Look on the bright side . . . better to wilter at 4CC than at Worlds, right?
I agree. Takahashi hit WR at 4CC and finished 4th at Worlds in 2008.
BTW, is he ill?
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Look on the bright side . . . better to wilter at 4CC than at Worlds, right?
Euros was much better. I want to be positive but it is just so hard right now. Kevin Reynolds - good for him. Technically a class of his own today, that's for sure.
It's sad when the best skaters under perform and we have a winner by default.
Yep, Euros was much better. I just hope the Japanese men will be better prepared at worlds. While I think Kevin absolutely deserved to win, no question there, it's sad when the best skaters under perform and we have a winner by default.
So Reynolds got +1s and +2s for his (slightly) cheated quads with tight landings and not a lot of flow coming out of them.
In all fairness to him, he did land pretty much everything he planned to and his jump set up was very difficult.
But the PCS being in the high 7s and 8s (he got the third highest PCS score of the evening!) is way way too generous.
Just because a skater lands his jumps, doesn't mean he has suddenly started to meet the PCS criteria. Same as with Aaron.
Ziggy said:So Reynolds got +1s and +2s for his (slightly) cheated quads with tight landings and not a lot of flow coming out of them.
In all fairness to him, he did land pretty much everything he planned to and his jump set up was very difficult.
But the PCS being in the high 7s and 8s (he got the third highest PCS score of the evening!) is way way too generous.
Just because a skater lands his jumps, doesn't mean he has suddenly started to meet the PCS criteria. Same as with Aaron.
if i know correctly, kevin's jump basic point is the highest in this season.
and he cleaned that tremendous program.
So i think his pcs is rewarded for the high level components is cleaned
i think it is rightful, his pcs was similar with Hanyu and takahashi who have some mistakes
before, announce the score I worried about he would have damage in pcs, go down the rank lower than hanyu, but fortunately it did not happen. :yes:
I stand corrected. Was too emotional to even think properly. Geez, well-done, Japanese media for putting lots of pressure on the Japanese men, for you ceaseless efforts pitting them against each other. What a bad commercialism.The quads were two-footed and cheated (probably <<), he did a step out in one triple axel, didn't complete the rotations, fell and (obviously) didn't do the combo in the other one, two-footed and did a step out in the triple lutz, the only clean elements were one 3F (not superb quality,tough), one 3S and one 3Lo, his spins were not really good and I don't overall like this program, almost transitionless and without anything "special", I think that 82 PCS and 140 overall was pretty generous...
Oh Dai your are killing me. First you change your SP then this diasturous FS. There was no fire in Dai FS today.
At his defense though, I can't possibly expect him to bring fire to that crap choreography Morozov has him skating to this season. Dai, you make me cry going back to that man! I've strongly disliked Takahashi's programs this season. AGH!