2015 Worlds Ladies Free Skate March 28

[thoakun]

In case anyone else was inspired by SoYoun, imma watch H/B during the resurface https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxIFIdwfkoQ

So Youn is like H/B's version in ladies single, or the other way around. Both are classy, nuanced performers with clean techniques . They skated to R&J, but it's not the overused pieces and I find them very pleasant.

 

[sbaker]

I think So Youn 's problem is that she is trying to look and skate like Yuna but a copycat will never be better than the original. She needs to create her own persona.
I do agree that she is a lovely skater though.

Interesting comment. I wonder if culturally it is harder for SY to adopt an individual identity in Korean Skating, than say the US where it seems no one wants to look the same. Food for thought.

 

[bartlebooth]

I always think she looks like the wife in the movie "Devil's Advocate". The one married to Keanu Reeves. Sorry I don't watch movies often enough to know her name

Charlize Theron

 

[yyyskate]

Maybe send SoYoun to Lori for the PCS.
Cindy I love.

 

[Sjs5572]

But with HaeJin, she only has to be 13th, right?

She has to be 12th to keep two spots. Meite scored 100.63 at Europeans, so there's a chance she will drop below 103.68 and push SoYoun into 12th.

 

[yyyskate]

SoYoun does not look like Yuna at all.

 

[MiRé]

I think So Youn 's problem is that she is trying to look and skate like Yuna but a copycat will never be better than the original. She needs to create her own persona.
I do agree that she is a lovely skater though.

Uhm, she's not copying Yuna, that is actually how SY skates. She is a soft and delicate skater. Just compare her SP to FS and you can tell Rondo is not the type of music she can pull off.

 

[andyjo24]

Ahh. So Youn!

The start was so great, but ugh.....

I hope this gets her more hungry for next season.

She needs to get programs that are more impactful, so she gets on the judges' radar.

 

[TCAngel18]

But with HaeJin, she only has to be 13th, right?

No, HaeJin appears to be finishing 19th. This earns her 16 points, as anyone who makes the free skate can finish no worse than 16 points. That means So Youn needs to finish 12th or better to equal or better 28, earning 2 spots.

 

[Ophelia]

Ahh. So Youn!

The start was so great, but ugh.....

I hope this gets her more hungry for next season.

She needs to get programs that are more impactful, so she gets on the judges' radar.

Her programs are fine. She needs to skate them better.

 

[thoakun]

I always think she looks like the wife in the movie "Devil's Advocate". The one married to Keanu Reeves. Sorry I don't watch movies often enough to know her name

Charlize Theron. I didn't notice the resemblance, but not you mentioned it, Nicole did look like Charlize in many pictures.

 

[andyjo24]

Uhm, she's not copying Yuna, that is actually how SY skates. She is a soft and delicate skater. Just compare her SP to FS and you can tell Rondo is not the type of music she can pull off.

Yeah, So Youn is actually very different from Yu-na IMO.

Yu-na has a lot of power in her skating, but So Youn is extremely delicate. There's a clear difference.

 

[taltaltel]

Uhm, she's not copying Yuna, that is actually how SY skates. She is a soft and delicate skater. Just compare her SP to FS and you can tell Rondo is not the type of music she can pull off.

Not as well as her Romeo and Juliet, perhaps. I still continue to think that her interpretation of Introduction and Rondo Capriccissio beats Sotnikova's by some distance.

 

[cjsk8fan]

Glad I paid for Icenetwork so I could watch the stream freeze every few seconds! Does anyone have a better stream?

 

[MasterB]

Here is to the American girls.

 

[Ophelia]

Not as well as her Romeo and Juliet, perhaps. I still continue to think that her interpretation of Introduction and Rondo Capriccissio beats Sotnikova's by some distance.

Hah? I'm no fan of Sotnikova, but she skates Rondo WAYYY better than SoYoun. SoYoun skates Rondo like she's skating to Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers.

 

[yyyskate]

No clean R&J i CANNOT accept this reality.

 

[mimishawl]

Where are people watching? Russian channel is snowboarding.....

 

[aa456]

Gracie please keep it together!!! **fingers crossed**

 

[Ophelia]

Glad I paid for Icenetwork so I could watch the stream freeze every few seconds! Does anyone have a better stream?

Download Hola and use CBC Canada's stream.