Ladies LP - actual competition

[amateur]

Binshu Xu, CHN

Princess Monoke soundtrack

3lz fall
2a
3lo overrotated
1s messy
2f opened up messy
lovely layback, slowed down in Bielmann at end
3t-2t
spiral not bad
2a-2t

warm applause at end
not particulary strong on musical expression, pleasant bits here and there, but overall stiff, not memorable

72.62 -- 121.00 -- 7th place

 

[Spun Silver]

Rachael!!!!

 

[R.D.]

Alissa keeps on improving. She is such a gorgeous skater. She is going to skate well at the Worlds.

cross fingers, knock wood !!

 

[tully]

Go Flattomatic

 

[Wrlmy]

no 3-3 from Rachael. Interesting.
Clean skate aside from doubled salchow. So....3rd?

 

[Dodhiyel]

I do believe Rachael has been working on her carriage. Atta girl!!!

 

[Medusa]

Did she double the Salchow?

And one Flip looked really underrotated to me...

 

[R.D.]

I think Rachel needs a more upbeat piece. The current FS I don't think shows her off at her best.

 

[bubbleyum]

hmmmmm... rachel really needs to work on her spins...

 

[Spun Silver]

Perfect - and flat. Strange, but probably very successful.

 

[Bruin714]

Flatt goes clean!

 

[R.D.]

Did she double the Salchow?

it appeared so to me (well, don't know what jump it was but she doubled something)

 

[fourclover]

Ewww, I don't like Rachel's music... all that jangling noise.

 

[2-skaters]

Go Flattomatic

not so much
blue dress - does nothing for her
jumps ok othe than popped 3s into 2 s slow skater - spins were slow as was spiral sequence - thought that step sequence went well to music - flutznalthough her last spin went in two directions

 

[museksk8r]

Well, Flatt had some traveling violations on her spins and she needs major improvement in her expression/performance execution and interpretation, but her speed appeared a little better today to me, or it may be the poor quality of justin.tv playing with my eyes. Anyway, as usual, she got the job done on the jumps. Rachael into the lead!

BTW, it's so difficult to determine UR jumps by watching justin.tv. I wish the quality could be better, but it's better than having nothing to watch.

 

[amateur]

Rachael Flatt, USA

La Mer, Debussy

2a good
3f-2t
3lz (i thought flip)
3f-2lo
spins slow
2s
3lo good
3flutz-2t-2lo
spin in 2 directions

program a bit boring, yet i find her very watchable and think she has loads of potential... there is a certain spark there. I really prefer her to Czisny for this aspect. She obviously needs lots or work on certain things, but I like her.
Couldn't distinguish any of her lutzes from her flips though

107.39 -- 162.82 -- 1st

 

[Wrlmy]

Wow Flatt into 1st!!

 

[feraina]

Wow, this is a really badly choreographed program for Rachael. It starts off with some attack and excitement (though no 3-3), and then the whole middle section was slow spins and spiral sequence, and all the excitement fizzes out. And that initial sense of attack really never comes back again, even though she lands some more jumps (the 2S doesn't help). Then a really screwed up camel in the opposite direction before the final spin. I think Rachael needs to work on her spins and spirals. With these long, complicated spins required by CoP, she can't sustain a LP with continual excitement with only just jumps.

She beats Alissa though, with less technical content than at National's! I think all that favoritism at National's is being exposed right here.

 

[R.D.]

program a bit boring, yet i find her very watchable and think she has loads of potential... there is a certain spark there. I really prefer her to Czisny for this aspect.

I have to agree. It's obvious to me that the music is dragging her through the program.

 

[demarinis5]

Good for Rachael into first. She was scored correctly imo.