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.Thx, Doris
So perhaps some junior couples in 2016-17 will be inspired by the V/M video.
The partial pattern sequence was because the Paso Doble sequence was shorter, and doing the same sequence twice would make the dance look too monotone. Probably you noticed that the Finnstep sequence was longer and quite varied throughout. As for the FD, apparently one lift was taken out and the choreo spin option was given to make ice dancing look more like dance.
Yes, I/K's two similar lifts were great and very effective, but most teams were not using two similar looking straight line or curve lifts anyway. Also, apart from the lifts, I/K's FD really lacked transitions. Lifts, although the most "acrobatic" part of ice dancing, are not the only elements that make it difficult - those are also steps, transitions (including transitional steps and changes of holds), twizzles (where so many teams make mistakes which shows how difficult they actually are), and even spins.
"Strong" lifts are not just very acrobatic looking lifts with many rapid changes of positions. What's more, such lifts can't be called strong if they are not well executed, and for the most part such lifts won't receive good marks even despite the difficulty. On the other hand, lifts that look comparatively easy/not so acrobatic are definitely strong if they are well executed (which includes execution right on music - if they are choreographed that way, of course). Part of what makes P/C's lifts look so easy is their ease of execution - no noticeable effort at all. Which is how lifts of a high level team should look. Even Virtue/Moir and Davis/White sometimes had some problems with that, though. Yes, some of their lifts could be considered more difficult than what Papadakis/Cizeron is doing - we'll see how P/C will fare with different/new lifts.
I watched the OD from the 2010 Olympics on YouTube, thought, and that was really fun. If anything, I would think they should bring that back.
