Jason Brown

[xeyra]

I finally managed to find a working video of Jason's FS and that was so beautiful! His spins are to die for and that spiral! :luv17: Lovely performance. And he got both a PB SP and total score!! The 2016-2017 season may have had some stumbles in the middle because of injury but he recovered admirably to have an amazing Worlds showing.

 

[Arriba627]

Yeah

Honestly it looked like about 50% of the audience were Japanese!

I think I heard somewhere that 5,000 tickets were sold to Japanese fans. I wonder if that figure was true.

 

[TMC]

I think my favourite thing at these Worlds was the audience reaction to the chsq spiral. It was incredible in person, the video doesn't do it justice. That moment alone made waking up before 5 am for a week totally worth it!

 

[TMC]

I think I heard somewhere that 5,000 tickets were sold to Japanese fans. I wonder if that figure was true.

If that's the case, then more than 50% of the spectators were from Japan. I think we had 9500 people in the house on Friday.

 

[TT_Fin]

If that's the case, then more than 50% of the spectators were from Japan. I think we had 9500 people in the house on Friday.

It is going now off topic, but I think she/he meant the whole competition. But for men I think about the half was audience. And now I turn this back to Jason. Japanese audience really liked Jason, too.

 

[katmari]

I think my favourite thing at these Worlds was the audience reaction to the chsq spiral. It was incredible in person, the video doesn't do it justice. That moment alone made waking up before 5 am for a week totally worth it!

It is totally a show-stopper moment and I can imagine how much more spectacular it is in person. Selfishly, that's one of the reasons I would like him to do WTT -- it's one more chance for him to do a clean FS a la Skate America but with the addition of that glorious spiral.

I also loved how the audience knew Jason's spins so well that they started clapping in the middle of the change foot camel spin, before he even reached the wonderful final position.

Thinking of Jason and Japan, I wonder if he is going to return to THE ICE this summer. From what I recall, most skaters performed at least one program from the upcoming season in the show. It seems to be a good way to get some mileage for new programs in front of an audience without having to worry about judges.

 

[Tavi...]

I think my favourite thing at these Worlds was the audience reaction to the chsq spiral. It was incredible in person, the video doesn't do it justice. That moment alone made waking up before 5 am for a week totally worth it!

Yes, the roar after that spiral was unbelievable! And it is such a gorgeous addition to the program. I like it so much better than the spiral it replaced. I think it must be really hard because it took him from NHK until now to be able to do it with the full arm extension.

Re Japan: the ice show money would be great and he has a ton of fans there, plus he loves the country. So I imagine he will seriously consider any opportunity to compete / perform there. It must have been so tough for him not to perform his best at NHK. Actually, one of the noteworthy things from the Jackie Wong interview: he said it was hard for him to get closure on how he performed at NHK until he knew that it was due to injury, because he prides himself on his consistency.

But back to ice shows: people do debut programs there, but I think it's a different kind of skating - fewer jumps and shorter programs, which could impact his stamina for the first part of the season. As this is a pre Olympics summer, and with the technical work he needs to put in on the quads (while staying healthy), it will be interesting to see what he chooses to do. I think that as competitive as he is, he wants to be in medal contention at the Olys if it is at all realistic, and that means at minimum being able to do 4S and 4T (alone and in combo) in his sleep by December. He may not make it, but I'm sure that will be his goal.

Random thought: I wonder if USFS know what they have in him? There are very few skaters that audiences consistently go nuts for. He is one of them. For a sport looking to build an audience, IMO, he's a true gift.

 

[mintx]

It's definitely a balance for the top skaters between making money at shows and training. However, they are fortunate to have the opportunity.

 

[Spot]

His gala performance was great! Such fun and such flexibility (not a surprise)! It's wonderful to see that the audience loves him so much!

 

[TMC]

Speaking of audiences going nuts, the audience reaction to his introduction during the free skate was so excessive it made the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation's (lovely) commentator Jere Nurminen laugh out loud! He also made a point of talking about how basically unfair it is that Jason's half-bielmann only got 0.6 pts more than Kolyada's spin.

 

[Mrs. P]

With part of Team Japan ( "I <3 Team Japan! ): https://www.instagram.com/p/BSbUI1jAUhH/?taken-by=jasonbskates
And going old school -- the Jason Brown photo montage for the closing banquet: https://www.instagram.com/p/BSa8MXuAQJr/?taken-by=jasonbskates

Here is Evgenia Medvedeva's photo of the two of them: https://www.instagram.com/p/BSaK9k5hRq0/?taken-by=jmedvedevaj

With sunny boy @jasonbskates

ETA: Jackie Wong talks about Jason in his Worlds wrapup: http://www.rockerskating.com/news/2017/4/2/opining-on-2017-worlds-part-2-hanyu-the-goat-returns

Brown makes a statement of his own
In the short program, Jason Brown received the highest score ever given to a short program with no quad. What is notable about this is that he didn't dig himself into a hole that some expected him to because of the lack of difficulty. He drew the perfect spot in the skate order for that - skating last in the short program, he was able to take full advantage of the score escalation that we saw right after two flawless programs from Fernandez and Chan. Had he been in the previous group or even earlier in the final group, that 93.10 would likely have been more around 90-91.

The statement that Brown made was partly through the quality of his skating, which continues to be recognized as some of the best in the world, and partly through his practice the day after. I have never seen him practice with the kind of determination and motivation as he did - hitting multiple clean quad toes and attempting quad salchows. Now that he is healthy again and has figured out his triples, he can finally focus on getting the quad toe consistent and perhaps even adding a quad salchow to his repertoire. A Jason Brown with one quad in the short and three in the free is a Jason Brown who can contend for an Olympic medal next year.

And hey, Team USA now has three spots in PyeongChang thanks to him and Chen.

 

[Tavi...]

Entries for WTT are due by Friday so hopefully we'll find out then whether he's been selected. Since he's the top ranked US man in World Standings and also finished in the top 10 at Worlds, his selection seems likely, but the announcement is pretty unclear as to how much leeway USFS has in selecting the team members.

eta thx for posting that stuff Mrs. P. - I love that Jackie Wong is a Jason fan and sees his strengths and possibilities!

This IceNetwork article by Jean-Christophe Berlot had a lot of nice stuff to say about Jason and mentions that he landed quads in practice (scroll to the end) :

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/04/01/221829642/

 

[NoNameFace]

here I am after again re-watching Jason's programs, still in the mood

probably the only skater to receive such roars on spins and spirals (let alone those splits!), in SP I noticed how beautiful and inticately his arms/hands work looked, there was such incredible movement finish from im! And he's just so elegant on ice, there's something so classy and graceful in all his elements and way he skates, I'm like constantly in awe of that. And there's a CLASS about and around Jason, a class which you cannot buy - you have to either be born/gifted with it or work hard to get it.

 

[MaiKatze]

Anna quoting Jason on her Instagram. He did say some wise things, it seems!

 

[Yatagarasu]

Entries for WTT are due by Friday so hopefully we'll find out then whether he's been selected. Since he's the top ranked US man in World Standings and also finished in the top 10 at Worlds, his selection seems likely, but the announcement is pretty unclear as to how much leeway USFS has in selecting the team members.

I thought that it would simply be Nathan and Jason? What with that rule and all about any skater who placed within the first ten at Worlds not being able to just refuse, and perhaps suffering sanctions.

 

[Mrs. P]

Stumbled upon this thanks to my daughter, LOL. (Toddlers do the darnest things).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrdic7Shgs#t=28m45s

This is NBC commentary from Tanith Belbin White and Ryan Bradley. They are very complimentary and really do a good job explaining Jason's strategy and his strengths.

 

[Tavi...]

I thought that it would simply be Nathan and Jason? What with that rule and all about any skater who placed within the first ten at Worlds not being able to just refuse, and perhaps suffering sanctions.

Honestly, I have yet to figure it out! It's quite clear that if Jason or Nathan were selected and refused, they would be prohibited from being in ice shows for a certain period of time. But not so clear - at least to me - that they have to be selected in the first place. Anyway they likely will be the team. I think Jason for sure could use it for quad purposes.

 

[TMC]

Stumbled upon this thanks to my daughter, LOL. (Toddlers do the darnest things).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrdic7Shgs#t=28m45s

This is NBC commentary from Tanith Belbin White and Ryan Bradley. They are very complimentary and really do a good job explaining Jason's strategy and his strengths.

Oh wow thank you SO much! I was sure I would never get to see the NBC versions of this I think I owe Baby P a new pair of slippers every year for the next ten years for this

 

[TMC]

Honestly, I have yet to figure it out! It's quite clear that if Jason or Nathan were selected and refused, they would be prohibited from being in ice shows for a certain period of time. But not so clear - at least to me - that they have to be selected in the first place. Anyway they likely will be the team. I think Jason for sure could use it for quad purposes.

Well, Jason just commented on Medvedeva's photo on Instagram "see you soon"

 

[Tavi...]

Jason is still enjoying Finland!

https://twitter.com/jasonbskates/status/848999492120662016