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...I'm never going to live that down, am I?
Are you kidding? I crack up everytime I reread it.
Thank you for the mucho laughs.
...I'm never going to live that down, am I?
Nope. I think you should change your tag under your name.
Very possible. They seem to peak later in season, as it should be
I so much prefer the dance and pairs threads. No one gets really uptight in here.
She already has a turkey cock under her name.
Buckle up homie, we're about to enter the ladies FS thread. The Kaetlyn Osmond angst, hate and supposed inflation symphony will be starting soon, and we have front row seats.
Awww. Thank you for this.
I don't really have much to add to your excellent post. Subtlety is usually a hard sell in ice skating as a whole, let alone dance. It's considered "boring." Same with minimalist music. It doesn't WOW you the way a big rock song like "Fix You" does. But there is just something about this FD that has really stuck with me longer and deeper than any other FD I've seen so far. And the previous dance it reminds me of the most is the Shibs' Memoirs of a Geisha, which was similarly derides as "boring."
Well you know, de gustibus and all that jazz. And I loves me the big and brassy and ballsy a heap. But there is something equally beautiful and entertaining in just how precise and exact that kind of small canvas can be. The hardest poems to write, after all, aren't the big epics. It's the small lyric. Because each word, each line break, each pause, each sound has so much more weight to carry.
Someone once said to me, that if you really want to be heard in a nosy crowd--and given how tight the competition has become in ID this year, it is its own kind of noisy crowd--you should whisper UNDER the noise rather than try to scream ABOVE it. I've been thinking about that a lot when I've rewatched the SA performance.
But you know, YMMV and all that. And this is just my two coppers.
The Australian judge, who gave NO team any PCS in the 9.0s in the SD, gave the Shibs three 10.00s in PCS for this FD. Congrats to the Shibs on their fourth GP title and their first Cup of China win. They now have three different GP titles.
They seemed really nervous in the beginning and I felt their serpentine step sequence was more hesitant in places than it was in SA, but then they really calmed down as they went through the program and once the twizzles were over, they really let it go. Bravo!
She already has a turkey cock under her name.
Turkey!? Excuse you, I am the nobel Ruffed Grouse! I do not gobble- I beat wood
Turkey!? Excuse you, I am the nobel Ruffed Grouse! I do not gobble- I beat wood
Turkey!? Excuse you, I am the nobel Ruffed Grouse! I do not gobble- I beat wood
Their PCS here is a new personal best: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs_pb_00011168.htm
Would you and WeakAnkles argue that the Shibs are creating a new style with this FD. This one is so blatantly abstract and minimalist compared to anything I've seen in ice dance before. I know people think they're copying P/C with this FD but I don't see it. It's a totally different and has much more deliberate minimalist approach going on here. Even the music is mostly three piano keys for the first two-thirds until the last third. There really hasn't been a program like this before. I'd argue that the Shibs are introducing minimalism to ice dance.
Would you and WeakAnkles argue that the Shibs are creating a new style with this FD? This one is so blatantly abstract and minimalist compared to anything I've seen in ice dance before. I know people think they're copying P/C with this FD but I don't see it. It's a totally different way of moving and has a much more deliberate minimalist approach. Even the music is mostly three piano keys for the first two-thirds until the last third. There really hasn't been a program like this before. I'd argue that the Shibs are introducing minimalism to ice dance.
I enjoyed the Shibutani's a lot more this time. Don't remember the dance being this good at Skate America, good job.