Recent content by AxelLover

Yes!!! He did it!

Personally, I hope Nathan doesn't ditch the 4Lo and the six-quad layout. I want him to be the first person to land six clean quads and a 3A in one free skate. It would be epic! I want him to keep pushing the boundaries! Plus he has to be ready for the possibility that Yuzuru, Shoma, Vincent or...

I wish there was a higher quality video of the 4Lo (especially in terms of fps) so that we could see the exact amount of rotation he's done in the air. However, even from this low quality video it is clear that he's done more than enough. It was a beautiful jump indeed. I want him to skate a...

I find photos like these very cute and I'm pretty sure there must be many others. Please, post more! :)

Exactly. Plus there's always the question when Vincent gets big score whether the technical panel really did its job watching for underrotations.

Wait, Nathan was present at 2016 Worlds? I didn't know that. It was just a couple of months after the hip injury right?

Yan Han's 3A has a lot of height and covers an amazing distance, but he just doesn't rotate quickly enough to land a 4A. He's only been doing one type of quad (4T) in his career and it wasn't very consistent.

I would actually use these two examples to support my opinion that being the first to land a ratified jump of a specific type really is an important achievement in skaters' career. Look at it this way - would you even know these two skaters existed if they didn't land the jumps? I most likely...

I don't think this was Yuzuru's intention at all. He just expressed his immense desire to be the first skater who lands a clean 4A in competition. It is more important to him than winning the Olympics three times in a row. And if other skaters for some reason really get scared off by Yuzuru's...

Well, there's also the 4A ?

I want him to land the 4A so badly!

Wait, I'm new here. Do you imply the interview is not real? It would explain a lot if it wasn't.

Exactly. I'd be happy if he used a safe layout for the SP (i.e. 4F, 4T+3T and 3A) and then went full out in the free with 6 quads.

Hello! I was just thinking it would be so cool if Nathan's free skate jump layout at the Olympics was the following: 4Lo 4Lz 4F+3T 4S 4T+1Eu+3F 4T+3T 3A That would be epic!