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2024 GP France: Men's Thoughts?
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I re-watched Adam's LP and alright, I reverse my original judgment. As a skating music Dune is quite good.
I won't say it at the end of the season I am sure.
Here to hoping it will be better than getting through the season of Phantom of the Opera we had some years back!
I won't say it at the end of the season I am sure.
Here to hoping it will be better than getting through the season of Phantom of the Opera we had some years back!
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Best Mens choreograohy by miles this season- Alexandr Selevko. Just wow. The free in particular.
Despite the frequent use of tango music, proper tango interpretation is so rare in singles skating. He turned it up to 11.
Despite the frequent use of tango music, proper tango interpretation is so rare in singles skating. He turned it up to 11.
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The guy certainly can dance! 99% of others choosing tango sadly cannot. I love his SP better though. And he is so handsome too!
I always wonder if there's like a group chat with the top 5 skaters in each discipline being like, "Hey, so anyone doing Dune this year? Because if not, I call dibs." "Nah bro, go for it." "K thx."
Ilia added Dune to his skating music playlist in April 2023 a few days before he added Succession, so he was definitely thinking about it then too actually. We could have had a Dune WR performance at Worlds a few weeks after Dune 2 came out. That would have been epic in terms of timing but alas.
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He is literal embodiment of that 'doing something before it was cool' meme
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My possibly controversial opinion is that Adam’s free skate is the first Dune program that I don’t vibe with at all (and I have never read the books/am neutral to positive on the films). I hate hate haaaate the lying on the ice in the middle of the program and the rest felt empty especially compared to some of his past programs.
IMO even though Wakaba’s SP has some emptiness, the music cut (at least on tv ) is impeccable and feels like it continually builds, and I hope she’ll bring back choreography in the first half now she’s getting comfortable with her jump layout again. Adam’s music cuts feel scattershot by comparison and seriously don’t get me started on the dying/reviving in the middle of the program, such an obnoxious concept and to make it worse it comes out of nowhere and means nothing.
IMO even though Wakaba’s SP has some emptiness, the music cut (at least on tv ) is impeccable and feels like it continually builds, and I hope she’ll bring back choreography in the first half now she’s getting comfortable with her jump layout again. Adam’s music cuts feel scattershot by comparison and seriously don’t get me started on the dying/reviving in the middle of the program, such an obnoxious concept and to make it worse it comes out of nowhere and means nothing.
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This just came up on my suggedted youtube videos and it honestly feels like a much better comparison: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tFGrJEBn0_A
HAHAHAHAHAHA. I haven't laughed this hard in years! Oh my god . . .
Can you point to a year in skating history when the majority of elite skaters met your expectations of telling the story by body movements matched to the music, preferably - a beautiful, memorable, emotion evoking music?
Not just the most memorable programs of a particular year, but as many as you're hoping to see this year. (Or a similar percentage, if you had access to fewer total programs at that time.)
My experience has been that there have always been plenty of boring programs. We just don't remember most of them because they weren't memorable.
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who is "he"? which Korean skater did it for 3 seasons in a row ?He is literal embodiment of that 'doing something before it was cool' meme
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Men have been a complete disaster this year for the most part. I noticed in the component scores from some judges that .. for some wild reason they gave Junh 6.75 and 7.25 in composition and presentation and gave Sota the lowest score in the entire event.. 5.75 in competition .. which is wild. So not sure what was going on there.
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Tanking the floor of their components so that the second lowest marks will get counted. All for positioning- Jun 3rd and Sota 4th put them at a disadvantage at GP Finland where they will meet Kevin (2nd) and Grassl (2nd).
Look at from whom Jun got his 6s = French judge (Short), Italian judge (Free). Sota got his 5.75 also from the French judge in the free.
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Worse, it's becoming like when it was 26 Vienese Waltzes in Rhythm Dance, back to back.
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I'm afraid you might be right and I think it is disgusting! Manipulating scores by the judges should be looked upon more closely and should take the said judges out of judging panels for good. This is no joke, this is abusing the role of the judge, And unfortunately, it is nothing new.
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It's been happening since the 2022-2023 season started.
Unfortunately some top male skaters make for easier "enemies" for fans to pile on while this goes under the radar. Malinin right now is the perfect distraction- you can't even begin to talk about what this European block is doing without someone going "what about Malinin's overscoring??????" Yes, exactly, you fell for the bait while the results that impacts actual qualifications are being maneuvered.
