ISU 2025 GPF Men FS - Fa, A Long Long Way To Shun

[victorskid]

[Posted at the request of @SHARPIE with the title provided ]

Start Order/Results: https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/gpf2025/SEG002.htm
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Mikhail SHAIDOROV KAZ 6 71.30
2 Adam SIAO HIM FA FRA 5 78.49
3 Daniel GRASSL ITA 4 94.00
4 Ilia MALININ USA 3 94.05
5 Shun SATO JPN 2 98.06
6 Yuma KAGIYAMA JPN 1 108.77


ISU YouTube Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07HB2nL-e8

Planned Program Content, etc. can be found in the Media section on this page: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-grand-prix-final-2025/

JUDGING PANEL
Referee Ms. Emilie BILLOW ISU
Technical Controller Ms. Zanna KULIK ISU
Technical Specialist Ms. Heather Celestine LEHNERT ISU
Technical Specialist Ms. Myriam LORIOL-OBERWILER ISU

Judge No.1 Ms. Tarja RISTANEN FIN
Judge No.2 Ms. Nadezhda PARETSKAIA KAZ
Judge No.3 Ms. Ayumi ONO JPN
Judge No.4 Ms. Francoise de RAPPARD BEL
Judge No.5 Mr. Anthony LEROY FRA
Judge No.6 Mr. Kevin ROSENSTEIN USA
Judge No.7 Mr. Walter TOIGO ITA
Judge No.8 Mr. Feng HUANG CHN
Judge No.9 Ms. Cynthia BENSON CAN

Data Operator Ms. Ranko HIRAI ISU
Replay Operator Ms. Samanta KOVALKOVA ISU

 

[Wyliefan]

This title wins the weekend!

 

[Lanie]

I can't stop cackling at the title

 

[tony]

Judge 7

 

[MacMadame]

wedgie data: https://www.isuresults.com/results/season2526/gpf2025/SEG002.htm

 

[victorskid]

wedgie data: https://www.isuresults.com/results/season2526/gpf2025/SEG002.htm

For the Men FS Start Order/Results: https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/gpf2025/SEG002.htm

And we are live for the penultimate event of 2025 GPF.

 

[MINAM]

Andrey (thought it was you asking), they are saying "Aichi, Nagoya, Action!

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Ok, I bought enough sweets to rot my teeth and brain, and pretend the FD never happened.

 

[MINAM]

Skaters enter the ice.

Kagiyama strikes a pose. LOL I'm giving him extra points for being goofy.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

With the competition equally split between geniuses of skating skills, such as Grassl, and stable and reliable jumpers, such as Fa, we're in for a ride.

 

[4rkidz]

I really hope the men go clean so we can really compare them all at their best.

 

[Aceon6]

Mildly awake with coffee in hand. I wouldn’t mind if Kagi takes this by 20+ points and causes skating twit to explode.

 

[Karen-W]

I really want to know how much money was shelled out for that special arrangement by Christopher Tin with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English chorus for Yuma's FS music.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Awesome thread title! Hopefully, the caffeine will have fully kicked in by the time Grassl has to convince us to vote him the next Pope.

 

[TAHbKA]

Wtf is that screeching???

 

[Wyliefan]

Come on, Mikhail, get it together!

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I don't know what was the mental process for picking this music, but I'm calling PETA - I don't condone cruelty to cats.

 

[jlai]

Mildly awake with coffee in hand. I wouldn’t mind if Kagi takes this by 20+ points and causes skating twit to explode.

It’s actually a good thing for Ilia to not win this. Even Nathan broke his winning streak which took some pressure off him

 

[Aceon6]

I really want to know how much money was shelled out for that special arrangement by Christopher Tin with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English chorus for Yuma's FS music.

Prolly less than Disney asked for 60 seconds of recognizable Lion King.

 

[Karen-W]

Wtf is that screeching???

I don't know what was the mental process for picking this music, but I'm calling PETA - I don't condone cruelty to cats.

How many cats are left in Almaty after this music was recorded?

 

[Hedwig]

when they are on, his jumps are really incredible - with the last 3lutz I thought at first that he doubled because there was so much air time and he did not even close his legs completely. crazy.

 

[MINAM]

1. Mikhail SHAIDOROV KAZ

3ax 1euler 4sal held on
4lutz
4tl not clean
His skating is a bit untidy.
4tl+3tl
3ax+2ax
3lutz
It's all the same pace.
Spins messy and slow.
He can't seem to blow life into the program.
Meh.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

ROFL, this is the stupidest steps sequence ever, he just runs on the toepicks.

This LP is pure trash, and it comes from someone who likes Shaidorov

 

[tony]

Shaidorov -

So he wants to skate to this since it's Dimash. I get it, but the PCS has been below 8 all season even when the skating is fairly decent and there's really nothing going on here. He works with a ballet instructor all the time to improve his skating and I actually met the guy and talked briefly at Skate America. He's totally into that aspect of the sport but then Righini gives him flashy arm movements like it's 2003.

As someone who was looking like a very serious medal contender for the Olympics, I would've been insisting this either needs dumped too or it needs major changes. But too many skaters seem to settle and hope for magic boosts-- not that it doesn't happen.

When the biggest jumps don't hit as well, this program becomes even more of nothing.

 

[TAHbKA]

Shaidorov continues his known music in a wrong scale quest. Am going to kick Bariev when I see him. If the moonlight sonata was not enough Dimash is singing it like 2 tones lower

 

[skatingguy]

Mikhail Shaidorov
Rank after SP: 6
Coach: Alexei Urmanov, ivan Righini
Music: Confessa, The Diva Dance

3A+1Eu+3S - step out
4Lz
4T - large step out
3F
Flying Camel Spin 3
Choreo Sequence
4T+3T
3A+2A+SEQ - step out
3Lz
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Step Sequence 4
Change Foot Sit Spin 4

Better than we've seen for a few months technically, but the program continues to do him no favours.

170.89 = 1st Place
242.19 = 1st Place

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Mildly awake with coffee in hand.

I envy people who are able to sleep with Shaidorov's music playing on.

 

[Bunny Hop]

I like Shaidorov but there's not much there other than jumps, and they weren't all there today. Also, this music is going on my 'glad I don't skate at their rink' list.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I really wonder what he is doing for conditioning. His fitness level just isn’t where it needs to be at this point in the season. Tired. Heavy breathing.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

A plain black shirt for Adam.

I guess Samuel Blanc didn't return it after the FD