2025 Cup of China Men's Free Skate

[Sabsi]

What are the men trying to say by ending all their programs lying down? Exhaustion? Drama? The air condition is broken?

 

[auser]

Loved the celebration after Jacob's ending skate and the exuberant joy to his skating even if not high powered

 

[museksk8r]

Every other skater dies on the ice today, what's going on?

Inspired by Kat’s Olympic Carmen perhaps?

 

[YuBluByMe]

What the hell is Litvintsev wearing?

…Omg, what the hell is he skating to?! I thought the audience was cracking up at first.

 

[museksk8r]

Wow, you could not ask for a more different program or change in mood from what we last saw from Jacob.

 

[Kris135]

My God who created this program.

 

[GGFan]

Is Litvintsev portraying someone who was stabbed in a bar fight?

 

[readernick]

Litvintsev's costumes and programs are always crazy but I rather enjoy them. He's committed to the crazy concepts. Chris does not enjoy Litvintsev's programs.

 

[TallyT]

Costume and music are... choices.

Gary Glitter???? Really?????

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

5. Vladimir LITVINTSEV AZE
FS: "The Good Egg - A Vintage Merrie Melodie" by Carl Stalling; "That's Life" by, Frank Sinatra, Ernie Freeman; "They Long To Be (Close To You) Joker: Folie à Deux" by Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Carpenter; "Joker: Folie à Deux" by Hildur Guðnadóttir; "Joker Theme (Epic Version - Call me Joker) Folie à Deux" by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Vince Cox; "Joker Theme; Rock & Roll (Part 2)" by Gary Glitter, BATJAX; choreo by Leonid Sviridenko, Egor Murashov

4T+3T
4T
3A
3Lo
FCSp4
ChSq1
3A+1Eu(loses the euler, stepout)
3Lz!+2A+SEQ
3F
CCoSp4 (travels on i-spin)
CSSp3
StSq2

SP: 73.84 (8th)
FS: 148.80 (2nd)
TOT: 222.64 (1st)

This program is so weird, at this point Vladimir is just trolling us with everything from the cigar smoking to the blood-soaked shirt to the weird echoes on the voiceovers to the shooting the judges in the step sequence. This was a really solid skate from him, exempting the weird combo mistake, and I love that Chris Howarth has gone from hating him to enjoying his skating never mind he's harping on his lack of transitions again lol, tale as old as time.

 

[paulusfr]

That is a lot of talking!

 

[cocteautwin]

If there were medals for number of crossovers Vlad would certainly get one. Probably gold.

 

[bartlebooth]

My God who created this program.

Somebody who had smoked some good stuff and put some cigarettography in it to remind us.

 

[Jeanie19]

Vladimir. Crazy outfit and program, but I love it. Really good skate.

 

[Ares]

Litvintsev amused me, I cannot lie. I think he missed one planned combo but otherwise very good.

 

[auser]

I want to like Vladimir LITVINTSEV's program but I don't really connect with it. Feel free to virtually sue me.

 

[Kris135]

All I am going say his choreographer needs to be fired. This is a horrible mismatch of music cuts and somebody needs to answer for this. I think he is a good skater but his packaging is terrible and he would really go up ranks of someone would give him decent program here.

 

[Fetinia]

 

[TT_Fin]

Oh I almost felt the pain looked so hard.

 

[cathlen]