2023 Skate America Women FS - Not Landing

[rfisher]

How is it when your brother says you need to sex it up when developing your program?

 

[Colonel Green]

Belgium's first Grand Prix title, since practically everything Loena does is a national first.

 

[Frau Muller]

Loena is Queen…and both Isabeau & Niina medal! Woohoo!!!
Amber thrilled us with the 3-axel, too.

 

[Vagabond]

Hendrickx should get a 10.00 on her cheers-to-tears-to-cheers Transition in the Kiss and Cry.

 

[TAHbKA]

Did Estonia ever win a GP medal?

 

[Wyliefan]

Well, I'll be, she landed the thing! Dusty pink must be her lucky color.

I take it back, Amber. Put that dress away and never wear it again.

 

[tony]

Did Estonia ever win a GP medal?

No, Glebova was 3rd after the short in Bompard once I think.

Checked it- my memory didn't fail. 2007.

 

[skatingguy]

Belgium's first Grand Prix title, since practically everything Loena does is a national first.

You mean when she won France last year?

 

[floskate]

Loena skated a blinder. She's voguing - one of the integral elements of voguing is hand/arm movements so for me it works.

 

[Primorskaya]

How is it when your brother says you need to sex it up when developing your program?

I doubt anyone ever has to tell Loena to sex something up.

 

[caseyedwards]

Sad old Amber came back

 

[peibeck]

That score is a bit stupid considering the lack of actual choreography and transitions throughout 80% of it, and it's not like she even really started selling it until the jumps were all accomplished.

 

[airgelaal]

Loena competed only once in the USA and had to withdraw from the competition after the short program. I think that's one of the reasons why it was so important for her to just perform well today.

 

[Vagabond]

Did Estonia ever win a GP medal?

This is their first.

ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sally1214]

Well, the women's event is usually my least fave of any competition but this one had some interesting twists and turns. Congrats to all the medalists ... and wow, Yoshida's climb from 9th to 4th place was pretty darn impressive. See you all next week at SC.

 

[Rukia]

Tech caller took all 4 stuffies that ended up there with her lol

 

[rfisher]

Belgium's first Grand Prix title, since practically everything Loena does is a national first.

Even KVDP never won although he medaled three times.

 

[Icetalavista]

Ok then. Love Loena, but enuf with the whacking arms and boards grabbing.

 

[skateboy]

Is it just me, or did Isabeau look like she was trying not to cry while being interviewed by Andrea Joyce?

 

[Colonel Green]

You mean when she won France last year?

Yeah, I belatedly remembered that afterward.

She struggled so much last season, it's funny to remember how many significant medals she won anyway.

 

[VGThuy]

I’m confused as to how a program that is all about whacking and vogueing can have too much of it? I get that it needs more blade content to link the elements and stationary parts together, but this is not a program theme where you pull back on that.

 

[Holy Headband]

I guess some people in this thread aren’t into the Harlem Ballroom culture.

I like voguing and respect it as a dance form, but I don't think it translates well to the ice because it's so much about posing, giving face (which Loena wasn't doing at all lol), walking, etc. In order to vogue on the ice and do it well, you kinda have to stop gliding. I don't like it when skaters put a posing break in their program.

Bollywood dancing is also about creating and holding shapes with your body to some extent, but it's more dynamic because it can usually be done while the feet are moving, with statement poses accenting the music and flowing into motion quickly.

 

[Karen-W]

Slept through most of the women save the last 4...

Niina - nice, solid skate, glad she wound up on the podium.

Isabeau - very determined and focused. Some nice moves. Still have the skirt on this dress - she needs to lose a few layers of chiffon.

Amber - first half fab and then... well, I was rooting for her to not fall apart, sadly, it was her usual.

Loena - the ISU social media team needs to invest all its money in making her go viral - get her programs, or key sections, boosted - she is a star that will get this sport noticed in Europe and even North America.

 

[Frau Muller]

Oh…it’s not over! We still have the Exhibition on Peacock at 8:30pm eastern.

 

[PRlady]

This must be the first GP in a while without a Japanese or Korean lady on the podium.

 

[VGThuy]

I like voguing and respect it as a dance form, but I don't think it translates well to the ice because it's so much about posing, giving face, walking, etc. In order to vogue on the ice and do it well, you kinda have to stop gliding. I don't like it when skaters put a posing break in their program.

Bollywood dancing is also about creating and holding shapes with your body to some extent, but it's more dynamic because it can usually be done while the feet are moving, with statement poses accenting the music and flowing into motion quickly.

I get that it needs to have more skating and they need to tweak the posing to have more movement and skating.

It just seemed like people were complaining about the actual dance style and Loena executed it in a way where I felt she was attempting to really respect the art form unlike a lot of Bollywood routines that aren’t very good but make winks and nods to what they think are features of Bollywood dancing.

I guess we are in a new world where transitions are no longer their own PCS category and skating skills are the last listed one.

 

[caseyedwards]

This must be the first GP in a while without a Japanese or Korean lady on the podium.

Young you is in a slump!!

 

[Colonel Green]

This must be the first GP in a while without a Japanese or Korean lady on the podium.

It happened at three events on the 2021/22 Grand Prix, two of them Russian sweeps and the other two Russians + Loena.

So it has been a few years, but in the days of Russian supremacy it wasn't unknown.

 

[Vagabond]

This must be the first GP in a while without a Japanese or Korean lady on the podium.

2021 Rostelecom Cup - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Apparently, Russia had some pretty good skaters back in the day.

 

[marbri]

This must be the first GP in a while without a Japanese or Korean lady on the podium.

Well there is at least the Japanese flag