Practice

[yume]

I think Sasha's dress is beautiful

Me too. The first dress from Eteri's camp that i like this season. I see that Olga went back to the revealed shoulders which were popular on her 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 dresses.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Did Nathan just shake his head a couple of times? He seems a bit off.

Simultaneously tense and loose and distracted to me... hopefully he's OK

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Shomas costume once again

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

I love the music for Jimmy's free. It's absolutely gorgeous and then wonderfully epic

 

[Seven Sisters]

Did Nathan just shake his head a couple of times? He seems a bit off.

Yes, every time he makes a mistake, he shakes his head and is clearly very annoyed with himself

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Yes, every time he makes a mistake, he shakes his head and is clearly very annoyed with himself

It's one thing to be critical of yourself, it's another to put so much pressure on yourself that you get really mad at every mistake. You need to finish a program and then criticize yourself. Nathan used to be fantastic at recovering from errors, but I'm a bit worried now. I hope he's not getting so caught up in the bad that he's ignoring the good.

 

[Seven Sisters]

Shoma pops his first two jumps, but is rocking everything since—crowd is into it

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Shoma pops his first two jumps, but is rocking everything since—crowd is into it

Yuma has the same problem. Doing a 4Lo takes a lot of speed with little flow out, and then a 4S after requires speed into the jump. So you have to really work to build up speed regardless of what happened on the loop, which is really challenging. Long story short, doing a 4Lo then a 4S means a lot of 4S pops

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Both Shoma and Vincent having issues on the opening jumping passes, but coming back strong afterwards. The battle for gold is going to be intense.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

It's one thing to be critical of yourself, it's another to put so much pressure on yourself that you get really mad at every mistake. You need to finish a program and then criticize yourself. Nathan used to be fantastic at recovering from errors, but I'm a bit worried now. I hope he's not getting so caught up in the bad that he's ignoring the good.

Indeed. I´m wondering if he suddenly is feeling a lot of pressure because he took a break from Yale to concentrate fully on figure skating and OG. I always admired him on how he did manage to go both to Yale and be the worlds best figure skater, but maybe it was easier because he concentrated on other matters as well and didn´t feel so much pressure.

 

[LiamForeman]

Indeed. I´m wondering if he suddenly is feeling a lot of pressure because he took a break from Yale to concentrate fully on figure skating and OG. I always admired him on how he did manage to go both to Yale and be the worlds best figure skater, but maybe it was easier because he concentrated on other matters as well and didn´t feel so much pressure.

Debi Thomas stated that she regretted taking a break from Stanford to train for the Olympics full-time and that it messed with her head. And that it put too much pressure on her, since she didn't have her studies to turn to. Could be with Nathan, too.

 

[rollerblade]

People are talking about the ice being too hard as the culprit for all the problems, rather than the rink size.

Skate America has used this venue for 3 consecutive years.. what changed with the rink this year?

 

[waltzonice]

People are talking about the ice being too hard as the culprit for all the problems, rather than the rink size.

FWIW, I was sitting in the front row during Friday's pairs practice and overheard Trennt telling Brandon "The ice is much better today" as they skated by.

 

[Mariiiiskate]

is anyone watching the practices today?

 

[Ichatdelune]

I just opened the Russian stream and my girls' dresses slay as usual, but especially Yelim's (her wardrobe is to die for)

Bad dress and a bad program for Sakamoto-san, le sigh

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

MUTE, Kaori please go back to Matrix

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

I actually like the second piece of music, minus the voiceovers, but this program just doesn't do Kaori justice

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Why the car crash? Why?

 

[Ichatdelune]

Good skater, good dress, bad program (a literal car wreck)

Did Olga Ryabenko just recycle Anna Shcherbakova's FS dress from last season like please lady take time off work

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

This program is bland for Daria. Yelim wins the Turandot competition here.