I was also sad for Peter Liebers-I dont't know why, but his skating makes me smile.
Don't hide behind the smile and be honest. You are looking at his bums.
I was also sad for Peter Liebers-I dont't know why, but his skating makes me smile.
I think without the fall, he was better than Sochi. Such speed is unbelievable. I have rewatched two versions again. He was so on fire in the second half after the fall. Incredible speed.I try not to be biased, but beside the fall, Hanyu's program was at least as good as in Sochi or GPF.
Don't hide behind the smile and be honest. You are looking at his bums.
I think without the fall, he was better than Sochi. Such speed is unbelievable. I have rewatched two versions again. He was so on fire in the second half after the fall. Incredible speed.
His 3Lz was out of this world! It could've been a 4Lz...
His 3Lz was out of this world! It could've been a 4Lz...
Let's not go too crazy... there is no way he could have gotten another rotation on that. That said, he has said that he does practice 4Lz. I assume he goes in with even more speed and a stronger vault though.
I think it's better than Sochi in term of speed. In Sochi he got 101, here he got 91, that 10 points apart for that fall so I think it's fair. It's a good score compare to others but not unreasonable high. The judge would just say he was faster and better than Sochi beside the fall. And he did deliver it well.I also like how he held the landing of the 3T on the combo... so many times he rushes into the "creative exit" of his combo that it almost looks like he's trying to save it (kinda like Javier's 4S in his SP). This time he presented it. Loved his 3A reaction also... nailed the attitude.
His performance was comparable to Sochi, but I'm sorry, a fall is a fall. This is the technical program. If this was 6.0, he would have been 6th. Whether it's Chan, Takahashi, Hanyu or whoever, a fall when at least 3 guys have gone clean with quads + 3A + XX-3T combos, should immediately give you PCS that's worse than them. Certainly not PCS valued at 90%. Maybe one fall in the FS can still get you 90%, but in the SP, that's messing up 1/3 of the jumping passes.
I was also sad for Peter Liebers-I dont't know why, but his skating makes me smile.
Agreed, Mrs. P. At nationals I was so fixated on Jeremy and Jason that I felt like I gave Max the short shrift. I feel like I really saw him and his potential (other than his jumps) for the first time. He needs to hook up with a great choreographer; someone who can work with a client who is musical but doesn't have a dance background. Pasquale, maybe.
I hope Yuzuru will come out with a program that acknowledges the audience a little bit next season. He is so into his program that he rarely projects to the audience. (He constantly looks at the judges, though. )
It is really a nitpick and probably a matter of taste, and when he skates like that the audience can't take their eyes off anyway. But watching on screen sometimes I feel like I've finished watching a squirrel running a wheel for 3 minutes non-stop.
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2014/03/26/kiji/K20140326007853290.html
Japanese news media reported that the Arena wasn't full on Mens SP, only filling 16913 out of 18400 capacity of that large arena, saying that "although Hanyu has increased his female fan base after Olympics, the withdrawal of Daisuke Takahashi, known to attract most spectators, has impacted a lot on this.
Hanyu said, "I heard the cheers, but if you ask me if it affected me, it didn't in the least. I may have been a little too confident or been careless. I feel anger with me. I can't forgive me (about making such a mistake)."
I repeat myself all the time by saying this...but I like his attitude so much.
I agree; he always takes responsibility for his mistakes and doesn't blame it on other things/factors/people, etc.
It is weird to assume that Daisuke's fanbase will move on to Yuzuru, imho. Other than that they're the most succesful male skaters of Japan and overlapped in the same era I don't see much similarity in looks, character or skating style. Yuzuru might attrack different fans (maybe the mentioned younger idol fans?) than the aunties that follow Dai. Not every figure skating fan just follows the next skater when their favourite is gone. If Mao retires there will be a big big gap left as well. Japan does have it's own issues in that area I assume. Saitama is a pretty big stadium and seemed full to me at least, and I'm sure sooner or later Yuzuru and others will be able to fill up the stands as well. Maybe tickets will be easier to get then. It seems to me that the balance is slowly favouring the Russian skating again, but who knows.