2026 Olys Mens FS PBP - Habemus Pop-am

[Sasha'sSpins]

Welp, switching to the Venue Feed. Sweet silence.

Go boys! Love you all!

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Go KPop Juliet Tango Boy!

 

[ilovesalchows]

Was that the most beautiful quad we've seen so far?

Oh I jinxed him

 

[miffy]

Cha's tassels are so annoying.

 

[Sally1214]

Darn it ....

 

[allezfred]

Oh it’s the Loco Woman!

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Wow, that was a Jeremy Abbott fall.

 

[Karen-W]

Ugh. Jun... I was so hoping for a medal for you today.

 

[Citlali]

Cha

 

[Wyliefan]

HARD fall. Ouch.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Brutal fall from Jun

 

[marbri]

I wish.

I will take that as a no

 

[slicekw]

My hamstrings have never been more glad to see the overpadded Oly walls than just now when Cha went into the boards in a half-split. Yikes!

 

[flyingsit]

That was Brown-level axel stalking

 

[MsZem]

Tara just said that Nathan started all this with the quads.

Somewhere, some Fanyus are sharpening their blades.

This Browning erasure cannot stand!

 

[Wyliefan]

I forgot about the angsty singer.

 

[Private Citizen]

Great program apart from the horrible fall. I have questions about some of the rotations, and is his lutz known to be flutzy or is it me?

No idea how anyone can listen to this music.

 

[MacMadame]

I do! I gots me some mini Snickers. I'll have a few (dozen) for you.

I have PB cups. But I'm saving them for @AngieNikodinovLove (ANL).

 

[canbelto]

Poor Cha. That looked like a rough fall.

 

[Firedancer]

I don’t understand the shirt but I love his skating especially that Ina Bauer

 

[MsZem]

No idea how anyone can listen to this music.

Same. But I guess South Korea doesn't have the 8th amendment?

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Jun catchfoot

 

[skatingguy]

Junhwan Cha
Coach: H.J. Chi
Music: Balada para un Loco by Milva, Astor Piazzolla

4S
4T - fall, slow to get up
3Lz+3Lo
3A
Step Sequence 4
3F+1Eu+3S
3Aq+2A+SEQ
Change Foot Combo Spin 3
3F
Choreo Sequence
Flying Camel Spin 4
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Given the last couple of seasons that Cha has had this isn't terrible, but not up to the level we seen in the past.

SP: 92.72 = 6th Place
-1.00 = Falls
FS: 181.20 = 4th Place
Total: 273.92 = 2nd Place

 

[Colonel Green]

We'll see what the tech panel does with some of those jumps.

 

[MacMadame]

When he laughs when the singer laughs... I cracked up so hard, all my cats stopped in their tracks. (Sonic kept pacing. I think he's a Cha fan.)

 

[made_in_canada]

No idea how anyone can listen to this music.

Or skate with that much whickety-whack on their shirt.

 

[Karen-W]

Well, I'll take that from Junhwan. I hope it's enough to keep him in the lead. Going to be close, I think.

 

[just tuned in]

Elegant spins. (aka slow)

 

[slicekw]

Wow, my Spanglish is better than I thought, I understood a lot of that song. Cha not skating as he wanted, but he looked gorgeous throughout.

 

[Kruss]

I don't normally watch the skating season, so this is the first I'm watching skating since 2022. Is it my imagination, or have Johnnie and Tara become less annoying, less kitschy, and better commentators?

Yeah, that music was annoying.