind lyrical male skaters at all, Johnny Weir and John Curry are two of my all time faves, but Adam is almost one-dimensional, without either power or confidence. I'm always afraid he's going to start crying (esp since he's so inconsistent). Toughen up, man!
I'm not obsessed with him but I was impressed with his "comeback" LP at Nationals. I prefer skaters who can pull it together after making early mistakes.
I don't like to preach about the quad because I don't think it is necessary for everybody, but in this case I think Adam needs the quad. Not only will it amp up his technical score, but it will prove that he has the power and not just the grace. I think that will also signal a shift in his mindset that needs to happen before he can really compete with the Japanese men, and even the top men in the US.
I´m not obsessed with any skater, but count Rippon as one whose skating I enjoy to watch.
I just watched his Send in the Clowns program because it was mentioned above and I'm wondering whey every skater/team that skates to that music does a "clown" them. The song is not literally about clowns.
Well, Tonya Harding's LP, 1991, 2 minutes of which was to Send in the Clowns did not dress like a clown, nor did she do any clownish move. However she did a great 3Lp to the You in The Air line...
Just saying, not every skater...
Good to know...I was thinking most recently of Adam and Savchenko/Szolkowy with this music. I'll have to see if I can find Tonya's program somewhere. A jump on "you in mid-air" is a very nice use of the music for choreography.
Maybe Rippon can't rotate a quad. Even if you can fully rotate and fall that is 7.30 points. If you underrotate it is like 2 points. Unlike previous scoring you no longer risk a zero which made doing a quad pointless and stupid a lot of the time from the 2007-2010 seasons.
I remember reading (I don't know if it was Orser or Adam himself who said it) that the jump was still a little bit "cheated". I suppose they want to make sure that he can rotate it before adding it to his programs. Wise decision.
Orser said this right before nats
"We've been fussing with some of the spins but there's been no quad [toe] happening as yet," Orser said. "We practice it every day but it's not ready to be inserted into the program. He's been skating clean longs and clean shorts, and that's really what he has to do here.
"Certainly the quad is a nice addition to a great program, but you have to have the other 11 elements, too. Two triple Axels in the free, that's a lot of points, especially with all the work David [Wilson] has done. Trust me, if we had a quad going on I would be the first one on my soapbox."
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