ITA. I just rewatched his current LP. It looked less packed than the previous LP in terms of the time intervals between jumps. But he nonetheless keeps dancing between jumps, which would give him very little time to breathe. I feel that he has one of the most choreo & transition loaded programs, which keeps both his edges and his upper body very busy. Besides, he is very engaged in his dancing and appealing to the audience, which would take a lot of energy and focus.
I think that he deserves high PCS not only for his skating skills, but also for his competence to skake such a complex program. But if these affect his jumps, it is somewhat unfortunate results-wise. If he skates simpler and emptier programs, I feel that he would land more jumps. Morosov sometimes takes this strategy, which seems to work well (e.g., Miki's World champ winning LP in 2007; Fumie's both programs this season leading to podium finishes).
Just a side note off topic---His LP jump layout looked a bit unattractive last season. For example, he repeated axels at the exactly same place after coming back there drawing a small circle at the center of the rink, which I thought to be a bit strange. Overall, the jumps in the middle did not flow well, possibly because of the flaws in excutions, but also because of the little preparation time that allowed few strokes and only a little bit sloppy transitions in betweens.
Although I haven't closely watched this season's LP yet, I got an impression that the jumps in the middle seem to flow more naturally with greater speed.
On a side note, according to Czech Sport, Tomas withdrew from Czech Nationals due to illness.Hope he'll get better this week and be able to compete at GPF,
I am sad to hear that. Hope he gets better.
he's the most entertaining guy to watch nowadays.
ITA.
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Thank you! I'm just glad there is another Caro fan on this board, everyone else seems to be deadset against her!
