NHK Trophy - Men's Short
Oct. 23rd, 2010 01:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tentoumushiI'm watching the free Russian stream, which is delayed by about 10 minutes, and if I don't want to be spoiled I can't follow what people are saying on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ontd_skating or Twitter or whatever. So instead I guess I'll just post my thoughts here.
And now there's a cat in front of my monitor. It's okay, though. Still just the warm-up.
First up, Jeremy Ten. Ooh, he's not having a good skate. A Single Man is a great movie with a great soundtrack, but I'm not sure it makes for great skating music.
Ross Miner. I like his music. I don't like his choreography.
Takahito Mura. Nice big quad.
Jialiang Wu. Flailing arms. Music is way more dramatic than he is.
Florent Amodio. This music is terrible! Why couldn't he skate to something more dynamic? Ok, that's a little better. LOL at Morozov fist pumping in the background. Aww, big hug from Morozov and big smile from Florent. Good score.
Yuzuru Hanyu. What is he wearing around his neck? Oooh, nice 3A. I really like this music, but Yuzuru doesn't quite have the maturity yet to carry it off. He's so flexible.
Bathroom break.
Shawn Sawyer. That spin at the end was awesome.
Denis Ten. I totally forgot that Stephane choreographed this program until Denis started spinning. I hate to say it, but I kind of spaced out. I'll watch it again later.
Adrian Schultheiss. Interesting choice of music. Wish he had a more colorful costume. Does he have a goatee? I totally couldn't tell when he was skating. And does he not have illusion mesh over his chest? Is that allowed?
Kevin Van Der Perren. Major bonus points for music from Prokofiev's R&J, but his skating is so wooden! And the costume is hideous.
Daisuke Takahashi. *________________*
Jeremy Abbott. Needs more hair. The shine from his scalp is distracting. Nicely done, but there's something a bit awkward about it.
Okay, going back to Daisuke since I was too excited to form words right away. I loved it! Daisuke is such a sexy skater. Watching that program gave me high heartbeats. And I loved the excited reactions of the crowd.
I may have to stop reading other people's reactions, because I'm seeing people saying that Jeremy was better, and they are WRONG.
...
I know I'm not qualified to say that Jeremy shouldn't have had a higher score. What I find really obnoxious is criticizing Daisuke for not doing Stephane's program. It's fine if you don't like Shae-Lynn's program, but some people seem determined to hate it just because it isn't Stephane's. Which we haven't even seen!
ontd_skating or Twitter or whatever. So instead I guess I'll just post my thoughts here.And now there's a cat in front of my monitor. It's okay, though. Still just the warm-up.
First up, Jeremy Ten. Ooh, he's not having a good skate. A Single Man is a great movie with a great soundtrack, but I'm not sure it makes for great skating music.
Ross Miner. I like his music. I don't like his choreography.
Takahito Mura. Nice big quad.
Jialiang Wu. Flailing arms. Music is way more dramatic than he is.
Florent Amodio. This music is terrible! Why couldn't he skate to something more dynamic? Ok, that's a little better. LOL at Morozov fist pumping in the background. Aww, big hug from Morozov and big smile from Florent. Good score.
Yuzuru Hanyu. What is he wearing around his neck? Oooh, nice 3A. I really like this music, but Yuzuru doesn't quite have the maturity yet to carry it off. He's so flexible.
Bathroom break.
Shawn Sawyer. That spin at the end was awesome.
Denis Ten. I totally forgot that Stephane choreographed this program until Denis started spinning. I hate to say it, but I kind of spaced out. I'll watch it again later.
Adrian Schultheiss. Interesting choice of music. Wish he had a more colorful costume. Does he have a goatee? I totally couldn't tell when he was skating. And does he not have illusion mesh over his chest? Is that allowed?
Kevin Van Der Perren. Major bonus points for music from Prokofiev's R&J, but his skating is so wooden! And the costume is hideous.
Daisuke Takahashi. *________________*
Jeremy Abbott. Needs more hair. The shine from his scalp is distracting. Nicely done, but there's something a bit awkward about it.
Okay, going back to Daisuke since I was too excited to form words right away. I loved it! Daisuke is such a sexy skater. Watching that program gave me high heartbeats. And I loved the excited reactions of the crowd.
I may have to stop reading other people's reactions, because I'm seeing people saying that Jeremy was better, and they are WRONG.
...
I know I'm not qualified to say that Jeremy shouldn't have had a higher score. What I find really obnoxious is criticizing Daisuke for not doing Stephane's program. It's fine if you don't like Shae-Lynn's program, but some people seem determined to hate it just because it isn't Stephane's. Which we haven't even seen!