2025 Canadian Nationals: SR Women's Free Program | Jan 19, 2025

[figureskatingandrainbows]

oh Amy... the jumps were a mess but she is so gorgeous, her skating quality is so good and she feels the music with every little movement of her body, and you would never know about the mistakes with how she kept up the performance until the end

 

[rain]

Amy Shao Ning Yang is perhaps my favourite skater here. Naturally musical. Gorgeous posture and flow. It's really too bad she's not a better jumper, because she has everything else. Effortless flow and glide, and she's not stiff. The choreography looks so natural.

 

[4everchan]

None, just a ! and e call on her two Flips, plus two level 2 spins. 4 points lower PCS than at Challenge with a fall though - And while I completely get her deservedly receiving lower PCS than for example Marie-France, this was not a worse performance for Uliana than at Challenge.

Judging being inconsistent from competition to competition is an issue in skating, not just in Canada.

To be fair, Marie-France gave us such a performance, if I were a judge, I would have scored uliana lower than MF d'amour here. This is actually what I see on the score card. This was not it. Yesterday was even better performance wise.

 

[elektra blue]

those girls are too young to be in menopause, what fillers do you have in Canada...i ask for a friend

 

[saine]

those girls are too young to be in menopause, what fillers do you have in Canada...i ask for a friend

It's the protein from the chicken.

 

[Cutting the ice]

At Denis Ten this season (her only international in 2024-2025 where she finished in 4th place), Uliana received 114.4 for the free - with 56.86 PCS (compared to 47.87 today) - average from all judges was in the 7's. Her TCS wasn't as good there with some little carrots and edge calls. But this strengthens my argument I believe. She also scored well in the short (64.43)

 

[soccerjc77]

She got dinged on PCS.

The international judge love her. I don't know why in Canada she is dinged in PCS. Because she was great live !

 

[NoNameFace]

It's the protein from the chicken.

Ridiculous side note, but - I want rhat chicken plushie!!!

 

[4everchan]

The international judge love her. I don't know why in Canada she is dinged in PCS. Because she was great live !

We saw different skaters I guess. She wasn't engaged nor connecting.

 

[RatedPG]

I hope @RatedPG is here. Grace then Amy later

Yup. I’m watching. Two of my three faves in this group. Breken in the next group.

Grace - Lovely performance. She listened to me too. She went for a single 3T. Four triples in total. This is the best she could have skated. A shame she didn’t surpass 140. That spin in the SP cost her. 17th place finish
Redemption skate!! I’m so proud of her!!
Next step for her is to add the 3F she has been training and to add a 2F to her 2A eu 2S instead.

Amy - I knew that the Challenge Win was a one off. I still watch her SP and FP from Challenge cause it was so spectacular. The addition of the 3F is what is tricky for her. Disappointing result here. But, her artistry is so beautiful

 

[yuumagical]

Good morning everyone! Glad to be here and forget about the impending doom in my country for a moment!

 

[RatedPG]

Uliana leads as expected. Excellent jumps, but, artistry has a lot of room to develop. She is lucky she skated at Denis Ten (178) score. To me, if she lands everything, she is a 170 max skater. I hope she works on her skating skills. I’m seeing some improvements. But, they are small and not big improvements.

To me, the second flight plus Hetty is the battle for junior Worlds.
Uliana leading
This flight:
(Kara, Megan, Kaiya and Breken all in this flight of skaters)
Hetty in final flight (1st skater)

I’m excited!!

First flight was good already, with some really good skates!!

 

[elektra blue]

Good morning everyone! Glad to be here and forget about the impending doom in my country for a moment!

yours is still a democracy, do never forget that, you have the means to fight for what it's right, but what do i know? i'm a comrade (don't lose hope, you're not alone)

 

[elektra blue]

emo Abba, Kara?

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

A really great skate from Kara, those jumps were very nice! I would have liked to see a little bit more speed and ice coverage, especially in the steps, but she skated with great poise throughout the program and I loved seeing her match the energy of the music in the choreo sequence.

 

[FlossieH]

That was the best I've seen from Kara for a long time.

 

[saine]

After how rough her free skates have gone earlier this season, this was great for Kara

 

[elektra blue]

that was a nice performance

 

[EdgeCall]

I would have preferred the original over this neurocover, but the performance was very nice indeed.

 

[4everchan]

Kara delivered. Right move for her to leave champs. I hope some others will get the memo