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I am not so sure. Do you think they are training less during off-season and at the beginning of the season than the younger teams and doing less full run-throughs? Otherwise it wouldn't make sense, as I assume training with full run-throughs is just as taxing on one's body as competitive skates...

I don't think just about anywhere will do. It's not like absolutely all other coaches are good with levels. As for last season's RD, it was nice, but I didn't think it was particularly special or imaginative either. This season's programs are okay - they suit them well and are pretty well...

⁸ The FD is contemporary flamenco choreographed by Antonio Najarro.

I would agree - even though this is early in the season, they have been loosing levels also at later and more important competitions. But where to they should go, in your opinion? To I.AM or I.AM Ontario to become one of their many teams? To Margaglio where their teammates went? To the Michigan...

Not according to the scoring, even though that was close. But they might be the 9th or even 10th best team this season in any case, as it doesn't seem believable that Shibutanis are going to be worse than them even now and Neset/Markelov are very close to them too.

@Bigbird probably meant compared to the whole field, as we see it at the moment. One of those two spots for France is already clearly theirs, but they have a chance at some international medals too.

No, actually we don't. I am curious as well. Thank you. I knew it was Bach, but not which pieces exactly.

The top teams whose programs I not only want to see, but also want to know what they are, as they are still a complete mystery - Gilles/Poirier, Guignard/Fabbri, Chock/Bates RD, then Shibutanis - the biggest mystery of all. The programs we have some idea about, but haven't seen yet -...

I recommend this (F-B/S's 2023 FD performance at Four Continents) for watching - https://youtu.be/ZYzCMQ2WRlc?si=NubxcM2tVBDdKrLP.

I absolutely disagree with this. Laurence Fournier-Beaudry has always had a lot of presence on ice. She is very expressive, has great quality of movement, wonderful arms, musicality. Either you have never seen her with Sorensen or we saw/are seeing something totally different. Furthermore, there...

Why are you writing this to me? I already mentioned in the comment you quoted that it was T/L's first senior competition.

I didn't expect that either, but maybe not so strange, considering that it's practically the first competition of Tali/Lafornara's first senior season, while Paolino/Tuba already have some experience (and, likely, progress) in seniors.

Madonna didn't invent voguing. It was done to different music for many years before her 'Vogue'. Also, I suspect that it wasn't quite the vibe they wanted for their RD.

Is waacking to John Legend not contradictory? P/C did waacking, not voguing, though. Also, I don't think a junior team can do that on the same level as skaters of F-B/C's calibre.

Don't understand the ":rolleyes:". Cizeron did waacking with Papadakis, not voguing. Those are two different styles of dance. And I am sure that this RD will be different - both in terms of vibe and choreo. What is pretentious again? The music or voguing? Or the introduction (in which case I...