That’s a big if! I’ve yet to hear a plausible explanation for Witt’s miraculous overnight improvement in figure between 83 and 84. Sumners bombed the sp but Witt outskating her in the LP is grossly exaggerated, hence the whisper thin margin of victory.
i don’t follow her on SM so I missed how/when she’s ever done anything that wasn’t “on her own terms and for herself.”
I'm sure during her teenage years, many decisions (as with most teenagers) were made by others based on what they thought was in her best interests. Now as an adult, she is free to make her own decisions (ex: moving across the country on her own) and be in charge of her own career. (This is similar to what Ashley did in 2011 when she moved to CA to work with John Nicks and then Raf - worked out pretty well for her, all things considered.)
I guess Evan winning without a quad and being the most boring men’s skater ever wasn’t good enough.......
If this is true, you’d think that would have put things in perspective.
well, except for the fact that none of his later ladies skaters looked anything like Linda in anyway, and Gracie was skating pretty princess programs before she went to him, not after, you’ve got it all figured out
(this is not a trick question). I don't get what is so "princessy" abot Linda F.? she has short hair, athletic arm moves, powerful skating (rather than balletic or lyrical)...?
*shrug* it wouldn’t shock me to know that the ladies is a bit behind the others, but it’s not like pairs, men and dance are all “au courant”. Hanyu is lovely and javi is fun, but neither is particularly “fresh” in their packaging. Nathan’s costumes were about as “updated” as we got this year and on cue FSU was all haterationnation on them. And I won’t even get into V/M in the context of “outdated packaging”
i tend to agree with Yazmeen: Linda, Michelle and Evan were his most successful students and all 3 were level headed and hardworking. Mirai and Gracie are both rumored to be high maintenance headcases who slack off. It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone that frank was all “ain’t nobody got time for this!” with them
). 2013 Skate Canada was her best performance of this program, IIRC.
IF Gracie plans to compete again, I'd be happy to see her to explore a more modern dance style of choreography and/or music, like the screechy violin Gershwin SP in the fall of 2013 (minus the screechy part
I don't know that much about Gracie, but that theory about Mirai being a slacker has been debunked many times. Don't you think her fighting her way back to the podium at Nats and acquiring a triple axel along the way is enough to show how hard she's worked? Vincent Zhou called her the hardest worker he knows, and I tend to think he would know something about hard work.
Well, I adore Denis and I have no idea if it's related to the "whatever you say, Mr Carroll" thing --but look at what happened to his poor body on Frank's watch.
