2025 NHK Trophy Rhythm Dance PBP - Spice Up Your Live(Barn)

[my little pony]

Shibs comeback is more like a pleasant exhibition than a compelling return.

that's the way I feel about every rhythm dance this year

 

[thvu]

Wow, the judges did not go for that. They were lowballed on GOE on all their elements.

I thought their choreo step was great, in hold (even if open) the whole time. It was fast, it had dynamic movement, great flow, and was so atypical than what most teams are giving.

If the GOE sticks as it is, the Shibutanis are getting a bit hosed.

 

[skatingguy]

Alicia Fabbri/Paul Ayer
Coach: M. Dubreuil, P. Lauzon, R. Haguenauer
Music: Bombastic, Oh Carolina, Rock this Party

Sequential Twizzles W:4 M:4
Midline Step Sequence W:2 M:2
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 2 (1 after review)
Rotational Lift 4
Choreo Rhythm Sequence

A few stumbles on key elements meaning their score will not be as strong.

68.53 = 3rd Place

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

You mean I don't have to sleep my way to success?

You still need to work on the hot ones, just in case.

 

[skatingguy]

Katarina Wolfkostin/Dimitry Tsarevski
Coach: Charlie White, Tanith White,Greg Zuerlein
Music: Everybody, Quit Playing Games

Sequential Twizzles W:4 M:4
Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:2
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 3 (2 after review)
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Rotational Lift 4

Nice senior Grand Prix debut, and a team for whom the Backstreet Boys actually works to their strengths.

72.12 = 1st Place

 

[my little pony]

marina looks like a raisin

 

[skatingguy]

Jennifer Janse van Rensburg/Benjamin Steffan
Coach: Rostislav Sinicyn, Natalia Karamysheva
Music: Jungle Bill, On the Run

Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:2
Sequential Twizzles W:4 M:4
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 2 (1 after review)
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Rotational Lift 4

Tough travel schedule to lose the amount of time they did travelling from Canada to Japan, and so the performance was not as good as last weekend.

69.73 = 3rd Place

 

[Aceon6]

Dang Mark, either you're too close to the mic or your mic sucks.

To me, it seems that the whole feed is at 5600 baud.

 

[thvu]

I'm really shocked at that score. Wow.

 

[Braulio]

71.74

PCS in the low 8´s

Fournier-Beaudry / Cizeron can go to sleep now, nothing to worry about

 

[my little pony]

wow low 8s, that stuffy that looks like toast even looks angry

 

[Karen-W]

Wow, the judges did not go for that. They were lowballed on GOE on all their elements.

I thought their choreo step was great, in hold (even if open) the whole time. It was fast, it had dynamic movement, great flow, and was so atypical than what most teams are giving.

If the GOE sticks as it is, the Shibutanis are getting a bit hosed.

Definitely hosed. And I agree about their choreo step - it was nice to see a team in any kind of hold for once.

 

[peibeck]

PCS in the 8s is a bit generous, imo.

 

[Firedancer]

The Shibs can’t be happy with that

 

[floridaice]

marina looks like a raisin

She looks like every other Florida retiree

 

[skatfan]

I thought it looked better than that score?

 

[Karen-W]

And did the sound get fixed for YoMori?

 

[PRlady]

Wow, the judges did not go for that. They were lowballed on GOE on all their elements.

I thought their choreo step was great, in hold (even if open) the whole time. It was fast, it had dynamic movement, great flow, and was so atypical than what most teams are giving.

If the GOE sticks as it is, the Shibutanis are getting a bit hosed.

You “see” better than I do but it looked undertrained and sort of glitchy, like she was a bit off from where he thought she would be. Music is the same ‘90s dreck.

 

[Colonel Green]

Nobody tell Utana what happened to Butterfly in the opera.

 

[Wyliefan]

I don't think that was an unreasonable score for their first skate after all these years, where they looked slow and tentative.

 

[Barbara Manatee]

The Shibs should have competed earlier in the season. The rust showed.

 

[tony]

Higher TES than the Shibutanis

 

[VGThuy]

I think all the fans don’t need to be worried about Green/Parsons, Carreira/Ponomarenko, Zingas/Kolesnik. The Shibs are not going to the Olympics with those scores. They should have tried to come back like two seasons ago or more… and maybe have a real coach.

 

[myhoneyhoney]

And I’ve been transported back to my college clubbing days at Sound Factory.
If you’re from the SF Bay in the mid 90’s, you know!

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I love the 90s and I can bust out to “the Humpty dance” more than anyone, I don’t think the Shibutanis costumes help them, he looks like he’s in warm-up gear and you can’t really see any lines, I don’t mind her costume as much as I have big questions about his.

 

[peibeck]

Yoshida's outfit looks more sultry 2025 anime character than anything 1990s. I don't actually mind this crazy music remix, but I find them a bit out of synch and sloppy today.

 

[Karen-W]

I think all the fans don’t need to be worried about Green/Parsons, Carreira/Ponomarenko, Zingas/Kolesnik. The Shibs are not going to the Olympics with those scores. They should have tried to come back like two seasons ago or more… and maybe have a real coach.

At this point, I'm not sure we'll see the Shibs at Finlandia. Pate/Bye may get a 2nd GP after all.

 

[Wyliefan]

Did we lose Mark?

 

[Karen-W]

So, in trying to fix the audio, it would seem we've lost Mark for the time being, lol.

 

[Braulio]

The Shibs returning in the Olympic season might run in the end like the one Fusar-Poli/Margaglio and Drobiazko/Vanagas had in Torino 2006, maybe will qualify to the Games but will be like in 7th-8th at best