2025 NHK Trophy Free Dance PBP - Hmmm for the Weekend

[Allen]

For whatever reason, I'm usually not a fan of the programs coming out of the Charlie/Tanith/Greg group...but I actually kind of like this one...

 

[MacMadame]

AND I HATE THE TWISTING SLIDE STUFF ON THE ICE. I'll be in the minority.

I will join you in the slide hating corner. I have Cosmos. And chocolate.

I don't think I've seen this Kill Bill program. Does she kill him? Please tell me she kills him. (I was said when Urma didn't in the movie.)

 

[Karen-W]

I enjoyed that from WolfTsar. One of the more interesting FDs of the season.

 

[tony]

This is a pretty vanilla Kill Bill but almost all of them are. Definitely rougher than the RD and I thought it really got weaker as it went on, but it at least kept my attention.

 

[Tak]

Wow - that was good from W/T. The lifts were great - esp her positions. It's strange, I don't remember this team from other years - but they really seem to be waking up and stepping out here.

 

[her grace]

Wolfkostin/Tsarevski

Limber, flexible backs, on that difficult entry into the twizzles—gutsy, a misstep from her in diagonal steps, this is a great senior GP debut

 

[mtnskater]

Katarina is in killer shape. I love that dress on her. But this music….blecch. We’ve seen/heard this arrangement of Kill Bill music before. MIDA and its lack of imagination.

That said, sharp, technically difficult, good expression. These two are really jelling and have a bright future.

 

[peibeck]

Best death in ice dance since Lim/Quan's senior FD debut. That is all.

 

[Aceon6]

This is a pretty vanilla Kill Bill but almost all of them are. Definitely rougher than the RD and I thought it really got weaker as it went on, but it at least kept my attention.

Lots of little stumbles and shaky edges, but they sold it.

 

[Braulio]

On a sidenote, I just texted Frangi

Tee-hee

I juste texted Tsarevsky, naaah kidding

He is cute though

 

[my little pony]

the only thing I like about that team is Wolf Tsar sounds very cool

 

[Jay42]

Someone needs to tell Natalie that she's too hot for a costume that terrible

 

[mtnskater]

Sooo glad she is out of the diaper and into pants tonight

 

[Colonel Green]

The Taschlers have quite a one-foot sequence.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Can’t we get a Matrix costume in this lifetime that isn’t black with green stones.

 

[my little pony]

just a solid black onesie with no mini peplum, dont try to reinvent the wheel it aint broke

 

[Jammers]

I'm not sure how the Shibs thought not doing any other events other then the GP was going to give them enough time on the ice competing to get back into shape and make the Olympic team. It took Alysa nearly a full season to get back into the shape she was before she quit and she only sat out two years not seven. One more GP and then they think they will be ready to make a run at Nationals?

 

[mtnskater]

Too bombastic and in your face for me overall. Seems like on two feet and lots of crossovers.
But that dual ducking spiral move was great!! I love spirals and want to see them more

 

[beckab81]

Curve lift needs to be re-worked, it’s a bit clunky and getting low GOE. They seemed a bit off balance at times, but overall a pretty good skate. They won’t like the score though.

 

[tony]

I hate the spin move to open. It looks like she's accidentally dropping her knee to the ice and the speed kinda just dies out with it and clunks out of position. Another spiral in the one foot turns? Cool and done fairly well but he was staring at that ice the whole time. Probably has to make sure they are perfectly aligned to move inside out during said spiral.

Quite a few instances of this program are done almost sitting on the ice and it's very stop and go. Wouldn't put the diagonal step so late and the music edit is even more overdone than the standard Matrix.

Another instance for me when the interpretation to this music is almost always vanilla.

 

[peibeck]

These costumes give me Dominatrix more than Matrix. Give Natalie some handcuffs and a whip. It would make the program make more sense.

 

[Karen-W]

Wow. That's some low TES compared to WolfTsar. They had over 2.5 points to play with after the RD, but the judges really weren't going for this program, which I kind of get because it just doesn't really go anywhere or have much tension apart from the music itself.

 

[kirkbiggestfan]

Maybe Joubert will come back and skate to the Matrix.

 

[MacMadame]

The Matrix just isn't a Couple Dancing kind of movie.

And I am pretty sure he tripped on that last sliding move.

 

[Lilia A]

I can never not think of Joubert when I hear The Matrix.
And yes I'm well aware of the allegation against him, so I shall refer to him exclusively by his last name and not his old nickname.
TES below the senior GP debutants.

 

[her grace]

Taschlers

Choreo spin move looked sticky, good power through one foot turns, a little slow at finishing some of their moves

 

[Jay42]

Besides the weird mini peplum situation, the shirt part makes her look super boxy and and almost like her torso is slowly disappearing on her.

I liked parts of the program but this is the first time I've watched them this season so I spent a lot of time being distracted by trying to figure out the things that are wrong with her shirt.

 

[Ka3sha]

Scalli gave an interview to the Russian press where he compared the Tashlers to a pot filled with boiling water:

You see, a boiling pot is cool. You can cook delicious pasta in it. But if the water starts to boil dry, that becomes a problem.

Now I can't unsee it

 

[Allen]

Filip is a good skater, but Natalie just needs a tall, virile man that isn't her brother as a partner.

 

[tony]

Massimo three times already and I'm thoroughly unimpressed.