2015-2016 Russian Nationals Ice Dance SD

[whatif]

OMG, am I going to do well with my predictions in dance!!!!!!!!

Haters gonna hate but S/K looked so out of place at this competition. Easy programme or not, they look so sharp, fresh and world podium worthy packaged. Zueva still got it.

Bobrova is still stale. And I don't see it changing anytime or ever.

Elena has always looked vulnerable, in the worst sense of it. And paired with similarly "on the verge" looking Ruslan is not helping. Both are very unreliable.

The most interesting team for the future is Z/G. They already beat Y/M and I can see this continuing.

 

[sneakers]

Elena has always looked vulnerable, in the worst sense of it. And paired with similarly "on the verge" looking Ruslan is not helping. Both are very unreliable.

The most interesting team for the future is Z/G. They already beat Y/M and I can see this continuing.

its unfair to say both I/z are vulmerable. Its just ruslan has always struggled woth lifts, he is not built like nikita nothing we can do aboit that. But that is why he works twice as hard. Wssnt ruslam buffing up at the gym last season

 

[Watermelondrea]

Well Bobrova/Soloviev now have the world spots probably and I think they can get 3 back... So we've got Weaver/Poje, Capellini/Lannotte, Papadakis/Cizeron, Shibs, and Chock/Bates.... So B/S are ahead of Hubbel/Donohue, and I think Sinitsina/Katsalapov can beat them too so 6+7=13!!!

 

[Watermelondrea]

Who is the best male Ice Dancer from Russia? I think Elena is still the best in terms of female?

 

[coldblueeyes]

Well Bobrova/Soloviev now have the world spots probably and I think they can get 3 back... So we've got Weaver/Poje, Capellini/Lannotte, Papadakis/Cizeron, Shibs, and Chock/Bates.... So B/S are ahead of Hubbel/Donohue, and I think Sinitsina/Katsalapov can beat them too so 6+7=13!!!

I would say that's more than doable. We still have to see how they will fare agains C/L and P/C in the Euros, though I don't think it will be a surprise to see one of them at third in the max.

 

[nocturnalis]

Who is the best male Ice Dancer from Russia? I think Elena is still the best in terms of female?

Dmitri or Nikita.

 

[mrrice]

Dmitri or Nikita.

Now that I'm no longer there.....Hmmm It's Russia...All of them are good!

 

[ice coverage]

sorry, deleting garbled reply

 

[sneakers]

results in english: http://fsrussia.ru/results/1516/rusnat1516/SEG001.HTM

1 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov 73.96
2 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitry Soloviev 70.21
3 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 68.56
4 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin 66.75
5 Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro 61.30
6 Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov 57.92
7 Ludmila Sosnitskaya / Pavel Golovishnikov 53.55
8 Anastasia Safronova / Ilya Zimin 43.68
9 Margarita Shestakova / Savely Ugriumov 36.57
10 Angelica Kanivets / Alexei Chizhov 35.46

 

[Bumdid]

Does Russian Nationals ever publish the full scoring sheet in pdf format? Or are we just to take the numbers as given?

 

[Mattieu]

Does Russian Nationals ever publish the full scoring sheet in pdf format? Or are we just to take the numbers as given?

They do publish the breakdowns after the whole event has finished normally.

 

[whatif]

Does Russian Nationals ever publish the full scoring sheet in pdf format? Or are we just to take the numbers as given?

They usually show up a bit later. The spies take a photo of the sheet and post online.

 

[ice coverage]

eeek ... sorry, deleting a second garbling

 

[ice coverage]

... does anybody know anything about Angelica KANIVETS / Alexei CHIZHOV?

It's just that I thought he looked younger than her, and was wondering if that was actually the case. ...

Take #3:

Kanivets was born in 1998; Chizhov in 1994 -- if these bio pages are accurate.

http://www.fskate.ru/skaters/2561.html Kanivets
http://www.fskate.ru/skaters/2562.html Chizhov

 

[tvuckic16]

My impressions is that the standings do reflect the performances today. The scores are inflated, sure, but after the French and Italian Nationals inflation extravaganza, you can't blame the Russians for inflating their scores too.

SK twizzles were shaky but BS also had shaky twizzles today and IZ fell!...IZ need to stop doing that if they don't want to become synonymous with the word inconsistent.

 

[tvuckic16]

Tatijana Flade was not feeling I/Z's program. She said the dance doesn't match the music and it is not her cup of tea.

I hate to say it again, but I've been saying that since I heard the music announcement... I like IZ but I am not thrilled with their SD.

 

[Jammers]

What i take away from the Ice Dancing today is people were always saying Nikita was the one that screwed up and made mistakes when I/K were together but the fact is Elena has always been inconsistent too and is prone to silly mistakes.

 

[tinlizzie]

I hate to say it again, but I've been saying that since I heard the music announcement... I like IZ but I am not thrilled with their SD.

Ruslena is my favorite Russian ice dance team but the SD music and program is uninspired and tired looking. Bad choice all around. I hope and believe they can make a comeback in the FD! I do love the Freida program.

 

[Snow63]

Who is the best male Ice Dancer from Russia? I think Elena is still the best in terms of female?

The best would be Nikita, IF his twizzling ability would be better. So, I would say it's Soloviev (more consistent and stable overall, but not as 'shiny'). Besides, IN MY OPINION, Nikita has problems with timing in this season's SD pattern. And tech panels are kinda forgiving about that.

As for a female, a lot of strong skaters there: Ilinykh and Bobrova comes to mind first. I would say Elena has stronger basic skills, while Bobrova is much more polished in her steps and turns. I don't know how to answer, I just love both of them.

 

[Mattieu]

I hate to say it again, but I've been saying that since I heard the music announcement... I like IZ but I am not thrilled with their SD.

I think that the coaches saw that Carmen worked so well last season and tried to do programs in the same vein this season, but it just didn't work.
It would've been better to change direction completely rather than try to do another feisty program.
Elena was a woman scorned last season, that is why it worked so well, but her fire is not there this season.