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einabler · 1 year

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Men's Short Program - Grand Prix Final | Torino 2022

Gosh this is such a tight competition for all six men, with 4 of them coming from Japan. A little bummed that Jun and Kazuki couldn't make it to the top 6, but it's not like these 6 men aren't capable of showing great performances. So we're still SO in for a treat tonight.

So let's starts with...

Shun Sato (18 - JPN) Starting the competition with a Christmas vibe. But sadly, the vibe isn't vibing as he fell on 4Lz. A jump that I thought to be the most reliable on his repertoire. However, he managed to pull himself up and land the combo, 4T2T -with a little skid on the 4T, hence only a 2T instead of intended 3T. The last jump, 3A, was the only redeeming feature as it's done nicely with a good running edge on landing.

Personally, I feel Shun has progressed nicely in the artistic area than last season. Though, I think the choreography in the step sequence felt a bit flat, and his posture still looks a bit rigid. Also, he's not the best spinner among the 6 as well. So I guess his score, 76.62, is a little justified -emphasis on the little. Most of the judges seem to score him in the low 7 to 6 on PCS. Which, I think, a bit too low considering that he does have a decent skating skill, pretty nice speed overall, and a good edge control. So I can't help but squinting my eyes to the judges on that scoring. Well, I do hope he could land the 4Lz tomorrow and get the score he does deserve. On a side note, I just realized that Mura Takahito has become his coach! Would love to see him accompanying the skaters some day soon.

Daniel Grassl (20 - ITA) Sadly, another fall on the 4Lz -it seems to be the cursed jump tonight, eh. Also, I noticed that the take-off was on the flat edge, and it seems to be called out by the technical panelist. But he pulled it together afterwards to get the 3A landed quick and nicely. His combo jump, the 3Lz3T was also good enough. Truthfully, I always felt that his jumps look weird. But tonight -thanks to the haircut I think- it doesn't look like he's falling apart in the air anymore. Though, his feature quality is still his flexibility on the spins -how does it feel to be able to bend your knees and thigh like that, Dan? It's really mesmerizing!

As underrated as he is, he does gradually become better in artistic interpretation. Kudos to Jason Brown with his choreography skill for bringing out the sensitivity within the music to Daniel's skating. I feel 39.25 in PCS is pretty justified, and therefore, 80.40 on SP seems to be fair enough. Which really makes it feel that Shun was scored way too low. And also I think Daniel is a little slower on the speed compared to the other 6 men, so it could have gotten his PCS a bit lower on skating skill component. Plus he's the only one still using a triple-triple combo, so I do think Shun's score should've been around 78-80s. But then again, this GPF is held in Italy, and the cheering from his supporters are so loud and lovely during his performance. I guess it gives judges more confident to give him extra points. Anyway, I'll be looking forward to see if he could put up a better fight in the FS and make the final placement even more interesting. BTW, is it just me or his pants is a little bit disturbing? Is it the extra tightness? Is it the untight fly? Is it the gray color? idk.

Sota Yamamoto (22 - JPN) 4T3T done strong and nicely, and it's the best combo jump of the night. He then managed to land the 4S safely too, though it doesn't have a long running edge. The 3A is also done with no worries tonight. Though, I noticed, the body position on his 3A is not really as tight as his quad jumps. It really could become worrisome, as he fell on 3A in NHK Trophy's FS. Anyway, tonight is another wonderfully clean SP for Sota. He's on the streak! Hopefully he could keep this consistency to his FS as well.

I can't help but keep falling in love with Mihoko Higuchi's amazing talent in choreography. She really knows how to bring the best line and use of music to be skated by each athlete. And she doesn't impose her trademark on the choreography, unlike some other choreographers. She just let each athlete have their own moment and give them room to be themselves. And I do feel that Sota really has found his way on how to carry himself during the step sequence and other transitional lines. His skating is even more gorgeous now. However, I'm a bit bummed out that he hasn't been able to break the 100 barrier yet with scoring 94.86. But I guess it's a bit understandable seeing the 4S was not as good as in his 2 previous GP series. And so let us see where will he place in the FS. Can he stand on the podium? This will be very interesting.

Kao Miura (17 - JPN) Strong and confident start, but unfortunately had to go down on the combo jump. The 4S was done smoothly with a nice ice coverage and speed, but it was the 3T after that caused him a trouble. Though, I had to commend him for fighting so hard to save himself. So his 4S3T still become my highlight of his performance. He got back on track though, with 3A done quick and smooth. He also managed to land the 4T despite got slightly off axis in the air. Kao is so on fire tonight. The speed and attack in his skating is so crazy to look at.

Sadly his SP's 1st place streak had to end as he only got 87.07 tonight, putting him in 3rd. Though he -quite literally- didn't go down without a fight. I have so much to like about his SP program. The choreo, the speed, the step sequence, the spin, and the costume, they're aggressive and offensive. You shouldn't take your eyes away from him even for a milisecond. Truly a power to be reckoned with. Yet, I'm quite certain that he can still improve on the spins by adding some unique positions. Though maybe it's not really necessary since he already got all the spins on level 4 tonight. But since he said he looks up to Stephane, I do wish that he would put more effort in making unique spin positions like Steph did. Anyway, can't wait to see his Beauty and The Beast FS. Let's see if he'll be more of the beauty or more of the beast.

Shoma Uno (24- JPN) Finally, we get to the reigning world champion. And I'd say, even though it's still not his cleanest SP yet, it really grows on me. First of all, the 4F. Solid, no hesitation, incredible rotation speed, nice body position, and clean landing. IMO it is deserving the highest GOE of any solo jump tonight. Still, I think it would've been even better had he kept the landing position a little bit longer. And if maybe he can really do a toepick take-off, not the full blade assist? then I'm sure he can finally get bigger GOE. It's still visibly a 4F though. Next, the combo jump. Had to do 4T2T only, because the 4T landed a bit tight. Still, I think it's a better attempt than in his 2 previous GP series. And the last jumping pass, the 3A, smooth as a butter. Again, deserving the highest GOE for any Axel jumps tonight as well.

My next highlight of his performance tonight would be the twizzle. It's a chef kiss twizzle. Right on the music at that.

Though, I found it really weird that even with this display of twizzle, the body movement, and the speed control throughout the stsq, he only managed to get step sequence level 3, when I thought the StSq tonight was even better than the 2 previous GP series. It really is a wonder of why so many step sequence are not getting the level 4 tonight. Though, Shoma does get the highest GOE for the StSq with 1.37 points. Anyway, Shoma managed to secure the 1st place in SP with 99.99 points. Juuuust 0.01 point off from reaching 100. Is it underscored, or is it fair, I'm still uncertain. As I do see that some judges are quite generous in the PCS. Like J9 from UK who gave him a 10.00 in presentation. Seeing the margin from SkatingScores' judges tally spreads, Shoma got a pretty tall bar ranging from 95.61 points, given by the US judge, to 106.98, given by the UK judge, with the Japanese judge only gave him 96.21 points, second to lowest. So yes, I think it is debatable if the performance Shoma put out tonight is being scored fairly, or not. We'll see in the FS if Shoma can keep this placement and finally claim the GPF title in his 5th participation. That would be incredibly joyous if he could, as this is the same place Stephane got his second GPF title AND Olympic medal.

And last, but not least...

Ilia Malinin (18 - USA) Another SP fail for Ilia as all of his jumps didn't work out as well as he planned tonight. Stepped out on 4T3T. The 4S landed with a pretty good running edge, but was called out as q. And understandably so, seeing the wobble on the landing foot. And then another mistake on the 3A. Thus pushing judges to give plenty negative GOEs here and there.

Not sure if the pressure got to him or if he's really couldn't skate well due to an injury. But tonight he ended up with 80.10 points, putting him in 5th. I would say, it's an understandable but at the same time questionable score for this performance. Cause, well... he didn't fall. So, to have him ahead of Shun is a little understandable. However, the PCS is pretty questionable. Since I don't think Ilia has a better skating skill than Shun, but somehow they gave him the same score on that component, and even higher in composition. So yeah I'm a bit squinting my eyes on that part. Also, to have his StSq on level 4 while Shoma, Kao, and Sota were in level 3 is also questionable. Cause I don't think he has the same good controlled speed as Kao and Shoma, nor beautiful lines and quality edge control as Shoma and Sota. And although he had many elements like knee slide, kicks and fun jumps, those are not really a required elements for StSq that should grant him a level 4. So yeah, I can't help but feel that there's a bit of a scheme at play there. But anyway, pretty sure Ilia will do a lot of catching up in the FS with the 4A and 5 quads layout. Not sure if it would be good for him to push for that layout, if he really is injured. I mean, he's still so young. There would be more opportunities, as I hope this would not be his first and last GP Final attendance. So I do hope he'd think it through, and aim for longetivity, rather than burning himself out too quickly in his first GP.

In conclusion, the Free Skate will still going to be really tight because nobody broke 100 points barrier tonight. Will Shoma be able to skate clean and keep his placement to stand on top of the podium? Will Ilia be able to land 4A and catch up a lot of points and overtake Shoma? Who will stay on the podium between Sota and Kao? Can Shun deliver a redemption FS? And can Daniel give his best ever performance in front of home crowd? Well, let's look forward to the FS and hope for the best for all the skaters, shall we?

#Shun Sato #Daniel Grassl #Sota Yamamoto #Kao Miura #Shoma Uno #Ilia Malinin #figure skating #gpf 2022 #grand prix final #torino 2022 #GPFigure #i finally wrote something long again #my thoughts #long post

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janetsnekhol · 1 year

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Please redo the Women’s Free Skate, the ice was too cursed

#gpfigure #gpf 2022 #figure skating #grand prix final #the ice is cursed

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gogogogolev · 1 year

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Stephen in practice on day 1 at the 2022 NHK Trophy.

Credit: MATSUO.K/AFLO SPORT

#stephen gogolev #NHK22 #GPFigure #2022 2023 season #practice #photos

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timsilver · 1 year

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Grand Prix Espoo Masterpost

Note: Below is a masterpost of everything I live-posted on Mastodon during #GPEspoo (most recent post first). Moving forward, these will all be individual live posts on Tumblr. Subscribe for more. 😉

Men, Final Result #GPEspoo

🥇 Ilia MALININ, USA, 278.39

🥈 Shun SATO, JPN, 262.21

🥉 Kévin AYMOZ, FRA, 255.69

4. Tatsuya TSUBOI, JPN, 244.90 5. Camden PULKINEN, USA, 229.92 6. Nikolaj MAJOROV, SWE, 209.55 7. Arlet LEVANDI, EST, 209.50 8. Keegan MESSING, CAN, 205.02 9. Valtter VIRTANEN, FIN, 204.02 10. Aleksandr SELEVKO, EST, 199.47 11. Lucas Tsuyoshi HONDA, JPN, 197.90 12. Morisi KVITELASHVILI, GEO, 196.80

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Kévin AYMOZ FRA

3Lz2T, 3A2T, 3A(hangs on), 3Lz, 3T1Eu3S, 3F, 2A

TES: 76.56 PCS: 90.17 Ded: 0.00 TSS: 166.73

TOTAL: 255.69 Currently: 3rd

How can you not love Kévin Aymoz? Doesn't have the quads, but all of the skaters should take note of his skating skills. Better presentation IMO than last week at Warsaw Cup.

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Ilia MALININ USA

4A(hand down), 4F, 4T, 4S, 4T1Eu3S, 3F3T, 3F3A

TES: 109.20 PCS: 83.62 Ded: 0.00 TSS: 192.82

TOTAL: 278.39 Currently: 1st

Not a perfect 4A, but so many of the other quads were absolutely textbook. Not as high as his Skate America score, but the Quadg0d has just qualified for his first GP Final!

#GPFigure #GPEspoo #FigureSkating

Shun SATO JPN

4Lz, 4T3T, 3A, 4T, 3A2T, 3F1Eu3S, 3Lo

TES: 97.73 PCS: 82.89 Ded: 0 TSS: 180.62 (SB)

TOTAL: 262.21 Currently: 1st

HUGE jumps. Putting the pressure on Malinin!

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Keegan MESSING CAN

4T(ur,fall), 4T, 3A(knee down), 1Lo, 3A(ur,fall), 3Lz, 3F(hand down),

TES: 45.11 PCS: 81.79 Ded: 2.00 TSS: 124.90

TOTAL: 205.02 Currently: 5th

Nasty fall on that first 4T. No clue how he recovered for the second one! That's guts. Second 3A just didn't get the height.

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Tatsuya TSUBOI JPN

4S, 3A, 3A1Eu3S, 3Lo, 3F3T, 3F, 3Lz2T

TES: 87.46 PCS: 78.62 Ded: 0.00 TSS: 166.08

TOTAL: 244.90 Currently: 1st

Great skate, technically. Jumps were SMOOTH. Components need work... not much to this choreographically until the very end.

#GPFigure #GPEspoo #FigureSkating

Arlet LEVANDI EST

3A(ur,fall), 3Lz3T, 3F(step), 2A, 3Lz1Eu3S, 3F(hangs on)2A(hangs on), 3Lo

TES: 63.44 PCS: 75.39 Ded: 2.00 TSS: 136.83 (SB)

TOTAL: 209.50 Currently: 3rd

Strange fall there during the step sequence, and definitely some ur calls on those jumps. Will be interesting to see this program progress.

#GPFigure #GPEspoo #FigureSkating

Standings After Group 1, Men Free Skate #GPEspoo:

1. Camden PULKINEN, USA, 229.92 2. Nikolaj MAJOROV, SWE, 209.55 3. Valtter VIRTANEN, FIN, 204.02 4. Aleksandr SELEVKO, EST, 199.47 5. Lucas Tsuyoshi HONDA, JPN, 197.90 6. Morisi KVITELASHVILI, GEO, 196.80

Group 2 now on the ice for warmup: LEVANDI, TSUBOI, MESSING, SATO, MALININ, AYMOZ.

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Camden PULKINEN USA

4T, 3Lz3T, 3A1Eu1S, 3Lo, 3F, 3A, 2Lz2A

TES: 76.85 PCS: 80.62 TSS: 157.47 (SB)

TOTAL: 229.92 Currently: 1st

Strong effort by Cam. He looked absolutely out of breath mid-performance but he fought for that second 3A. Definitely his best FS this far this season. Hopefully this gives him some confidence going into Golden Spin.

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Nikolaj MAJOROV SWE

3A, 3Lz3T(turn), 3F1Eu3S, 3Lo(turn), 3Lz(step), 2A(turn), 3F

TES: 64.82 PCS: 74.49 Ded: 0.00 TSS: 139.61

TOTAL: 209.55 Currently: 1st

Not sure how he didn't go down on some of those jumps that he hung on to. He's all over the place with technique.

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Valtter VIRTANEN FIN

3Lz2T, 3Lz(hangs on), 3T2A, 3S, 3T2T2Lo, 3Lo, 2A(hangs on)

TES: 62.71 PCS: 73.16 Ded: 1.00 TSS: 134.87

TOTAL: 204.02 Currently: 1st

This guy is an ER DOCTOR and is 35 years old. Smashing ageism in the sport. So happy for him to have a skate like this on home ice.

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Lucas Tsuyoski HONDA JPN

3S, 1A, 3A(fall), 3Lo, 3Lz3T, 3F(step)1A, 3Lz2T2T

TES: 58.55 PCS: 72.43 Ded: 1.00 TSS: 129.98

TOTAL: 197.90 Currently: 2nd

Need to look at protocols but likely a number of ur calls.

#ISUGrandPrix #GPEspoo #FigureSkating

Aleksandr SELEVKO EST

3Lz3T, 3T, 2A(fall), 3F, 2A2T2T, 3Lz(step), 3Lo

TES: 58.72 PCS: 74.79 Ded: 1.00 TSS: 132.51

TOTAL: 199.47 Currently: 1st

Rallied for the last 45 seconds, for a strong finish but downgraded too much of the planned program content.

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Morisi KVITELASHVILI GEO

4S3T, 3A(step), 4T(fall), 3Lo, 1T, 3F1Eu3S, 4T(fall)

TES: 63.12 PCS: 73.26 Ded: 2.00 TSS: 134.38

TOTAL: 196.80 Currently: 1st

Morisi's flop era continues!

#GPFigure #GPEspoo #FigureSkating

Group 1 on the ice for the Men Free Skate at #GPEspoo: KVITELASHVILI, SELEVKO, HONDA, VIRTANEN, MAJOROV, PULKINEN. #ISUGrandPrix #FigureSkating

#figure skating #gpfigure #gpespoo #gp espoo 2022 #isu grand prix #ilia malinin #shun sato #kevin aymoz #tatsuya tsuboi #camden pulkinen #nikolaj majorov #arlet levandi #keegan messing #valtter virtanen #aleksandr selevko #lucas tsuyoshi honda #morisi kvitelashvili

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carolinecashew · 1 year

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how i'm sleeping knowing that stéphane took shoma out to eat and told him not to seek perfection too much:

#shoma uno #figure skating #nhk trophy 2022 #gpfigure

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euphoricmood · 1 year

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what's happening this year? most pairs at the GP are so messy, stumbling and falling. the girls look so weak, what. we can't blame it All on Eteri right?

#gpfigure #ice skating #ep

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kariganelisa · 5 months

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Among my GPF participants there are two to whom my relationship may not seem obvious.

Therefore, I will explain.

Ilya: a growing skater, currently mediocre. Components are overscored. Doesn't have his own style. He is perspective because shows work on 2nd score (that is currently overscored).

And I like to joke incomprehensibly about the fact that “I have feelings for his quaxel” (guess at once what the “jokes” are based on)

But I don’t think that this prevents me from evaluating it; after all, I don’t take this detail seriously (since I’m already burned out and almost hasn't strong feelings about anything of this world).

I see how people periodically pour a bucket of shit on Ilya as if he had raped a child, I think this is fucking overkill. He and his statements are demonized. Ppl are too often find fault with him just to find fault.

Yuma. From the point of view of an abstract training manual, the skater is excellent, he has increased his speed unrealistically, he skates smoothly and evenly, but he is absolutely not my cup of tea. I look at him and see a typical skater from the JNats with no stylistic differences from participants at All Japan from numbers 1-20.

I’ll repeat myself: like a math textbook. Right, true, but not on the list of favorite literature.

I respect attempts to skate something unusual.

Recently I have a trigger for his protocol in comparison with Shoma’s (will not forgive or forget the NHK) so I'll find fault with his jumping.

Do I consider he us overscored in terms of components? Hm. From the point of view of the current interpretation and the quality of the skating itself, now it's isn't.

But I think that judgment is being made in his favor.

Bottom line: Yuma is quite ok. Yuma's scores are NOT ok.

I hope we figured it out.

#yuma kagiyama #ilya malinin #GPF #GPFigure #figure skating

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virtchandmoir · 5 months

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anthony.ponomarenko: Another Grand Prix season in the books! Beyond grateful for the memories made 🫶🏼

#GPfigure #carreiraponomarenko #teamusa #isugrandprix #iceskating #icedanceacademyofmontreal #anthonyponomarenko #christinacarreira #icedance #espoo #angers #worldtravel

#scott #off ice #i.am ontario #coach #gpe 2023 #it's interesting #that we used to group #l/l vs. c/p

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wanderlustinwonderland18 · 5 months

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Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis

2023 NHK Trophy - Free Dance

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edgecallskating · 5 months

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Spectacular choreography, superb framing on the shot. *salutes NHK broadcast production crew*

#shoma uno #nhk trophy 2023 #figure skating #gpfigure #love me a spread eagle-ina bauer sequence

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music-art-sport-and-more · 6 months

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All in this screams "mom will kill us", please, they look so guilty 😂😭

#ilia malinin #roman skorniakov #tatiana malinina #tatyana malinina #gp france 2023 #gpfigure #figure skating #fs

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sunskate · 6 months

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Cup of China RD:

i like this Bratti/Somerville Prince RD better than either of their programs last season. it's still the Ian show sometimes, he performs like it's a solo spotlight, but it feels like they got feedback that they have to work on their connection, and oof coming off the ice and in the k&c, he's trying, but it looks so alien lol she looks uncomfy and he looks like he's copying things he's seen other people do which don't come naturally, like hugging his partner😅 mark hanretty said they made a "unique choice of edge" for the 1st set of twizzles (outside edge - i guess with the leg extended, balance is difficult), and ben agosto called these "the hardest twizzles in ice dance right now"

how did Pate/Bye ever beat a pretty clean Lopareva/Brissaud at Autumn Classic. i had to look up lift levels to understand how a RoLi that doesn't change positions can be level 4

i want to like Kazakova/Revia's RD because i like them, but 3 of the 4 songs have the exact same mid-tempo - the energy never varies, so i find myself getting bored. they use a fast song only for the last 10 seconds whyyy there's no arc to this program

omg. LaLa - amazing. the detail, the sharpness of their dancing, the speed, the musicality - how far they've come in such a short time with this program. idk why he's taken to wearing darker foundation or bronzer for their RDs since last season, but he was splotchy like he'd swiped at his face since the warm up 😅 can't wait to see their FD coming in as the leaders😭

Gr/Pa skating after LaLa highlighted that they're less sharp. there's nothing that really stands out in this program. it's good but not really memorable

Piper and Paul on the other hand - i kind of love the first half of this. it has its own vocabulary of movement that's different and makes sense - i still don't get why her closet and his closet are on different planets, but the dance itself is great- the funny little vertical hops, the roll, there's something exuberant and playful about it. the second half is a little more conventional until the RoLi. i really like their programs this season, i would not have guessed this would happen

#vpn for the us

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