2015 Worlds Men Short Program March 27

[alebi]

Protocol thoughts:

One of the judges actually gave a -1 to that 4T of Hanyu

well... and one gave only +1 to his majestic and intricate Axel. If we start to analyse every judge's goe, score, we can become mad

 

[cl2]

Bolero seems to get used approximately twice a season, so I don't understand the "so and so's music!" comments

Except Torvill & Dean, of course.

Ravel's Bolero... well, that's Ravel's music, isn't it?

Yeah, being strung up about "so and so's music" doesn't make sense to me either.

 

[Skater Boy]

Well it looks like Brown is in the running for the bronze and the US has the best shot for three men though Japan could come back with Mura or Kozuka moving up to top twelve. Hanyu is such a clutch skater. Great focus. Yay for Voronov for getting the job done. D ten looks well placed and Fernandez to medal. Wow some big names didn't qualify (relatively) Interesting.

 

[jkun]

I am always looking to learn something new. How is the Rising Sun disrespectful?

Associated with Japanese empire pre 1945. It is not considerate as it brings back a lot of pain for chinese and korean people.

 

[satine]

Has that ever happened before?

I wiki'd it since I'm bored. 2009 it happened. Top 6 after the SP for the men were from France, US, Canada, Czech Rep, Japan, & Italy.

eta: also 2007 & 2008.

 

[gmyers]

Terrible WC for Russia honestly. Only the ladies (specifically Liza and Lena) doing their best.

They need to reform Dance and stop trying to ram kovtun down everyone's throat

 

[rollerblade]

95+ should only be for Excellent performances. So many guys barely hit 90 with lights out performance e.g. Yan SP CoC 2013 and yet Hanyu manage to score this high with a fall and a sloppy combo.

Not that I disagree, there was no fall here. Butt no touchy ice.

The biggest overscore was actually on D10. Eek.

 

[Mrs. P]

Jason just posted a cute selfie of him and Hanee: https://instagram.com/p/0uvP0_zXD-/?taken-by=jasonbskates

I'm loving the Han Yan success perm.

 

[cl2]

Yeah, now that you mention it it's pretty cool to say how varied the final order of countries represented is...

Also, the top 10 are from different countries!

 

[invisiblespiral]

Jason just posted a cute selfie of him and Hanee: https://instagram.com/p/0uvP0_zXD-/?taken-by=jasonbskates

I'm loving the Han Yan success perm.

That's adorable.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Not that I disagree, there was no fall here. Butt no touchy ice.

The biggest overscore was actually on D10. Eek.

Yeah what was that all about? Maybe I was distracted but was the rest of his program good enough to make up for such a fall? He ran into the boards and everything.

 

[Krunchii]

I am always looking to learn something new. How is the Rising Sun disrespectful?

To Chinese and Korean people, it's like the swastika, it's extremely disrespectful

Jason just posted a cute selfie of him and Hanee: https://instagram.com/p/0uvP0_zXD-/?taken-by=jasonbskates

I'm loving the Han Yan success perm.

Those curls are like dollar signs to Chinese people but I hope they translate into high scores

 

[sabinfire]

Really, a big THANK YOU for all the posting on youtube that you do. And in HD most of the time. Very much appreciated.

You're welcome! YouTube real-time analytics is reporting over 1k views already for Hanyu...

 

[lilithgothique]

Just finished watching Yuzuru... twice I mean yeah major yikes! on the 4T (how does he stay up? His butt was like 5cm off the ground ) but apart from that.... the boy is insanely awesome. His performance was beautiful. He deserves the insane flood of plushies.
Also to whoever said his shirt looked darker - I agree, looks v different colour to me.
Also also, Brians laugh cracks me up so much It sounds like a laugh track on a kid's cartoon show to me!

 

[karne]

Not that I disagree, there was no fall here. Butt no touchy ice.

Butt don't have to touchy ice to make fall.

Jason just posted a cute selfie of him and Hanee: https://instagram.com/p/0uvP0_zXD-/?taken-by=jasonbskates

So cute!

 

[HanDomi]

Butt don't have to touchy ice to make fall.

He hold most of the weight after it on his legs ( don't know how but he did) , and then just hand down. It wasn't fall according to rules

 

[sabinfire]

Yuzuru Hanyu SP British Eurosport (720p HD)

Now over 2k views... keep it going!

 

[gmyers]

Who was waving rising sun flag?

Kovtun better be careful now he's bombed two worlds maybe that will be equal to gachinski one he was dumped after one bomb

 

[Elaine]

Only ONE skater had the 4T with a positive GOE today.
Brendan KERRY.


in detail...

Hanyu -2.14, Ten -3, Voronov(4T-3T) -1.86, Yan -2, Btchenko -1.29, Lam(4T-3T) -0.43, Besseghier -2.86, Kozuka -1.29, Paniot -0.43, Mura(URed) -2.86, Song -2.

Kerry +0.29

 

[rollerblade]

Butt don't have to touchy ice to make fall.

But it wasn't a fall because there was no mandatory fall deduction or mandatory -3 GOE. Technicality.