Friday, January 28, 2011

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

1 comment:

  1. Hi Barbie, thanks a LOT for this life comments :) I just wanted to ask if you watch it at icenetwork or if there is any free online stream, I'm from Europe and have troubles searching american channels, thanks :)
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