2021 Lombardia: Men's Short Program

[el henry]

Well, today I have learned that something is terribly wrong here...with my predictions.

You and me both

And I supposedly like and follow the men. My predictions: hahahahaha <deep breath> hahahaha

and I had Litventsev at least in the top five and went back and edited him out

 

[TontoK]

Someone must have the absolute worst record in the prediction game.

I think I'm that person.

 

[Jeanie19]

Someone must have the absolute worst record in the prediction game.

I think I'm that person.

No I think many of us are hurting on this competition. And it's not over, the free will see some movement.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Oh noooo! I've woken up and gone to watch the rest of the men, but the video has been blocked!

I don't know who SME are, but they've clearly never heard of fair use and I don't like them.

ETA: I've just read through the thread! Yaro, noooo! I hope it is just his skate and he's not injured, he's awesome and I love him.

At least Moris is in 4th, I have him in 1st, maybe he can still do it!

Double ETA: Crisis averted found Moris's SP on Youtube I should have known it'd be there - hopefully I can track down Larry L's and the others too!

 

[Tavi...]

Oh noooo! I've woken up and gone to watch the rest of the men, but the video has been blocked!

I don't know who SME are, but they've clearly never heard of fair use and I don't like them.

ETA: I've just read through the thread! Yaro, noooo! I hope it is just his skate and he's not injured, he's awesome and I love him.

At least Moris is in 4th, I have him in 1st, maybe he can still do it!

Double ETA: Crisis averted found Moris's SP on Youtube I should have known it'd be there - hopefully I can track down Larry L's and the others too!

I think SME is Sony Music Entertainment.

As to fair use, at least here in the US I don’t think it means what you think it does. In the US, fair use is a legal term of art providing that under limited circumstances, certain people or groups can use a brief amount of copyrighted material (for example 15-30 seconds of music or a video) in a limited non commercial way, without paying a license fee to the owner.

 

[Ichatdelune]

I failed to wake up from my power nap (yet again, no thank you cold) and had to catch up via kind Youtube uploaders (no thanks to you Sony Music Ent.), short thoughts:

1)Well that was a men's event
2)I didn't expect Vladimir Litvintsev to lead but see 1)
3)Adam Siao Him Fa's Star Wars program is still fun, now if only he could add finesse to his movements
4)Speaking of finesse, I remember Luc Maierhofer from JGP and he is still very much a polished skater, if he had a 3A he could be Austria's top man
5)I still wish my favourite Estonian man would ditch that 4Lz (like he lands one out of twelve attempts) but he is still my favourite Estonian man
6)I'm still mixed on Signor Grassl's program, while I know he has different choreo and a different style I still associate the music with Kolyada and his lovely program (that I still wish he kept )
7)Maybe Elektra is right and Morisi K is Daniil G's muse, while still not quite to my taste it was better than most Daniil G programs

 

[auser]

Oh noooo! I've woken up and gone to watch the rest of the men, but the video has been blocked!

I don't know who SME are, but they've clearly never heard of fair use and I don't like them.

ETA: I've just read through the thread! Yaro, noooo! I hope it is just his skate and he's not injured, he's awesome and I love him.

At least Moris is in 4th, I have him in 1st, maybe he can still do it!

Double ETA: Crisis averted found Moris's SP on Youtube I should have known it'd be there - hopefully I can track down Larry L's and the others too!

This YouTuber has several Men SP videos here :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmZ4GAFVFeOquqp2jNv1Zg/videos?view=0&sort=dd

Sorry, I didn't find any for Larry L.

 

[anonymoose_au]

As to fair use, at least here in the US I don’t think it means what you think it does.

You're probably right...it just seems unfair though! I just wanna enjoy some skating Sony

This YouTuber has several Men SP videos here

Thank you so much! Sad about Larry though... I always read his last name as Loop Lover and feel he should get more respect for that

Has there ever been a modern skater called Axel I wonder

 

[auser]

This YouTuber has several Men SP videos here :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmZ4GAFVFeOquqp2jNv1Zg/videos?view=0&sort=dd

Sorry, I didn't find any for Larry L.

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You're probably right...it just seems unfair though! I just wanna enjoy some skating Sony



Thank you so much! Sad about Larry though... I always read his last name as Loop Lover and feel he should get more respect for that

Has there ever been a modern skater called Axel I wonder

I take it back... Larry's video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17RdNBtWHU
Agree about his name .

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Has there ever been a modern skater called Axel I wonder

Yes, in one of the recent JGPs there was a boy called Axel!

 

[dorispulaski]

Has there ever been a modern skater called Axel I wonder

Strange you should ask. There is a French Junior skater:

Axel Ahmed FRA
SP: "Diego" by Johnny Halliday;
"Libre dans sa tête" by Johnny Halliday; choreo by Nathalie Depouilly
FS: "Gentleman" (from "Lupin" soundtrack) by Mathieu Lamboley;
"Coffre-fort' (from "Lupin" soundtrack) by Mathieu Lamboley;
"Diamants" (from "Lupin" soundtrack) by Mathieu Lamboley; choreo by Nathalie Depouilly

 

[anonymoose_au]

Hey the Youtuber heard us!

Larry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17RdNBtWHU

 

[Tavi...]

You're probably right...it just seems unfair though! I just wanna enjoy some skating Sony



Thank you so much! Sad about Larry though... I always read his last name as Loop Lover and feel he should get more respect for that

Has there ever been a modern skater called Axel I wonder

I can absolutely and totally understand wanting to watch skating and being frustrated when big companies block videos for copyright violations.

 

[eppen]

Watched bit of this between Russian tests. I still confess my love for Selevko's body movement and arms and ability to do differents kinds of movement styles. Hope he gets the jumps under control some day. Both choreos are great and I do think he got lowballed in the PCS (but probably bcs he botched those jumps). Arlet Levandi does those Benoit choreos with conviction. I like what my neighbors down south are doing with the guys.

Siao Him Fa and Grassl are beginning to look like skaters after years of sloppy, ugly movement and elements. The Daft Punk was a bit meh (Siao Him Fa). Aerosmith is in the same rock cliche group titled "downright embarrassing" with Scorpions and AC/DC (Grassl). Litvintsev was channelling his inner Josefin Taljegård in that Joker, but she is way way better at it. BUT has to be said, I got his theme without the purple jacket, costume changes declaring the theme midway, and/or voiceovers.

Voiceovers explaining the programs seem to be this year's thing. I will soon start screaming every time I hear one. If the music and possible lyrics with a costume are not enough (the actual movement rarely has anything to do with the theme) to let us know what is going on, a voiceover is not going to make a great difference. Maybe rather just underline the general unsuccessfulnes of the whole package.

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