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2024-25 South Korean Figure Skating

RatedPG

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Jia Shin again, the class of Korean ladies figure skating. Just unstoppable minus that last popped jump. She landed her triple triple combo, in the second half of the free skate. So, as mentioned, she should go for the combo as last jumping element in the SP.

Yuseong, I think she landed her 3A 👏
Not sure if it was fully rotated. She fell on her combo and in a single jumping element. Also, for someone with a good axel, she seems to struggle with that 2A 2A sequence.

Nayeon was my favourite. So, of course she takes Minsol’s position of being robbed off the podium 😞 ; I would have had her in second place, overall.

The Kim sisters have nice programs for them. My only issue is their jumps are tiny and at Junior Worlds, the judges agreed with me. Korean federation would have had three spots had they accurately judged the competitions last season to score Minsol over Yujae based on jumps and PCS.

Seojin 👏
So happy she skated and placed in 8th. Seeing her once in JGP is all I can ask for.

The fifth place Korean girl was okay. 6-7 and 9th will get lost in the international circuit. But, it will be good exposure for them.

Rooting for Nayeon, Jeongyul and Seojin this year.
 

Ichatdelune

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Things of note:

Men
- Minkyu (rightfully) got another ! on his lutz, while the Korean tradition of being extra harsh on flips continue with Jaekeun and Hyunseo with an ! and Donghan with an e.
- No URs, only a q for Habin's 4T. And that might've changed had he managed to land the thing, so either the tech panel didn't have an appetite for carrots or our junior men are fully rotating their jumps.
- Habin wins TES, while Minkyu runs away with the PCS as expected.
- One thing to work on would be spins, no one got all level 4s on all 3 spins.

Women
- Again the Korean tradition of being very much harsh on flips continue, only 4 girls have no edge issues, and except for Yuseong who got an ! on her lutz everybody else got an ! (or in the case of Yujae, Nayeon, and Eun, an e) on their flips. But weirdly Jiyu, who actually has a flip edge problem, was one of the girls who did not get anything on her flip. :shrug:
- Yuseong's 3A was called rotated, Yujae's was given an <.
- Quite a lot of q's and URs, Nayeong got hammered with them and thus got a much lower score than expected. The only two without them are Jia and Nayeon.
- About half of the girls got all level 4s on their spins, and Jia was not one of them. She and the others will take care of the issue asap, I assume.
- Seojin got her due PCS, hers is the 5th highest and she fell twice. Of course Jia is the runaway winner, with Yuseong in second ( :unsure: ) and Yujae just managing to get in front of Nayeon by 0.27.
- I have no idea how Harin got higher PCS than Gunhee but that's why I'm not allowed to judge. Would've liked to compare Jiyu's but with three falls her PCS was naturally destroyed here, maybe next time...
- Yujae wins the TES with Yuseong in second, considering the fact that while Yuseong landed her 3A she did fall twice the girls did not have a good TES day overall.
- Harin got higher TES than Nayeon and Jeongyul, Nayeon mostly because of her last spin getting a V.

Ice Dance
- Yoo/Grant are very new and green and it shows both to the viewer and on the protocols. Not exactly sure how they didn't meet requirements for the choreo slide but they did.
- Breau/Lee were surprisingly good minus the twizzles, and while DSp2 could be improved DiStW2+DiStM2 and OFTW3+OFTM2 are quite nice. Also level 4's on both lifts!
 
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rikas4sal

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Does anyone know exactly what happened to Heesue? I know she has been struggling and maybe taking some time off is not a bad thing, but I hope she isn't seriously injured :/
 

Daniel1998

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I've got my eye on Nayeon this season. I thought I was getting another standard Bolero program and was preparing for four minutes of torture but the music surprised me. The quality of her jumps is great, should be getting higher GOE than the twins when landed. Hope she can deliver on the JGP!
 

4everchan

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Okay who gave Minkyu Singin' in the Rain was it you PChiddy
Do we even know if Chiddy is still working with Minkyu ? Was that a one time deal or a real association ? Seems to me that Chiddy is not very involved with skating nowadays but I could be wrong.

I think it's good for younger skaters to try this style though I agree it wouldn't be my first choice for him.
 

Ichatdelune

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I think it's good for younger skaters to try this style though I agree it wouldn't be my first choice for him.
I also think it's good for Minkyu to try programs other than classical/lyrical, but Singin' in the Rain is 1)a warhorse which gives him two warhorse programs in one season 2)very theatrical in the mime-y, bright smiles all around sense and I would've preferred him with more subtle choreo which would've let his sincere, calm performance style (and personality too, if I may claim to know what he's like) shine better and 3)limited in the ways the choreo and portrayal can go (how far can you stray from Gene Kelly or Kurt Browning?) and thus doesn't give him much to put his own flavor in.
Like, I'm for Minkyu with a bright, energetic program, but I went like 'oh god I know what's going to play and what he's going to do' the moment he went into his starting position during morning practice and sadly I was not surprised. Whoever decided on this, whether it was Patrick or another choreographer or his coaches or even Minkyu himself, I would like to tell them that Minkyu deserves much better. I can't think of alternatives right now as I'm beat from the two days of moving back and forth from the rink, but there is so much lively music out there and surely there are enough songs among them that would've made me smile and say "Wow I love this new side of Minkyu."

I was brimming with joy after the men ended their morning practice on Saturday because I had seen so much good stuff (Jaekeun's Movement, Minkyu's Mooonlight Sonata steps, Hyunseo's La Boheme being the top 3) but I did not feel the same after Sunday's morning practice. Overall I wasn't much in love with our boys' free skates, Hyunseo's was okay but it was a rehash and Habin could grow with his but so far he has work to do. And I did not want to have these kind of thoughts. Not every choice will be to my tastes, that I know well, but like how I was able to enjoy Jaekeun's R&J or Sihyeong's Cyrano while not into the music I would've liked to be like "Okay I'm not the biggest fan of the music but he's doing good work with it."

Okay this is getting long, I have so much thoughts but I'll stop torturing you with them. Maybe I need to write a recap commentary of JGP selections somewhere...
 

4everchan

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I also think it's good for Minkyu to try programs other than classical/lyrical, but Singin' in the Rain is 1)a warhorse which gives him two warhorse programs in one season 2)very theatrical in the mime-y, bright smiles all around sense and I would've preferred him with more subtle choreo which would've let his sincere, calm performance style (and personality too, if I may claim to know what he's like) shine better and 3)limited in the ways the choreo and portrayal can go (how far can you stray from Gene Kelly or Kurt Browning?) and thus doesn't give him much to put his own flavor in.
Like, I'm for Minkyu with a bright, energetic program, but I went like 'oh god I know what's going to play and what he's going to do' the moment he went into his starting position during morning practice and sadly I was not surprised. Whoever decided on this, whether it was Patrick or another choreographer or his coaches or even Minkyu himself, I would like to tell them that Minkyu deserves much better. I can't think of alternatives right now as I'm beat from the two days of moving back and forth from the rink, but there is so much lively music out there and surely there are enough songs among them that would've made me smile and say "Wow I love this new side of Minkyu."

I was brimming with joy after the men ended their morning practice on Saturday because I had seen so much good stuff (Jaekeun's Movement, Minkyu's Mooonlight Sonata steps, Hyunseo's La Boheme being the top 3) but I did not feel the same after Sunday's morning practice. Overall I wasn't much in love with our boys' free skates, Hyunseo's was okay but it was a rehash and Habin could grow with his but so far he has work to do. And I did not want to have these kind of thoughts. Not every choice will be to my tastes, that I know well, but like how I was able to enjoy Jaekeun's R&J or Sihyeong's Cyrano while not into the music I would've liked to be like "Okay I'm not the biggest fan of the music but he's doing good work with it."

Okay this is getting long, I have so much thoughts but I'll stop torturing you with them. Maybe I need to write a recap commentary of JGP selections somewhere...
just be happy, once it's done, it's done... next year, there will be another program and they won't go that route anymore ;)
 

4everchan

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Minsol Kwon is on the interim entry list for the Skate Ontario October Sectional Series, listed for the Granite Club.

I have no idea if this is for a country change or just competing while training locally.
For readers of this thread, who won't necessarily go to the skate Ontario thread : Minsol is not listed as representing Korea while some others are listed as representing other countries (Sweden, Czechia) etc...

It still doesn't mean anything but at the same time... at some point, something will need to be said.
 

Jumping_Bean

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So he basically threw the two girls under the bus to keep from getting in trouble for sneaking into their room. Probably under pressure from his parents. Plus he gets no suspension at all.
He was (and still is) below the age of consent. There was no world, even if he admitted to the relationship from the start, where the adult in this relationship was not going to be in trouble.

That's the risk you take when you enter a relationship with a 14-year-old at 18, when despite everyone's advice, you keep seeing them after you have become a legal adult, and canoodle with them at a National training camp while drinking.

Not saying the length of the suspension isn't questionable, but let's also not act like Haein is somehow a completely innocent, non-acting party in this, because that would be Young.
And she wasn't thrown under the bus by Skater C (or by Haein for that matter either). Apart from her being there and also drinking, nobody except the "investigators" said anything about any other misbehaviour committed by her. Nobody, including the three skaters involved, seems to know what she supposedly did, apart from drinking.
 
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