Pairs SP

[casken]

YANKOWSKAS/COUGHLIN

Triple Twist - good
SBS Salchows - She fell, He turned out
Lift - good. One arm entrance!
Throw Salchow - good
SBS spins - out of sync
Spirals - slow
combo spin - decent

Ok skate. She's has nice style.

 

[fumie_fumie]

Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN

Impressive opening.
-Speed going into a throw twist.
- sbs 3toes, Meagan wonky landing
- Lift - Craig has a great ice coverage.
- Difficulty in unison of sbs spins.
- Good variations in combo spins.
- Spiral- good speed maintained.
- Huge throw lutz
- Problem maintained in death inside spiral

Score: 54.26.

 

[casken]

Should I keep posting my impression too, or is your PBP enough? I just figured since I'm lucky enough to get this channel on FIOS I figured I would add my thoughts.

D/B

2 Twist - good
SBS 3 Toes - landed but barely
Lift - ok
SBS spins - bad unison
Combo spin - good
spiral - eh
Throw 3 Flip - very good!
Death spiral - ok

Potentially more compelling than with his last partner. Good speed.

 

[beep_beep]

There's a streaming of Russian TV on DAUM. It's a bit shaky, but I think it'll pick up with time

 

[hrmsk8ngnutt]

I'm watching this on Universal Sports with no commentary. I will try to provide some info as well. French team is on the ice. Duhamel/Buntin had a throw triple lutz near the end of their program and are in first place.

 

[fumie_fumie]

Please keep posting. And thank you so much.

 

[Medusa]

They got low components (Duhamel/Butin). But the program seemed a bit rushed, a bit aimless, the choreography (except for the spiral sequence that was really good) is a bit blank too - they had speed and power though.


Geez, the French couple is very flexible...

 

[Tigger]

Considering the shoulder injury Craig's coming off of and how that affects their summer training, this sounds like an excellent start to their season.

 

[casken]

Frenchies.

2 Twist - ok
SBS Salchows - She doubles
Lift - good
Throw 3 Loop - fall
SBS spins- unison problems
Spirals - great stretch! Gets applause from audience
Dath spiral - nice
Combo spin - again really nice!

Non jump elements were great!

 

[hrmsk8ngnutt]

Canac/Coia - France

Pretty generic piano music

Missed order of first few elements
Throw triple loop-fall - they were a bit hesitant on the entrance
SBS spins
Spiral Sequence
Death Spiral
Pair spin - a bit slow, but interesting twist in which when they changed feet they changed direction as well (CW, then CCW)

Tech 25.16
Presentation 19.84
Deduction -1.00
Total 44.00

Third place

 

[hrmsk8ngnutt]

Zhang/Wang - China

Music: The Way Old Friends Do (Instrumental Abba)

Split double twist - OK, but another interesting entrance before the split
SBS TT - she fell
Throw 3L - nicely done
Pair lift
SBS spin - not bad at start, but unison lost towards end
Spiral Seq
Death spiral
Pair spin

Technical 25.36
Presentation 20.24
Deduction -1.00
Total 44.60

Third place

 

[casken]

The Chinese were ok. She had a really bad fall on the side by side triple toe, like literally spralled out across the ice.

The other elements were completed, and they actually had decent SBS spins.

Next group on the ice.

 

[lmarie086]

Shame about the fall from Wang; they were actually my favorite so far (other than Duhamel/Butin) and I think they'd have been first if not for the fall.

They have something special about them IMO.

 

[Tonichelle]

Yes it's starting now.

Or not...The schedule on icenetwork says 10 pm but apparently that is also including the opening performances...did they do this for the compulsory as well?

I don't know how Skate America runs but the Compulsary dances are always before the "opening ceremonies" of US Nationals... so if that's what "opening performances" is for SA my guess is - no they didn't have anything before the CD today.

 

[hrmsk8ngnutt]

Second group is now taking the ice for warm-up

Inoue/Baldwin - Costumes are grey and yellow
McLaughlin/Brubaker - Black, her dress has blue floral as well
Mukhortova/Trankov - he's in black, her dress is tan/flesh colored with bright sparkly design on front
Savchenko/Szolkowy - She's in pink with pink legwarmers or covers to make it look like boots, he's in light purple that's very shiny.

warm-up now over - Inoue/Baldwin will be first to skate

 

[Tonichelle]

Go S/S!!!!!!!

ETA - and thank you to everyone giving a PBP! This Alaskan college student thanks you!

 

[lmarie086]

I don't know how Skate America runs but the Compulsary dances are always before the "opening ceremonies" of US Nationals... so if that's what "opening performances" is for SA my guess is - no they didn't have anything before the CD today.

Ah, thank you for that explanation. I wasn't aware of that before.

 

[hrmsk8ngnutt]

Inoue/Baldwin

Music - Illumination by Secret Garden

SBS 3T - he doubled
Throw 3A - she fell
Split double twist - nice
SBS Spins - good unison, except on the exit
Pair spin
Star lift - well done, nice exit into spiral
Spiral sequence
Death spiral

Too bad about the first two elements. I'm also glad that John has cut his hair

Technical 26.96
Presentation 24.04
Deductions -1.00
Total 50.00

Second place behind Duhamel/Buntin

 

[casken]

I/B

SBS 3 Toes - He doubles as usual
2 Twist - ok
Throw 3 Axel -SPLAT. She had no chance.
SBS spins - Perfect unison!

Everything else was ok. The in betweens maybe seemed a bit better?

 

[Tonichelle]

Ah, thank you for that explanation. I wasn't aware of that before.

no problem it confused me the first time I attended nationals because it felt weird having the ceremonies in the middle of the competition... and I still feel that the CDs should come AFTER the ceremonies as they ARE an important part of the dance competition!