Wish I knew more about this guy... besides his up and down career.
I'll check the Skate Canada thread for number of jump attempts versus jump completion... can someone provide the same for some of his other competitions? He's famous for falling apart... how often does he do that and to what extent? Is it complete meltdown, or does he loose one element, get the next back, then loose the next two?
He doesn't seem to do what some skaters do where they start well, then miss one thing and then all the air comes out of their balloon and they just stop skating... he seems to skate well, then loose it, then get it back...
Anyone know what his training technique is like? Is he consistent on the practice ice, or casual in his approach? Has he been with the same coach for years? Does he take time off in the summer or keep at it?
How's his injury record? Any of that plaguing his career?
For the skating Program Components section, there does not seem to be a man skater out there who has better... but you CoPs followers please tell me: do his Program Components scores consistently beat the other guys? Or do they drop also with the misses on jumps?
He's attempting but quad-toe and quad-salchow. Has he ever gotten both in the same competition? And what's with his short programs... is it because the technical elements count so much and the program components are not weighed so heavily?
Last year when he won the GP Final, our cable company broadcast instead a terriorist warning. So I didn't get to see his performance, nor did I see Plushys.
Sandu is my kind of skater. Marvoulous skating that keeps you on the edge of your seat and not just because you never know what you'll. At least I think he's my kind of skater... but I'd like to know more.
Linny
I'll check the Skate Canada thread for number of jump attempts versus jump completion... can someone provide the same for some of his other competitions? He's famous for falling apart... how often does he do that and to what extent? Is it complete meltdown, or does he loose one element, get the next back, then loose the next two?
He doesn't seem to do what some skaters do where they start well, then miss one thing and then all the air comes out of their balloon and they just stop skating... he seems to skate well, then loose it, then get it back...
Anyone know what his training technique is like? Is he consistent on the practice ice, or casual in his approach? Has he been with the same coach for years? Does he take time off in the summer or keep at it?
How's his injury record? Any of that plaguing his career?
For the skating Program Components section, there does not seem to be a man skater out there who has better... but you CoPs followers please tell me: do his Program Components scores consistently beat the other guys? Or do they drop also with the misses on jumps?
He's attempting but quad-toe and quad-salchow. Has he ever gotten both in the same competition? And what's with his short programs... is it because the technical elements count so much and the program components are not weighed so heavily?
Last year when he won the GP Final, our cable company broadcast instead a terriorist warning. So I didn't get to see his performance, nor did I see Plushys.
Sandu is my kind of skater. Marvoulous skating that keeps you on the edge of your seat and not just because you never know what you'll. At least I think he's my kind of skater... but I'd like to know more.
Linny