2016 Trophée de France Ladies SP

[Crossover]

Please don't pop, Yuka!

 

[sallycinnamon]

That colour is so amazing on Yuka Nagai! I love assymetric costumes, too, because it looks good on anybody.

 

[Violet Bliss]

Her arm position in her jumps is a bit weird...

What with her elbows sticking way out and up there. She could add another rotation with her arms folded tight against her chest.

 

[mirai4life]

"it aint yuka without a pop"
mirai4life

 

[snowflake]

I feared the worst before that axel. Anastasia was slowing down so much on the entry


Exquisite program though, graceful.

But her 3lutz-3 toe was fine right? or maybe not.. 56.92 in eight place

Oh well, she is only 17, I hope she fights on and manages her jumps without URs

 

[Kuan]

Yuka, again the axel :dev2:

 

[Chemistry66]

Whoa. Laurine's previous ISU PB was only 52.84

 

[berry8]

Such a wonderful piece of music... That'a pity she made so many mistakes...

 

[Tolstoj]

I think if she does less making fists, the program would look better because the concept seems like a butterfly. Nice GP debut.

Alfred Schnittke was such a crazy artist, you need to portray that craziness on the ice, I like the program but to me it requires more expression.

I would love to see Anna Pogorilaya with that music for a short program. (she did it the Tango as an ex program last season and it was beautiful)

 

[invisiblespiral]

Yuka...

 

[valerieally]

Nagai needs to work on not popping. It costs more than attempting and falling.

 

[Plisskin]

oh I see

it's almost like Gracie's technique but more open

Yeah it's quite strange. Her arms are high up with her elbows sticking out. It really stuck out to me from an otherwise good skate.

 

[yuki]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Yuka is reworking her jumps. Did she start having problems with them? They were great 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/WyJH-zWinkc?t=58

 

[sequinsgalore]

11 Yuka NAGAI (JPN)

Music: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra (from "Ladies in Lavender" soundtrack) by Nigel Hess

Purple one-shoulder dress

3S+2T - turn inbetween
3Lo
LSp
1A*
CCoSp
StSq
FCSp

No 3-3 and costly pop. Her SP is really giving her problems this season

SP: 24.64+27.77 = 52.41 (SB), 11/11

 

[Yatagarasu]

Yuka has a hot coach

 

[TGee]

I have just come to the conclusion that chiffon skirts hung from a relatively high waist aren't a good choice.

Both Galustyn and Nagai's costumes appear quite modest when they are still, but the skirts are flipped up and bunched above their waists much of the time...especially during rotations....

Distracting to me, and not in a good way

 

[Warwick360]

As amazing as Evgenia is.....I think she's going to be inflated past both the much talked about TES of Elizaveta and more notably the PCS of Kostner, by the end of the season. Funny that people were thinking that the latter wouldn't happen this season, because from where I am it seems like she's going to do the Trump.

 

[NAOTMAA]

I'm liking A LOT of these music choices I've never heard of some of them :

 

[gioccia]

My exact thoughts, too.
A performance shouldn't be scored higher just because it was at an event later in the season. If it so, then it is the evidence why the scoring is subjective.

If it continues like this, she will get 81-82 points at Worlds next year. :angry1:

TAT says Medvedeva has added difficulty to her elements...

Personally she does stand out in terms of execution, interpretation and especially transitions... most of the girls just go from element to another.

What's for today's performances...I'd have Sotskova below Laurine in PCS.

 

[Biellmann]

Nah, that axel wasn't a mistake, she saw Yuzuru doing a delayed axel and she thought "i can do this too"