Please don't encourage me as I have many warnings already unless you really want to get me banned.I hate to admit that I enjoy your sense of humor, provocative yet witty. Always fun to read your stuff.
Please don't encourage me as I have many warnings already unless you really want to get me banned.I hate to admit that I enjoy your sense of humor, provocative yet witty. Always fun to read your stuff.
Maybe the judges used that to score his skate.Daisuke landed 4F during the warm-up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XPLLRAKWHc
Please don't encourage me as I have many warnings already unless you really want to get me banned.
No way Japan will leave Dai home regardless how he will skate at his national. This competition already shows that they have picked him as the #1 for their country, inflated his score to make him the #1 competitor for Chan.Too bad that no Russians will make it to the GPF, otherwise, who knows what other snarky comments will be coming from you? Despite Takahashi getting 90+ for PCS, his total FS score still trails that of Chan's from Skate Canada when he was far from perfect. As for whether Takahashi can duplicate what he has done here in Sapporo, I think it's doubtful. Japan will not be holding any major Championship, save one 4CC, until Sochi. On the other hand, Canada will be hosting this year GPF and the very important pre-Olympic Worlds in 2013. Simply put, Chan is still his own greatest enemy. Takahashi needs to improve his consistency in his FS or else he runs a severe risk of being left home this year now that Hanyu is one the scene (in addition to Oda and Kozuka) and all 3 of them could easily beat Takahashi when he is off as he often was in the last 2 years.
Maybe the judges used that to score his skate.
That rule had been eliminated since last year and it applied to the Japanese who finished the highest at the GPF, though not necessarily a medalist. So unfortunately, it is no longer possible to qualify through GPF. In any event, it is not a sure thing he will necessarily be the top Japanese man as Oda, Hanyu and Kozuka all still have a chance to qualify. His recent record at GPF has been quite dismal, finishing last in Beijing 2010.
2. Takahashi's improvement from last season is just wonderful. He refused to blame injury or any other issue for his skates, but I do wonder how much a role that had played. Anyway, he's skating with more fluidity than I've seen him before and his programs are a marked improvement over his ones last season. Lots to work on still (three DGs, no quad) but still an epic score. The GOEs weren't that generous, imo. His flawed jumping passes got scored negatively.
No way Japan will leave Dai home regardless how he will skate at his national. This competition already shows that they have picked him as the #1 for their country, inflated his score to make him the #1 competitor for Chan.
OK, I just got to see it on the big-small-screen (NBC television) instead of the small-small-screen. Terry Gannon and Peter Carrouthers on commentary.
1. Mroz wasn't as awful as I expected. He would like to have those pops back, and he needs peppier music for his footwork sequence. He could easily pull it together and make the podium at U.S. Nationals.
2. I retract what I said about Takahashi dropping the quad from the program. If there was ever a fall that did not detract from the overall effectiveness of the performance, that was it.
I can totally see Takahashi challenging Chan. The artist versus the virtuoso.
Anyway you can tell how amazing of a performance that was when Peter and Terry stopped commentating after the first minute and of course the absolute giddy praise Peter was giving by the time it was over.
Takahashi's scores will likely drop substantially if he doesn't skate clean and the competitions are held in other countries. Skate Canada and NHK have been notorious in terms of inflating host countries' skaters' scores.
In terms of Chan, his scores have been always inflated, much more than Takahashi's.
Thank you, I would never recognise it is the same music though, I have small memory of the program but I remember her.If some of you are hardcore gymnastics fans, blues for klook was the floor exercise music used by Silivia Mitova of Bulgaria in the early 90's. It was so revolutionary and groundbreaking at the time and remains one of the most iconic routines of all time.
Verner's still dealing with the effects of a back injury (see PJ Kwong's pre-event post). I hope to see him in better form later in the season. And with a new SP, too, because the one he has is just not right for him.Just watch Verner and boy this just wasn't his week. The falls he had was just weird and awkward.