2024 Four Continents Men's Short Program

[moonvine]

Nationals did have sweepers.

They had no sweepers for Juniors, the Juniors had to gather up all their stuffies themselves. It looked like they finally corralled some volunteers or something for seniors, but it didn't look planned. I know they had sweepers for all the events in San Jose because I was there and Kirk went over to the sweeper and got my stuffie from her.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

26. Shun SATO
Libertango by Astor Piazzolla

4T+3T
4Lz
FCSp4
3A
CSSp4
StSq4
CCoSp4

SP: 99.20 (1st)

I was sure Shun had injured himself in practices, he started out the week nailing quads and the next day was only doing doubles. In fact, in his past two days of practices, his hardest jump was a 3Lo. Where this came from, I do not know, but this was a fantastic skate for him! I hope he was choosing to conserve energy and is actually fully healthy, although QQ Man said it seemed like he had a right leg injury and QQ Man is rarely wrong.

 

[elektra blue]

fantastic stuff! no Sakura cacti today

 

[Sai Bon]

SHUN!!! That was yummy!!!

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Wow Shun

 

[icewhite]

great
and people reporting an injury were just targeting my predictions

 

[anonymoose_au]

Wow! The Japanese men are having humdinger here! Fingers tightly crossed for Yuma!

Congratulations to Shun though, that was an amazing skate!

 

[Ichatdelune]

Well damn

 

[lileychristie]

Are we sure Shun is injured? He just landed quad toe and quad lutz effortlessly like that
I hope he's not pushing his body to breaking point though if he is really injured.....

 

[YuBluByMe]

Whew, Sato goes clean! That was the best he’s skated that program. That better be first. Seriously injured my butt.

 

[moonvine]

This is crazy

 

[skatingguy]

Was Sato sandbagging this week? Doesn't seem to be injured. Program needs a lot more performance to really sell it.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

They had no sweepers for Juniors, the Juniors had to gather up all their stuffies themselves. It looked like they finally corralled some volunteers or something for seniors, but it didn't look planned. I know they had sweepers for all the events in San Jose because I was there and Kirk went over to the sweeper and got my stuffie from her.

Seniors was always planned to have sweepers, juniors I won't even comment on. I know, I was there.

 

[Sai Bon]

YUMA my boy, do your thing!!!

 

[lileychristie]

Shun's coach being way more excited than Shun himself

 

[icewhite]

that reaction

 

[elektra blue]

his coach is more excited than Shun best coach reaction ever.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Gooo Yuma!!!

Noooo why is my SBS stream putting an ad right here? It didn't do that once when the Zamboni break was happening...

I'll give them props though...it did cut back to the stream in time for Yuma to start even though it said I had 45 seconds of ads left.

Wow...that Quad Sal was so easy!

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Yuma

 

[anonymoose_au]

How exciting, all the chaps want to win this

Look at Yuma killing that step sequence like a boss!