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I said: If Ross get Mirai-ed, he would get his own eponymous verb, because the Mirai action is bumping off the bronze medallist and not the silver medallist.

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Well for me...getting Ross’d would mean getting divorced :dance2:

#FRIENDS
 
Why is everyone blaming Jason's "coaching team" for his technical deficiencies? I rarely hear that used as an excuse for other skaters. In any case, perhaps his current team was not helping him learn a quad well, but the numerous mistakes on triple jumps he used to be able to do was on totally on him.

Have you looked at her other skaters? They are all mediocre, to put it nicely. I don't think Kori is a good technical coach at all. What is a coach there for if not to help the skater improve? They clearly have a close relationship, but sometimes that isn't enough. It's like being coached by your parents, they may love you more than anyone but that doesn't mean they are good jump coaches (see: Andrew Torgashev). His jumps have been regressing for awhile and I don't see how that is going to change if he doesn't try a different tactic.
 
Jason is incredibly well-trained. I don't think that's the issue. And having watched both 20-minute warm-ups prior to both segments -- he can do the 3A and a nice one at that. Between those two sessions plus the 6-minute warm-up, he easily did a dozen plus 3As, including a few in 3A-3T, fully-rotated, all on one foot. That is what makes what happened yesterday even more heartbreaking. I know it's hard to believe, but I saw it for myself.

The quad wasn't as consistent in practice, but he's kinda screwed if he doesn't include it at least in the FS. He is probably just as tired as the rest of us of being known as the "quadless" skater. It was risk and it didn't work.

I just think it hasn't been his season. I don't agree that he's suddenly over as a skater because of one really bad season. Honestly, while the jumps have been a struggle, there is no question he has improved in skating skills, flow, etc. He was the class of the field here.

I hope Jason isn't picked for the Olympics. The amount of consternation would be unreal and I don't think he's made a case anyway. Last season was understandable. He has a FAR better GP/Challenge fall than any of the other guys in the U.S. That wasn't the case this season. Not to mention the pressure on him that would mount on him due to such a decisions -- I saw Miki Ando (who also placed 6th at Japanese Nationals that year) crumble at the Olympics in 2006.

I agree with all of what you said but I'd still be sad not to see him at the Olympics... :(
I hope that he gets worlds.
 
Hahahaha Jimmy Ma! People are loosing their minds. Maybe this will be good for figure skating? My husband asked me yesterday "Did I really hear someone skating to that song or was I dreaming last night?"

We are but to thank Jimmy Ma for going viral and showing the general public how cool FS is! He might get even more views than Evgenia Medvedeva's Sailor Moon because everyone knows that song (unfortunately) :rofl:
 
Whose is your source? Who is your DeepThroat?

Looks like what I said earlier predicted this.

I said: If Ross get Mirai-ed, he would get his own eponymous verb, because the Mirai action is bumping off the bronze medallist and not the silver medallist.

The sky has turned as black as Nathan's Vera Wang with white stripes across the horizon.

^ LOLOLLOLLO
Indeed getting Ross minerd would be its own verb. At what point should here be a golden skate user manual created with commonly used words and their definitions?
Carrots
Nagasu'd
Getting served a salad

Ross miner'd could be an epic phrase. Kind of like getting Rock Ross'd.
 
Sorry I am not American. But, yes. my mind is in the gutter of late. I blame the company I keep. :scard8:

I don't blame you.

D**pThr**t was extremely famous in the 1980s and 1990s to mean 'who is your secret source' because no knew who he was. But after it was revealed to be Mark Felt in 2005, the term and the mystery that is associated with it dwindled.
 
I have changed my mind on this. If the USFSA doesn't go with the three medalists, then Adam should replace Vincent. Adam definitely has a strong body of work. Vincent's is less impressive and, since he has bronze at Nationals and Ross has silver, I think Adam should replace Vincent for the Olympics. If the federation wants to give Vincent more experience, then send him to Worlds in place of Ross.
 
I agree with all of what you said but I'd still be sad not to see him at the Olympics... :(
I hope that he gets worlds.

I don't think he has a case to get Worlds. I think he'll get 4CC. I think he needs to slay there and then reset for next season. I expect he'll continue at least for one year -- and I think the field is such that he has good shot at making a world team next season. Much of the field will (thinking Grant, Adam, Ross maybe Max) retire. If all those guys are gone, basically you just have Vincent and Nathan left.

I know Jason is "old" compared to those two, but he's 23. Patrick, Javier certainly opted to continue.
 
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We are but to thank Jimmy Ma for going viral and showing the general public how cool FS is! He might get even more views than Evgenia Medvedeva's Sailor Moon because everyone knows that song (unfortunately) :rofl:

Maybe just don't tell people he won't be at the olympics if they ask. We can say something like "well you'll have to watch to find out" and then they will be forced to watch figure skating. By the time they realize he isn't there, they will be hooked on! We'll have converted them. They will go bed at night and see 3 turns behind their eyelids. Maybe they'll find some skaters they love and decide they need to know their fate. Eventually they'll feel like they're carrying this new obsession all by themselves, and kind of feel lonely. At that point we can tell them about Goldenskate. By then there will be no turning back, because this community is irresistibly fun.
There is no end to what can be accomplished here.
 
Maybe just don't tell people he won't be at the olympics if they ask. We can say something like "well you'll have to watch to find out" and then they will be forced to watch figure skating. By the time they realize he isn't there, they will be hooked on! We'll have converted them. They will go bed at night and see 3 turns behind their eyelids. Maybe they'll find some skaters they love and decide they need to know their fate. Eventually they'll feel like they're carrying this new obsession all by themselves, and kind of feel lonely. At that point we can tell them about Goldenskate. By then there will be no turning back, because this community is irresistibly fun.
There is no end to what can be accomplished here.

I'm crying :laugh2:

Let this be the first phase of our plan to make figure skating take over the world.
 
Prediction:

Olympics:
1. Chen
2. Zhou
3. Rippon

4CC:
1. Miner
2. Hochstein
3. Brown

Worlds:
1. Chen
2. Miner
3. Zhou

I think that would be a mistake. They need Adam on the World team to keep three spots. Adam on both teams. Replace Zhou with Miner for the Olympics and replace Miner with Zhou for Worlds.
 
Му Prediction:

Olympic team: Adam, Nathan, Vincent
Four continents: Ross, Grant, Jason
Worlds: Adam, Nathan, Vincent
 
I'm not sure if they are more difficult but they do look better to me than the "ordinary" ones (and at the very least he does both unlike many skaters who almost exclusively do ordinary crossovers as transitions). You don't like them?
But he does a variety of transitions, no? Take a look at the twizzles, spread eagles, turns, and especially that entrance into the camel spin after the step sequence :drama: :gclap: :gclap: :gclap:

Oh, yes, I like his transitions. It's just that he sometimes looks like he's trying to catch a bus with these crossovers [not always :D].
My favourite program of his is the New York State of mind SP, I found it pretty brilliantly choreographed, and he had some success with it.
 
By the criterias, the team should be Nathan, Vincent, Adam. Ross Miner can't be selected because of one competition.
But since criterias aren't holy Bible.....

Why can't he? Nationals has the most weight in the criteria and he was second. Vincent has one challenger series medal and he won Junior Worlds. Do those low tier medals plus a bronze outweigh a silver at the big event? I think at most it's a tie, so Ross should go the Olympics and Vincent to Worlds. Vincent needs more experience. If he is the real deal, he will get another shot at the Olympics. Let's face it, the only US male skater who has a chance at a medal at the Olys is Nathan. So it doesn't matter where Ross ends up. It does matter at Worlds, which is why Adam needs to be on the World team. And Adam's strong showing on the GP and other Fall events means he should be on the Olympic team, too.
 
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