Graham Newberry, Danielle Harrison and Karly Robertson are all competing today in Slovakia. Good luck!
Labas [emoji847]Watched the Ladies FS from the Nepela Memorial delayed this afternoon, and there was indeed a lot of movement. But not the way I expected.
Ladies FS scores:
Aleksandra Golovkina (LTU) was 12[SUP]th[/SUP] with 86.95
Karly Robertson (SCO) was 13[SUP]th[/SUP] with 84.57
Danielle Harrison (ENG) was 15[SUP]th[/SUP] with 78.99
Which meant that they finished:
Karly Robertson (SCO) was 12[SUP]th[/SUP] with 134.60
Aleksandra Golovkina (LTU) was 13[SUP]th[/SUP] with 131.37
Danielle Harrison (ENG) was 16[SUP]th[/SUP] with 123.04
That was a real disaster of a FS from Karly. 4 falls! And whereas the first three falls were on jumps, the last one was very odd. She was just gliding along in a straight line, and managed to trip over herself. But, although she dropped down a few places, her score in the SP was enough to keep her as the first of the girls from British clubs.
Alika also had a fall and, to quote our PBP poster sequinsgalore, "some messy landings". But, on the whole, I thought she did very well.
Although she didn't fall, Danni was also having problems with her landings. But, I'll be honest, although I agree with her being lower than Alika in the FS, I wouldn't have had her that much lower.
I hope that there are lots more competitions over the next few months where as many skaters as possible out of Natasha, Karly, Danni and Alika get to compete against each other. Because I am enjoying watching how they are progressing compared to each other in the run up to Nationals.
(Of course, I realise that Alika will be competing in her own Nationals. But, it is still interesting watching her progression in relation to the skaters that she is up against on the British domestic competition scene).
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Graham Newberry had a stellar FS and was the third highest scored in his spins in the FS out of all the skaters. He’s now has beaten PJ’s total score from Lombardia by almost 3.4 points and came 6th. Nationals is going to be very interesting.
I just got caught up on Graham's FS and had to come over to say that I thoroughly enjoyed watching him skate both programs - he's really coming into himself, you can see it in how he moves and how much more confidently he handles it when things go wrong. What a great start to the season for him! Hope it continues to get even better. He and PJ must be having fun challenging each other.
And Fear/Waddell did very nicely in Gdansk, I see - I haven't seen their FD yet but am about to go catch up.
Fear and Waddell have definitely progressed and are skating with more confidence, but he wears this glove on only one hand in both the RD and FD and I find it enormously distracting. It's funny how little things like that pull focus.
I agree he should wear two gloves, but after their incident at the previous JGP with him bleeding in the middle and getting blood all over himself and Sasha, I completely understand why he is wearing one. He probably doesn’t like the gloves and is only wearing them out of necessity. I hope he heals up soon!
Please can someone tell me all the results for the whole of the senior ladies section? Thankss
Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER USA 189.87
Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN CAN 189.36
Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO USA 188.47
Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON GBR 184.09
Olivia SMART / Adrian DIAZ ESP 181.51
Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU CHN 173.89
Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS LTU 168.06
So Fear & Gibson along side Nette & Westwood who train at Ally Pally and of course special mentions Hawayek & Baker and Smart & Diaz will all be competing at Nebelhorn! Helpfully AlexRus has organised the teams by SB:
It’ll be interesting to see how the actual results compare. I think if F&G can sneak a bronze medal they’d be on track for doing really well this season. Let’s hope for a more successful Rhythm Dance than at ACI!
In the Men’s Sam McAllister and Conor Stakelum are both competing in a very competitive field. For both I’m hopeful that they can get their minimums for Worlds this season so we can see a flag from everyone in Montreal!
I just realised at Nepola Graham Newberry was just one point off getting his FS minimums for Worlds and he had a one point deduction for a fall, so close!