2025 NHK Trophy Mens FS PBP - TuranDomo

[genevieve]

Wedgie Data

Starting Order
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Haru KAKIUCHI JPN 12 61.59
2 Gabriele FRANGIPANI ITA 11 64.78
3 Jimmy MA USA 10 69.44
4 Adam HAGARA SVK 9 72.52
5 Andrew TORGASHEV USA 8 75.75
6 Matteo RIZZO ITA 7 76.11

Warm-Up Group 2
7 Francois PITOT FRA 6 78.24
8 Lukas BRITSCHGI SUI 5 83.45
9 Boyang JIN CHN 4 83.92
10 Junhwan CHA KOR 3 91.60
11 Shun SATO JPN 2 96.67
12 Yuma KAGIYAMA JPN 1 98.58

ISU Stream

 

[Hedwig]

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[skatingguy]

Biographies

Musical Selections

Planned Program Content

 

[tony]

Andrew is giving Ilia Klimkin costume vibes

 

[Skaterbob]

Kakiuchi reminds of me very early Weir.

 

[skatingguy]

Haru Kakiuchi
Rank after SP: 12
Coach: Sayaka Yodo, Utako Nagamitsu
Music: I Giorni, The American Four Seasons

3Lz+3T+2T
3F!+2A+SEQ
3Lo
Flying Camel Spin 2
3F!+2T
2S
2A
3Lzq
Choreo Sequence
Step Sequence 3
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Change Foot Combo Spin 3

An efficient jump technique, and a nice sense of music.

124.81 = 1st Place
186.40 = 1st Place

 

[Jay42]

The disparity in Frangipani's costumes between his short and his long is very amusing to me

ETA: This really isn't his day

 

[skatingguy]

Gabriele Fangipani
Rank after SP: 11
Coach: F. Mascarello, G. Cotugno, M. Guarnieri
Music: The Godfather (soundtrack) by Nino Rota

4T - double 3-turn landing
4S< - fall
3A+2A+SEQ
3Lz+2T
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Choreo Sequence
1A
Change Foot Combo Spin 2 - difficulty maintaining position
3F!+1Eu+3S
3Lz
Change Foot Camel Spin 3 (2 after review)
Step Sequence 3

Not terrible from Frangipani, but similar level to many previous performances where he was unable to land the big elements.

-1.00 = Falls
139.86 = 1st Place
204.64 = 1st Place

 

[Jay42]

One day someone is going to find a good quality audio of Heath Ledger singing Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You from 10 Things I Hate About You and give us the 10 Things I Hate About You program that we all deserve.

 

[ChillSkate]

OMG Raining Men!!!!

 

[Skaterbob]

This is so empty :\

 

[Hedwig]

this is so tacky and I love it

 

[Jay42]

I love Jimmy but there's so much just skating around between jumps until he finishes them all so it makes the music feel like it's performing him as opposed to him skating to the music. The footwork to YMCA is great but the rest just feels meh because he's not really doing anything with it.

 

[ChillSkate]

Yes, Jimmy! Do what works for you and get the audience behind you. I hope this is extraordinary at Nationals

ETA - And at Finlandia - excited I get to see this in person in 2 weeks!!

 

[my little pony]

so he's the one that has been watching these decades RDs and thinking I need in on that

 

[skatingguy]

Jimmy Ma
Rank after SP: 10
Coach: O. Ganicheva, A. Letov
Music: It's Raining Men, YMCA

4T - deep knee landing, step out
3Lz+3T
3Lo
3A
Flying Camel Spin 3
Step Sequence 2
3A<+REP - stumbled out
3Lz
3Fe+1Eu+2S - two-footed
Change Foot Sit Spin 3
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Ma should have been skating programs like this for all these years. He's having fun, and I don't mind that he misses the jumps.

139.12 = 2nd Place
208.56 = 1st Place

 

[skatingguy]

Adam Hagara
Rank after SP: 9
Coach: Vladimir Dvoynikov, Alexandra Hagarova
Music: James Bond 007

4T
3A+2T
3A
3F!+3T
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
3Lz!+2A+2A+SEQ
3F
3Lo
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Sit Spin 3 (4 after review)

Hagara bringing his consistency to the senior Grand Prix.

157.48 = 1st Place
230.00 = 1st Place

 

[Jay42]

I really like Adam Hagara. It's wild to me that this is his first senior GP because I kept seeing him at senior Worlds and I didn't realise how young he is. He's got a ton of potential I think it's going to be cool to see him grow over the next couple of seasons.

 

[Hedwig]

great skate for Adam technically. ANd the partial standing ovation will be in his memory for a long time.

unlike his program in my mind.... it was technically proficient but kinda boring

 

[Jay42]

These falls for Andrew are really rough

 

[Skaterbob]

Andrew looks like he is planning out how to pack his suitcase towards the end of his program.

 

[Hedwig]

a lot of jumps look borderline or full on short for Andrew :-(

 

[skatingguy]

Andrew Torgashev
Rank after SP: 8
Coach: Rafael Arutunian, Brandon Frazier
Music: Oratoes, Good News by Apashe

4T
4T<+REP - fall
3Lo
1A
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Step Sequence 2
3A< - fall
3Lz+1Eu+3S
3F
Flying Sit Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 3

3 of the 4 biggest scoring elements did not work today. His skating, and performance quality are top rate.

-2.00 = Falls
136.26 = 4th Place
212.01 = 2nd Place

 

[ChillSkate]

Wow - so the 3rd US Men's Olympics spot is completely open. Nationals will be exciting I guess!

 

[Hedwig]

I sooo sooo want Rizzo to do well. Partly for him, partly because I do not want Grassl at the Olympics. But alas....

 

[skatingguy]

Matteo Rizzo
Rank after SP: 7
Coach: Deborah Sacchi, Ondrej Hotarek, V. Rizzo
Music: Interstellar by Imperial Orchestra

4T< - two-footed, fall
3L+3T
3A+2A+SEQ
3Lo
Flying Sit Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
3A
3Lz+1Eu+2S
3F!
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Camel Spin 1
Change Foot Combo Spin 2V

Two Italians, and two Americans came into this competition looking to change the narrative regarding the Olympic entries for their respective countries, but all four have only further cemented that they are not among the favourites for those spots.

-1.00 = Falls
153.49 = 2nd Place
229.60 = 2nd Place

 

[Jay42]

I like Matteo a lot but he hasn't been at the same level since he had his surgery around a year and a half ago

 

[skatingguy]

Wow - so the 3rd US Men's Olympics spot is completely open. Nationals will be exciting I guess!

Tomoki Hiwatashi currently in the pole position.

 

[Kateri]

This is so empty :\

Only just got up, so I'll watch after the final group, but this is what I was worried about with Jimmy's switch. I'd be fine with these tacky crowd-pleaser programmes if they ever actually had interesting and complex choreo! Not that was likely, with a mid-season change...

 

[skatingguy]

Francois Pitot
Rank after SP: 6
Coach: Romain Ponsart
Music: Let It Be, Get Back, Eleanor Rigby

3A+2T
3F!
3A - big step out to a lunge
3Lo
Change Foot Sit Spin 3
3Lz+2A+2A+SEQ
Choreo Sequence
3Lz+3T
3S - off-axis, awkward landing
Change Foot Combo Spin 4 (4V after review)
Step Sequence 2
Flying Camel Spin 3

Injury issue continuing for Pitot, and so no quadruple jumps still. Pretty solid skate, but just not quite sharp enough with his performances.

151.23 = 3rd Place
229.47 = 3rd Place