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British citizenship can only be got in 3 years with marriage to a citizen or 5 without, but you have to live there. Unless he has a British grandparent or something I’d count GB out
Spain is definitely the easiest. Not only did Olivia and Kirill get citizenship in time for 2018, but Zandron got it in less than 4 months after he and Barquero earned a pairs spot for Spain at Nebelhorn last year.British citizenship can only be got in 3 years with marriage to a citizen or 5 without, but you have to live there. Unless he has a British grandparent or something I’d count GB out
And Germany has a language test.British citizenship can only be got in 3 years with marriage to a citizen or 5 without, but you have to live there. Unless he has a British grandparent or something I’d count GB out
4) Li/Wang did Junior and Senior competitions in the same day at Santa Claus Cup. They have a Harry Potter free dance (with a very loud "expecto patronus" voiceover at one point). The organizers got confused at one point and played the Senior music cut during the Junior segment.
Guignard and Fabri are good but there is one critical element missing in their fd actual dancing, they also skate far apart and side by side , G&P are almost constantly in hold easy decision for the judges.I know Gilles & Poirier are now the favorites but I really hope and prefer Guignard & Fabbri to win the Grand Prix final. Fingers crossed. I also hope Fourner Beaudry & Sorensen can make the podium, which it looks like they actually have a chance to do.
Interesting point. I always thought it was Gilles & Poirier's superior charisma and on ice personality that pulled them ahead of G&F consistently.Guignard and Fabri are good but there is one critical element missing in their fd actual dancing, they also skate far apart and side by side , G&P are almost constantly in hold easy decision for the judges.
Which is a shame because G/F used to skate in hold a lot in previous seasons. The trend in ice dance recently, partly influenced by I.AM, has been for more open holds and side by side skating, so I really enjoy seeing G/P's free dance using closed holds so effectively.Guignard and Fabri are good but there is one critical element missing in their fd actual dancing, they also skate far apart and side by side , G&P are almost constantly in hold easy decision for the judges.
Maybe the judges are sending a message with their scoring of G/P this season that is something they want moving forward, and the other top teams need to take note, particularly the I.AM teams.Which is a shame because G/F used to skate in hold a lot in previous seasons. The trend in ice dance recently, partly influenced by I.AM, has been for more open holds and side by side skating, so I really enjoy seeing G/P's free dance using closed holds so effectively.
While changing the construction of ice dance programs and having required elements where skaters are encouraged to skate separately and not in hold? Talk about a mixed message.Maybe the judges are sending a message with their scoring of G/P this season that is something they want moving forward, and the other top teams need to take note, particularly the I.AM teams.
Most of the ice dancers always wear their competition costumes for practices. I'm not sure what the plan is for ChoBat, but I do like these better than what they wore at NHK.I think that might be a practice dress? Mathieu Caron has a couple recent IG posts on his work on the NHK dress so I would think that's still the comp dress.
You do have to wonder if Igor totally favours Z/K over P/B. I think P/B didn’t have a clean skate but regardless - I think Igor will politik more for his JWC here especially when up against a team that left him. I so wish we’d had a stream here!!Well the Golden Spin RD results are quite something. The new team of Zingas/Kolesnik ahead of the Georgians, Germans, Aussies and Pate/Bye?
US Nats dance is going to be crazy. Not to mention our other new team, Flores and partner (still waiting for release?)
I liked their Skate America costumes; the NHK ones were a downgradeEvan's mom told me Madison has a new costume for the FD. I spend too much time sitting with their parents and Kaitlin's mom at the Palavela
g/f could make their skating skills more convincing if charlene would just get down into her knees more. it would also mitigate some of the bias about their lack of size difference at least a little bit so his head isn't always just slightly below hers. bc in reality he is taller than she is, but his knee bend is much better rn.Evita is just a much more judge friendly program than what G/F are doing.. And it's really good character acting from both Piper and Paul. But Piper's skating quality honestly still looks ...very clunky and just lacks smoothness? Good for G/P but judges are marking them this high because they are the number 1 Canadian team and everyone else is kind of gone. I don't even think F/B-S are a worse team at this point, they simply don't have the status yet even though their stock is going up.
yeah, the result was super confusing after watching the ticker in the corner of the screen.The scoring today is kind of, all over the place. Gilles / Poirier are leading with the worst levels...
That's how ice dance have been scored for a while, all about GOEs and PCS. G/P got first here on PCS lead and the GOE on their character dance steps - both completely subjectively evaluated.The scoring today is kind of, all over the place. Gilles / Poirier are leading with the worst levels...