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Wow!! How many skaters and pairs have won all the GPs? :yay:Just wanted to say that Kavaguti/Smirnov have joined the exclusive group to have won all GP's (not GPF, though)
SC 2008
CoR 2010
NHK 2011
CoC 2011
TEB 2012
SA 2014
Wow!! How many skaters and pairs have won all the GPs? :yay:Just wanted to say that Kavaguti/Smirnov have joined the exclusive group to have won all GP's (not GPF, though)
SC 2008
CoR 2010
NHK 2011
CoC 2011
TEB 2012
SA 2014
I feel so bad for Hao Zhang. He is such an amazing pairs skater and never has a worthy partner.
Excellent skate by Kavaguti/Smirnov. Realllly hoping they win the World title this year. What a stunning comeback that would be!
Wow!! How many skaters and pairs have won all the GPs? :yay:
Just wanted to say that Kavaguti/Smirnov have joined the exclusive group to have won all GP's (not GPF, though)
SC 2008
CoR 2010
NHK 2011
CoC 2011
TEB 2012
SA 2014
I feel so bad for Hao Zhang. He is such an amazing pairs skater and never has a worthy partner.
A note on the protocols... The levels given for twists made much more sense today for Kavaguti/Smirnov and Peng/Zhang, but Denney/Frazier again inexplicably received Lvl 4. I'm not disputing their overall finish, as P/Z unfortunately had a rough go at it (and Scimeca/Knierim had an even rougher go at it), but please get the levels right. Giving skaters incorrect levels bothers me even more than oddities in GOE or missed UR calls because levels are essentially an objective thing. D/F's twist isn't any different than last week when they competed, or any other time, and yet it's called Lvl 4 here for the first time and given huge GOE despite the fact that it's not a real fantastic element for them (I guess it's similar to how Cesario doesn't get her blatant flutz called here either). In the past, I don't remember pair events having issues getting the twist levels right like this, as it is a relatively black and white thing in most cases. Hopefully they'll get it right next week.
Maybe this will be their year for the GPF!Just wanted to say that Kavaguti/Smirnov have joined the exclusive group to have won all GP's (not GPF, though)
Maybe this will be their year for the GPF!
At this event we saw a successful 4twist (P/Z) and 4throw (K/S). Wonder how long it will be before a team manages to do both in one program. (Or has it already been done?)
I feel so bad for Hao Zhang. He is such an amazing pairs skater and never has a worthy partner.
Excellent skate by Kavaguti/Smirnov. Realllly hoping they win the World title this year. What a stunning comeback that would be!
I'm no expert, but I think D/Fs level on the twist was fine. They needed 4 of 5 of:
1) Lady’s split position (each leg at least 45° from the body axis)
2) Catching the lady at the side of the waist without her hand(s)/arm(s)/any part of upper body touching the man
3) Lady’s position in the air with arm(s) above the head (minimum one full revolution)
4) Difficult take-off (steps/skating moves executed by both partners immediately preceding take-off)
5) Man’s arms sideways, being straight or almost straight, reaching at least shoulder level after release of the lady
D/F had 2, 4, 5 almost definitely. I'm not sure about 1 and 3 but both are conceivable. (K/S didn't get 2 and 3 I'd guess. She smacked down into him for sure and just stuck her arms up at the end.)
I think the splits look identical this week and last, but the arms go up earlier today than in the FS last week. I'm guessing tech guy/girl gave them the arms up this week but not last week and that's the difference.
In any event, I don't think it's as objective as some people think. That whole 45 degree angle isn't easy to figure out by sight. Do they pull out a protractor when looking at the monitor?
Again, I'm no expert here at all so I'm not sure I'm interpreting that all correctly.
And I remember frequently wondering about the twist levels last season so I know it's been a subject of contention before. That's how I knew where to find the criteria.
Was there just one current top ten team in this event? Sorry I am bad with memory.
Almost ANYTHING done by Moskvina will far exceed that done by Moser. In Moser's group their is no real innovation almost every program seems formulaic even with a theme. V/T have become complacent, their only concerns are the elements and doing them as spectacularly large as possible, nuances don't really exist. So I really really hope that Yuka and Sasha really show the world how great pairs skating is done. WOW.
Don't feel sorry for Zhang; he got a silver at anolympic game under controversy - they had a huge break after a bad mistake (fall). The new hair stye is a bit unsettling - I think it is meant for someone else or maybe it was a nexperiment. Sometiems his current teamlooks a bit scarey like he doing something illegal with a minor and that image is NOT a good one.
:agree:
In my horribly bias and mean opinion, Moskovina and Moser should not even be in the same sentences .
Even K/S program that I don't like that much (such as this year), I found it to be better than those Morozov's programs for V/T.