2018 Internationaux de France Men's Short Program

[Ophelia]

Nathans skating seems rather messy, and I'm not talking about just the jumps.

 

[readernick]

That is such a fun program. Pity about the 4f. The rest was great!

 

[karne]

Nathan CHEN (USA)
Caravan
in grey waistcoat over white shirt

knee wobbly choreo to start and shoulder shimmys
3A slightly forward on landing
4F< fall
CCSp no feature for flying change jeez that was the very definition of "step over"
4T-3T
FSSp
StSq lots of energy
CCoSp

i really like this program.

 

[yelyoh]

Wow only third highest tech score for Nathan.

 

[WeakAnkles]

I'm pretty sure it was mostly 0 GOE. Highest PCS tho

Which is why I find the judging this season for PCS just raises all my suspicions. All of them. And then some.

 

[Kittosuni]

that flip was scary

 

[IloveFS]

Could the crowd wait for the skater to land the jump before going all crazy!? I noticed that with Alexander's and Nathan's first quads, the crowd went crazy before they even landed them. Both of them noticeably seemed distracted by that!

 

[Baron Vladimir]

Samarin is actually much more impressive live.

Yeah he is fast, covers a lot of ice and has very big jumps. He doesn't have x factor tho

 

[rachno2]

Fun program!! And Nathan’s hair looks much much better.

I think 4F is my least favorite jump to watch, for all the men. It just seems cursed. Sometimes I’m happy Mikhail doesn’t know what a flip is.

 

[WeakAnkles]

More people should skate to Duke Ellington's music. There's so much that is so good and so ripe for skating. Good for Nathan for choosing it.

Well he's gonna have to climb up for the FP, which I suspect will be good incentive for him.

 

[champagnerain]

Could the crowd wait for the skater to land the jump before going all crazy!? I noticed that with Alexander's and Nathan's first quads, the crowd went crazy before they even landed them. Both of them noticeably seemed distracted by that!

I thought maybe the audio and video had just gotten out of sync...

 

[Danny T]

Oh no, Samarin still in the lead :eeking: Nathan, I trusted you!

 

[ruffledgrouse]

Level 2??

If Samarin wins this I just might have a heart attack.

There's still the freeskate

 

[ruffledgrouse]

Clapping right before the jumps? Is the crowd really this random or is the videographer doing something weird with the audio?

 

[Metis]

goodISH JASON

 

[Roo87]

Jason going for the clean fabulous skate! Well done

 

[s_parks]

There's still the freeskate

Yeah, especially with the men, I wouldn't count on the standings staying the same...

 

[Noxchild]

Oh no, Samarin still in the lead :eeking: Nathan, I trusted you!

Nah it's cool, Nate's got another Olympics FS in store for us...

 

[Ophelia]

Jason brown moves soooo smoothly across the ice. He reminds me of Cizeron with his fluidity.

 

[Metis]

Are we going to get all our levels and our rotations?! YEA WE ARE