Katya Kiddo was fun
protocols say yes... not the greatest GOE on some spin but the jumps were all very cleanWow!! Good job Maddie!!! She must have skated clean!
You are actually serious, right? She was painful to watch...Today's SP showed a mature Young You. Her style is so much more refined now. WOW! Kudos for working on other aspects of her skating in the last while to keep improving overall as an athlete. I hope she regains the 3-3 soon !
I enjoyed her skating. YMMVYou are actually serious, right? She was painful to watch...
All the Korean women video links are in the REWATCH thread (and Maddie Schizas' in the comment)I'd really like to watch this but no videos on YouTube yet. Yet another season of ISU not doing a thing to promote the events or make watching them accessible.
A few thoughts after watching the top 4.
Maddie looked great. Especially compared to last season. Her program is a real step up for her. Lots of cool moments, and the fierce music is perfect for her personality and skating.
Chaeyeon Kim - I felt like she needs to get lessons in how to perform jazz from Wenjing Sui stat. There's some good choreographic moves that go with the music, but she does not have a shred of jazzy feel. I wonder how much say the Korean skaters get in their musical choices.
Haein Lee - I felt the same about her, in that I really wondered if she had much choice in picking this music. I loved the step sequence at the end, and don't mind the dramatic chorus per se, but I'm not sure this is really expressing her heart. And the back half of her combo looked underrotated in real time - I haven't looked at protocols so I have no idea where the judges came down on it.
And speaking of heart, Young You's cover (of a Roxette song) rather distracted me, since they chopped up the lyrics quite a bit. Unlike the other two, this did seem like something a young woman her age might want to skate to.