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Agree Sasha was good but far from her best. Still slow--slower than last season and slower than Campbell's, even though we only saw her LP then. In her PCS (factored) scores, Chor/Comp, 7.25, was her fourth highest average score. Her first highest, 7.50, was for Interpretation. Her second highest, 7.45 Perf/Exec.nymkfan51 said:I actually thought Sasha was quite good ... minus the flip. To me, her TES should rightly reflect that, but I think her PCS were a bit low. The choreography and presentation I thought was first rate.
Mao was lovely and exciting, but again ... nowhere near the quality of finishing off moves like Sasha or Shizuka.
Kimmie's outing was a disaster, but this is a good strong program that I think will work very well if she lands her jumps.
Jessilly re Sasha: ITA re Sasha being slow, as I said above. She was slow before she got injured, so I don't know what the problem is. I haven't compared tapes from last season's "Dark Eyes" to this one, so can't comment on the choreographic changes. I tend to come from the "less is more" school of costume design, but again, I'd have to compare tapes in order to comment.jessilly said:I feel Sasha is a little slow. The change in choreography reduced the excitment of the program. Sasha even removed some decorations of the red dress, and made the dress look like unfinished dress. I think her short program was perfect last year, in every aspect. She can update spins, but not too much in-betweens. Biellman spin is not her trade mark. No wonder she did not put it in programs before.
Mao Asada is a typical Asian girl. She did not pretend to be young at all. Most Asian girls look a lot younger than Western girls. Mao did a great job.
Kimmie skated right after Mao. It gave her some pressure. But Kimme made some improvement at speed, power and presentation this year.
"Sasha has a wonderful program to the music she looks best at (Dark Eyes). It suits her personality. Why didn't she enlarge Malaguena instead of R&J for her LP?" ITA about "Dark Eyes" and what a brilliant idea about expanding "Malaguena" for her LP! I think you are absofreakin'lutely right that Sasha is not on the lyrical end of the skating spectrum. I think she got that reputation when she was a tiny young thing nicknamed "the China doll" (blech), but not for her skating, just for her looks.Joesitz said:Sasha has a wonderful program to the music she looks best at (Dark Eyes). It suits her personality. Why didn't she enlarge Malaguena instead of R&J for her LP?
The Wow extensions are her forte because the jumps are still weak. All in all, it was a good routine with plenty of pizzazz. She is not a lyrical skater and should avoid R&J and go for the flashy music where she can sell it to the audience. Well, I'm overreacting. I'll see the R&J tomorrow.
Mao beat Sasha because she is the little dahling of the lot. I think she is better than Oksana was in Lillehammer and, she is good enough to give Irina a run for the gold at the Olys if she gets there. She's had the international experience with the top tier skaters (and won).
Shizuka was not at her best but she has a powerful routine by TT. If she executes the SP the way TT wants her to, she will be the thrust at the Olys.
Elena is a good tech skater but it doesn't go beyond that, imo, and when the tech is off, so goes Elena.
Kimmie needs to do some serious thinking. the lutz take off was so perfect she forgot to rock the body over for the air turns. Her air turns were unbelievably on a 30 degree slant. the slip on the spiral was a bobble. She has gotten some style to her skating but I don't see her near Alissa in that area yet.
Joannie, was solid. I think her scores should have been higher
In theory, I believe it is correct, but I don't think it is in practice. The judges, imo, can not possibly rate those PCS scores in seconds. What they do, is go by the GOE scores they gave the skater for technical prowess and scribble in some scores for the PCS. It's only human. JMOperry125 said:Great competiton.
I have a question. Is it possible for someone to have mediocre technical content but still have really superb PCS scores? In theory it seems possible for somebody to be weak in jumps and spins but have great choreography and interpretation of the music, but it seems like if a skater doesn't have level4 elements and they fall on their jumps the PCS scores are automatically low too. Even if they are skating the same program it seems like scores for skating skills and choreography and interpretation are automatically lowered if they make mistakes on jumps.
Rgirl said:I agree that skating right after Mao tightened the screws on Kimmie
Joesitz said:Joannie, was solid. I think her scores should have been higher.
Joe