2024 GPF - Junior Women SP

[tony]

wonderful example of "clarity of edges" in the footwork - oh even a level 4 in the Step sequence - that is so rare in Juniors!

It's Gusmeroli. She's nice

 

[Sally1214]

Lovely skate by Wang. She's a natural jumper .... makes it look so easy. Spin positions were beautiful as well. Level 4 step sequence too. She's got it all.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Kim's dress is very Korean Ladies

 

[Karen-W]

Come on Wang, give this program nothing!

And mark off "could be skating to anything" for those playing bingo! I thought the same, TBH, lol.

 

[floridaice]

Kim's dress is very Korean Ladies

It is, and it does fit the music -- which sometimes doesn't happen for them.

 

[Rukia]

someone is ready to be a senior korean woman i see

i kid she's more expressive than the senior women but she still has plenty of time to lose that

 

[Theatregirl1122]

It's Gusmeroli. She's nice

And just to prove it, we just got another one.

 

[Hedwig]

Yuseong Kim
2axel might have been short
3z3t
I do not like her jump technique, it is unclean somehow, but judges give positive GOE
3f
hm, a bit of a generic Korean skate.
I miss Jia Shin

 

[tony]

I have watched a lot of skating, I have gone back and watched almost every archive of skating from the 70s and 80s, before my time, too. I can rattle off program details like it's nothing from 30 years ago.

But the Korean women really confuse me time after time, because they all skate the exact same way with the same strengths and weaknesses, the same jump technique, the same extension of the arms and essentially the same choreography (aside from Chaeyeon Kim). I promise in 5 years I won't know the difference between any of them or remember their specific programs.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Yuseong is perfectly pleasant, but it's too early for Debussy. She's quite fluid but not super polished. I also have my suspicions about her technique. If she plans to have a puberty any time in the future, she's going to lose all her jumps.

Also, this music is not suitable for the arena - the lower notes are resonant with something and going to blow the hockey shields on some point. Which I won't object.

 

[Hedwig]

It's Gusmeroli. She's nice

Obviously - the next one got a level 4 as well

 

[skatfan]

Lovely skate, but I agree with Tony, I won’t remember her specifically.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I don't get why so many ladies are still doing both 3F and 3Lz in the SP when they get an edge call on one of them.

 

[her grace]

Kim

Solid combo [but with edge call] as well as her other jumps, looks a bit gangly—I want her to embrace her height and extend, nice musical engagement

 

[tony]

I don't get why so many ladies are still doing both 3F and 3Lz in the SP when they get an edge call on one of them.

Because they look up to Kaori Sakamoto and think: if she can do it, so can I!

 

[Sally1214]

Edge call for Kim but otherwise another really enjoyable skate. I don't follow the juniors throughout their GP season so this is the first time I'm seeing these skaters. And, I'm getting some really nice surprises.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

How many skaters can we get with essentially the same score? Lets test it.

 

[Citlali]

Time for the mini Japanese Junior Nationals

 

[tony]

+5 for the edgework out of the Axel. And +5 for the held landing on the toe loop.

This program isn't going to do it for me, but the Japanese ladies continue to make me happy for the sport.

 

[Karen-W]

Yup, @tony and @skatfan are right - Yuseong's lovely, but she's just another bot in the long list of Korean women - completely undistinctive. It doesn't help that she has an identical twin sister who also lacks a distinctive skating style.

Kaoruko's giving us whickety-whack - also, her dress does NOT go with the movie at all.

 

[Rukia]

someone mentioned defying gravity earlier so i assumed this dress would be the wicked program lol

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Trying to decide if this dress looks more like cotton candy turned itself into a dress or My Little Pony turned itself into a dress

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I don't get why so many ladies are still doing both 3F and 3Lz in the SP when they get an edge call on one of them.

Don't they basically "have to" because of the junior rules?

 

[Hedwig]

Karuka Wada
Oh wonderful start with speed and little toe-jumps and so much flow into 2ax
good speed into 3z3t
3f
best flow and speed so far
botches the twizzle section of the footwork a bit so only level 3

 

[her grace]

Wada

In her spumoni dress, soft knees, bent knee pick in 3z and 3f, leagues ahead of everyone else thus far in glide and flow

Should move into first

 

[skatfan]

This music doesn’t work for her.

 

[Karen-W]

someone mentioned defying gravity earlier so i assumed this dress would be the wicked program lol

Oh, no, no. Trust me, you'll know the Wicked program costume when you see it. And not just by process of elimination, lol.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Don't they basically "have to" because of the junior rules?

They have to do the 3F as the solo jump, right? The combo jump isn't specified.

 

[tony]

Don't they basically "have to" because of the junior rules?

They have to do the flip, either a double or triple. But if they are flutzing, they have the option to do the loop of course. But I think the mindset for so many coaching teams is 'more difficult means better GOE and/or PCS", regardless of the potential (yet rare) 'e' call.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

someone mentioned defying gravity earlier so i assumed this dress would be the wicked program lol

I would have assumed whoever did Wicked would be playing Elphaba.