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Mikhail Kolyada

That explains the missing shoulder tassel. 😂

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I think he did a pretty good competition. There was a fall in the short and step outs in the free, but no pops, he seemed pretty well conditioned by the end of the program. He also seems to be on an upward trend this season so far. If he's going to peak with clean skates sometime, only he knows. But as I've said before, I'm not mad or worried about him anymore. Taking what I can get and enjoying the ride.
 
I am okay with their decision not to keep WC. I just do not like SL. However he seems to be able to focus on the jumps better now when the choreo is less complex. So maybe it is a right decision for this season, I don't know.
So happy with that beautiful 4sal-3T! I was beginning to think that he's got a mental block with 4sal and that it was never going to happen.
HIs PCS is concerning...
Russian media is unreal it is like he borrowed money from them and would not pay back ??!!
 
It was hard to go after Yuma skated so well too, so that was a cap to his PCS. I don't think they're going to hold him down if he keeps competing with a certain consistency. But we do have to admit that his last competitions have been quite decent, compared to his Olympic and post-Olympic season. At least his scores have been good.
 
Tutto said:
I am okay with their decision not to keep WC. I just do not like SL. However he seems to be able to focus on the jumps better now when the choreo is less complex. So maybe it is a right decision for this season, I don't know.
So happy with that beautiful 4sal-3T! I was beginning to think that he's got a mental block with 4sal and that it was never going to happen.
HIs PCS is concerning...
Russian media is unreal it is like he borrowed money from them and would not pay back ??!!
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Well, I don't know that's a plus, but the rest of the Russian men are generally treated by the media like they don't exist, except as a gray mass that's useless and should be replaced by Trusova (as if Trusova is consistent!).
 
Not sure where to comment on this, but I never had a specific SL program that I remembered other than Lipnitskya, so I don’t have a special attachment in the battle of the SL’s between Jason and Misha except just preferring Misha’s style—totally subjective. Then I remembered seeing Joshua Farris (tbh I was reminded of it in a recent best triple axels TSL vid where they pretty much put in everyone prolly to prevent fan wars, lol). To die. I recognize what I respond to in a skater. The extension. The balletic lines of Misha. The whole-body expression all of the way to the fingertips. I recognized the similarity right away (Curry-esque, as Br. Eurosport guy said). Joshua seemed like he had all the goods at 20, and working on the quad, sure to master it. Ofc my stanning was ultimately short-lived with the truncated career. He and Jason and Misha all roughly same age now.

Interesting, though, watching the vids from Joshua’s SL performance at 4CC, how the commentary differed from B.ESP2 and NBC. The UK guys (can anyone tell me who they are? It was 2015) let the piece unspool with very little commentary. They were transported, even talking about how you know a performance is magical when there is applause after the step sequence. It was jarring then listening to the NBC commentary with Terry, Johnny, and Tara yakking through the whole thing. Terry used the step sequence to give background on Joshua and Jason being same age. I’ve become so used to either watching the Peacock streams with no commentary or commentary in a language I don’t recognize and can tune out. (And apparently it’s good I can with some things a certain Russian commentator says.)

BTW, Tara and Johnny are on US fashion design show Project Runway tomorrow (11/11) and ppl seem to be excited about that. I don’t think it’s skating costumes. I think it’s what THEY will be wearing during the Olympics. I will be tuning in because I love the show—but I will be cringing the whole time.

Sigh. Imagine Misha with Jeffrey Buttle’s choreo. I guess we can’t have everything.

Anyway, sorry about this being so all over the place. But this FF is kind of my safe space. I really feel like Misha gets overly criticized on other threads.
 
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I liked the words of Mishin to Misha in one of the GP preview videos "you are burning on the inside, turn down the flame inside and light up the audience instead". A good description of Misha's somewhat introverted skating style that leads to him constantly being accused of not caring about skating and going through the motions.
 
Though the prevailing feeling is one of frustration, it has to be said it was quite magnificent the way he saved his LP today after 2 big mistakes. Well done Mika. We obviously do not know all what was going on with the preparation for this GP - maybe they were more seriously ill than it was reported? But it looks to me that the combined pressure of competing at home + a new quad did him in here. I am beginning to feel that I understand Mika better than Mr. Mishin does. It is an ugly thing to say I know... sigh...
My strategy for the season would have been : to put 4S in a LP only initially, make it work, then to add it to the SP as the second jump, with 4T 3T as the first element.
Confidence is everything. So far unfortunately we have to watch the repeat of the Oly season No1. 4S replaced 4lz but the rest is painfully familiar.
Dreaming of seeing a clean skate of gorgeous Nutcracker one day - I don't care one or two quads.
 
Tutto said:
Mark Hanratty (ISU commentator) said that Nutcracker is the best SP of this season. He was very appreciative of Mika's skating (unlike MIka's compatriots)
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Yeah, defending Misha from compatriots is becoming a part-time if not a full-time job again. Most of the recent complaints have been about how curt he is now with the media. I think he was told by Mishin to say as little as possible and that's his way of doing that. He needs practice in the "no comment" style of interacting with the journalists. Doesn't come naturally to him. In general, it's such a sorry sight what he's been turned into by everything that's happened, at least in the public sphere, I doubt he's greatly changed in his private life. He is actually social and talkative and animated and warm, but you can hardly guess nowadays. Still comes out sometimes when he's comfortable talking to someone. As for this season, you can see he's under tremendous pressure and it's only going to get worse. I am beginning to dread the Olympics.
 
vorravorra said:
Yeah, defending Misha from compatriots is becoming a part-time if not a full-time job again. Most of the recent complaints have been about how curt he is now with the media. I think he was told by Mishin to say as little as possible and that's his way of doing that. He needs practice in the "no comment" style of interacting with the journalists. Doesn't come naturally to him. In general, it's such a sorry sight what he's been turned into by everything that's happened, at least in the public sphere, I doubt he's greatly changed in his private life. He is actually social and talkative and animated and warm, but you can hardly guess nowadays. Still comes out sometimes when he's comfortable talking to someone. As for this season, you can see he's under tremendous pressure and it's only going to get worse. I am beginning to dread the Olympics.
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So am I, on the second thought, all we should be worry about is that the Olympics not cancelled, postponed etc.
after the latest developments with the GP Final fate hanging in the balance.
To fight for your place in the final, earn it and now to learn that it might be cancelled is tough, poor Mika and all the skaters.
Clinging to the hope it will go ahead somehow.:pray:
 
 
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