2025 Cup of China Men's Free Skate

[elektra blue]

nuntio vobis gaudium magnum...and i'm going to die...

 

[4everchan]

Daniel is so catholic.... omg...

 

[Seven Sisters]

Just imagine having to skate to that every day in practice. I think we should add 100 points to his score just for that.

We, the audience, also deserve points for sitting through Perfect in Italian, an unspeakably awful cover of Hallelujah, and that, in perfect succession.

 

[4everchan]

we have emperors, king and presidents

and a pope

 

[museksk8r]

In comparison to Shaidorov, Malinin is the greatest skating artist of all time.

 

[flanker]

Only 262 in total, they keep holding him back...

 

[anonymoose_au]

OMG Daniel actually is the Pope. Which seems kinda sacreligious, but I hope he has a great skate!

 

[demitasse]

crying i was mostly paying attention to the women's field in the early season so i had no idea grassl was doing conclave... love this for him actually

 

[elektra blue]

after the event my son Daniel will listen to your confessions

 

[GGFan]

Good day for Daniel. I have no idea how rotated the jumps were but I appreciate that he really gets into the concepts of these programs and they always come across like something he chose and wanted to skate to.

 

[museksk8r]

This is the best Daniel Grassl has looked in probably forever.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

11. Daniel GRASSL ITA
FS: "Overture of Conclave" (Conclave soundtrack) by Volker Bertelmann; "Soon Enough" (Conclave soundtrack) by Volker Bertelmann; "Second Day" (Conclave soundtrack) by Volker Bertelmann; "Walk Through Rain" (Conclave soundtrack) by Volker Bertelmann; "Tears" (Conclave soundtrack) by Volker Bertelmann; "Postlude of Conclave" (Conclave soundtrack) by Volker Bertelmann; choreo by Edoardo De Bernardis, Luca Mantovni

4Lz
4Lo
4S<
3Aq+3T
ChSq1
3A+2A+2A+SEQ
3Lz+3Tq (holds on)
CSSp4
StSq3
3Lo
CCoSp4
FCCoSp4

SP: 90.42 (2nd)
FS: 179.01 (1st)
TOT: 268.43 (1st)
I would've had him ahead of Misha but not by quite that much

This is such a program choice, I kind of love how brave it is. The prayer hands are perhaps a bit much, and I don't think this program is as strong as his short. He has improved on his basic stroking, but there are a lot of unrefined moments throughout this program that will need to be polished up. Some parts are good, like the choreo sequence, but others just haven't received that same amount of work, and it doesn't really have a build until the 3Lo at the end. The jumps looked good here, but there was a lot of snow on those landings, and I don't think they'll look as strong in slo-mo. However, this was a far cleaner program than what Misha put out, and that really matters.

OMG COSTUME CHANGE AND HE BECOMES THE POPE????? this is so French

 

[flanker]

a priest showing his chest, lots of girls go to testimony...

 

[4everchan]

who is responsible for this program ?

new symbolism : land a loop and become a pope... by revealing your white robe ...

omg... who thinks this is what the world wants to see at the O games.....

I am weirded out.

 

[Ares]

Amazing from Grassl, I didn't expect him to be this good at this competition. I didn't see the issues with rotation which sometimes happen to him.

 

[Princessroja]

That was really cool! I enjoyed that quite a lot.

 

[cathlen]

I still remember small Daniel with a cat at Italian Nationals. Time flies.

 

[museksk8r]

Some of these rotations are questionable for sure, which is always the case for Daniel.

 

[Jeanie19]

Daniel. Good outfit and program. Really good skate.

 

[Lunalovesskating]

Interesting choice of a program