- Joined
- Mar 25, 2008
V/M's parking spot is reserved from 6AM. No rest for the reigning OGMs, I guess.
Personally I find V/M stunningly good but not particularly engaging most of the time (I was super impressed when I saw them live, however). I also find D/W considerably more flawed than the judges do, and hate Meryl's lift positions - though I respect their technical skill. I sincerely hope both teams retire post-Sochi and leave the field open so that we can have some excitement and suspense. Lest I be accused of being wholly prejudiced in favor of Euro teams, my favorite sets of programs in the Olympic season were V/M's and F/S's, I liked the Shibs when I saw them at 2009 JW (but I don't think Marina knows what to do with a sibling team), admired Crone/Poirier for their risk-taking and Samuelson/Bates for their cute 2008-9 OD and Emily's divine toe point. I miss Emily. Oh, and I think Lynn and Logan are lovely.
And here I thought it we should enjoy good skating regardless of nationality, not "NA domination". If you would like to point out the NA teams that were better than Navka/Kostomarov, Anissina/Peizerat, Krylova/Ovsyannikov, Grishuk/Platov, Usova/Zhulin, Klimova/Ponemarenko... please, do go ahead. I'm curious, maybe I can hit Youtube and enjoy some underrated teams. BTW, other than A/P, I am not sure who these French teams are; DelSchoes only won Worlds once, they deserved it, and they were a famously underrated team during their career. Actually, A/P have the OGM, but only won Worlds once themselves. So much for world domination.we here in North America have watched the Russians and the French win everything in Ice Dance for years!!!!! I hope neither team retires. And there ARE teams the meld the best aspects of both. I look forward to watching the Shib Sibs in the coming years, for example. Let's all enjoy this NA domination while we can.
Personally I find V/M stunningly good but not particularly engaging most of the time (I was super impressed when I saw them live, however). I also find D/W considerably more flawed than the judges do, and hate Meryl's lift positions - though I respect their technical skill. I sincerely hope both teams retire post-Sochi and leave the field open so that we can have some excitement and suspense. Lest I be accused of being wholly prejudiced in favor of Euro teams, my favorite sets of programs in the Olympic season were V/M's and F/S's, I liked the Shibs when I saw them at 2009 JW (but I don't think Marina knows what to do with a sibling team), admired Crone/Poirier for their risk-taking and Samuelson/Bates for their cute 2008-9 OD and Emily's divine toe point. I miss Emily. Oh, and I think Lynn and Logan are lovely.
Honestly, I don't think any team is showing great stylistic range these days. Even P/B are less adventurous then they used to be. My brief love affair with ice dance (begun at 2008 Worlds, peaked the following season) appears to be at an end. Maybe the Finnstep SD will rekindle it.I think I first became intrigued after watching D&W and V&M around 2009 maybe. So they are all I've really known together with the usual suspects K/N, P/B, W/P, etc. Each has a style that they pretty much don't stray too far from maybe with the exception of V/M, so that's where I'm coming from. Nationalities; which is dominating which is not doesn't interest me much. I just like interesting dancing