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Short Dance October 22nd, 2 am EST

dorispulaski

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The short dance will be competed for the first time on the GP circuit at 2 am EST at NHK in Nagoya, Japan. The order of start has not yet been listed, but if it is done the way it was last year, the competitors start in reverse order of their world standing. Because this is a new format, and also because the requirements for level four in the various dance skills have been changed this year, predictions should be made very cautiously for this part of the event.

The heart of the senior short dance is one repetition of the Golden Waltz CD. Levels are given to two different parts of this CD, so scoring of the SD is highly dependent on what level (one through four) the technical panel gives the two segments of the dance. Correct performance of each of four steps per segment yields one additional level per segment . For people wanting a complete rundown on how this works, I've described it here:
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...ing-its-future&p=519440&viewfull=1#post519440

There were significant surprises at the fall competitions where the senior SD was skated. Particularly surprising was Capellini and Lanotte (ITA) placing ahead of Pechalat and Bourzat (FRA) at the debut of the senior short dance at the 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy. In recent years, speed and the correct portrayal of the general character of the dance were emphasized more in the grading of the compulsory dances rather than exact technical correctness. The short dance grading reliance on techical levels, and subsequent differences in point awards could definitely cause a surprise or two here in the short dance at NHK.

One would expect Davis and White, last year's Olympic and World silver medallists to completely blow away the competition here. However, Davis and White scrapped their first version of a short dance, following monitoring at Champs' Camp, so their new program is not as familiar to them as in previous years. And they have been very busy skating TV shows and SOI, something new for them this year. They may not perform with their usual speed and crispness. Capellini and Lanotte, who skate to a charming, light-hearted combination of the Golden Waltz and the Quickstep, may keep the scores close, or even finish ahead, depending on the technical levels Davis and White receive for the Golden Waltz.

Third place is wide open. The Shibutanis had a disaster in their first short dance at Nebelhorn. However, Maia has grown considerably, and this team presents a much more mature appearance on the ice this year. The Golden Waltz is new to them, as they are just up from juniors. They skate to a Waltz for the entire program, which I feel is a good approach to the short dance. The Shibutanis beat Capellini and Lanotte in the free dance at Nebelhorn. The Shibutanis should not be discounted as challengers for third in the short dance.

Weaver and Poje did not compete at Worlds last year, however they will have practiced the Golden Waltz in preparation for it. And they did win Four Continents 2010. However, their choice of Fallin' for the Golden Waltz section of their short dance may well make it difficult to get full technical marks for that portion of the dance, due to the irregular phrasing and non Viennese Waltz feel of the piece. They remain challengers for third, because they are great dancers, and they so look the part of a romantic Viennese Waltz couple.

Huge excitement has heralded the debut of World Junior Champions Ilinykh and Katsapalov RUS on the senior circuit this year, following their extremely well received Schindler's List free dance, and Andean folk dance last season. However, they arrived at the Russian test skate somewhat out of shape, and their programs were criticized by Tarasova. Like the Shibutanis, the Golden Waltz is new to them. And the choice of the waltz from Agony should transition relatively well into a second half of the dance to a tango, but again, it makes correct performance of the Golden Waltz more difficult. They remain challengers for third here in the short dance, but I expect to see them excel more in the free dance.

Mysliveckova and Novak CZE have done very well in the two short dances they have competed in. This has been based on getting a level four for one of their Golden Waltz segments in both competitions they competed at. If other teams are given low levels for their Golden Waltz segments, Mysliveckova and Novak could even be surprise third place finishers here in the short dance. Their 56.61 short dance score at Nepela Trophy bodes quite well for them in this part of the event.

So here's the lineup! ETA, This is now the official start order:

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WARMUP GROUP 1
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Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN (ISU World Ranking: Fifty Eigth)
Coach: Ilona Berecz
Choreographer: Galit Chait
Their program: Waltz: The Royal Waltz; Quickstep: Sing, Sing, Sing
Current Junior champions of Hungary
12th at last year's Junior World Championships

Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN (ISU World Ranking: Thirty Sixth)
Coach: Hongyan Xi
Choreographer: Natalia Linichuk
Their program: Waltz: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss
For three years straight, National Senior champions in China
18th at lst year's World Championships


Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR (ISU World Ranking: Thirtieth)
Coach: Evgeni Platov, Philip Askew
Choreographer: Philip Askew
Their program: Waltz: La Valse d'Amelie by Yann Tiersen; Tango: Tango de los Exilados by Vanessa Mae and Walter Taieb
Current British Senior Silver Medallists
16th at European Championships last year
This fall, third at Coupe de Nice, fourth at Nepela Trophy


Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN (ISU World Ranking: Twenty Ninth)
Coach: Nikolai Morozov, Walter Rizzo
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov, Patti Wilcox
Their program: A Party For Me? (from Addams Family soundtrack) by Marc Shaiman; The Tango (from Addams Family soundtrack) by Marc Shaiman
For three years straight, National Senior champions in Japan
15th at last year's World Championships

Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS (ISU World Ranking: Twenty Seventh)
Coach: Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov
Choreographer: Liudmila Vlasova
Their program: Waltz: Waltz from "Agony" (soundtrack) by Alfred Schnittke; Tango
Current Junior Silver medallists in Russia
Current World Junior Champions

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WARMUP GROUP 2
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Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE (ISU World Ranking: Twenth Third)
Coach: Natalia Karamysheva, Rostislav Sinicyn
Choreographer: M. Drobiazko, P. Vanagas, R. Sinicyn
Their program: Waltz: Battagliero; Quickstep: by Alexander's Rag Time Band remix as quickstep
Did not compete at last year's Czech National championship, due to injury
16th at the last World Championships
This season, second at the Nepela Trophy, seventh at Nebelhorn

Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA (ISU World Ranking: Fourteenth)
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva, J.Johns, A. Lenda
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Their program: Waltz: The Carousel Waltz by Richard Rodgers
Current US Junior champions
4th at last year's Junior Worlds, 2nd at the previous Junior Worlds
5th at Nebelhorn this fall, due to a fall in the SD. They were second in the FD at Nebelhorn, ahead of Capellini/Lanotte.

Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN (ISU World Ranking: Eleventh)
Coach: S. Bourne, P. Camerlengo, A. Krylova
Choreographer: Shae-Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo
Their program: Waltz: At Last by Etta James; Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin
1st place at 4CC's in 2010
3rd at Canadian Senior Nationals

Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA (ISU World Ranking: Eighth)
Coach: Muriel Zazoui, Romain Haguenauer
Choreographer: D. Ribas, M.F. Dubreuil, P. Lauzon
Their program: Waltz: Que Sera, Sera by Doris Day; Quickstep: Girls, Girls, Girls by Sailor
11th at last year's World Champions
For four years, 2nd place at Italian Nationals, behind Faiella and Scali
Won the Short Dance at Nebelhorn, but placed 2nd overall there this fall.
Their SD at Nebelhorn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAN1zAu11JE

Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA (ISU World Ranking: First)
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Their programs: Foxtrot: La Boheme by G. Puccini; Waltz: La Traviata by G. Verdi
For two years, Senior champions in the USA
2nd at World Championships last year
Following monitoring at the US "Champs Camp", they switched their short program from the Amelie soundtrack.

The short dance was competed at Nebelhorn this fall. Scores were as follows:
Result Details Pl. Name Nation TSS = TES + PCS + SS TR PE CC IT Deduction - StN.
1 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 59.86 30.79 29.07 7.14 7.04 7.29 7.43 7.39 0.00 #16
6 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 50.97 27.23 23.74 5.79 5.61 5.75 6.07 6.29 0.00 #14
8 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA 46.90 21.21 26.69 6.71 6.54 6.61 6.79 6.68 1.00 #4
(Maia fell, and they got no credit for the twizzles)

It was also skated at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy:

2 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 56.61 30.50 26.11 6.50 6.33 6.50 6.58 6.67 0.00 #6
4 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 47.02 21.23 25.79 6.42 6.33 6.50 6.25 6.67 0.00 #7

And Coupe de Nice
3 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 45.99 23.33 22.66 5.92 5.58 5.67 5.67 5.50 0.00 #4

It was also skated at Finlandia, but none of the NHK competitors competed there.
 
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dorispulaski

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Yesterday, when I put this together, IN had it listed for tonight and they are live streaming the event. ISU still doesn't have the event details up. However, today, they have it listed for tomorrow, so PolymerBob, you're right, and I'll change the article title. However, I'll be checking tonight, just in case.

Other than that, how do you think the SD will go?
 
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PolymerBob

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Other than that, how do you think the SD will go?

Well, my knowledge of ice dancing is much less than yours, but I really don't see how anyone can give Meryl and Charlie a challenge. And maybe Maia and Alex can pull off a second position after the SD. :)
I am not sure what logic went into this roster. Was somebody trying to organize a rout?
 

gmyers

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Unless Virtue and Moir had been scheduled here -which was an impossibility- Davis and White were going to win by a hugely gigantic margin. They will win here by 30 40 points probably and would even if ALL the top europ teams were invited.
 

dorispulaski

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Well, my knowledge of ice dancing is much less than yours, but I really don't see how anyone can give Meryl and Charlie a challenge. And maybe Maia and Alex can pull off a second position after the SD. :)
I am not sure what logic went into this roster. Was somebody trying to organize a rout?

The problem was the large number of injuries and retirements last year..

Delobel / Schoenfelder & Belbin / Agosto & Domnina & Shabalin retired after Olympics
Zaretskis, and Navarro / Bommentre and Rubleva / Shefer and Khokhlova / Novitski retired after Worlds
Samuelson / Bates, Kerrs, and Virtue / Moir injured.

Here's the standings from Worlds 2010.

1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 224.43 1 1 2
2 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 223.03 2 2 1
3 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 197.85 3 3 4
4 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 194.39 4 4 3
5 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 189.11 6 5 5 6 Alexandra ZARETSKY / Roman ZARETSKY ISR 181.26 8 6 6
7 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN 180.30 9 7 7
8 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 177.23 11 8 8
9 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA 168.77 10 10 10
10 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN HUN 166.90 13 11 9
11 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 164.52 7 12 14
12 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA 161.86 15 13 12
13 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER RUS 161.20 16 16 11
14 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE USA 159.68 14 15 15

15 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 154.93 23 14 13
16 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 147.93 18 17 17

In any case, there was a huge gap between D&W and V&M and the rest of the field.

Unless Virtue and Moir had been scheduled here -which was an impossibility- Davis and White were going to win by a hugely gigantic margin. They will win here by 30 40 points probably and would even if ALL the top europ teams were invited.

The interesting thing will be how many points D&W win by, and how they are judged in the SD. The best SD score I've seen this year is by Monko/Khaliavin, in juniors (where the easier Viennese Waltz is skated). They scored 65.12.

Presupposing D&W don't eat sushi :) / bane of all skating competitors.

Originally, Samuelson & Bates were scheduled to be here, but they are injured.

As to C/L keeping it close in the SD, note that they were 7th in the CD at Worlds, which was the GW. They are quite good, precise skaters of the Golden Waltz.
 
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100yen

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Thanks for all the great comprehensive information! I'm looking forward to this so much :) Especially Igor's teams, the Canadians and the Reeds.
 

~tapdancer

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Isn't sushi one of Charlie's favorite foods? :p

Yeah, but I think they know better not to eat it before the competition. In fact, Charlie's mother tweeted about shopping for "healthy food" and showed pics of her, Meryl and Meryl's mother shopping for food the first day they got there! They are old pros at this!
 

Binthere

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Yes, skaters. Please stay away from raw fish before the event is done. The list is long for those who had not heeded this advice. Amongst most heart breaking was Jeff Buttle couple years back I think at Grand Prix final?
 

beep_beep

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It was GPF 08, on Korea, wasn't it?

*A lot* of skaters were sick after some bad fish.

Trankov stormed out of the KnC, Novitski didn't skate after the warm up, Delobel was ill too... those are just the ones I remember.

Staying away from the raw fish until the competition is over is definetively a good idea.
 

dorispulaski

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I think there was another raw fish episode when Worlds was in Minneapolis? In any case, sushi after the competition, not before.
 

MissIzzy

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First group done:


1 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV
RUS
56.89 1
2 Cathy REED / Chris REED
JPN
44.90 2
3 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND
GBR
43.52 3
4 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG
CHN
43.50 4
5 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR
HUN
32.68 5


Segment Result Details

Pl. Name Nation TSS
= TES
+ PCS
+ SS TR PE CC IT Ded.
- StN.
1 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 56.89 29.79 27.10 6.82 6.50 6.82 6.82 6.86 0.00 #5
2 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 44.90 21.86 23.04 5.79 5.46 5.75 5.93 5.82 0.00 #4
3 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 43.52 22.36 21.16 5.39 5.07 5.21 5.36 5.36 0.00 #3
4 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 43.50 22.85 20.65 5.21 4.82 5.21 5.21 5.29 0.00 #2
5 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN 32.68 15.81 16.87 4.46 4.18 4.21 4.32 3.96 0.00 #1
 

MissIzzy

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1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE
USA
66.97 1
2 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
CAN
58.69 2
3 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV
RUS
56.89 3
4 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE
ITA
55.68 4
5 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI
USA
53.68 5
6 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK
CZE
45.20 6
7 Cathy REED / Chris REED
JPN
44.90 7
8 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND
GBR
43.52 8
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG
CHN
43.50 9
10 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR
HUN
32.68 10


Segment Result Details

Pl. Name Nation TSS
= TES
+ PCS
+ SS TR PE CC IT Ded.
- StN.
1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 66.97 32.28 34.69 8.64 8.50 8.75 8.64 8.79 0.00 #10
2 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 58.69 31.15 27.54 6.89 6.64 6.86 6.93 7.04 0.00 #8
3 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 56.89 29.79 27.10 6.82 6.50 6.82 6.82 6.86 0.00 #5
4 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 55.68 27.57 28.11 7.07 6.75 7.11 7.04 7.11 0.00 #9
5 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA 53.68 28.57 26.11 6.57 6.32 6.32 6.75 6.61 1.00 #7
6 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 45.20 22.07 23.13 5.86 5.61 5.82 5.86 5.75 0.00 #6
7 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 44.90 21.86 23.04 5.79 5.46 5.75 5.93 5.82 0.00 #4
8 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 43.52 22.36 21.16 5.39 5.07 5.21 5.36 5.36 0.00 #3
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 43.50 22.85 20.65 5.21 4.82 5.21 5.21 5.29 0.00 #2
10 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN 32.68 15.81 16.87 4.46 4.18 4.21 4.32 3.96 0.00 #1

The Shibutanis had difficulty; he tripped, and part of her dress went dangling. If C&L had any such trouble, it must have been while my stream was frozen; I think it more likely one of their sequences was given a low level.
 

dorispulaski

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Warmup has started. There is an I&K banner! There are also a lot of those NHK thingies that look like carnivorous cell phones.

There are Japanese, American, and Canadian judges.

Skaters were introduced as in an ice show.


Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN (ISU World Ranking: Fifty Eigth)
Coach: Ilona Berecz
Choreographer: Galit Chait
Their program: Waltz: The Royal Waltz; Quickstep: Sing, Sing, Sing
Current Junior champions of Hungary
12th at last year's Junior World Championships

The same costumes as in practice
Very ruffly two tone blue skirt and huge big sequins on the bodice. Spaghetti straps and ultramarine gloves. He in white shirt and gray vest and pants.
They both seem to have colds, blowing their noses and coughing.

Rotational lift. Very slow speed into it.
GW. Her Shoot the duck is very low (good). His lunge didn't lunge (not so good) GW over.
He messed up the first twizzle and they got out of sync. Recovered on the 2nd twizzle
This Sing Sing Sing isn't singing. They are way too slow for this music.
TES 15.81
PCS 16.87
TOTAL 32.68



Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN (ISU World Ranking: Thirty Sixth)
Coach: Hongyan Xi
Choreographer: Natalia Linichuk
Their program: Waltz: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss

She's in a kind of matte peach with heavy silver and gray fake sash swirling around the top. He's pseudo something or other. Maybe a gaucho? There's an odd big buttoned cummerbund and a deep vee neck top -sort of Tyrolean beer server meets gaucho with a country music over embroidered yoke on the shirt.

A few Little toe steps to start. GW a little beter than last team. faster.
GW over
twizzles arms up 2nd and 3rd set. Not great synchro.
simple rotational lift into a tiny spin
The rest of this is not Strauss and music is heavy and abrupt tango. Slow footwork.

TES 22.85
PCS 20.65
TOTAL 43.50
Into first



Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR (ISU World Ranking: Thirtieth)
Coach: Evgeni Platov, Philip Askew
Choreographer: Philip Askew
Their program: Waltz: La Valse d'Amelie by Yann Tiersen; Tango: Tango de los Exilados by Vanessa Mae and Walter Taieb

He's in a bright red shirt with a striped tango suit over it with a large red fake flower on the chest.. She has a tango dress mostly wide fishnet looking on top. Rather too minimal for ballroom.

Amelie. Rotational lift. Nothing special.
Golden Waltz. Leglines don't match.
Pretty good edges.
Nice shoot the duck
Bumpy attitude turn
Little dance move into tango
It's still abrupt transition, though.
twizzles. He put his foot down between the 2 sets.
Straight line footwork quite far apart
Little hops in it. Got a bit close to the boards at the end. They seemed to be improvising. The moves into the final pose quite interesting and nice.
Final pose shown in practice photos.
In the KnC with Zhulin
TES 22.36
PCS 21.16
TOTAL 43.56
Into first place

Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN (ISU World Ranking: Twenty Ninth)
Coach: Nikolai Morozov, Walter Rizzo
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov, Patti Wilcox
Their program: A Party For Me? (from Addams Family soundtrack) by Marc Shaiman; The Tango (from Addams Family soundtrack) by Marc Shaiman

She in an obvious Morticia outfit.with spidetly stuff on the illusion
He has an odd white spot on his shoulder on the back (a white hand (Thing), I think), striped pants. bowtie Also a moustache.

Kissing her arm a la Gomez
Kneeslide lift
Waltz
Shoot the duck good
Layback was good
I think this is better than previous couples
Crossing twizzles. This is not working and he stumbles (possible deduction)
straight line footwork going quite well.
Love the way it ends
Now final lift and flourish to pose.
Coach says Next time you'll do better
TES 21.86
PCS 23.04
Total 44.90


Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS (ISU World Ranking: Twenty Seventh)
Coach: Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov
Choreographer: Liudmila Vlasova
Their program: Waltz: Waltz from "Agony" (soundtrack) by Alfred Schnittke; Tango

Whether they were fit or not in the summer. They look great now. She's in kind of a black tango bikini with a black grass short hula skirt and a huge red flower. He's in a white shirt under black suit

Grating noise
Wrapping and upwrapping leg
Twizzles the one foot kind, a little wild,but good.
Good speed here
Into the GW to music that doesn't work for it
STD OK
Rather slow and careful in the 2nd segment
Flippy lift around his neck
into tango
screen froze RATS
Signed on again and they're done.
I'm sure it will go into first, but I can't stand the music.
There was a little stumble by Nikita in the straight line footwork from the replay (part when I was having a screen freeze.

TES 29.79
PCS 27.10
TOTAL 56.89

A nice debut for them, but I would rather never hear that music again.
 
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jcoates

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They did not have a fall. Anna may have lost a level on her twizzle b/c her foot appeared to come down early. Their edges in the golden waltz section did not appear to be terribly deep and they weren't as down in their knees throughout the dance as the teams ahead of them.
 

dorispulaski

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Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE (ISU World Ranking: Twenth Third)
Coach: Natalia Karamysheva, Rostislav Sinicyn
Choreographer: M. Drobiazko, P. Vanagas, R. Sinicyn
Their program: Waltz: Battagliero; Quickstep: by Alexander's Rag Time Band remix as quickstep

Black and white spaghetti strap dress with in a huge print.
White With kind of a very short white bolero over it
Fancy earrings, necklace. He is a strange misbuttoned black vest over white shirt, black pants.
Her hair is very messy on purpose

Right into Turns with her leg around his waist
Second segment of GW first
wave to crowd
First segment GW very nice
Pose
Abrupt to quickstep
crossing footwork, which I like
Twizzles way out of synch
Rotational lift to end
Good quickstep feeling.
Should be second

TES 22.07
PCS 23.13
TOTAL 45.20
2nd place



Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA (ISU World Ranking: Fourteenth)
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva, J.Johns, A. Lenda
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Their program: Waltz: The Carousel Waltz by Richard Rodgers

She's in a a simple fuschia dress with a few silver

spangles and a slit. Black pants grey shirt

Twizzles 3 sets (OK)
footwork close together good synchro
very shpilband
waltz steps into GW
They fell in 1st segment (O NO)
Alex stepped on Maia's skirt.
Second segment
Very dramatic lift with a stand and drop
Rotational lift to end.
And a piece of her skit was caught in her skate (she removes it
at the end.

Hugs from Igor

TES 28.57
PCS 26.11
Total 53.68
-1 deduction
2nd place


Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN (ISU World Ranking: Eleventh)
Coach: S. Bourne, P. Camerlengo, A. Krylova
Choreographer: Shae-Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo
Their program: Waltz: At Last by Etta James; Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin
Very elegant little Black dress on Kaitlyn with fake necklace
White tie outfit on Andrew. Very formal
she has black gloves

Sideways lift
GW
some scrappy stepping
Into quickstep
jump into twizzles hop at end, nice touch
straight line footwork quite good

Rotational lift to end.
Pleasant choreo, I thought

TES 31.15
PCS 27.54
TOTAL 58.69
Into first


Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA (ISU World Ranking: Eighth)
Coach: Muriel Zazoui, Romain Haguenauer
Choreographer: D. Ribas, M.F. Dubreuil, P. Lauzon
Their program: Waltz: Que Sera, Sera by Doris Day; Quickstep: Girls, Girls, Girls by Sailor
Same red spaghetti strap dress with wide silver "belt" as Nebelhorn
The stiff crinoline moves rather oddly.

GW starts on "Que sera sera"
I thought they did that well
footwork on que sera
Did Luca have a little stumble?
quickstep good interp
Twizzle a little rough
Sticklift with his hand between her thighs
and her standing up staight.
skippy ending pulling him by his tie

Very pleasant
They hug

TES 27.57
PCS 28.11
TOTAL 55.68
Into third

Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA (ISU World Ranking: First)
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Their programs: Foxtrot: La Boheme by G. Puccini; Waltz: La Traviata by G. Verdi

Charlie very 19th century in his shirt
and a white ascot tie and black vest
Meryl in red long sleeved dress bare back
scoop neckline

great twizzles with a jump into them
One arm up first set, arms behind second set.
crossing footwork
waltzy
lunge start
very close on gw
Meryl low in std
very 19th century feel somehow
a little careful perhaps

Lovely rotational lift with variations
Joyous ending
Bravo! Standing ovation from some of the crowd

Charlie gives thumbs up to Igor

TES 32.28
PCS 34.69
Total 66.97
 

colleen o'neill

Medalist
Joined
Nov 3, 2006
:biggrin:delirious to be seeing this. Thanks skatebuzz for coming through in the end !

I could weep for the shibs.Lovely program ..
Bravo W/P ! judges seemed to accept "At Last" for them..this time.

Adore D/W' program..Pretty tidy, eh?;);)

I/K look just fine..
 
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