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Nathan Chen

sheetz said:
Vincent's jump BV is slightly higher at 100.01.

BTW, I use this site to do the calculations
http://fisk8-score-calc.herokuapp.com/
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thank you , this means actually Vincent has the highest BV of this whole OG event.:biggrin: who would have thought.

Also, Vincent has been doing clean full run-thrus in practices repeatedly, I have a feeling that he will be a dark horse, if the judges won't hose him too much on PCS.
 
yyyskate said:
thank you , this means actually Vincent has the highest BV of this whole OG event.:biggrin: who would have thought.

Also, Vincent has been doing clean full run-thrus in practices repeatedly, I have a feeling that he will be a dark horse, if the judges won't hose him too much on PCS.
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Not just pcs. Vincent is notorious for underrotating his jumps.
 
stormblade said:
Not just pcs. Vincent is notorious for underrotating his jumps.
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Has he underrotated them mostly during competitions (nerves, pressure, not being able to focus sufficiently...) or also while training?
Because it would seem unlikely that he managed to fix this just in time for the olympics, in the course of 5-6 weeks, when this has been an on-going problem, that he's struggled with for a long time, no?

penniavaswen said:
SP start order is out, and Nathan is skating second behind Hanyu and in front of Kolyada in the last flight. I'm not sure if this is good or what.
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I wonder what's worse, witnessing Yuzu skating a good program, which could feel quite demoralising, or an underperforming Yuzu. The latter would add pressure I guess, because that would feel like such a chance to beat him.
 
@stormblade @1111bm
I would not say Vincent is a chronic under-rotator, or he has some tech flaw that cause under-rotation. I think he can do all his quad jump and 3A clean in practice, may occasionally under-rotate toward the later half of long program due to fatigue or other reasons.
his reputation in under-rotation may partly due to some political reason. For example, in Nationals, judges obviously wanna push Vincent down to give room for whoever they wanna to be in the OG team, some of his UR call are not just unfair it is down-right false.

But no worries, once this OG passes, Vincent will become the main player of US men's figure skating, and all his "notorious under-rotation" issue will gone.
 
Nathan's press conference
https://www.facebook.com/icenetwork/videos/10155744425668347/

Article: How Olympian Nathan Chen became an artist

ETA more:

Japanese media report on Nathan's practice session. It says he did 4Lz(hand) at the beginning of his SP run thru, but did a clean 4Lz-3T afterwards and looked to be good.

Video: Ashley Wagner believes Nathan Chen will bounce back from disastrous team competition program

Article: An Interview With Nathan Chen

Shout out from Benjamin Clementine
https://twitter.com/MrBClementine/status/963813758538801152
 
Jackie Wong predicted him to win the gold. :reye: I just hope he feels like he's redeemed himself from the team event and that he can be proud of what he puts out there.
 
sheetz said:
I would actually be a bit surprised to see Nathan win. Not that he isn't capable of it, it's just that he's so young. He would be the youngest winner since Dick Button. I feel he'll really come into his own as a skater in another year or so, but right now he maybe needs a little luck to win.

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I agree with you - I think a lot would have to happen in order forh im to win. He'almost a year too early for the Olympics. Coming away with a medal though would be great. Hopefully he's able to have skates like he did at Nats. :)
 
just watched Nathan's interview,
Such a nice and humble BOI.:love: always give heart-felt warm words to his peers. especially shout out to Vincent, when the reporter didn't even mention him.
Nathan mentioned he is bad at Chess, I totally understand him, Chess is a Chinese family thing, most Chinese family will play chess together as a main entrainment often, I have to do that since a kid too, but I also sucks at Chess.
Also Nathan BOI, We eat dumplings at Chinese new year (lunar new year) not mooncake that is for mid-autumn day.
Nathan also mentioned that he use most of his off-time doing some physical therapy and icing....
 
yyyskate said:
Also Nathan BOI, We eat dumplings at Chinese new year (lunar new year) not mooncake that is for mid-autumn day.
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Also "New Year's cake." I laughed when he said that because I'm sure his family never ate mooncakes for Chinese New Year. But I cut him some slack because he didn't have a lot of time to think about his answer so he probably just misspoke. And he might only know the names of the traditional foods in Chinese.

From the press conference he said he would probably only go for 4-5 quads, so I think maybe he might do something similar to his Nationals layout except with a 4lz.
 
sherlock trollmes said:
I agree with you - I think a lot would have to happen in order forh im to win. He'almost a year too early for the Olympics. Coming away with a medal though would be great. Hopefully he's able to have skates like he did at Nats. :)
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I just hope he is satisfied with his performance:luv17::love: Go Nathan:yahoo:
 
sheetz said:
From the press conference he said he would probably only go for 4-5 quads, so I think maybe he might do something similar to his Nationals layout except with a 4lz.
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First thing first though, do a solid SP tonight! Go Nathan!

Regarding his answer to FS layout, it is kinda confusing(touched it a couple of times in this interview), maybe, he just wanna emphasize, he is going to do 4 different quads, may attempt 5,
 
Nathan stole my heart when he skated to "Peter and the Wolf" as a little boy and my heart broke for him after the Team SP. Today my heart is full.. I wish for Nathan a great skate tonight! I'm rooting for him all the way! And I am praying the skate gods will smile down on Nathan tonight! :pray:

GO NATHAN!! GO FOR IT!!! KICK ICE!! :rock::hap10::cheer:
 
It's going to be a long and exciting night of skating! I'm so glad none of the skaters have caught the norovirus going around and are all healthy and ready to compete!
 
sheetz said:
Also "New Year's cake." I laughed when he said that because I'm sure his family never ate mooncakes for Chinese New Year. But I cut him some slack because he didn't have a lot of time to think about his answer so he probably just misspoke. And he might only know the names of the traditional foods in Chinese.

From the press conference he said he would probably only go for 4-5 quads, so I think maybe he might do something similar to his Nationals layout except with a 4lz.
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If he just said "new year's cake," he was likely referring to the nian2 gao1 (sticky rice cake) that most people do eat during the lunar new year. It's made with rice flour and brown sugar and steamed. At least my family ate this. I tried to make it a couple of times, but then I saw they were selling vacuum sealed packs of them at Costco, from Taiwan. So now I just buy and eat instead of making subpar renditions of traditional foods. :) Happy new year to all and best of luck to Nathan, Vincent, Adam and all the guys!
 
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