2014 Skate America Men's SP 10/24

[WeakAnkles]

Machida has become quite a performer. I thought the music teetered into "almost but not quite irritating," but he was very compelling. Good for him.

 

[invisiblespiral]

Yay!

 

[Scovies]

MACHIDA! Fabulous. The difference between the skating quality of everyone else and Jeremy (the 45 seconds I could see before my internet crapped out), Jason, Denis, and Tatsuki is ridiculous.

 

[ranjake]

the announcer (michael weiss?) on cbc is killing me. Machida was apparently "practising like a stud".

huh????

 

[Doggygirl]

Machida incredible. Partial standing O. Good for him.

 

[chasingpolaris]

Found Machida's expressions at the beginning to be hilarious but he absolutely owned that program.

 

[TMC]

Spins count steps count - no one is better than brown.

Omg do you now exclusively comment when you can hate on Jason Brown? Do you even think about any other skater? Or watch and appreciate good performances? Cos it seems like you spend a lot of time just loathing him. Must be exhausting.

 

[satine]

93!!!! Wow!

 

[purpledream]

Machida~~~
After the falls from Jason and Denis, I got a little scared so hurraaahh!!! Time to defend your title~

 

[Mrs. P]

93+ is what you get when you can do the quad AND everything else. Let's keep that mind.

 

[charmblade]

So top 3 of Machida, Abbott, Brown. I would be perfectly happy for that to be the podium.

 

[mirai4life]

still think his East of Eden at Worlds should have been a WR score.

 

[bramweld]

My favourite was Dennis Ten. Oh how lovely this program will be when skated clean

 

[coolboogie22]

The FS competition will be interresting everyone score are so close, the 2nd place and 3rd place can easily be anybody :yes:

 

[Mony]

Great performance by Machida, the only one I caught. I will have to check the others on youtube.

 

[gmyers]

Omg do you now exclusively comment when you can hate on Jason Brown? Do you even think about any other skater? Or watch and appreciate good performances? Cos it seems like you spend a lot of time just loathing him. Must be exhausting.

What are you talking about? I was wrong. Forget about quad Brown doesn't need a triple axel! That's how amazing he is at the spins and steps and choreo and transitions and everything in pcs. He is an astonishing talent outside of 3a and quad. This is hate?

 

[ranjake]

Thanks so much for the links Really fun!

 

[TMC]

Very nice program by Tatsuki! Loved it.

This is what it looks like when you OWN the quad.

Right? Right!

 

[purpledream]

Both MCM and Machida reminded me of Mao... sigh the new women's figure skating era is about to begin soon!

 

[Cyn]

93.39 for Machida.

I'd like to dedicate a Bronx Cheer to all of the Jeremy detractors out there (not necessarily in this thread) complaining that he doesn't deserve to be here, is washed up, blah blah blah.

*insert sound of Bill the Cat going "Phbbbbbbbt!!" here*