I agree Mihara's performance was rather juniorish. Just skating through the elements. She did way better last year truth be told. I guess not being in the Olympic team must have wilted her confidence and her composure.
If that is the case why don't we see hikes for Boyang or Vincent?
What is the definition of a jumping bean and do they deserve highest PCS?
Do you see values in able to interpret, emote, performing to music and quality of choreography, ability to fine tuning nuaounces, subtlely, sensitivity, and able to seamlessly integrate them to give meaning beyond points crunching? If not, then it explains so much. The best painting is not because it has the most oil and colours on them...
I really don't want to see another program that just crossovers intersperse with caressing the face and call that a gold medal worthy performance.
Vincent got 87.34 at US National , and Dmitri ALIEV got 87.44 at Europe, both just came up from Junior and Vicent won it last year. So everyone is guilty of inflated score
But where I would knock Vincent down by 10 points, I would knock Aliev by 5.
That's not fair! -10 for Vincent, -5 for Aliev. Can we negotiate here? If you knock down 10 for one, why not 10 for the other guy also. If 5 is the number, then let's give it to both of them. At least we're consistent and not bias against the other.
But go ahead if that pleases you...
PLEASE! Figure skating is made up of crossovers and can't do a program without it. Difficult jumps like quad needs speed leading up to the take off, hence, lots of crossovers to create momentum. And that's difficult or else everyone should be landing them quad lutz / triple toe with such ease like the way Vincent does it. Can your favorite skater/s do it? Patrick, Javi and even Hanyu CAN'T even do it when many refers to them as the standard.
Your favorite skaters do crossovers too. In fact, count it next time. They ALL do! Facial expression, hand movement, tricky moves, drama, standing, acting, flailing - it works for choreography. Sometimes they're flat out cheasy, boring and corny. But not everyone can mesmerize you or deliver Kwan-like moments every time and blow the roof of the building. Oh, the energy when that happens! Goosebumps!!!
So more crossovers are must have if you want to gain higher TES in order to win playing by the book so to speak. And FEW have delivered moments of excellence with TES & PCS.
Vincent, Aliev and Boyang... anyone would think this was a thread about the men's skating event.
uh... unless you are one of those who claims American is not really speaking English, then you are probably right.
I hope the skaters get to enjoy it with the little time they have there. Congrats Kaori. Hope you enjoy Din Tai Fung
Unfortunately this is this is the time when skaters are ironically punished for striving and possessing good technique so they're sacrificed.
I enjoy all the ladies skating. I am very surprised by how much I enjoy Zag skating. It is not just jumps for me. Her spins are very good and picks up so much speed in the spins and I love her footwork. It is speedy and inticate and alot of one footwork. It seemed to me that her footwork was better than Caroline. So it is more than jumps and transitions for me.
It was her short program which got her into trouble throughout this season. Mihara admitted that she's not good at skating "Libertango" but she refused to change the short program because she wants to diversify her repertoire. The choreography of tango made it difficult for her to execute clean jumps. On the contrary, "Gabriel's Oboe" for her free program is just right for her and her free program score was over 140, which was the first time in this season.
But most dialects can't be written, or if it did, it would look really odd. I just find all these naming and labelling misleading, especially when translated into English (Some info out there are propaganda in nature - hence all these weird Wiki information about 'Taiwanese'. Do we really live in the age of whoever controls Wiki wins?) makes it really confusing for the west to grasp how things are, Things do not help when Taiwan itself can't seem to agree among themselves and have wildly passionate diversifying views on its own identity between north and south, relationship with Communist China, the nature of independence while being denied its own existence internationally. (Anyway... this is my last post on this matter. Sorry for going OT)