2017 GP Cup of China Mens FS

[sequinsgalore]

5 Vincent ZHOU (USA)

Music: Moulin Rouge (soundtrack)

Off-white shirt under dark red vest, black pants

4Lz+3T
4F - hangs on, maybe <
4S - fall, looked <
CSSp
ChSq
4Lz - stepout, looked <
3A
4S+2T
3Lo
FCSp
StSq
3Lz+1Lo+3F - foot down
CCoSp

Ambitious skate, but alot of mistakes too.

FS: 102.35+75.08-1.00 = 176.43 (SB), 256.66 (SB), 1/5

 

[whatif]

WOW, fab skate from Zhou. Can he contend for the podium?

 

[jillredhand]

Strong finish. I admire that he never gave up, even with all the messy landings.

 

[Mrs. P]

Vincent is really overdoing it on those spread eagles. There should be a drinking game for this. But he hit most of his jumps, so all in all a solid performance.

 

[yoloaxel]

TES on screen 110.28
4 quads landed, one quad fall.

Already down to 103 - still, 4Lz has an insane BV

 

[bobbob]

A few of the jumps were borderline underrotated, so I'm not sure how much the TES will be. The PCS were very lacking, worse than I remembered from last year. But OK skate overall.

 

[kevinVchicago]

Thought after Grant and Vincent:
What if an alien species learned about human music from watching figure skating?

 

[karne]

Jumps I have questions about:
4Lz, (<?)
4F<
4S<
4Lz<
4S<

I feel like the first quad was maybe the only one I'd give him. The rest all had obvious hook turn landings.

 

[Jammers]

I think Vincent needs to take a couple of those quads out for now. He doesn't have the stamina yet to do them cleanly. Nathan when he started doing all those quads last season was stronger physically and mentally to. Vincent doing 3-4 quads and nice triples will still probably beat Adam and Max and make the Olympic team.

 

[OS]

Still so much improvement from last year. Gosh his limb really grew past 12 months... lots of potentials in the future... Ridiculous tech, yeahh so happy for US men, you have great future with this one! Just be patient and develop this young man artistically too.

 

[Shayuki]

Impressive technical display for sure but ... This whole quad -> not much -> quad -> not much -> quad routine got pretty stale really fast.

 

[da96103]

How many quad lutz in this FS event? Seems insane.

Vincent, Boyang and Mikhail.

 

[HanDomi]

most of quads were UR

 

[anonymoose_au]

WOW, that was amazing!

Brilliant work from Vincent! I can't believe he almost landed five quads! And one of them so late in the program!

 

[draqq]

Split falling leaf? The Stag jump?

Um, maybe? It's the jump that Hochstein did after his spread eagles. Maybe it's just a variation of a split jump.

 

[da96103]

Still so much improvement from last year. Gosh his limb really grew past 12 months... lots of potentials in the future... Ridiculous tech, yeahh so happy for US men, you have great future with this one! Just be patient and develop this young man artistically too.

He's taller than Nathan now.

 

[silverfoxes]

Yes, he is severely lacking in the artistry dept & needs far better programs, but I appreciate his ambition...well done

 

[Anni234]

Very ambitious program from Vincent, Though he mostly just jumps and spread eagles

I think we might be saying goodbye to presenting Jason brown's beautiful skating in the Olympics

There's still the 3rd spot for Jason

 

[frida80]

A few <'s. He will move up though. Onward and upward, Vincent!

 

[anonymoose_au]

Um, maybe? It's the jump that Hochstein did after his spread eagles. Maybe it's just a variation of a split jump.

I think that's the Russian split?

Domo-kun! How did you get into China