2025 Skate Canada Womens SP PBP - Night of the Cheating Edge

[MacMadame]

almost every other female skater windmills til the cows come home

That's not true!!
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Some of them have airplane arms.

 

[skatingguy]

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[skatingguy]

So why did Benoit pick Halloween to not look scary in the kiss and cry?

I was thinking that, too. He's basically Judge Dredd from Who Framed Roger Rabbit by default and now he comes looking all professional.

Because that is terrifying.

Because every day is Halloween for him???

I knew he had to be a Ministry fan!

 

[Private Citizen]

I am over Isabeau Levito’s scoring and calling vs. Mone here. The slow mo on Mone’s double axel was definitely under but Chris said the panel didn’t even review it.

Chiba should have been marked under on both the 2A and 3Lz, and she correctly got an edge warning on the lutz.

To be fair, Isabeau should have been marked q or < on the 3T. The edge warning was ridiculous, although the takeoff did shift from outside to inside. I do think the L3 calls on the footwork and spin were correct.

Net-net, Chiba should have lost probably 3-ish points and Isabeau netted out to where she should have been.

Ami is already getting reputation judging after one GP win it seems. This was no where in the same league of her first outing of this short program on the GP. I was surprised how high her score was with two jumping pass errors. She looked a lot more junior in presentation in this field too,

Her programs are junior-looking, but her skating is not. And to be fair, the q call on the 3T seemed bonkers to me. It was more around than many jumps that were not called. The 3A carries a high base and earns the same points as a well-done double axel. She just loses one point for the fall. I felt her placement was correct.

I was shocked at Sarah Everhardt’s score, just like she was. I didn’t see the underrotation on the lutz in the replay shown on Peacock. That was such a difficult program, packed with transitions and difficult moves. Yes, the dress was horrible and unflattering and yes we want more expression. But her technical was better overall than Ami and her mistakes, and her juniorish presentation.

Hard disagree on Everhardt. She skates like a windup doll, and she's finally being marked more appropriately this season. I posted at several points last season that her big jumps had rotation issues (and the flip an edge issue), and the panel is wising up to that. A lot of her transitions are not difficult; they're just filler; clutter really. Step sequence was only a level 2; again lots of things with little value going on there; frenetic movement without purpose or painting a picture. I'm mystified as to why they kept this program. She's a much better skater than this.

 

[cholla]

Gutmann - don't love/get the program but assuming this is one of those "gonna play really well in Italy" programs cuz it's from a popular movie/tv show or something. SHRUG.

It's from the Italian TV series La Legge di Lidia = Lidia makes the rules. There is nothing remotely linked to the series in this program, I'm disappointed.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I remember reading recently s'thing along the lines of - her parents asked around, who would be the best coach for her to train with in Canada and was told McLeod

I guess they asked the wrong person.

Has anyone ever done a Buffy program?

 

[kwanette]

GLORIOUS skating.

I am framing this..Glorious..indeed..

 

[honey]

Even though Isabeau’s program is just a rehash of last season’s, I think I might like this even more.

There’s an old Hollywood throw back glamour to it, and also it’s a throw back to a different time in skating. It’s beautiful and it seems a lot of the time no one is trying to be graceful and paint a beautiful picture anymore. Maybe they are trying, but it’s rarely successful. Isabeau is successful here. And should she make the team, the general audience in person and at home are going to effing love it at the Olympics.

I think the combo is beyond saving at this point. But the 2A and the 3L were really very high quality jumps.

I also love Mone and I also love this program (though I know many do not). Seems insane she didn’t get a call on the 2A that was clearly under. I think her and Isabeau should be closer together in scores, but it’s still pretty tight. Mone’s jumps are looking pretty fragile though and a strict caller will have a field day if she keeps doing them like this.

 

[Hedwig]

I agree with the top two - the combo from Isabeau looked short in both jumps. Mone`s basic skating is more fluid and clean, it is amazing how little effort she uses to generate speed. I also like her program a lot even though it is obious that it is a stretch for her.

I am not a fan of Schizas at all but I really felt for her today. that was rough :-(

Still hoping selfishly that Dupuis makes the Olympic race.

 

[Jay42]

Even though Isabeau’s program is just a rehash of last season’s, I think I might like this even more.

There’s an old Hollywood throw back glamour to it, and also it’s a throw back to a different time in skating. It’s beautiful and it seems a lot of the time no one is trying to be graceful and paint a beautiful picture anymore. Maybe they are trying, but it’s rarely successful. Isabeau is successful here. And should she make the team, the general audience in person and at home are going to effing love it at the Olympics.

I think the combo is beyond saving at this point. But the 2A and the 3L were really very high quality jumps.

I also love Mone and I also love this program (though I know many do not). Seems insane she didn’t get a call on the 2A that was clearly under. I think her and Isabeau should be closer together in scores, but it’s still pretty tight. Mone’s jumps are looking pretty fragile though and a strict caller will have a field day if she keeps doing them like this.

I do agree that this is kind of a rehash of last seasons SP for Isabeau but I do honestly prefer it if only for the fact that it means I never have to hear that godawful drecky piano cover of Moon River that the program started with ever again. The score version from the Breakfast at Tiffany's soundtrack was right there.

 

[Matryeshka]

Recap now that I've finally caught up:
Group One:
I read a lot of y'all are backing off of Nakai and you knew it, but now I'm gonna crow a bit cause I WROTE IT DOWN. I do hope she comes back in the free, but I'm not shocked.
The costume gets worse every time--it looks like she accidentally walked into wet paint from someone doing a very dull kitchen House Hunters beige makeover.

Yun had me at East of Eden.

Sara-Maude, a swing and not a miss--like a foul ball that starts going down the base line and veers off. I wish she had started doing this type of program TWO YEARS AGO, a step in the right direction. Her costume is uniquely unflattering.

Aoki clearly skating for hardware--that was a fabulous SP. So clearly out of place in this group. No notes.

The other two I'm not sure how they got this spot? There are several skaters with only one GP that would have been better suited to those spots.

Group Two:
Isabeau has converted me. She looked Olympic in this. LOVE this SP on her. I feel like while yes it's very similar to last year's, it's like it was a dress rehearsal for this program. Just amazing, and I thought she should have been first. Just darling and if she skates like that at the Olys, the endorsements are going to roll in. This is just an audience-friendly program. Thousands of little girls are going to look just like Isabeau.

Bradie Tennel has a quality that the others don't--the finishing is just perfect, but I think she got a bit of a gift scoring wise. I can't see any way she'll be on the Oly team, but I hope she is consistent and gets a crack at Worlds in Prague. The program itself is lovely, just needs to edit the costume.

Lara Naki Gutman :rolf: I hope she gets the Oly spot SO BAD.

Sarah Everhardt. Liked this program more this year than last year, but I just don't see it this year but I think she is well positioned for the next Olympic quad and can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

Madeline Schizas--shoulda, coulda, didn't. The sad, sad, sad story of MANY Canadian ladies who have all the components but never quite put them altogether at the same time.

Mona Chiba--Got that Worlds bonus here. I'd have had her in second but I don't think it's a full on robbery. More like a borrowing.