2024 Canadian Championships Sr Men FS - Arctic outflow, extreme cold

[danafan]

Guinzbourg is eligible for 4CC and jr worlds

 

[quartz]

Ted is giving us colloquialisms too. He must have heard how much the fans loved Chris' Euros commentary and decided to give it a whirl.

He doesn’t have the bombastic OTT delivery ability of those folksy old phrases.

 

[Desperado]

The K&C has more lights than the whole arena.

 

[quartz]

Beethoven is not pleased with this start.

 

[overedge]

Was there a sparkly bead and sequin shortage in Ontario? Lots of plain black out there today....

 

[JoannaLouise]

I'm loving Bruce's dramatic arm movements in the choreo sequence

 

[Desperado]

Didn’t Bruce also skate in an all black outfit in the short?

 

[Desperado]

Was there a sparkly bead and sequin shortage in Ontario?

They’re there, but the light…sigh.

 

[quartz]

Was there a sparkly bead and sequin shortage in Ontario?

No. There’s a great bead store in my town and the owner stock piled Swarovski crystals by the bucketful during the pandemic. You just have to know where to shop.

 

[Karen-W]

You're never going to convince me that there weren't girls lined up around the block to tryout with Bruce after Natalie retired. He really needs to go back to ice dance.

 

[Rukia]

beautiful skating quality but jumps....ehhhh

 

[Wyliefan]

That could be very powerful, with the simplicity of the unadorned music and costume ... but it needs less popping.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Bruce did train in singles the whole time he was doing dance, but having (presumably) not really trained the harder jumps like triple axels and quads as a younger skater, it's going to be hard to truly make a go of it in singles now that he's in his twenties.

His musicality is sublime though.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Some lovely spin positions, too.

 

[Wyliefan]

You're never going to convince me that there weren't girls lined up around the block to tryout with Bruce after Natalie retired. He really needs to go back to ice dance.

Is Emmy Bronsard too tall for him?

 

[overedge]

I really liked his short program, but unfortunately this program didn't do a lot for me.

 

[Lana K]

Was there a reason Bruce didn’t stay in ice dancing? He is very musical!

 

[honey]

You're never going to convince me that there weren't girls lined up around the block to tryout with Bruce after Natalie retired. He really needs to go back to ice dance.

Or, like, try pairs or something if he doesn’t want to dance. Forgive me but I don’t think it’s going to happen for him in the singles event.

 

[tony]

This commentary is excruciating.

I mean I want to talk. I mean maybe not always. But yeah. No. I mean I don’t know.

 

[Karen-W]

Is Emmy Bronsard too tall for him?

Probably - she's listed at 169cm and he's listed at 178cm on their ISU bios.

 

[quartz]

That podium is getting closer for Conrad.
Dang, I need another glass of wine already. Ooof.

 

[quartz]

Wth, I’ll predict Roman gets on the podium too.

 

[overedge]

Go Roman go!

 

[quartz]

ok, I’ll take that back.

 

[quartz]

Love this moody music tho.

 

[overedge]

Roman why do you break my heart this way

 

[Wyliefan]

Another program that would be fantastic if he could land the jumps.

Kind of a theme tonight.

 

[tony]

I really want to bang my head against the wall with Roman. Insanely talented and a wonderful music sense, but he’s been the same deal for a long time now and he’s not making any training changes that would at least maybe shift his success ratio.

That loop Euler Salchow was so clumsy, the free foot went down on the Sal entry and there was no hope. Some jumps he bombs into with no air awareness and others he crawls into.

Just pointless to even criticize now because it won’t change unless he initiates it.

 

[Rukia]

Roman why do you break my heart this way

if he didn't have to leave the ice he'd be champ

 

[quartz]

You know. Patrick Chan used to fall 3 times and still won stuff, so it’s not like it’s impossible.