2017 Skate Ontario Summer Skate (Thornhill)

gabriele · Aug 20, 2017

Ice Dance said:
She doubled the jump, and the protocols are up to confirm it.

Pretending this is not a bad omen... so not ready for another season of beautiful skating and popped jumps. :drama:

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

Calling Lubov for doubling jumps is like shooting fish in a barrel. If they could just get those jumps consistent I wouldn't worry about them going to the Olympics. Of course if Julianne and Charlie can't get healthy and stay healthy they will probably go regardless but if it's a three way battle for those 2 spots they might be in tough if Mt/M get those lifts and the twist under control because Kristen is a more consistent sbs jumper than Lubov. My ideal Olympic team is D/R, I/M and S/B so I have bias.

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

So I would watch Junior dance but ... no stream for me. *sigh*

I'm having trouble getting started on the skating this year because my other great non-real life obsession is still going on: GOT! 2 more episodes and I resisted the leak so tonight I'm going in spoiler free (mostly-fandom can suck for casually revealing stuff)

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

Gosh.. I already hate the La La Land soundtrack and the season has just started.

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

It's RAY LAMONTANGE!!!! I'm in love. Who are these two??

Let it be me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWpw3CMCEg

You guys get all the music points from me!

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

McIssac and Graham have won me over with their music choices.

Happy with their scores. They are in second

Galivanova and Tang won. They had some nice twizzles IIRC.

BTW, this music (the music used to intro each segment reminds of Rick Steeves travel program on PBS music.

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

Really..should you do the Mary Poppin's soundtrack without dressing up like penguins or at least doing the penguin dance part?

nimi · Aug 20, 2017

ancientpeas said:
Really..should you do the Mary Poppin's soundtrack without dressing up like penguins or at least doing the penguin dance part?

Too bad I don't have a working stream. Ice dancing penguins sounds pretty epic to me!

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

nimi said:
Too bad I don't have a working stream. Ice dancing penguins sounds pretty epic to me!

Alas, that was more me musing about the couple skating to the Mary Poppin's OST. I saw no penguins.

nocturnalis · Aug 20, 2017

Quick question: Is the required pairs lift in the short program a change of hand lift?

nimi · Aug 20, 2017

ancientpeas said:
Alas, that was more me musing about the couple skating to the Mary Poppin's OST. I saw no penguins.

Oh okay, I misunderstood!

But here, have some penguins of Youtube!

ancientpeas · Aug 20, 2017

No I/M. Guess they were just giving their SP a dry run.
Have to bail anyway. Have fun all.

TGee · Aug 20, 2017

ancientpeas said:
No I/M. Guess they were just giving their SP a dry run.
Have to bail anyway. Have fun all.

It doesn't sound as though it was a planned thing....they were entered, and in the start order for the free that went up overnight after the SP.

But, they may have decided to leave it at that if the free has less time to gel.

TGee · Aug 20, 2017

For those who missed the Junior Pair Free this afternoon, Walsh/Michaud pulled it back together with a lovely, clean rendition of their "I can't help falling in love with you" long program.

It's so great to see how polished Walsh/Michaud look with that program....It absolutely says that they expect to be on the podiums and at the JPG Final this season.

McCaw/Adcock had another solid outing....and demonstrated they have the SBS 2As...

The Boys-Eddy sibs showed that they are working hard to address their tech gaps. They got << on the SBS 2As, but attempted them...and got neutral GOE on a 3STh.

Final ranking and video links:

1 Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud 149.48 : SP ; FS
2 Mariah McCaw / Steven Adcock 135.40 : SP ; FS
3 Olivia Boys-Eddy / Mackenzie Boys-Eddy 133.14 : SP : FS

siberia82 · Aug 25, 2017

More of my screen recordings from the Junior Men's event:

Iliya Kovler's SP (the password is iliya): https://vimeo.com/230304620

Shingo Nishiyama's SP (the password is shingo): https://vimeo.com/230330700

Corey Circelli's LP (the password is corey): https://vimeo.com/230330674

Conrad Orzel's LP (the password is conrad): https://vimeo.com/230304605

Iliya Kovler's LP (the password is iliya): https://vimeo.com/230304652

Mark Gorodnitsky had the 3rd best free skate, but the livestream was offline for me during almost all of his performance, so I couldn't make a video.

Skater Boy · Aug 26, 2017

siberia82 said:
Senior Women Standings

1. Elizabet Tursynbaeva 165.03
2. Amanda Tobin 152.95
3. Emy Decelles 151.97
4. Michelle Long 141.54
5. Deidre Russell 120.85
6. Stephanie Rechsteiner 120.69
7. Kathryn Winstanley 105.89
8. Maya Lappin 102.89
9. Kylie Tait 97.58
10. Cassandra Bilsborough 93.55

Lots of positives. ET won! The third tier Canadians did well of course that could be spun the other way ET won as expected but the Canadians did very well comparatively and according to expectations. everyone learned and got some experience.

Skater Boy · Aug 26, 2017

Krunchii said:
I agree with you on Roman and Lauriault/Le Gac lmaooo

Also I was at the arena tonight, enjoyed some great skating. Roman's LP is hardly a metal FS, it's an Anime soundtrack or something and I don't even know what's really happening in it or what he's trying to perform to the audience or judges. I feel like his growth affected him and I found him gangly and the choreography to be random, he needs better packaging in the LP. Nam's growth spurt was a while ago and he seems to skate more comfortably now, good skate for him, speed improved from the first time I saw him in person in 2014, posture needs work.

Keegan Messing and Stephen Gogolev impressed me the most, Keegan is a fast rotater and his jumps don't really travel, but his spins steps and choreography all seem very complete so if he wants to go for harder jumps I don't mind. Stephen, if he competes seniors at Nationals, he wouldn't be out of place except for his height and face, wow, he is such a talent, I hope he stays healthy. Took a rough tumble in the warm up but skated respectably in the free with a few bobbles here and there.

Elizabet's jumps weren't quite there but I did like her skating a lot, she's very small but fills up the rink really nicely. Lovely skater but a bit of a rough skate, can't wait to see her improve during the season.

I was impressed with Stephen but wonder if he will have the problems Nam has had when he grew. Also,of course he needs a lot more strength in his jumps - stronger landings and further distance rather than a spinning top. I would suggest that to help with presentation and namely presence here is a little trick. As he is so fair skinned and blond hair changing that vest to say a royal blue would help make him look more "solid" and present on the ice and not so "faded". This visually adds impact. As he matures and learns to control his hand gestures I think he is looking good.

siberia82 · Aug 31, 2017

TGee said:
What a nice outing for this Singing in the Rain SP from Keegan Messing...

It's already taken a step up in polish since Wild Rose....

You must mean Skate Detroit.

TGee said:
I was very surprised he was put on the podium above Conrad Orser

I know it's just a typo, but I thought you might want to edit your post and correct Conrad's surname.

SnowWhite said:
On a positive note, Corey's a very nice skater to watch.

Yes, he is! :luv17: I began to like his skating after his lovely SP at Minto. I was happy to see him win the free skate here :clap:

after a poor short (oh, that was painful to watch

), and he jumped up from 9th to 3rd over-all.

TGee said:
Did get to see Matt...

But he's clearly disappointed with that FS...many doubles instead of triples, and he ran out of time for the final spin.

Still a beautiful, flexible and expressive male skater though....he's really pushing to bring up his tech following an enormous growth spurt last season, so one hopes we'll see more from him later in the season.

Thanks for sharing your observations on Matthew's performance.

When I met him at the Championnats québécois d'été, I was immediately struck by how tall he was; I think he's around 5'11", and I figured that his height was contributing to his jump problems. In response to my gushing over his presentation skills, he told me that the artistic side of the sport was very important to him. I find it interesting and unexpected that his LP PCS is higher than Conrad's both here and at Minto in spite of the fact that the base value of Matt's jumps is much lower (he doesn't even have a 3A in his arsenal, let alone a quad).

TGee said:
Roman's edgy metal FS gets him out of the lyrical rut he seemed to be getting into. :luv17:

I greatly appreciate that he's skating to music that no one else in the sport has used before (as far as I know---if someone else had done the Sword Art Online soundtrack, feel free to correct me), and although I'm not familiar with the anime genre, I enjoyed the pieces that he chose for his LP. I also like how this routine and his costume gives him a stronger, more masculine look, and he's exploring a style which is different than what we're normally used to. Roman earned the highest LP PCS score both here (okay, admittedly it was only .14 more than Nam's, but it's still the highest) and at Minto, so the judges actually prefer Sword Art Online over his "The Vampire Masquerade" SP (which is more universally loved by the fans than his LP).

Sabrina said:
So Nam did 2 quads? Honestly the out of focus image didn't help me. He rotates so quickly.

He only did 1 quad, a 4S.

Sabrina said:
I prefer Roman, but although he had a good program he srlill lost a few good ponts with a couple of pops, and a couple of skid landings. Still amazing music and interpretation.

I totally agree. :agree: Hopefully he'll work on his endurance and skate it more cleanly as the season progresses.

siberia82 · Sep 17, 2017

Here are all of my screen recordings from the Senior Women SP:

Amanda Tobin's SP (the password is tobin): https://vimeo.com/230618568

Senior Women SP Group 2 Warm-Up (the password is elizabet): https://vimeo.com/230786803

Michelle Long's SP (the password is long): https://vimeo.com/230619069

Emy Decelles' SP (the password is emy): https://vimeo.com/230618737

Elizabet Tursynbaeva's SP (the password is elizabet): https://vimeo.com/230101518

siberia82 · Sep 17, 2017

Here are all of my screen recordings from the Senior Women LP:

Senior Women LP Group 2 Warm-Up (the password is elizabet): https://vimeo.com/230786918

Elizabet Tursynbaeva's LP (the password is elizabet): https://vimeo.com/230239605

Amanda Tobin's LP (the password is tobin): https://vimeo.com/230618650

Michelle Long's LP (the password is long): https://vimeo.com/230619362

Emy Decelles' LP (the password is emy): https://vimeo.com/230618928

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