Cup of China 2023 Women SP - “Careless Flutzer”

[Colonel Green]

C'mon Maddie!

 

[skatingguy]

Schizas, Madeline
Coach: Nancy Lemaire, Derek Schmidt
Music: Farrucas by P. Romero, Solea Grana by Morente

 

[Bunny Hop]

Love Schizas' commitment to interpretation, even if the facial expressions are a bit much for TV - at least she understands the need to project in an arena.

Shame she didn't get triple-triple, but the rest of pretty darn good.

 

[Colonel Green]

Really like this program. Obviously not ideal with either the 2T or the final two spins' levels.

 

[skatingguy]

Schizas, Madeline
Coach: Nancy Lemaire, Derek Schmidt
Music: Farrucas by P. Romero, Solea Grana by Morente

3Lz+2T
3Lo
Ch Combo Spin 4
2A
Step Sequence 3
Layback Spin 1
Fly Sit Spin 3

Well, better than Vancouver, but still not finding the best skate in the short program. Didn't carry enough speed to do the triple-triple combination.

61.53 = 4th Place

 

[Frau Muller]

Schizas - great job! Glad that she’s toned down the wild “Ah Ah!” Faces…ok to show one big expression at the end.

 

[skatingguy]

Petrokina, Niina
Coach: Svetlana Varnavskaja
Music: Run by Marvin Books, Bri Bryant, 2WEI

 

[skatingguy]

Petrokina, Niina
Coach: Svetlana Varnavskaja
Music: Run by Marvin Books, Bri Bryant, 2WEI

2A
3Fq+3T<
Fly Camel Spin 4
3Lz - weight on the heel, step out
Ch Combo Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
Layback Spin 3

She had really good skate going into the Lutz.

62.58 = 2nd Place

 

[Bunny Hop]

Nice job from Petrokina. Maybe some under-rotations though?

 

[airgelaal]

Niina's jumps are still unstable

 

[skatingguy]

Watanabe, Rinka
Coach: K. Nakaniwa, M. Nakata, M. Nagumo, A. Tanoue
Music: Avatar (soundtrack) by James Horner

 

[Bunny Hop]

Watanabe - first part of the program is a bit skate around and jump, but she got the job done. Squeaked out the combo. I do like her costume.

 

[skatingguy]

Watanabe, Rinka
Coach: K. Nakaniwa, M. Nakata, M. Nagumo, A. Tanoue
Music: Avatar (soundtrack) by James Horner

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

Got through it. The combination was really tight.

65.09 = 1st Place

 

[skatingguy]

Watanabe - first part of the program is a bit skate around and jump, but she got the job done. Squeaked out the combo. I do like her costume.

She included a triple Axel on her planned program content but has not attempted it so far.

 

[Wyliefan]

Strong short for Rinka. Guess that means she'll be blowing the free. (sigh)

 

[skatingguy]

Kurakova, Ekaterina
Coach: Angelina Turenko, Brian Orser
Music: Kill Bill

 

[Colonel Green]

Whole lotta loop combinations being attempted here.

 

[Wyliefan]

Katya was going to get off some sort of conbo if it killed her. Good fight.

 

[Bunny Hop]

Kurakova - great presentation as usual, but a number of tech issues.

 

[Wyliefan]

And the smile comes bursting out during the steps. Face it, honey, that's who you are.

 

[skatingguy]

Kurakova, Ekaterina
Coach: Angelina Turenko, Brian Orser
Music: Kill Bill

3F! - poor landing, was the planned combo
3Lo+2T - 3-turn between jumps
Fly Camel Spin 4
Layback Spin 3
2A
Step Sequence 2
Ch Combo Spin 4

I don't think this program is working for Ekaterina. She doesn't have the energy of a trained assassin.

57.37 = 7th Place

 

[Frau Muller]

Kurakova - I prefer the dress to the floppy jump suit worn earlier.

 

[Kateri]

Mark quoting Katya with something like: "Sometimes I wonder why the scores aren't higher, but I ask myself, do I enjoy the scores, or the skating?"

that's terribly cute, but finding out why the scores aren't higher might actually improve the scores...

 

[skatingguy]

Kim, Yelim
Coach: Hyungkyung Choi
Music: Ladies in Lavender by Nigel Hess

 

[Wyliefan]

Lots of level 2 steps today.

 

[Bunny Hop]

The combos are not being kind to the skaters.

Kim is quite graceful. That's about all there is to say.

 

[skatingguy]

Kim, Yelim
Coach: Hyungkyung Choi
Music: Ladies in Lavender by Nigel Hess

3Lz<< - missed the pick, two-foot landing
2A
Sit Spin 3
3F+2T
Step Sequence 2
Fly Camel Spin 4
Ch Combo Spin 3V

Generically lovely program. Big problems with the triple Lutz jump caused issues through the rest of the performance.

59.56 = 7th Place

 

[Colonel Green]

Aww, Ye-lim.

 

[skatingguy]

Hendrickx, Loena
Coach: Jorik Hendrickx
Music: I’m nin’alu (Mor Avrahami Remix)

 

[Bunny Hop]

Go Loena!!


ETA: Bugger.