JGP #4 Bangkok THA - Men's SP & FS

[victorskid]

Evan Lysacek presenting the Men's medals.

 

[YukiNieve]

Evan Lysacek presented medals to the men's skaters and dancers.
Do these skaters know him...?

https://x.com/YukiNieve/status/1966823660980682971/photo/1

 

[tangerine dream]

Evan Lysacek presented medals to the men's skaters and dancers.
Do these skaters know him...?

https://x.com/YukiNieve/status/1966823660980682971/photo/1

Hana Maria hadn't even been born yet when he won Olympic gold.

 

[beckab81]

Love seeing skaters from Thailand and New Zealand in the top 5!

 

[zigzig]

Rio - love him! So talented.

Blackwell - love that he's cultivating his own style. Excited to see how he develops.

Li - tech panel slaughtered him. Too bad cuz he had my favorite program of the evening (even though Les Mis needs to join Phantom in the hold for 20 years storage closet).

Hiro - amazing to see a Thai skater in the top 5. Love his skating and has a real sense of musicality and performance.

Paradis - always crazy overscored to me. Lots of sketchy rotations over looked and he walked through that program without his usual over the top emo face and still gets 69+ PCS. Huge meh.

 

[skatingguy]

12th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16PlkoGDHHw
Ziyi Li
Age: 16
Coach: Xiaoou Hu
Music: Memoryhouse by Max Richter

3F+3Tq
3Lo< - fall
3Lz!<+2T - two-foot landing
2A
Flying Sit Spin 3
2Lze+SEQ+1A+1A - Lutz opened forward, and then steps between - Axels invalid
3F<+2A*+SEQ+REP - 4th combination so the double Axel is invalid
2S
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 1 (2 after review)
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 3

The jump content was very messy, and there were numerous changes from the planned program content leading Ziyi to do a 4th combination jump.

-1.00 = Falls

83.82 = 14th Place
135.20 = 12th Place

 

[skatingguy]

11th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7Pz7k2Eho
Jean Medard
Age: 18
Coach: Emilie Telmaque
Music: Le Conte de Monte Cristo (soundtrack)

3A< - fall
3Lz+2T
3T
3F!q - step out
Change Foot Camel Spin 2
2Lz+2A+SEQ - step out
2S - step out
Choreo Sequence
2T - two-foot landing
Change Foot Combo Spin 2V
Flying Sit Spin 2 (3 after review)

That was a real struggle for Jean. Got a couple of the jumps out there, but seemed to lose his timing, and was a bit lost in the air on several elements.

-1.00 = Falls

87.51 = 11th Place
137.87 = 11th Place

 

[skatingguy]

10th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfe1_CSlx5k
Michelangelo Caprano
Age: 16
Coach: Daniele Caprano
Music: Il Monde by Il Volo

3A - hand down
4S - forward lean, scratchy landing
3Lo+2A+SEQ - scratchy landings
3A<+REP - fall
Change Foot Camel Spin 2 - some bobbles
3T+1Eu<<+3S - scratchy landings
3Fe<< - fall
3Lo* - step out - repeated 3rd triple - invalid
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Flying Sit Spin 1

That's a lot of red.

-2.00 = Falls

89.73 = 10th Place
140.09 = 10th Place

 

[skatingguy]

9th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EPlRN3xBA
Simon Sun
Age: 16
Coach: Song Gao
Music: Tree's Sacrifice by Ezio Bosso

3Lz!+3T - toeloop landing was tight
3Lz
3Lo
3S
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 3
3F+2A+2A+SEQ - landings in a tight circle
3F - step out
2Lo+2Lo
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 3 (4 after review)
Change Foot Sit Spin 3

A bit over place in this competition. Some quality jumps, but couldn't maintain that quality throughout the performance.

108.36 = 7th Place
156.19 = 9th Place

 

[skatingguy]

8th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4fjH6kpn_E
Vinceman Chong
Age: 17
Coach: Richard Laidlaw, Lee Chaplin
Music: Guns for Hire by Woodkid, S. Kim

3S+2T
3Lz+2T
3A< - delayed the rotation, step out
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 3 - struggled to maintain position
3Lz
3S - sloppy landing
3T+2A+2A+SEQ
2F
Change Foot Sit Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 3 (1V after review) - wobbled on the opening camel position, fall on the final position

So much power in his skating, just needs more control, and precision in his movement.

-1.00 = Falls

106.15 = 8th Place
156.94 = 8th Place

 

[skatingguy]

7th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6clhlgIac
Nikita Sheiko
Age: 17
Coach: Julia & Sergei Sheiko, Kirill Davydenko
Music: Les Misérables by C.M. Schoenberg

1A - two-foot landing
3A< - fall
3Lo
3Lz!+2T
Flying Camel Spin 3
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 2 (* after review) - invalid
3Lz!<+2A+SEQ - slow to check the Lutz, Axel was two-footed
3F+2T - slow to check the landings
Choreo Sequence
3S
Change Foot Combo Spin 3

Just a bit sloppy throughout the program and not checking his landings in a timely manner.

-1.00 = Time Violation
-1.00 = Falls

103.78 = 9th Place
157.53 = 7th Place

 

[skatingguy]

6th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvvE-OTKE18
Anthony Paradis
Age: 18
Coach: Yvan Desjardins, Violaine Emard, Annie Barabe
Music: Largo, Scherzo Molto Vivace, Allegro Con Fuoco

3Lz - fall
3A< - fall
3F!+3T<
Flying Sit Spin 4
2A
3Lz+REP - fall
3F!
3Lo+1A+SEQ
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 2V - struggled to maintain the positions

Too many mistakes in this performance to get a sense of what the program is like.

-3.00 = Falls

111.32 = 6th Place
181.39 = 6th Place

 

[skatingguy]

5th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I1lve5IKcE
Hiro Kaewtathip
Age: 14
Coach: A. Evidente, D. Delmore, I. Dinev, J. Cassar
Music: A Beautiful Storm by J. Thomas

3Lz+3T
3F!+2T
3Lo
2A
Flying Sit Spin 2
3Lz+2A+2T
3F
Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Choreo Sequence
3S
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 2

That was very nice. A very watchable skater with nice stretch, and pleasant technical elements.

123.94 = 5th Place
182.70 = 5th Place

 

[skatingguy]

4th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in20WRHA5FI
Diaya Ebihara
Age: 17
Coach: Koji Okajima
Music: Avatar: The Way of Water

4T< - fall
3Aq
3Loq
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
3Fe+3Tq
Choreo Sequence
3Lz+3T
3Lzq - messy landing
Flying Sit Spin 4
3S+2A+2A+SEQ
Spin* - fall on the entry

Some of his jumps were excellent, but just lost the landings on a couple, and then the complete wipeout of the final spin.

-2.00 = Falls

127.55 = 4th Place
201.57 = 4th Place

 

[skatingguy]

3rd Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x20WKAfw6s
Yanhao Li
Age: 17
Coach: Bess Cao
Music: Prologue (Look Down), I Dreamed a Dream

4T
3Aq
3F+2T
3Lo
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 3
3Lz< - fall
3Lzq+2Aq+2A+SEQ
Choreo Sequence - fall
3F<+1T - big turn between jumps
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Flying Camel Spin 4

Yanhao needs to learn to do a consistent jump layout because he's changing things constantly on the fly, and I was concerned it was going to get him into to trouble again, but he managed those changes a bit better this time.

-2.00 = Falls

135.14 = 3rd Place
210.29 = 3rd Place

 

[skatingguy]

2nd Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z23yYv_Ydg4
Patrick Blackwell
Age: 17
Coach: A. Blackwell, O. Ganicheva, A. Letov
Music: Autumn Moon, Warriors, Polaris

4T+3T
3A+2A+SEQ
3Lo
Change Foot Camel Spin 3
4T
1Lz+1Eu+3S
3A
3Fq - two foot landing, fall
Flying Sit Spin 3
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 2

Big technical content - not a lot of program. Lack of attention to the music, and lack of detail in the choreography, but good on him for throwing out the big jumps.

-1.00 = Falls

147.94 = 2nd Place
222.17 = 2nd Place

 

[skatingguy]

1st Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gXYI4uZ24
Rio Nakata
Age: 17
Coach: M. nakata, K. Nakaniwa, M. Nagumo, A. Tanoue
Music: Gladiator (soundtrack)

4S
4T
Falls on a back cross-over
3A+1Eu+3S
Change Foot Camel Spin 3
3A+3T
3F
3Lo+2A+SEQ
3Lo
Change Foot Combo Spin 1 (4 after review)
Choreo Sequence
Flying Change Foot Sit Spin 4

The opening quadruple jumps were excellent - speed, power, and flow.

-1.00 = Falls

162.64 = 1st Place
246.20 = 1st Place

 

[Wyliefan]

Big technical content - not a lot of program. Lack of attention to the music, and lack of detail in the choreography, but good on him for throwing out the big jumps.

I also liked the way Patrick salvaged the combo after popping the lutz. He showed a lot of fight today -- I hope he can keep doing that.