2025 ISU GPF Ice Dance Free Dance - Have No Fear Shawn’s Not Here

[her grace]

R/A

Nice stationary to rotational lift, slow through the one foot turns and midline steps and the twizzles. Smooth lifts. I just can’t with their underpowered skating

 

[tony]

His one foot indeed dropped to level 2, her midline stayed at 3. Okay.

PCS also continues to be too high.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I’m so over the lazy ways teams throw in the required touch in the twizzles for the FD. It never compositionally makes sense. Here it ends up looking like Saulius is whipping Alison into the set.

 

[Allen]

I really like R/A, but based on the actual skating tonight, I don't get their scores in relation to Z/K.

 

[Tinycities]

Who?

Kolesnik is only 2 years younger than Fear.

Forgot lilah was much younger, but the rest are 30+

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

R&A’s FD is such trash and I love its ridiculousness. Or maybe it’s because it’s the middle of the night and I’m actually still sleeping.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Somehow F/G FD feels more 90ies than their RD.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

If they had a Google watch that counts steps, by the end of the program Lewis would have had twice the amount of Lilah.

This is miles better than their atrocious RD.

I still refuse to see them as the new gods of skating skills.

 

[tony]

Perfect opening combination lifts for Lilah & Lewis. She gets through that second counter-rotation twizzle almost always but her entire upper body locks up and she gets really tentative on it. Again she's sticky on the midline, L3 okay???. L2 one foot for her, I'd think that maybe goes down, too. Every required edge looked sketchy.

Once they get past 500 Miles (and a big part of their TES), I somewhat get lost with the program but they definitely upped the content between the elements. It used to be ZERO going on besides going from big choreographic element to the next.

 

[Tak]

Now that's entertainment. F/G were great.

 

[skatingguy]

Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson
Rank after RD: 4
Coach: R. Haguenauer, P. Lauzon, M.F. Dubreuil
Music: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Stationary Lift 4 + Rotational Lift 4
Synchronized Twizzles W:4 M:4 (W:4 M:3 after review)
Midline Step Sequence W:3 M:1 (W:3 M:2 after review)
Curve Lift 4
One Foot Turns W:2 M:2
Dance Spin 4
Choreo Character Step Sequence
Choreo Dance Lift
Choreo Spinning Movement

Another crowd pleasing performance. I felt like they were holding back slightly in this skate, and they are going to have to push this program out even harder if they are going to be on the Olympic podium.

126.26 = 1st Place
208.81 = 1st Place

 

[her grace]

Fear/Gibson

Nice to incorporate musical interpretation in the steps between the twizzles, skating with more freedom than the RD, feels like Fear spent a lot of time in the air nice presentation

 

[Karen-W]

Love that from FearGib! I can't wait to see this at Euros next month.

 

[tony]

Her twizzles moved down from 4 to 3. His midline moved up to 2.

Her midline.. level 3 it wasn't but whatever.

Skating skills at 9.11. Yeah.

 

[Tak]

Just a sidenote - I cant believe that R/A FD scored more than Z/K. How???

 

[tangerine dream]

I think we're in for one of those moments at Euros where the crowd is so loud that the skaters can't hear their music.

 

[Bunny Hop]

Fear/Gibson - I always enjoy watching them and really respect the effort they've put into improving and using the system to their advantage. That L1 for him on the steps may prove costly though (ETA - Ah, it moved up to 2). Did they change the ending? Was it alway that drawn out?

 

[kwanfan1818]

Dear Mark: it's not the lines that divide opinions on F/G.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Her twizzles moved down from 4 to 3. His midline moved up to 2.

Her midline.. level 3 it wasn't but whatever.

I thought she maybe pirouetted the second set of twizzles.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I feel like the judges could have been replaced by the Japanese drummers on this stage, just hitting the same GOE and placing the skaters according to the pre defined rankings.

 

[tangerine dream]

Just a sidenote - I cant believe that R/A FD scored more than Z/K. How???

Obviously Z/K have to wait until they're in their 30s and their skills are declining if they want to win medals.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

There’s a Canadian Celtic punk band that’s does a super rowdy version of Auld Lang Syne and it would amuse me no end of Fear & Gibson were using that version.

 

[Tak]

Obviously Z/K have to wait until they're in their 30s and their skills are declining if they want to win medals.

Funny - but sadly true. I think the scoring at THIS event needs to be looked at again.

 

[her grace]

Is Bates still a bull? Costume doesn’t look like it

 

[tony]

Funny - but sadly true. I think the scoring at THIS event needs to be looked at again.

I've been complaining about R/A's scores for years. They aren't anything out of the ordinary from what they've already been given.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Flowy skirts are all the rage this season.

Did Madyson design that dress? If so, she shouldn't quit her day job, whatever that is.

 

[Allen]

Gabi posted a video of her and Madison Hubbell skating on TikToK recently and I couldn't help but wish they were out here skating as a competitive couple this year.

 

[Tak]

It looks like the red lining from Madison's costume is gone. That's a shame. I thought it was very effective.

 

[Karen-W]

So, Madi has the same costume as from SkAm, but Evan has a new shirt.

 

[Allen]

I've been complaining about R/A's scores for years. They aren't anything out of the ordinary from what they've already been given.

Even though I do like them, I feel like they tick off that OES box in the 7-10 range at Worlds that has existed since the late 90s.