You know the honest to God truth is I feel rather sorry for Patrick. Seriously, he seems like a people-pleaser, he wants to please everybody, he tries so hard but instead it always came out with him sticking his proverbial foot in his mouth. He reminds me of a puppy dog, wanting to be accepted, it's rather endearing in fact. I mean this with all sincereity.
The kid has my sympathies, I still recall how seeing him skate in person at the Olympics changed my mind about him, I couldn't believe he was that good. At that moment I understood what everybody meant that seeing skating *live* is a whole other ballgame. The short guys are not so impressive in person imho because they look like fleas on ice, except Patrick, his extensions (like Sasha Cohen) make him appear to be taller than what he actually is, that's what I noticed right off the bat. And then there was Zhenya (aka Evgeni Plushenko), there's nothing like it, he has this honest to God aura about him, it just radiates, like seeing a Romanov in person. I can't explain it, especially when he skates, nothing like it. And the tall lithe guys stick out like a beam of light (aka Abbott, Lysacek, and that one guy from Russia). Anyhow, just some late night ramblings...
p.s. that said, I'm a traditionalist, and believe that a fall is a fall is a fall. In Sonja Henie's day if you fell you were automatically out, "falls" were considered a weakness in her day, and it is to me as well, no matter how beautiful the skating (ala Sasha Cohen). That's what show skating is for imho.
Hopefully without leaving behind the other elements of his skating he's already known for.
Just go and skate with quad or NO quad!
indeed. :disapp: too. Chan has to be the most two-faced skater I've ever seen. What champion skater is he going to criticize next? He's already been through Joubert, Plushenko, Takahashi . . . . Someone's gonna have some serious egg on his face if he doesn't land a quad in the SP at Skate Canada in just a few hours from now.
