2011 US Figure Skating Championships: Senior Mens Short Program

1) Keegan Messing

   Music: Robin Hood

• Costume definitely fits the piece
• He looks very focused and in the zone
• Good height on triple axel, needs more flow out of it
• Triple lutz-triple toe combo
• Nice flying camel position
• Nice spread eagle into footwork into a triple flip
• Traveling a lot on his sit spin
• He looks a little wild and off balance on his footwork
• Footwork choreography fits the theme of the piece very well
• Uses his knees nicely in the footwork
• Great ending pose, very Robin Hood
• SP Score: 37.61 (TES) + 32.18 (PCS) = 69.79

2) Adam Rippon

    Music: Romeo & Juliet

• Such beauty in this program, his face from the beginning is amazing
• Turn out of his triple axel
• Triple flip-triple triple toe is solid
• His donut spin is lovely
• He just fell in his signature Rippon lutz
• He is still putting everything into the performance aspect
• I am very surprised by this
• He does some really great spins
• SP Score: 32.76 (TES) + 34.50 (PCS) -1.00 = 66.26

3) Brandon Mroz

    Music: The Barber of Seville

• He has performed as a performer so much after working with Sandra Bezic
• Shaky quad toe into a double toe
• Big triple axel with a skid on the landing, won't get a good GOE
• He needs more flexibility in his spins
• He looks a little tight on all of his jumps, but those are probably his nerves
• That was not Brandon's best, but it may have been enough tonight
• SP Score: 37.96 (TES) + 33.65 (PCS) = 71.61

4) Jonathan Cassar

    Music: El Tango de Roxanne

• This is a perfect costume for this piece of music
• Slide on the entrance to the triple lutz, fall
• Solid double axel
• Definitely not the technical content of the other skaters, but a lovely performer nonethely
• Triple loop-double toe
• Nice spins
• That inside camel was fantastic
• This footwork is lovely, just so emotional and such good use of the upper body
• Finished slightly after the music
• SP Score: 24.84 (TES) + 32.14 (PCS) -1.00= 55.98

5) Jeremy Abbott

    Music: Viejos Aires

• This program was choreographed by a dance choreographer, he learned it all on the floor and Yuka Sato transferred it to the ice
• He has had to work a lot on his performance quality this year, definitely a departure for him
• Triple flip-triple toe, looked easy for him
• Nice triple axel, it was like straight up and down rather than covering a lot of ice
• He really attacks the choreography in this Spanish program
• Fought for a landing on the triple lutz
• Very nice footwork with arms in traditional flamenco poses
• He is really attacking this straight line sequence so hard
• He had a fire in him tonight, FIERCE
• SP Score: 38.57 (TES) + 39.82 (PCS) = 78.39

6) Wesley Campbell

    Music: Orion by Metallica

• Hello shiny costume, that is such a choice
• Skidded out of the landing on the triple lutz, but got the combo
• Triple axel, turn out of it
• His camels look really nice because his legs are so long
• SP Score: 32.07 (TES) + 27.28 (PCS) = 59.35

7) Jason Brown

    Music: Baliwood

• He has such great speed
• Why is he wearing a matador jacket in a Baliwood number
• That was a heinous crotch shot moment
• He has a lot of kicks in that footwork 
• SP Score: 33.71 (TES) + 30.61 (PCS) = 64.32

8) Douglas Razzano

    Music: The Feeling Begins

• Nice opening triple axel
• Quadruple toe
• Triple toe-triple toe combo
• That came out of nowhere!
• SP Score: 40.72 (TES) + 28.89 (PCS) = 69.61

9) Parker Pennington

    Music: Chocolat

• I'll give it to him, he's really selling the choreography
• Fall on a triple axel
• Triple-double combo
• Triple flip
• Not the strongest 
• SP Score: 27.38 (TES) + 29.11 (PCS) = 55.49

10) Andrew Gonzales

    Music: Tocatta in Fugue in D minor

• Solid triple flip-triple toe
• Big height, but only a double axel
• Had that triple lutz, but landed on his butt
• He could use a lot more speed
• SP Score: 29.02 (TES) + 26.39 (PCS) -1.00 = 54.41

11) Ross Miner

    Music: Salsa Medley

• Work the triple axel!!!!
• Triple lutz-double toe, fought for the landings
• He is working this Spanish number for sure!
• He could use a little lower position on his sit spin
• SP Score: 35.66 (TES) + 32.22 (PCS) = 57.99

12) Grant Hochstein

    Music: Massenet's Suite No. 3 & Herodiade

• Triple lutz-triple toe was solid
• Nice solid triple axel, he rarely lands them in competition
• Nice floating arms in the camel position
• Triple loop was good
• Nice attack on the footwork
• SP Score: 34.37 (TES) + 31.39 (PCS) = 65.76

13) Sean Rabbitt

    Music: Thriller/Beat It

• Hand down on triple lutz-triple toe
• Two footed triple flip
• Oh wow he just fell on a choreographic moment
• Wow he is clearly off balance
• SP Score: 26.27 (TES) + 26.15 (PCS) 1.00 (DED) = 51.42

14) Scott Dyer

    Music: Ash by Michael Tork

• Nice triple toe
• Solid double axel
• Interesting position on his spin--a broken leg twist
• He is a very delicate skater
• He is picking up speed in her spins
• SP Score:  (TES) +  (PCS) = 55.78

15) Ryan Bradley

     Music: Boogie Woogie Bugle Booy

• I'm having such a moment here
• Quad toe-triple toe ahmaaaaaaazing
• Triple axel so solid
• Nice turned out foot on his camel
• Amazingly high triple flip, perfection
• Good variations on his spins
• I am so obsessed right now!!!!
• Love the camel into the hinge spin
• Obsessed
• Loving the ending pose in such a big way
• SP Score:  (TES) +  (PCS) = 80.39

16) Christopher Caluza

     Music: Nightmare

• Fierce aerial
• Needs some work on his spin positions
• SP Score: 31.87 (TES) + 27.41 (PCS) = 59.28

17) Lloyd Ting

     Music: Taquito

• He has a FIERCE silver lame vest on...loving it
• Fought for the triple flip
• He had a nice lunge moment
• He just carved a golf-ball sized hole in the ice with his forward tilted spin
• SP Score: 23.82 (TES) + 21.68 (PCS) = 44.50

18) Joshua Farris

     Music: El Dron

• Tough fall for Josh
• He needed more Spanish moments earlier in the program
• He is working the footwork
• SP Score: 34.47 (TES) + 27.44 (PCS) -1.00 = 60.91

19) Jason Wong

     Music: Sweet Remembrance of You

• He is loving spread eagle
• He has some nice jumps
• Fierce split jump moment aimed at the judges
• He is working the facial emotion
• SP Score: 32.48
•  (TES) + 29.72 (PCS) =62.20

20) Richard Dornbush

     Music: Elena by Brian Setzer

• Loving the Spanish detail and hand gestures
• Big triple axel landed in a penchay
• Work the low sit spin
• He landed his triple flip in a lunge, was that a choreographic choice?
• Work the Spanish flair Richard!
• SP Score: 35.32 (TES) + 32.39 (PCS) = 67.71

21) Armin Mahbanoozadeh

     Music: Mario Takes A Walk & Prelude by Jesse Cook

• Work the triple axel Armin
• Triple flip-triple toe
• Interesting arched moment in the camel spin
• Hands down on a triple lutz
• Fierce high kick
• A lot of great spin moments
• SP Score: 34.42 (TES) + 33.35 (PCS) = 66.77

22) Alexander Johnson

     Music: Caravan by Duke Ellington

• His costume looks like a modified caftan
• That ending was such a choice
• SP Score: 30.30 (TES) + 28.00 (PCS) -1.00 =57.30