2026 Europeans - Men Short Program - Manarchy In The UK

[susieB129]

+1 GOE for adjusting his shirt mid-spin.

 

[Hedwig]

Andreas Nordeback

oh another skater that I like.

This men competition is a treat so far

3axel
3flip nice
3z3toe three turns out of it

he is no Berntsson or Schultheiß, but still has his own very unique style - Sweden knows how to produce them

 

[beepbeep]

I’m an absolute sucker for Gary Moore

 

[skatingguy]

Andreas Nordeback
Coach: Melanie Joseph, Christina Batian
Music: Still Got the Blues by Gary Moore

3A
3F
Flying Camel Spin 4
3Lz+3T - turn-out on the toe-loop
Change Foot Sit Spin 4
Step Sequence 4
Change Foot Combo Spin 3

Andreas is the future of angsty artistic European skaters, and I'm just waiting for him to have a truly iconic program.

Q 76.78 = 3rd Place

 

[Hanna]

Incidentally, I was surprised that LIndfors has left Virpi Horttana - do you know when that happened and why?

It's been a year or two now, IIRC. Maybe summer of 2024? Not sure why exactly, but there are several men skating (unlike most clubs in Finland which are mostly women) at the Peurunka Skating Club so I imagine that was a plus. It's become a bit of a men's skating hub in Finland.

 

[Sally1214]

Nordeback stepped up to the plate too. Good job. Cute how he pulled his top down when it crept up during the camel spin. Nathan Chen would have just let it keep creeping.

eta: His coach reminds me of a young Cher ..... without all the GLAM, of course. I think it's the cheekbones combined with the hair.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Andreas, hon, if you're uncomfortable exposing your snow white bellybutton on the spin, maybe you should reconsider flowy shirts

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

This is a rather exciting group.
With the exception of Zandron.

 

[Elisheba]

Andreas, hon, if you're uncomfortable exposing your snow white bellybutton on the spin, maybe you should reconsider flowy shirts

or, you know, safety pins.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Israel has an endless supply of somewhat nice boys. I don't think I have ever seen Kuperman, but if he's better than Vincour and Gorodnitski, it's not bad. And Sheikos are on the way too.

 

[Kateri]

Tomas is a minion. Was he always a minion? Gosh.

 

[Hedwig]

Zandron
3axel fall out
3flip landed a bit too forward, no flow
3lutz 3toe best jumps

 

[Vagabond]

Israel has an endless supply of somewhat nice boys. I don't think I have ever seen Kuperman, but if he's better than Vincour and Gorodnitski, it's not bad. And Sheikos are on the way too.

I don't know about an endless supply, but maybe a minyan.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Zandron
Never was a fan of his, didn't become one today.
I'd rather watch his brother skating for some other random country in a random discipline with a random girl.

 

[Braulio]

this song has become quite popular in skating

 

[skatingguy]

Maurizio Zandron
Coach: Gabriele Minchio, Claudia Houdek
Music: Earth Song by Michael Jackson

3A - turn-out
3F
Flying Sit Spin 4
3Lz+3T
Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Step Sequence 3
Change Foot Camel Spin 4 (3 after review)

That was messy, and this program has been used too many times.

Q 67.68 = 6th Place

 

[floridaice]

this song has become quite popular in skating

Probably because of the voice overs

 

[Elisheba]

Chris is more excited about Maurizio than I have ever been.

 

[susieB129]

this song has become quite popular in skating

At least Pavlova/Sviatchenko have the good taste not to dress as something Earth-related for Earth Song.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Tomas.
I'm.... speechless.
It's so dumb it might actually do the whole circle and become fun again. I'm not sure it did though.
I think I hate it more than I find it amusing.

 

[floridaice]

Was this an exhibition he turned into a short program?

 

[Hedwig]

Tomas-Llorenc GUARINO SABATE

3a fall
3flip was really good and flowy
3z3t

he did not let the opening mistake sour the rest of the program. very good energy, interesting and unusual moves

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Chris loved it.
That makes one of us.
As an endless apologist of Spanish skaters, I want to make an official statement that this program sucked big time.

 

[Hanna]

TLGS really sells all his faltering and wavering choreo well because I gasp every time thinking it's real.

 

[skatingguy]

Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate
Coach: E. De Bernardis, R. Lazzaroni, L. Mantovani
Music: The Minions

3A< - fall
3F!
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
3Lz+3T - struggled to hold the landing on the first jump
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
Flying Sit Spin 4 (3 after review)

Another skater that was all over the place in the program. Fun, and entertaining choreography but somewhat blunted by the mistakes, and yet also appropriate for a Minions themed program.

-1.00 = Falls
Q 67.94 = 5th Place

 

[Citlali]

I embrace the cringe... Rather cringy than boring

 

[Sally1214]

Too bad about the technical errors but Tomas' program was FUN. The big smiles on the faces of the audience when he was doing those little squatted toe hops was everything. They loved it. So did I.

 

[Vagabond]

Was this an exhibition he turned into a short program?

Every one of his programs seems to have been conceived of as an exhibition and then adapted for use in competition.

 

[Elisheba]

I'd rather see a hundred dumb minions programs than angsty generic ballads.