Dance:
- We should have Charlie & Tanith together doing commentary
- Daniel Eaton has beautiful posture
- Aldridge and Blackmer have potential once he masters the techniques...they clearly love skating together
- I am thoroughly impressed by Hawayek & Baker; they truly look like seniors this year and their program was beautifully composed
- The Shibutanis were 100% precise which I would say is a hallmark of Zoueva's teams, not one limb, one finger, one hair out of place
- I'm living for all of this ballet today! Happy birthday Balanchine!
- Madison Chock is a star as long as you don't look at her feet
- The top 2 teams should be reversed and everybody else on twitter agrees...Chock/Bates are more dramatic but the Shibutanis are more precise
- I completely agree with Charlie White...Hubbell & Donohue's short has the feeling of a free dance with the emotional storytelling
- One team actually DANCED today and that was Hubbell & Donohue....you don't see the elements, just the movement
Men:
- Nathan Chen knows how to compete-he did not skate perfectly, but he did not fall apart either
- Jimmy Ma can rock a sheer top
- Few skaters are more lyrical than Grant Hochstein-it's a shame that he couldn't go clean
- Vincent Zhou has some guts-at least with the jumps-the spins and footwork will come and he will compete with Chen before too long
- Ross Miner made me weep...his program was just so easy to watch and for the first time tonight I didn't feel anxious
- Sean Rabbit's Samson & Delilah was artistic, energetic, and so fast!
- Tim Dolensky has an artist's soul and he showed that tonight
- Max Aaron make jumping look so easy when he's on with those springy knees and he's developing some performance skills
- Adam's footwork was the one element that stood out above everything else for me tonight
- This event was infinitely better than the ladies short...these guys showed up to COMPETE
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