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sashas4t · 5 years

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Skate Canada: Ladies

OOOOH BOY! This free skate was SO GOOD! Here are some of my thoughts (sorry about the GIFS, I wasn’t in the mood to make any myself):

1. Alexandra Trusova - RUS

I don’t know if I have said this yet, but I love Sasha. I love her courage, her confidence, and her personality. She is taking this sport to new levels, whether you like it or not, and she won’t stop jumping quads, whether you like it or not. Yes, her FS is definitely not very artistic, though its kind of Daniil’s fault, but she’s not a horrible skater with no basics as people say (but like is it just me or have her SS gotten worse?). Her transitions were very good, though that cannot been shown through her FS (which is really Daniil’s fault). Her FS StSq was way to short and slow for my taste, but her SP one is much better. Actually, her step sequence for her FS last year and SP two years before weren’t bad at all, so her basic skills aren’t bad, its just that her choreo doesn’t capitalize her basic skills. Okay, but those quads! Her 4T is really quite nice, not the most effortless thing ever, but she uses toepick, and takes off before 180 degrees. She gets great height and distance too. Shame about the 4S, it was sooo beautiful at Japan Open. Her 4Lz is definitely her weakest quad. Her 3Lz+3Lo was really nice at this competition. Actually scratch that all her triples and her 2A were all so effortless and nice. Maybe her technique isn’t the best, but her jumps are so pleasing to the eye! Also if anyone is still claiming that Sasha shouldn’t be doing quads, I think Ted made a good point in the practice videos - quads are harming to your body if you consistently fall on them, and fall painfully, Sasha is rather consistent with her quads, and even when they looked bad in practice, she pulled them together for competition. She’s definitely no longer falling splat on the ground when attempting them. Continue slaying Sasha! I love my quad queen.

2. Rika Kihira - JPN

When she debuted this program I really was feeling sketchy about it. Her FS last season was so beautiful and epic, and I really had high expectations. While I still prefer A Beautiful Storm, International Angel of Peace has really gotten so much better. I disliked the StSq before because I found it to be slow, but now, I can see how much details there are, and how Rika pays attention to every note every musical accent. Truly wonderful. Her SP is also really good, but I hate the vocals in the StSq it sounds like a cat meowing. Her 3A is quite consistent now too and I can’t wait until she adds a quad (but I’m so scared for Sasha, if Rika adds a quad, there’ll be three girls furiously trying to chase after her). Anyways, Rika’s SS are truly amazing, everything flows so nicely, and there’s such an ease in her skating. I feel so bad for her though, her GP events are so hard! I really hope we can see her in the final. But I agree with her placement here. Maybe if she landed both 3As and added +3T, we’d have something to argue about, but with Sasha’s quads at that level of completion, I don’t think Rika could’ve beaten her even with adjusted PCS.

3. Young You - KOR

Wow what a surprise! I really like Young’s SP this season, even though its a rather basic R&J program, she performs it very nicely. That 3A was wonderful! I didn’t like FS as much. I loved the choreo sequence and I have decided to Stan that Ina Bauer on the music forever, but the middle part (with the upbeat music) was kind of odd. I didn’t think she was super connected in the step sequence. But I’ve got to say, GORGEOUS COSTUMES! She seems to be very consistent in her triples, so that's very good. I hope her 3A consistency grows throughout the season.

4. Bradie Tennell - USA

Sorry Bradie fans, didn’t watch her FS since I don’t really like Bradie. But I do think she’s improved massively. Her Cinderella FS during the Olympic season made me loose all hope in her, but seriously her SP this season is such a big improvement. Girl is finally hitting musical accents without hitting ugly positions. Anyways, fantastic spins, needs to work her rotations. Also needs better costumes, now.

5. Evgenia Medvedeva - RUS

Zhenya really struggled in the SP here, but that FS! Redemption skate much! I really admire her strength and courage in order to come back from such a rough SP and just skate the absolute best she has since her coaching change. She was determined to hit those jumps, and not only did she accomplish that, she did it with grace. Her SP step sequence though - beautiful. She had such a bad fall on the lutz, and she stood up, caught up to her music, and performed the hell out of her step sequence. Truly a good competitor. I really like her programs this season, they’re definitely more in her comfort zone, but the choreo is very good too. Her technique has also improved considerably, so gutted she’s basically lost her chance for the final, she deserves it.

6. Marin Honda - JPN

I can’t believe my bb got in a car accident before this - and still skated! I was wondering what the tape on her leg was! Oh poor girl, but she still did amazing! SOOOO UNDERSCORED on PCS. Who thought 31 and 62 was a fair score for what they saw. Should be at least 37 and 74. Anyways, her SP was good, shame about the pop on the flip. I really love that step sequence, and her energy was perfect. Deserved at least 37 for that. But that 3T was underrotated. Marin, please fix your URs! Your such a beautiful skater with so much potential and those URs just... it seems judges use that as an excuse to constantly underscore her. That FS was wonderful! I loved the choreo sequence and the step sequence so much. The in between skating was also so lovely! Just such a good skater! AH! So underscored in PCS. Her jumps are definitely getting better, she needs to get some 3-3s in there and I’m sure she’ll be back at the top of the ladies field! That performance quality though - truly something special.

7. Yelim Kim - KOR

I’ve decided to start staining Yelim this season. She is really quite an elegant skater with such nice lines. She can be very artistic too, I really hope she can do better at Nationals (I don’t think she has a second GP), and go to Four Continents or something. A skater with a lot of potential. I really like how tall she looks in the air, her rippon is beautiful.

8. Serafima Sakhanovich - RUS

I really like her programs this season. The short is fun and upbeat, and the free is dramatic and lyrical. Such a shame she didn’t do as good as she did in domestic competitions. I really love her FS though, maybe because the Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of my favorite movie soundtracks, or maybe because that choreo sequence is beautiful! I hope Sima gets some other international events this season. She’s such a good skater, and just needs to build consistency.

This free skate was really very good! Almost everybody performed wonderfully. (Poor Gabby though, I hope she can recover quickly for her next event).

#skate canada #competition review #figure skating #evgenia medvedeva #alexandra trusova #rika kihira #young you #Bradie tennell #marin honda #Serafima sakhanovich

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austerlitzborodinoleipzig · 5 years

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More detailed thoughts :

Boikova/Kozlovksy were good today. I expect them to slay next season. Beautiful elements, best synchronisation of all the pairs today. SBS jumps gorgeous. Spins are good. I kinda agree with them being in fourth place. They could have had higher PCS (fresh from the juniors, what would you expect), They seemed a bit awkward on the step sequence, especially Dima, And I would like them to add a bit of speed. Compared to T/M they are slow on the ice, and not as refined yet... But they are getting there and they have way more charisma... They still have a shot at a medal so fingers crossed. Also they lost levels on the twist and the death spiral, which they could have easily obtained so..; Yep i’m good with 4th.

Pavliuchenko/Khodykin - They look more juniorish than Mishina/Galiamov imho. They were really tense today. They have a lot of room to grow. The lift is gorgeous. Easily my favourite SBS spins of this season. Plus they have the 3flip in the FP and have very seriously worked on their skating skills. So the tech is there. They have to work on the components now. I don’t see them medaling tho. Their FP is atrocious, the PCS will be too low.

Morgan/Ciprès. Clean SP - Yay!!! But Twist not great. Spins and StSq only level 3... They have left many points on the table. You could tell they were really focused. Too much imho. I think they still haven’t got the program. It should really snap but it didn’t. It’s sensual and sophisticated and the StSq could be fire but they are still struggling. Still better than the russians.

Tarasova/Morozov Ok, hear me out, T/M are becoming the russian Knierims. Gorgeous twist and lifts... No jumps. I don’t know what happened to Tarasova but it’s sad to that she’s unable to land the SBS jumps this season. Otherwise, thank God, they have ditched that cheesy SP for Rach n°2. That SP from last season was gorgeous, easily my favourite of their programs. I thought they had a chance to be in the lead... And they blew it off. They are fast with nice lines. But no charisma, no power during the StSq, and they can skate it so much better than that. So yep, neither T/M nor J/C were convincing this time but the russians still deserve to be behind the french. Really with a mistake on the jumps and messy SBS spins T/M should not have been so far ahead of clean B/K

Della Monica/Guarise should totally have been first. Clean throughout the program plus level 4 everywhere except on the spins and twist where they got level 3. Also they were on today. Powerful and fast on the ice, fierce and selling it. PCS are too low.

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dearbreeze · 7 years

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apropos of nothing just wanted to re-up one of my fave programs from last season by my favorite team in pairs bc gotdammit i love them so much

#they SLAY me.....#that stsq?? bitch????#pls win in helsinki thnx #this has been a post

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savchenkomassotstripletwist · 5 years

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Euros 2019 Pairs SP

Boikova/Kozlovksy were good today. I expect them to slay next season. Beautiful elements, best synchronisation of all the pairs today. SBS jumps gorgeous. Spins are good. I kinda agree with them being in fourth place. They could have had higher PCS (fresh from the juniors, what would you expect), They seemed a bit awkward on the step sequence, especially Dima, And I would like them to add a bit of speed. Compared to T/M they are slow on the ice, and not as refined yet… But they are getting there and they have way more charisma… They still have a shot at a medal so fingers crossed. Also they lost levels on the twist and the death spiral, which they could have easily obtained so..; Yep i’m good with 4th.

Morgan/Ciprès. Clean SP - Yay!!! But Twist not great. Spins and StSq only level 3… They have left many points on the table. You could tell they were really focused. Too much imho. I think they still haven’t got the program. It should really snap but it didn’t. It’s sensual and sophisticated and the StSq could be fire but they are still struggling. Still better than the russians.

Tarasova/Morozov Ok, hear me out, T/M are becoming the russian Knierims. Gorgeous twist and lifts… No jumps. I don’t know what happened to Tarasova but it’s sad to that she’s unable to land the SBS jumps this season. Otherwise, thank God, they have ditched that cheesy SP for Rach n°2. That SP from last season was gorgeous, easily my favourite of their programs. I thought they had a chance to be in the lead… And they blew it off. They are fast with nice lines. But no charisma, no power during the StSq, and they can skate it so much better than that. So yep, neither T/M nor J/C were convincing this time but the russians still deserve to be behind the french. Really with a mistake on the jumps and messy SBS spins T/M should not have been so far ahead of clean B/K

(from @austerlitzborodinoleipzig)

#figure skating #pairs skating

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