2026 Four Continents Championships Practice Reports

[aussie_SKATES]

Bradie Tennell is smashing out the triple lutz/triple toe combo with so much speed and attack today. Great to see.

 

[aussie_SKATES]

Mone Chiba did a full run-through of her short program and even with a slight wide swinging free leg on the landing of her triple flip, she was still able to throw the triple toe loop onto the end of her combination. She is another skater who makes the elements look like nothing when everything is working.

 

[aussie_SKATES]

Great to hear that Facebook friend, PJ Kwong is the official announcer for the event.

 

[lileychristie]

Thank you @aussie_SKATES for the detailed practice reports From a fellow aussie here

 

[lileychristie]

And thanks @labgoat for all the video links!! They are amazing

If only every practice in every competition can be recorded like this ey!

 

[aussie_SKATES]

We had a bit of a fanboy moment walking to the mixed zone spotting Oleg Makarov (who is here coaching Jacob Sanchez).

He was one of our favourite pair skaters (with Larissa Selezneva) back in the day.

 

[aussie_SKATES]

Thank you @aussie_SKATES for the detailed practice reports From a fellow aussie here

Our pleasure. We'll likely release a free e-zine with photos from the event in the next month or so, too. Stay tuned.

 

[aussie_SKATES]

It's raining teddy bears here, and with the audience so far away from the ice, it won't be long until one of the photographers around the ice takes one for the team.

 

[labgoat]

 

[labgoat]

 

[labgoat]

I am going to get some sleep
Watch here for practice videos and other information.
If possible post in the correct thread using the video icon - the one that looks like a film reel.

 

[labgoat]

When do the men practice? I want to see or hear about Shaidorov, Cha & Roman

 

[ramurphy2005]

When do the men practice? I want to see or hear about Shaidorov, Cha & Roman

They had one during the women's short.

Next practice session for the men starts during the FD.

 

[labgoat]

I love watching these lower teams - they often bring different ideas for music and programs

 

[aussie_SKATES]

When do the men practice? I want to see or hear about Shaidorov, Cha & Roman

I'm going to head over to the practice arena after dance to check out the men's short program run-throughs. There is about a 3 hour break between today's finals, with the women's free skate starting at 6.00pm

 

[aussie_SKATES]

Caught some of the women's free skating run-through earlier.

Chiba looks so much better today. Aoki and Nakai spent most of the session running through individual elements.

Bradie Tennell was pumping out the triple / triple combinations, as was Daleman and Everhardt. Andrews was her usual, cheerful self.

Haein Lee was also solid, but Samoldekina and Shin looked a bit flat today.

 

[labgoat]

Samoldekina and Shin looked a bit flat today

This is too bad - I have both in my predictions

 

[aussie_SKATES]

Here are some impressions from the Men's Singles Practice Groups I caught earlier today.

Unfortunately, I was late for the Team Canada group, and only saw Roman Sadovsky, Aleksa Rakiic and Wesley Chu winding down before stepping off the ice. Mikhail Shaidorov was wrapping up as well.

Team Korea featured Junhwan CHA who really does have a commanding presence on the ice. He skates really big and takes up the entire rink when he skates. Cha worked through his free skate, landing some beautiful triple axels, triple lutz/triple loop combos, and a huge quad toe/triple toe.

Australia's Douglas Gerber looked good and skated a full short program run through. His triple axel was a little sketchy, but the triple lutz/triple toe and solo triple flip looked strong.

Hyungyeom KIM and Jaekeun LEE looked good as well. Yu-Hsiang LI from TPE pops off the triple axel out of nowhere. It looks that easy.

Team Japan ran hot and cold. Sota Yamamoto was absolutely rock solid, knocking out the triple axel, quad sal and quad toe/triple toe like they were nothing. Kazuki Tomono started well with some excellent triple axels and quad sals, but struggled later with the quad toe.

Kao Muira was up and down as well. He would hit the triple axel / euler / triple flip, quad toe/triple toe, then fall out of them or fall completely on the next jumping pass attempts.

Team USA looked good. Jacob Sanchez has outstanding triple jump rotation, much like Matt Savoie. Towards the end of the session, he worked on a quad sal, and landed what looked like a slightly underrotated attempt at the end of the session.

Liam Kapikis looked relaxed, and worked mostly on the triple axel and some quad salchow attempts as well.

Tomoki Hiwatashi was hot and cold. Sometimes nailing the quad toe/triple toe and triple axel / euler / triple salchow, then doubling or stepping out on the next pass.

I didn't stay for Team China as I wanted to catch the Women's Free Skate in the main arena.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

@aussie_SKATES your practice reports are so appreciated! Thank you so much for doing them, and for @labgoat and others for posting videos!

 

[labgoat]

There are more interviews and awards pictures to be found here...
lots of interviews, note that not many are in english