I hope the move to Denver area for Jason and Kori is fruitful and yields Jason a quad or two. It will be interesting to see Jason and Josh in the same rink training...Brown is one of those sunny natured people. I'll bet he is not dwelling on losing the short or the gold, but celebrating landing all three of his dreaded triple axels that he has had such trouble learning the past two years. And winning the small gold in the long, and the silver overall.
So on to the quad for Jason, I suppose.
His plan has been to aim for 2018...should he go senior next year?
Actually Canada will only get 1 slot in 6 of the 7 JGP events next year as skaters from 6 different countries ( US , China , Philipines , Russia, Japan , Germany ) finished ahead of Nam. Canada barely managed to salvage 2 JW spots next season as if Nam finished any lower Canada would be down to 1 JW entry next year.
These are the allocation rules for singles and dance ( unless the ISU decides to change them again )
The top 3 countries get 2 slots in each JGP.
Countries 4 - 6 are guaranteed 1 slot in each JGP. ( Countries 4 and 5 do get a chance to fill any unused slots up to 2 entries per JGP )
Countries 7 - 12 get 1 slot in 6 of the 7 events.
Home countries always get 3 entries in the event they are hosting.
It is likely that Russia will get 14 slots despite finishing as the 4th highest country as it is unlikely that the Phillipines will use all of their slots. Japan will probably pick up a few spots too.
I think Ziggy is saying that Jason was underscored in the SP with regard to PCS (and possibly in both programs) and if scored as Z thought, Brown would have won overall, too
His plan has been to aim for 2018...should he go senior next year?
I know it seems like it doesn't matter if the scoring system was changed you still have the same clueless morons judging.
Jason Brown for years I thought might be a Hanyu, Chan or Tak but his technical skills aren't quite there.
I think Brown should have won this.
He deserved to win the PCS in the SP and he deserved an even higher lead on the PCS and GOE in the FS.
I think the judges were quite generous to Farris on the GOE.
And thanks to all the morons whining about the lack of quads, we now have a situation where falling on a 4toe is worth more than landing a clean 3lutz. Absolutely ridiculous.
Brown has all triples, to a good standard, and without edge calls. He's in a relatively small group of guys that do. And his spins are interesting and excellent. He has remarkable flexibility for a guy-did anyone else notice that he does a change of edge in his 1/2 Biellmann-I find that amazing And his steps are good, quick, and to the music. In the Sp, at least one judge gave him +3 on the step, a real achievement for a senior skater.
I'll bet he has started learning the quad in harness, and I will be interested to see if he's trying both 4s and 4t; I'll bet someone at the press conference will ask him.
Have you actually SEEN Jason skate? I mean live... His jumps are not small AT ALL...They have a nice pop and float to them and he has incredibly soft knees on his jump landings along with having some crazy transitions in and out of his jumps. Also, Jason has impecable edge work, much deeper than most of the elite Senior men. I know you are a big Josh fan, but your comments are quite inaccurate in terms of calling Jason's jumps small and saying that Jason doesn't have anything on Josh in regards to PCS (but you also felt that Miner was overscored in relation to Farris at Nationals, which is also inaccurate). There is no current man in the World saving Takahashi who has the magnetism and natural "look at me"-ness that Jason has and he couples that with some crazy hard transitions that actually FIT the music and choreography and well, if this kid can translate that 3A he finally seems to have mastered into at least 1 type of quad, he's going to be tough to beat. I mean really, this kid got a standing ovation his first year at Senior Nationals with NO TRIPLE AXEL...
Isn't Brown aging out next year?
I'll bet he has started learning the quad in harness, and I will be interested to see if he's trying both 4s and 4t; I'll bet someone at the press conference will ask him.
Nope. His birthday is the 15th December. So he won't turn 19 til after July 1. Same for Josh, whose birthday is January 6.
I have been told by someone who regularly skates on the same practice ice that about two weeks before Nationals he was landing very big, rotated, beautiful quad toes...with no harness.