Seems my opinion matches with the general consensus
Kolyada and Mozalev were my faves today (close to clean jumps, good spins, best skating skills and lines out of the men who managed to come to test skates).
Very glad Kolyada finally has a lyrical programme to show off his beautiful lines! I think he needs a bit more time to grow into the programme and refine some positions and timing, but the potential is there. Ordinarily I'm not so nitpicky but given Misha's capabilities and, well, ballet...
Hoping that they can get Averbukh in for touchups if needed, and Prokofieva keeps her hands off
And of course, very happy about the jumps - hopefully he can add one more quad in while keeping it clean.
Other than being very technically consistent, I felt that Mozalev was actually one of the most artistic skaters out there today :luv17: Programme is a bit conceptual, true, but you can see his commitment to the choreo (similarly to the other Marmite skaters who I like: Gilles and Poirier). A step up from last year's (interestingly named) Step Up in terms of thematic cohesion :thumbsup:
Had my doubts when I heard Gumennik was doing POTO again, but pleasantly surprised that the music cuts were different. Just realised his hands are quite large - great for basketball I guess, if he ever wants to pick that up too. Anyhow, very handy (sorry:hopelessness
for the uber-dramatic style that he seems to have developed.
Honourable mention to Samarin for his LP, which I actually found pretty nice. Is it just me who found the front of his shirt weirdly reminiscent of Lipnitskaia's Schindler's List dress?
Hope Ignatov rests his poor tailbone
And kudos to Savosin for finally landing some quads in the LP, but those LFO3 entries look very weird (stiff-kneed) so I hope somebody fixes that for him.
When Aliev and Danielian return to the fray, I sense Olympic heartbreak (or not - many of the guys could stick around for another cycle if they want to/their bodies permit).
Petr isn't quite seasoned enough to bring the voidy drama just yet but it was a nice attempt
