Since you name checked me. I feel I have write a long post now.
Missed Bradon Overett the-guy-who-skates-like-Jack-Sparrow stop Too bad. He's pretty entertaining. But I thought the opening footwork was better at Sectional.
Saw Rohene Ward the-skater-who-looks-like-Ronon in elevator stop How was Rohene's skate in person? I've been told that live, he's electrifying. But I was less impressed by what I saw on the web.
Ryan Bradley aka Mr. Flirt aka last year's silver medalist blew it by goofing off at the short program and didn't make the podium stop WG thinks he was overconfident stop I think he couldn't balance playing to the crowd versus competing and went crowd-overboard stop The crowd still loved him stop I love Ryan Bradley. I agree with you, I don't think he was goofing off in the SP. There was no falls, and he hit all of his jumps. The hand gestures in his SP was also great, and he stayed in character the entire way through the LP. But if he didn't try the quad, he might have had a better result. This sounds kind of silly, but if Charlie Chaplin did jumps, I think he jumps like Ryan. B/c Ryan doesn't look very stable in the air.
Loved Jeremy Abbott stop I'm so glad he didn't fall on the quad. It hurt to watch him this entire GP series. Every time he attempted the quad, he fell.
Neither of us are impressed by Carriere stop I like the different arm position his uses in the jumps. Somehow his style reminds me of an older generation of skaters.
WG points out that Evan skimps on the footwork leading into jumps stop Evan takes half the rink to set up for a jump which WG feels is a shortcut stop Yeah, but Evan has the harder entrances to his jumps. The lunge into his sal, the spiral into his flip, and the wally, reverse wally into his Lutz. I really love the reverse wally entrance to his Lutz. Because there isn't a step in between, he jumps off the land edge of the wally into his Lutz. I also like it, b/c the rotation on the second wally is done against his natural rotation. (I hope you will have John do that entrance. B/c it's hard, and really cool looking.)
I have video of Evan's warm-up stop Please post it, if you can. I love to see the in-betweens. All the stuff an athlete have to do to get prepared, but you don't get to see on TV. That why I love the practice stuff in Out of Bound.
Johnny Weir is like liquid beauty poured on the ice stop He is very fluid, and soft on the ice. I saw him live on COI, he draws you in.
At the end they were tied stop But Evan won stop
I was so shocked to see the scores. I actually went and look at the Protocol. It looks like Lysacek did 3 jumps in combination, and Weir only did 2 jumps in combination. He got lucky on the technical score. If Weir tack a single toe behind any of his jumps, Weir would have won.
The women's skate was a total upset stop Talk about an upset. Except for the bronze medalist, none of them are old enough to go to Worlds. And two of them are skating as seniors for the first time.
Evan Lysacek did flamenco music and was energetic and a powerful presence stop That was actually his short program. So you got to see both SP and LP live. Which one did you think was better? (I know it's not a fair comparison, since the SP was done as exhibition, but I'm still curious.)
Belbin and Agosto (sp?) melted the ice stop They are hot. I love their Chopin FD this year. But did they do the horrid Justin Timberlake exhibition number?
Lysacek stayed longer than anyone else to sign autographs stop He was shooed off the ice again stop The moment he was off the ice he slumped in exhaustion stop Awwwww. I feel sorry for all the guys that made top five. B/c it's horrible schedule for them. They basically have to skate in the exhibition a few hours after the LP. For the medalist, it's even worse, since they have to do press conferences right after the LP.
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Date: 2008-01-29 02:41 am (UTC)Missed Bradon Overett the-guy-who-skates-like-Jack-Sparrow stop
Too bad. He's pretty entertaining. But I thought the opening footwork was better at Sectional.
Saw Rohene Ward the-skater-who-looks-like-Ronon in elevator stop
How was Rohene's skate in person? I've been told that live, he's electrifying. But I was less impressed by what I saw on the web.
Ryan Bradley aka Mr. Flirt aka last year's silver medalist blew it by goofing off at the short program and didn't make the podium stop
WG thinks he was overconfident stop
I think he couldn't balance playing to the crowd versus competing and went crowd-overboard stop
The crowd still loved him stop
I love Ryan Bradley. I agree with you, I don't think he was goofing off in the SP. There was no falls, and he hit all of his jumps. The hand gestures in his SP was also great, and he stayed in character the entire way through the LP. But if he didn't try the quad, he might have had a better result.
This sounds kind of silly, but if Charlie Chaplin did jumps, I think he jumps like Ryan. B/c Ryan doesn't look very stable in the air.
Loved Jeremy Abbott stop
I'm so glad he didn't fall on the quad. It hurt to watch him this entire GP series. Every time he attempted the quad, he fell.
Neither of us are impressed by Carriere stop
I like the different arm position his uses in the jumps. Somehow his style reminds me of an older generation of skaters.
WG points out that Evan skimps on the footwork leading into jumps stop
Evan takes half the rink to set up for a jump which WG feels is a shortcut stop
Yeah, but Evan has the harder entrances to his jumps. The lunge into his sal, the spiral into his flip, and the wally, reverse wally into his Lutz.
I really love the reverse wally entrance to his Lutz. Because there isn't a step in between, he jumps off the land edge of the wally into his Lutz. I also like it, b/c the rotation on the second wally is done against his natural rotation. (I hope you will have John do that entrance. B/c it's hard, and really cool looking.)
I have video of Evan's warm-up stop
Please post it, if you can. I love to see the in-betweens. All the stuff an athlete have to do to get prepared, but you don't get to see on TV. That why I love the practice stuff in Out of Bound.
Johnny Weir is like liquid beauty poured on the ice stop
He is very fluid, and soft on the ice. I saw him live on COI, he draws you in.
At the end they were tied stop
But Evan won stop
I was so shocked to see the scores. I actually went and look at the Protocol. It looks like Lysacek did 3 jumps in combination, and Weir only did 2 jumps in combination. He got lucky on the technical score. If Weir tack a single toe behind any of his jumps, Weir would have won.
The women's skate was a total upset stop
Talk about an upset. Except for the bronze medalist, none of them are old enough to go to Worlds. And two of them are skating as seniors for the first time.
Evan Lysacek did flamenco music and was energetic and a powerful presence stop
That was actually his short program. So you got to see both SP and LP live. Which one did you think was better? (I know it's not a fair comparison, since the SP was done as exhibition, but I'm still curious.)
Belbin and Agosto (sp?) melted the ice stop
They are hot. I love their Chopin FD this year. But did they do the horrid Justin Timberlake exhibition number?
Lysacek stayed longer than anyone else to sign autographs stop
He was shooed off the ice again stop
The moment he was off the ice he slumped in exhaustion stop
Awwwww. I feel sorry for all the guys that made top five. B/c it's horrible schedule for them. They basically have to skate in the exhibition a few hours after the LP. For the medalist, it's even worse, since they have to do press conferences right after the LP.