Kostner at Golden Spin of Zagreb (vids)

[canskate]

No connection to the music, most jumps are telegraphed. That was a weak LP.

[drivingmissdaisy]

She skates with magestic airiness. I wish I knew the proper skating term.

Kween-like

[Skater Boy]

I wouldn't say she skated like royalty she is still learning her programs. I give her credit for stretching herself but so far it isn't really working. Yet.

[jiggs]

Cross-posting from the Golden Spin thread:

Kostner's fs practice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh16FjRjYqY
It seems she had landed multiple 3f-3ts during that session

It seems like she will go for this layout:

3lz
2a
3f3t
3l
3t2t
3s2t2l
3sal

That's quite ambitious.

[FlattFan]

Cross-posting from the Golden Spin thread:



It seems like she will go for this layout:

3lz
2a
3f3t
3l
3t2t
3s2t2l
3sal

That's quite ambitious.

If she can execute this layout cleanly, hello WC 2013!

[Tanja90]

Cross-posting from the Golden Spin thread:



It seems like she will go for this layout:

3lz
2a
3f3t
3l
3t2t
3s2t2l
3sal

That's quite ambitious.

wow!! if she skates this program cleanly she really has a good chance! and if she doesn't land the 3f3t she can do 3t3t in the second half...a lot of points even in this case!

[Itcaip]

If she can execute this layout cleanly, hello WC 2013!

During practices she always can.

[sapphiresky]

I like her SP much more than her LP.

That LP music doesn't work very well without a lot of transitions between jumps...ugh...Bolero...it just makes it really dull to watch. And I'm not sure I understand the middle of the program, when she was posing to the music...??

But I'm glad that Caro is getting back into it.

[Riemann]

SP was OK.

But oh my goodness at the FS. Weak choreography, boring performance, generally poor execution. The most difficult triple she executed well (positive GOE) was the 3T. Even managed to throw a few single jumps in there. Impressive work by the reigning world champ.

[Riemann]

I was very disappointed. Yes, Carolina tried different music and kudos to that but she has no connection with the music; the music seems like an afterthought. Good try with the bigger jumps but truly disappointing for a world champion forget the color or style of her costumes. The music seems like it is just there. She sould be proud she has a world gold and move on perhaps? I know she is loved by so many but show skating could be for her. These jumps are almost equivalent to katarina Witt 25 years ago! although I give credit for the 3 lutz attempt.

Have to agree. Thank goodness Kim is back.

[shine]

Have to agree. Thank goodness Kim is back.

If you can call Kostner's LP choreography weak then Kim's is just garbage.

Lack of inbetweens, fine. But not sure how anyone watching the same program as me can say that she has no connection to music. She interpreted the heck out of the music, even if it's not what you like.

[guanchi]

If you can call Kostner's LP choreography weak then Kim's is just garbage.

Lack of inbetweens, fine. But not sure how anyone watching the same program as me can say that she has no connection to music. She interpreted the heck out of the music, even if it's not what you like.

How can you criticize Kim's choreo as garbage, yet enjoy the decayed corpse of a Lori Nichol program skated by a posing zombie who has no sensuality to even begin to interpret bolero?

[Nadia01]

If you can call Kostner's LP choreography weak then Kim's is just garbage.

Lack of inbetweens, fine. But not sure how anyone watching the same program as me can say that she has no connection to music. She interpreted the heck out of the music, even if it's not what you like.

Sorry. Posing and wriggling hips don't count as "connection to music."

[Skater Boy]

I have to say you can see some people's heavy biases in these posts; let's try to stick with the skating. Before we say this or that is Caro's performance I think saying it is one thing but doing it is another. Have we really see a 3F 3T combo recentliy in competition? I think Kostner will get better as the season goes on but I am not sure she can hold off Kim among others. She doesn't have the jumps but mind you and this is just my opinion if Carolina and Kira are getting huges pcs despite watered down or esier programs then I think Chan logically deserves higher pcs. At least he tries the big tricks and difficult transitiosn and footwork. But we all seem to look at things differently

[guanchi]

^^ Chan always has big tricks- his quad toe is a thing of beauty. But his footwork and transitions may be so difficult that it often affects his jump consistency. maybe "dumb" it down a bit, his programs would still be more difficult than others.