I feel the same, improved skating skills, that's the impression I got after watching this news clip.
At first I thought it might be the camera work because his skating skills didn't look that improved from the videos from his practice in the local rink. But that might just be because the rink is small and he didn't want to crash?

Hopefully bad 4S practice leads to good 4S in competition, but for now I wouldn't worry.
Amazing!

