Practice Sessions at Nationals

[ramurphy2005]

Group 2
Goku Endo
Lucius Kazanecki
Maxim Naumov
Jacob Sanchez
Beck Strommer
Tomoki Hiwatashi

Per Jackie, no Maxim or Jacob this morning

 

[ramurphy2005]

Group 3
Liam Kapeikis
Kai Kovar
Samuel Mindra
Camden Pulkinen
Andrew Torgashev
Taira Shinohara

No Andrew, per Jackie

 

[moonvine]

No Andrew, per Jackie

Oooh Sam Mindra.

 

[moonvine]

I switched over to practice from Junior Women. It wouldn't let me rewind all the way. I came in on a Jimmy Ma step sequence, I'll have to watch the beginning when they put it up on Youtube. I'm interested to hear that Sam Mindra is one of his dark horses. Sam Mindra barely squeaked into Nationals with his only jump being a triple flip. I expect he was injured and that wasn't like intentional, but ....I just don't see him being top 4. And I am a member of Mindra Nation.

 

[moonvine]

JL's favorite color is green and his favorite animal is a monkey. Which is strange considering he almost always wore a billowy purple shirt when they skated.

 

[labgoat]

Dance Practice
1 Katarina Wolfkostin / Dimitry Tsarevski
2 Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik
3 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
4 Raffaella Koncius / Alexey Shchepetov
5 Anabelle Morozov / Jeffrey Chen

Warm-up Group 2
6 Michela Melillo / Karl Schapfel
7 Leah Neset / Artem Markelov
8 Oona Brown / Gage Brown
9 Amy Cui / Jonathan Rogers
10 Caroline Green / Michael Parsons

Warm-up Group 3
11 Vanessa Pham / Anton Spiridonov
12 Grace Yi / Danila Savelev
13 Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville
14 Madison Chock / Evan Bates
15 Eva Pate / Logan Bye

 

[labgoat]

I am snacking on Lemon Poppy Seed Cashews from Target - awesome snack.
I love Target - they have such weird and unusual food choices.

 

[skatingfan4ever]

No Andrew at Men's Practice today, and I'm sure everything is fine, but I'm sad I didn't get to hear JLB commentate his L'Enfer step sequence. They played the music though, and JLB said how haunting the song is. JLB was glowing about Camden's skating during his runthrough.

 

[labgoat]

No Andrew at Men's Practice today, and I'm sure everything is fine, but I'm sad I didn't get to hear JLB commentate his L'Enfer step sequence. They played the music though, and JLB said how haunting the song is. JLB was glowing about Camden's skating during his runthrough.

How were Camden's jumps?

 

[skatingfan4ever]

Camden is bringing back his Moulin Rouge SP.

Camden's jumps looked pretty good.

 

[labgoat]

So JLB doesn't think Neset & Markelov's RD is the best for them? I disagree. Dancing Queen is young and sweet - only seventeen and they are the newlyweds.

 

[moonvine]

I'm still back on men's...

 

[moonvine]

Liam practiced well, but hasn't been performing well this year. Hopefully he can have good skates.

 

[labgoat]

The Browns are amazing, the more I watch this RD the more I like it, So many small accents, the feet are moving and so are the arms. You can see that especially Oona is used to marching and playing her instrument. Very, very coordinated for the both of them. I'm not sure the judges fully know how to reward this ambidextrous quality. It is superb.

Other teams do arm moves while on two feet, not the Browns. They are jumping, skipping and skating while playing trumpets, drumming and anything else they can think of.

 

[moonvine]

JL says he is wrapped up in a blanket and didn't think an ice rink would be so cold..me too..

 

[moonvine]

Sam is adorable, if only I weren't engaged...

 

[NoNameFace]

The Browns are amazing, the more I watch this RD the more I like it, So many small accents, the feet are moving and so are the arms. You can see that especially Oona is used to marching and playing her instrument. Very, very coordinated for the both of them. I'm not sure the judges fully know how to reward this ambidextrous quality. It is superb.

Other teams do arm moves while on two feet, not the Browns. They are jumping, skipping and skating while playing trumpets, drumming and anything else they can think of.

I've just caught up on their yesterday's practice video and JLB said something that stuck out with me: "it's so difficult to skate AND dance" - Oona and Gage are doing it perfectly in this RD. Plus, as JLB also pointed (plus I thought about this a lot since seeing Browns at Finlandia Trophy), their movement just hits the music perfectly, not in the matter of "doing the most", but doing just right.
I think RD highlights their abilities better, I like the FD, but it's not as easy to hit I feel like RD.

 

[labgoat]

I've just caught up on their yesterday's practice video and JLB said something that stuck out with me: "it's so difficult to skate AND dance" - Oona and Gage are doing it perfectly in this RD. Plus, as JLB also pointed (plus I thought about this a lot since seeing Browns at Finlandia Trophy), their movement just hits the music perfectly, not in the matter of "doing the most", but doing just right.
I think RD highlights their abilities better, I like the FD, but it's not as easy to hit I feel like RD.

Wow I absolutely agree with everything you just said. The RD is my favorite and I wasn't sure at first. They seem to have figured out how to not get ahead of themselves and give too much energy.

 

[moonvine]

Wow I absolutely agree with everything you just said. The RD is my favorite and I wasn't sure at first. They seem to have figured out how to not get ahead of themselves and give too much energy.

It's too bad the judges kind of have them slotted in the lower part of the final group.

 

[labgoat]

Crazy speed for both Emily & Ian. He draws the eye, but she really keeps up with him. These two friends are just having a blast skating together. They are an adrenaline rush.