2012 2013 JGPF Men's Long program Junior Grand Prix Final LP

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Warm-up group is on the ice!

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Boyang JIN (CHN)

Music: Charlie Chaplin Medley

feed freezing... missed first part

4T+2T
4T - fall, UR? looked UR on replay
3A - stepout
StSq
CSSp
3A+2T+2Lo
3Lo
3Lz+3T - a bit scratchy on 3T, perhaps UR
3F
3S - fall
FCSp
CCoSp

Ambitous jump layout for someone this young - there were mistakes, but still...

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Jin
127.22, total 187.95 and into 1st

[Mirunna]

http://tvonsite.org/index.php?kanal=sport2 live stream

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Keiji TANAKA (JPN)

Music: The Untouchables (soundtrack) by Ennio Morricone

feed freezing... missed first part

3A - hands down, stepout
2A
3F
FCSp
StSq
3Lo
3F - hand down, no combo
3Lz+3T - e, low landing
CCoSp
2S+2T+2Lo
3T+2T
CSSp

Some popped jumps... He has had problems 3A in both programs

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Tanaka
112.81, total 174.55 and into 2nd

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Ryuju HINO (JPN)

Music: Robin Hood (soundtrack) Michael Kamen

3A+3T - tilted, but landed
3F - e, holds onto landing
3Lz+2T
3S - tilted, but landed
FSSp
StSq
FCCoSp
3A
3Lo
3Lz
2A+2T+2Lo
CCoSp

Solid skate, but he needs to work on his jump landings - right now many of them aren't too pretty.

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Hino
131.37 (PB), total 198.92 (PB) and into 1st

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Jason BROWN (USA)

Music: Liebestraum by Franz Liszt

3F
A - never got off the ice
3Lz - e, 'tano
CCSp
3Lo
CCoSp
3Lz - stepout, hand down, no combo
StSq
3F+3T - shaky landing, puts free foot down early
2A+2T+2Lo
3S
CCoSp

Nice choreo and spins, but the jump difficulty is not quite there yet.

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Brown
128.89, total 198.32 (SB) and into 2nd by less than a point

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Aww, he might slip off the podium.

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Maxim KOVTUN (RUS)

Music: Casablanca (soundtrack) by Max Steiner

4T+3T - good height
3A+3T
3Lz
CCoSp
StSq
3A
3Lo
3F
3S+2T
FUSp
StSq - perhaps the 1st one wasn't a really step seq?
2A
CCoSp

Very strong program jumpwise - it will be hard for Farris to beat.
Nice to see a promising Russian man. He's got good height on the jumps. Needs more polish, but he's still junior so it's understandable

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Kovtun's content is impressive! 4T-3T, 3A-3T and a solo 3A later in the program. Everything else landed but he has to work on the presentation and the program is a bit strange IMO

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Kovtun
149.78 (PB), total 222.31 (PB) and into 1st

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Joshua FARRIS (USA)

Music: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, op. 18 III: Allegro Scherzando by Van Cliburn, Fritz Reiner

3A+3T
4T - hard fall into the boards
3F - stepout, hand down
CSSp
StSq
FCSp
3A - hangs on
3Lz+2T
3F - fall, no combo
3Lo - scratchy
3S - holds on
CCoSp

Not his best. He will drop - question is how far?