Men's Long Program

[netnuts]

Jeffrey got a big big gift from judges. He got the same PCS as Brian. Although Brian did not skate very well, but Jeffrey was much much worse. So slow and tentative, so many mistakes...

I want to scream...

 

[museksk8r]

Wow, Brian lost the freeskate to Kevin! Shocked, but still 1st overall!

 

[rain]

Well, that was not a well-skated FS on the whole. Even Joubert downgraded his tech content (though of course still won easily). Just early season? Or should some of these guys be worried?

 

[Dodhiyel]

Ah! bravo, Brian!!! You recovered and persisted! That is what counts! Bravo!

 

[MissIzzy]

*Looks at final standings*
*Looks at Free Skate standings*
*Looks at difference between Brian and KVDP's free skate totals*
*breaks down laughing*

 

[slutskayafan21]

Well Joubert loses the free skate to Van Der Perren. So much for Joubert being unbeatable for the World title already.

 

[emma]

Brian fell on a quad and singled an axel???? what, what, huh?

nothing I expected at all.

 

[ae9177]

Brian Joubert FRA
Music The unforgiven/nothing else matters

Quad toe- fell
triple sal- beautiful
triple axel- squeaks it out
circular footwork
triple flip/double toe/double toe - well done
triple loop
i love the ease he has in his jumps and the height
triple lutz-gorgeous
triple flip/double toe
straight line footwork
single axel- looking a bit winded
looks disappointed - indicated he felt it was shaky

freeskate 135.57
overall 213.62
placement 1

Congrats Brian! But this performance must be dissapointing for him. Dai has a good chance to challange Brian's world champion now.

 

[slutskayafan21]

Congrats Brian! But this performance must be dissapointing for him. Dai has a good chance to challange Brian's world champion now.

and Lambiel, and maybe Verner, and maybe even Lysacek. You are the only one who thinks it is a 2-horse race.

By the way Joubert's total here would have had him destroyed by both Takahashi and Lysacek at Skate America.

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Come on guys, It's pretty much a 1st time out for all these skaters, give them a break please.

So Brian and Jeff didn't do well their 1st time. Doesn't indicate anything.

 

[museksk8r]

Wow at Yannick going from 2nd to 10th and to Jeremy going from 11th to 4th.

 

[slutskayafan21]

Come on guys, It's pretty much a 1st time out for all these skaters, give them a break please.

So Brian and Jeff didn't do well their 1st time. Doesn't indicate anything.

For Jeff it is important to show strong consistent jumping since he hasnt for awhile. As for Brian, of course it is silly to conclude much and that is not what I am doing, I am just pointing out that it is also silly some are giving him the World title again already, and his skating here shows that it is a joke some were doing that already. He is no shoo-in, he is far from the new Plushenko at this point.

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

For Jeff it is important to show strong consistent jumping since he hasnt for awhile. As for Brian, of course it is silly to conclude much and that is not what I am doing, I am just pointing out that it is also silly some are giving him the World title again already, and his skating here shows that it is a joke some were doing that already. He is no shoo-in, he is far from the new Plushenko at this point.

Some shouldn't be crowning him World champion already.......it's just so stupid how people automatically choose a person's fate just by their 1st competion of the season

 

[emma]

...You are the only one who thinks it is a 2-horse race.

By the way Joubert's total here would have had him destroyed by both Takahashi and Lysacek at Skate America.

Um...what's that supposed to mean??? I see like 7-10 guys in the top fighting it out, and if some of them go clean, I believe they can beat a clean Joubert even with a quad in the short and 2 in the long; what I didn't expect was for Brian to attempt ONE quad AND FALL and then single an axel - last year's new confidence/training regime allowed him to skate pretty clean. And he looked calm and cool in the short. So, this surprised me.

And, I'm aware what his score means realtive to the SA scores -- and?

 

[museksk8r]

Brian may have won this event, but Kevin shined the brightest. He must be on cloud 9 right now, especially after missing Worlds in 2007 and in 2006.

 

[slutskayafan21]

Um...what's that supposed to mean??? I see like 7-10 guys in the top fighting it out, and if some of them go clean, I believe they can beat a clean Joubert even with a quad in the short and 2 in the long; what I didn't expect was for Brian to attempt ONE quad AND FALL and then single an axel - last year's new confidence/training regime allowed him to skate pretty clean. And he looked calm and cool in the short. So, this surprised me.

And, I'm aware what his score means realtive to the SA scores -- and?

Sorry, I meant to respond to ae9177.

 

[emma]

no problem - I just couldn't figure out how you could think I thought it were a 2-horse race....anyway, I get it now.

 

[ae9177]

and Lambiel, and maybe Verner, and maybe even Lysacek. You are the only one who thinks it is a 2-horse race.

By the way Joubert's total here would have had him destroyed by both Takahashi and Lysacek at Skate America.

It's just the first competition of the season, everybody is kinda rusty, but it IS a step down comparing to men's competition in SA, even Patrick Chan's performance in SA can easily beat everybody in SC tonight, not to mention Evan and Daisuke. Probably it's a Domino effect?

I can tell ya that Slutskayafan21 is now. Let's see how his favorite Lambiel will do next week.

I'm not worried about Brian at all, even with an off night, he can still win the competition single handedly.

 

[museksk8r]

Congrats to Kevin for the silver here! It's his first medal in the Grand Prix series since winning silver back in the 2003 Trophee Lalique. He's waited a LONG time for this!

 

[Medusa]

The protocols are already up - take a look at the Flips, nearly every second competitor got points deducted for a wrong take-off at the Flip. So the Ladies are "flutzing" and the Gentlemen are all "lipping" now? And why was that never mentioned before, at least, I never heard about it until today.