Cup of China 2023 Men SP - “Club Pop-icana”

[Wyliefan]

I've never seen a jump landed at a standstill like that. But good for him for standing up on it!

 

[skatingguy]

Lee, Sihyeong
Coach: Hyungkyung Choi
Music: Feeling Good by Michael Buble

4Tq - tight landing
3A
Fly Sit Spin 4
3Lz+3T< - struggled to hold the landing of the toeloop
Ch Camel Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
Ch Combo Spin 4

Lee should really get a deduction for poor air position with the arms over his head. He doesn't get his arms stretched out, and it looks awful.

74.43 = 2nd Place

 

[skatingguy]

Frangipani, Gabriele
Coach: Fabio Mascarello
Music: Keeping Me Alive by Jonathan Roy

 

[Wyliefan]

Uh-oh, bootstrap.

 

[Frau Muller]

I need to stop being surprised by Frangipani! He doesn’t fail.

 

[Wyliefan]

Made it through despite the bootstrap, thank heaven. That was a great skate -- it would have been a shame if it had to be interrupted.

 

[skatingguy]

Frangipani, Gabriele
Coach: Fabio Mascarello
Music: Keeping Me Alive by Jonathan Roy

4T+3T
3S - planned quadruple
Fly Sit Spin 4
3A
Ch Camel Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
Ch Combo Spin 4

Good short program for Fangipani. Could be a really strong piece later in the season. There's something slightly odd about his air position. I think he gets his shoulders way up, but he makes it work.

85.19 = 2nd Place

 

[Wyliefan]

Goodness. Guys sleeping at the rink, living in their car -- whole stream of Dickensian stories today!

 

[Frau Muller]

What a great field! Nobody can call this group voting.

 

[Karen-W]

FWIW - I'd have Frangi ahead of Boyang today.

 

[Sally1214]

Awake and ready for the 2nd flight of men. This is a great field.

 

[skatingguy]

Shaidorov, Mikhail
Coach: Alexei Urmanov
Music: Clubbed to Death (Matrix)

 

[Wyliefan]

He's doing fantastic, but he needs to get rid of the white tabs on his legs. I can't stop looking at them.

 

[tony]

Imagine what kind of scores Shaidorov would be getting if he had a program, speed, and flow.

 

[skatingguy]

Shaidorov, Mikhail
Coach: Alexei Urmanov
Music: Clubbed to Death (Matrix)

4Lz
3A
Ch Camel Spin 3
4T+3T
Fly Sit Spin 4
Step Sequence 2
Ch Combo Spin 4

This program looking a lot better than it did a couple weeks ago. The choreography was sharper, and more on the music.

89.94 = 1st Place

 

[Lizziebeth]

Imagine what kind of scores Shaidorov would be getting if he had a program, speed, and flow.

and he really seems to have slow spins. He hits the positions but he is like slo motion in real time

 

[airgelaal]

I`m bored to death

 

[skatingguy]

Ma, Jimmy
Coach: Alexei Letov, Olga Ganicheva
Music: Hernando’s Hideaway

 

[miffy]

I like the costume. He would have looked perfect in a late 90's Industrial Goth club

 

[Sally1214]

Shaidorov was great.

 

[tony]

I can't figure out if he has an RBF or if he's content with the score. I'm thinking he's pissy it wasn't higher, though.

 

[rfisher]

Good for Shaidarov and Urmanov is looking good. He's turned into quite the silver fox.

 

[airgelaal]

 

[skatingguy]

Ma, Jimmy
Coach: Alexei Letov, Olga Ganicheva
Music: Hernando’s Hideaway

4T+3T
3Lz
Fly Camel Spin 4
3A - fall
Step Sequence 3
Ch Sit Spin 4
Ch Combo Spin 4

Great opening choreography to the program. The jumps have the usual Ma style - a little wild too say the least - and it caught up to him in the Axel.

77.29 = 4th Place

 

[Sally1214]

Darn that 3axel! Jimmy was so enjoyable otherwise. He's such an "entertainer.'

 

[skatingguy]

Yamamoto, Sota
Coach: Machiko Yamada, Yuko Hongo, Yukiko Murakami
Music: Chameleon by Maynard Ferguson

 

[PRlady]

Good morning. Looks like the guys are continuing to deliver, more or less.

 

[airgelaal]

№2

 

[tony]

Absolutely not with that GOE on the 4T+3T. It should have been a 0 at best. Tight, not held on the landing at all.

 

[airgelaal]

№3