Recent content by jlai

Now the British fed is gonna complain...I hope this doesn't mess with Z/K's confidence and heads :(

To be honest, I wasn't a fan of their Sd until nationals. Then I was in love. My only one nitpik is their low pattern and step levels. But I know they know they need to work on that. Congrats! You earn this!

Just going by protocols at worlds, the one thing C/P has over Z/K is they didn't get level 2 steps or patterns. Z/K are pretty new still and it shows in the levels for those elements. Better material will help, but I think they can get some technical advantage over the patterns and steps...

I think packaging aside each team has technical weaknesses that can be marked down and by how much will depend on the judging system. Eg Browns for skating small, zingas for not being as good as the best female ice dancers, c/p for him being stiff, Parsons for issues related to his injury...

You didn’t want to watch Vincent? That was the dance of the night for some of us. Regardless of politics there will always be moments of dance, that are skated all out and emotional

I wonder if the Brits being defeated by quite a few teams have changed their momentum for worlds. We will see, they can come away with bronze again Good material is important but those who made breakthrough also have improved technically, like c/p a few seasons ago and z/k this season.

Us had a great 2015-18. They had three teams in the top 10 and sometimes had more than one in top five. Can’t say that will be the case next quad. Like others, I am not sure if Parsons will compete through 2030. It’s likely another breakthrough team breaks through. Hopefully N/M or Browns or...

Yes pls a summary would be greatly appreciated

My point is there is no way to say if x had happened y would be better after the fact Because y is the cause of many things that had happened. And if x changed it would have changed many things down the road which may or may not include y

But it can very well be the other way round. A skater who skates well all year has a crappy nationals and gets left out of Olympics. We are using hindsight to critique a past decision but the way things play out right now have many variables that influence the current outcome and there wasn’t...

I hope this is not like 2022 world where no top dance team withdrew (but teams did move up because of the Russian ban) In 2018 three teams withdrew so I guess three teams are on the high side in terms of numbers

this comment is kinda like saying I can’t believe Patrick chan didn’t get a gold medal but Mikhail did. But Chan had no doping controversy…

But without c/b the other american teams will move up one spot automatically so it is a trade off

I am hoping for one more withdrawal from the top teams so the ones waiting on the wings for a while have a shot of moving up

Nguyen and Kilesnik broke up in 2020 which prlady wrote about. Sad about that one too but glad for z/k