2025 Skate Canada Rhythm Dance PBP - I'm Too Spooky

[Karen-W]

Levels on the twizzles are not great. There wasn't a lot of unison, for one thing.

She was really wobbling on top of the ice during the first twizzle, which I'm guessing is the reason for her L2 call.

 

[my little pony]

BrattiSommerville will just never look right together imo like a battery in upside down

 

[just tuned in]

I like the handstand. The voguing is weak, though -- childish.

 

[skatingguy]

Emily Bratti/Ian Somerville
Coach: Greg Zuerlein, Charlie White, Tanith White
Music: Vogue, Walk 4 Me

Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 2 (1 after review)
Sequential Twizzles W:2 M:3 (W:1 M:3 after review)
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:2
Rotational Lift 4

More solid than there first event which just meant that Ian stayed on his feet, but also a stronger, and more dynamic presentation. Levels are not great.

63.22 = 1st Place

 

[Sally1214]

I liked Emily and Ian's Vogue. I like their costumes too (particularly hers). I know there were some level issues and it probably wasn't the best they can do .... but (as my brother-in-law stated emphatically after he had painted the bathroom a questionable colour) .... well, I like it!

 

[peibeck]

There's just not enough (almost any) voguing in this program. Serious revamp needed.

 

[chewy]

She has very shallow edges.

 

[Lizziebeth]

Is it just me or was that a bit sluggish??

 

[Rukia]

omg their response to that score i'm crying sorry to them but it was hilarious

 

[Belsornia]

“Wow” “What?” “Wow, nice”

 

[MacMadame]

Levels on the twizzles are not great. There wasn't a lot of unison, for one thing.

I think they were. less sloppy in France. I enjoy this program even if it's not always skated the best.

Also unless they can sort out the 2000's copyright issues they've pretty much done all the decades anyway unless they want to start engaging with the 1930's and 40's.

Those decades had a lot of dance-y music at least.

 

[tony]

The most emotion Ian has ever showed.

 

[Jay42]

Benjamin Steffan really does like a weird pattern on a button down shirt doesn't he?

 

[marbri]

His sarcastic "wow, nice" was the most interesting thing about the last five minutes

 

[Desperado]

A bedazzled ugly shirt, remains an ugly shirt.

 

[Braulio]

omg their response to that score i'm crying sorry to them but it was hilarious

It is discouraging to feel you gave your best, yes maybe with a little mistake but still not even close to a 70 plus

guys know they are going nowhere unfortunately

 

[floridaice]

Benjamin Steffan really does like a weird pattern on a button down shirt doesn't he?

Is the trim on Jennifer's dress the same material?

ed - close up view shows that it is. That's a choice

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

This belongs in a different closed-off forum probably, but having talked with a few recently retired skaters about the decades dances after discussing on Youtube, they told me Weaver is very in favor of them and defends it to no end

She’s certainly keen on them on the CBC broadcast. I might need to pretend to be in Europe and switch to the ISU feed if she keeps talking them up.

 

[Wyliefan]

His sarcastic "wow, nice" was the most interesting thing about the last five minutes

"Wow, nice" is the new "Stationary lift base?"

 

[Rukia]

I appreciate the realization that the 90s were truly a trashy time and the commitment to that idea

 

[PRlady]

B/S weren’t great but the Germans are just unwatchable.

 

[Sally1214]

Is the trim on Jennifer's dress the same material?

ed - close up view shows that it is. That's a choice

Looks like it to me.

 

[tony]

I think this team has been undermarked a lot in the past, even though the panel and judges kinda went for them at Worlds in the RD.

I'd say they even have better foundations than R/A

Twizzles slow standard here, and par for the course that the music doesn't really do much.

 

[Braulio]

Benjamin has this hockey player doing figure skating look but it works, at least he has some style and sense of movement for big german guy that's something you have to give credit

 

[just tuned in]

She has very shallow edges.

Caroline Green might be looking for a new partner soon...

 

[genevieve]

I've never heard of this song, which is kind of refreshing in a season crowded with duplicates, but it sounds generic enough that I'd believe it was released any time from mid-'70s to mid-2000s.

 

[Matryeshka]

Bratti/Somerville are a team I forget about two seconds before they stop the program. They just give off middle-of-the-pack vibes. Can't wait to see them and Pate/Bye battle it our for 4CC for the next four years.

VR/S. THIS is the 90s feckery we need. This is some old school Euros nonsense and I love it. I'm picturing D/LM skate this in my head and it's epic y'all.

 

[MacMadame]

A bedazzled ugly shirt, remains an ugly shirt.

KMT just felt a chill down her spine.

This music is more what I associated with the 90s. Not sure about the costumes though his shirt would be right at home at a Nivrana concert. Hers, not so much.

 

[skatingguy]

Jennifer Janse van Rensburg/Benjamin Steffan
Coach: Rostislav Sinicyn, Natalia Karamysheva
Music: Jungle Bill, On the Run

Midline Step Sequence W:2 M:2
Sequential Twizzles W:4 M:4
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 3 (2 after review)
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Rotational Lift 4

Nice program for this team, and highlighting Jennifer very well.

69.91 = 1st Place

 

[my little pony]

these RDs remind me of exhibitions and also of why I used to give my exhibition tickets away