2025-26 Grand Prix Final Men's Free Skate
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I just finished watching and just need to post that the Quad God Ilia is just amazing 
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He is amazing cause he is the only one landing a 4A!!!
He is amazing because every jumping pass is a quad
He is amazing because he has mastered all the quads: 4T, 4S, 4Lo, 4F, 4Lz, and 4A!!!
He is amazing cause he also has the hardest combos: -3T, -eu 3F, 3A
He is amazing cause he does all the combos in the second half of the program
He is amazing cause he executes all of the above and puts artistry and presentation throughout the program!!
Amazing Ilia!! The best we have ever seen!!
!!!!He is amazing cause he is the only one landing a 4A!!!
He is amazing because every jumping pass is a quad
He is amazing because he has mastered all the quads: 4T, 4S, 4Lo, 4F, 4Lz, and 4A!!!
He is amazing cause he also has the hardest combos: -3T, -eu 3F, 3A
He is amazing cause he does all the combos in the second half of the program
He is amazing cause he executes all of the above and puts artistry and presentation throughout the program!!
Amazing Ilia!! The best we have ever seen!!
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Finally, I can post. Congrats to all the medalists. Yuma's skate was fine but I've seen better versions of his fs this season. Shun is looking good and now:
OMG OMG, Ilia, what an athlete & skater. Well deserved congrats and a win!
Okay, I can breathe now. Keep it going Ilia, stay healthy. We are so lucky to have had Nathan and now Ilia, skating for the U.S.
I loved the commentary from Ted and Mark.
OMG OMG, Ilia, what an athlete & skater. Well deserved congrats and a win!
Okay, I can breathe now. Keep it going Ilia, stay healthy. We are so lucky to have had Nathan and now Ilia, skating for the U.S.I loved the commentary from Ted and Mark.
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The first third of his program has literally no choreography. Just crossovers, a spread eagle here and there, and going from one end of the rink to the other Landing quads. I don't think I've ever seen such an empty program opening. And this after his short program which was really good.
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Really? I saw no choreography or transitions between the first three or four quad jumps. 2 ft skating into quad lutz, quad loop, and quad salchow. Absolutely zero choreography or transitions. That was a good minute and a half to 2 minutes....
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Grassl's 'program'? There is even less going on choreographically in Daniel's program.... Daniel has, unfortunately, some of the longest quad setups of any of the skaters.
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Drab?! By far the closest program to a masterpiece in the last quad! This is what choreography is! This is what a program with a vision and a theme is all about!
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Based on? Sato is far slower, has far shallower edges, much less complex choreography, his jumps are smaller as well, and while he is an outstanding skater, he is nowhere near close to his Japanese compatriot.
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Ummm... he's absolutely not getting too much credit for his skating skills! I think what you mean is that his Superior skating skills should not necessarily come in your opinion, outweigh the errors. And you may well be correct. But to say that people are giving too much credit because his basic skating? No way. His use of the blade is Sublime - I would suggest we have not seen a skater with basic skating skills this strong since Patrick Chan.
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Based on what we expect from Yuma especially on Olympic season.
Not even close. I can't believe I'm saying this because I hated it at the time, but even Shoma's Olympic version of Nessun Dorma is better. Kagiyama's LP is hilariously disjointed in comparison.
That, as an example, I think people are using his skating skill and the flow off his jumps to ignore how he takes off on jumps like that Lutz of his.
BTW, why is this Patrick Chan comparison brought up (not just here)? I think someone like Yan Han was closer to Chan in the way he gained power across the ice, than Kagiyama is.
Uno used to get creamed by certain quarters - and it was fair. After 2017, he really did water down programs to add quads.Uno, at least, had a gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous costume...
And I'd still take that, over whatever Kagiyama's doing.
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Unfortunately there's nothing worth commenting about these programs. So all that's left is the tech calls:
Malinin's 4Lo, 4T, 4S, 3A should all be getting 'q'
Grassl with his especially fugly technique (extremely pre-rotated, tilted, lazy free leg) should have received '<' on the 4Lz and first 3T, 'q' on the 4Lo, 4S, and second 3T
Malinin's 4Lo, 4T, 4S, 3A should all be getting 'q'
Grassl with his especially fugly technique (extremely pre-rotated, tilted, lazy free leg) should have received '<' on the 4Lz and first 3T, 'q' on the 4Lo, 4S, and second 3T
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Indeed, it's empty. But if you haven't seen more empty programs than I don't think you are watching many men's freeskates. The two programs before his were even more empty minus some hand waving until the final third and Ilya's "program" is empty for vast stretches as well. Shun and Yuma have more filled out choreo and I would have put Shun ahead of Grassl in the FS in both TES and PCS but the technical panel wasn't calling anything and judges don't like Shun's more introverted style and these things helped Grassl.
hanyu also didnt have no choreo between jumps
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What does that translate to? I liked seeing Ilia hugging Yuma and talking to him after the final results. Good sportsmanship!
He began by expressing his fatigue in a casual Japanese turn of phrase.
That drew laughter from the audience.
