2025 Skate America Mens Short - Quadless in Lake Placid

[Matryeshka]

This skate begs the question of when is the ISU going to ban guns?

Then how would the British ever complete their Bond program requirement?

 

[MacMadame]

Yay, finger guns - and it’s not even a Bond programme.

It's a program about a hitman so a gun would be there.

 

[peibeck]

Litvontsev getting the tricks done but dear law this program is dreadful, and he's so rigid.

 

[misskarne]

Vladimir LITVINTSEV (AZE)
Leon
in black turtleneck with fake-leather harness detail and belt

4T very floaty
oh...we're doing guns...
3A
FCSp
3F!-3T completely off-axis both jumps
CSSp
StSq - feels like it was choreographed for more energetic music? level 2
CCoSp

Felt like he rushed the middle bit a lot, but that toe was gorgeous.

 

[Citlali]

That was a looong short program

 

[slicekw]

Vlad seems to have no real connection to this skate. I could see him skating it well, but I don’t know if it’ll ever make him smile to skate it.

 

[Sally1214]

Vladimir laying down a pretty decent skate. Good for him.

 

[skatingguy]

Vladimir Litvintsev
Coach: Viktoria Butsaeva, Evgeni Vlasov
Music: Leon by Eric Serra

4Tq
3A
Flying Camel Spin 4
3F+3T - miss picked on the flip, but fought for the combination
Change Foot Sit Spin 3 (4 after review)
Step Sequence 2
Change Foot Combo Spin 3 (4 after review)

Overall his skating is a bit stiff, but he's attacking the program, and his performance is always interesting, and unique.

75.87 = 2nd Place

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Litvontsev getting the tricks done but dear law this program is dreadful, and he's so rigid.

You can't relax when you're a hitman.

 

[barbk]

Lintvintsev seems to be committed to his choreography. Not quite as clean as he'd like, I'm sure.
But...man bun? In 2025? Ugh.

 

[misskarne]

Also, is the sound mix absolutely atrocious for anyone else? Ted is very soft and then every now again the area mics seem to get louder.

 

[Karen-W]

Okay, Johnny is not wrong - Litvintsev is a very choppy skater. But, really, someone needs to tell him that the best word to describe Litvintsev is "voidy."

 

[MacMadame]

Vlad seems to have no real connection to this skate. I could see him skating it well, but I don’t know if it’ll ever make him smile to skate it.

Smiling would be weird. Hitmen don't smile.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I feel like voice overs work a lot better when the dialogue in question is iconic.

Or at least in context.

 

[Matryeshka]

Not to buck the trend of commentator hating, but Johnny pretty much summed up my feelings of Vladimir Litvintsev kinda perfectly.

 

[Allen]

Okay, Johnny is not wrong - Litvintsev is a very choppy skater. But, really, someone needs to tell him that the best word to describe Litvintsev is "voidy."

If this was 2004, he'd be an OES skater lol

 

[Karen-W]

If this was 2004, he'd be an OES skater lol

Oh, he's still an OES skater, lol. He's just not that interesting of an OES skater, lol.

 

[Spikefan]

Okay, Johnny is not wrong - Litvintsev is a very choppy skater. But, really, someone needs to tell him that the best word to describe Litvintsev is "voidy."

You know he’s not going to use a word Adam uses.

 

[slicekw]

Smiling would be weird. Hitmen don't smile.

He could smile on the inside. And I think a smiling hitman is a proper nightmare.

 

[Sally1214]

Not to buck the trend of commentator hating, but Johnny pretty much summed up my feelings of Vladimir Litvintsev kinda perfectly.

I hope we get to see a bit of Johnny on NBC here in Canada this weekend. He might not be everyone's cup of tea but he's never boring. Personally, I find him very knowledgeable and quite fair in his commentating. And, of course, he's ALWAYS making some kind of fashion statement.

 

[Citlali]

Also, is the sound mix absolutely atrocious for anyone else? Ted is very soft and then every now again the area mics seem to get louder.

For me too, the music is too quiet and the sounds in the arena are louder than Ted

 

[NinjaTurtles]

It's a bit on The Runthough podcast with Adam Rippon, Ashley Wagner, and not-Olympic-champion and NBC sports producer Sarah Hughes. I'm guessing at one point Sarah Hughes was an avid lurker on FSU, because it's pretty much her version of "voidy". It refers to skaters like Lara Naki Gutman.

It’s made its way to Twitter and other internet circles, I’m not sure Sarah realizes the genesis of it from FSU and Christopher Dean.

IIRC we stole void from Christopher Dean

Still immortalized on film and available on YouTube.

 

[Karen-W]

Live camera view of downtown Lake Placid as we head to commercial break. Geez, thanks, NBC. I'd rather see Jason continuing to run down the corridor followed by Tracy & Urmy at a much more leisurely pace, lol.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Seriously, who do we talk to about Ashley. @tony, you gotta text someone.

 

[shan]

I hope spectators brought ear plugs for these skater intros by Ashley.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Ted saying that Grassl is "continuing to explore his own expression" almost feels like a dis

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Ashley - if you stop shouting, we'll all pretend you really could land a full rotated triple-triple combo.

 

[shan]

Seriously, who do we talk to about Ashley. @tony, you gotta text someone.

It's so bad!

 

[kwanfan1818]

Was he this slow as an ice dancer?

No. He was quite lovely. I was sad when he chose singles over dance.

I feel like most of the ingredients are there for Daiwei Dai to be a great skater, but he's rushing through so many of his moves

Jean-Luc Baker said during yesterday's practice that he reminded JLB of Patrick Chan.

 

[Barbara Manatee]

I'm seeing several people in the audience put their fingers in their ears when Ashley introduces a skater. Someone needs to pull the plug on her mic.