JGP #5 - Baku AZE - Sept. 23-26, 2025 - Men SP & FS

[skateboy]

Okay, who decided it was a good idea to play Thunder after EVERY JGP medal ceremony, where the lyrics are "Down the river, we're drunk and all of our thumbs up in the air?"

 

[Capt. DeSoto]

Belgian fed clearly wasn't expecting a medal for Denis! They need to be better prepared with a Belgian flag for him in Abu Dhabi!

Luckily Caleb had Patrick's flag to borrow, because I don't think they were expecting that of him either.

 

[Skaterbob]

This is my first time seeing Caleb -- Wow!

Me too! What a wonderful skater. The landing positions were divine!

 

[skatingguy]

12th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRl2Sc2hoI
Jakub Tykal
Age: 15
Coach: Ondrej Hotarek, Valentina Berolini
Music: Wake Me Up

3F+2T
3Lze
3T
3F - big stumble out
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 2 (3 after review)
3S+2A+2A+SEQ
3Lo
3S+2T
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Wow, there's a lot to like here. Nice stretch, and sense of presentation. The jumps were solid, and he's already got some nice spin positions.

110.24 = 11th Place
159.11 = 12th Place

 

[skatingguy]

11th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KrslKDO70
Albin Samuelson
Age: 17
Coach: Girts Jekabsons
Music: Fields of Energy by Per Andersson

3Lz - landed on the heel, step out
3S+3T< - 3-turn between jumps, step out, hand down
3F! - fall
Change Foot Combo Spin 2
3Lz+2T
3Lo - slow to check rotation
Change Foot Sit Spin 3 - loss of speed
3F!q+2T
Choreo Sequence
2A
Change Foot Sit Spin 4

Managed to pull it together after the struggle of the first 3 jumping passes. The program could be interesting when clean, but this performance was had too many errors.

-1.00= Falls
103.12 = 13th Place
160.75 = 11th Place

 

[skatingguy]

10th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLOvR5XAyc
Vladislav Churakov
Age: 16
Coach: Anna Levandi, Jekaterina Nekrassova
Music: Nureyev (The White Crow)

3Lz+2T
3F!+1Eu+3Sq
3F!
3Lz+2T
3Lo+SEQ+2A* - step out of the loop, double Axel is invalid
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
2A - poor quality landing
Flying Camel Spin 3
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4

On Vladislav's planned program content the double Axel was not intended to be a sequence, but the technical called it as such, and so the double Axel does not count as it was a 4th combination jump.

111.83 = 10th Place
167.73 = 10th Place

 

[skatingguy]

9th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiTJ06G9ek4
Konstantin Supatashvili
Age: 17
Coach: Aleksandrina Degliareva, Kirill Davydenko
Music: The Last Airbender (soundtrack)

3S
2A
3F
3Lo+2T
Change Foot Camel Spin 3
3Lz+3T
3Lz - big step out
3Lo
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 4 (3 after review)
Flying Sit Spin 4

Pretty solid skate, but still learning to control all his limbs.

112.40 = 9th Place
169.13 = 9th Place

 

[skatingguy]

8th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMSX63ZODc
Maksym Petrychenko
Age: 18
Coach: Yulia Rushchenko
Music: Daylight by David Kushner

3Lz!+2T
3F
3Lo - fall
Change Foot Camel Spin 3
3Lz!+2T
3F+2A+2A+SEQ
3S< - two-foot landing
3T
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Flying Sit Spin 4

Maksym got behind the music after the fall on the loop, and seemed to spend most of the rest of the performance trying to catch up.

-1.00 = Falls
113.06 = 8th Place
169.50 = 8th Place

 

[skatingguy]

7th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVQ06c51LY
Janis Znottins
Age: 15
Coach: Andrei Brovenko, Romans Panteljevs
Music: The Unforgiven, T.N.T.

3Lz+2T
3Lo
3F+2T
3T
Flying Camel Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
3F+2A+2A+SEQ - landings were tight, sloppy
3Lz
3S - two-footed
Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Change Foot Sit Spin 3

A lot of unfinished, and sloppy positions in the program, and the performance didn't quite feel like authentic rock'n roll.

117.05 = 7th Place
172.91 = 7th Place

 

[skatingguy]

6th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVylTaRiO8
Boren Lu
Age: 17
Coach: Haijun Gao, Han Yan
Music: Singin' in the Rain by Naico Herb Brown

3Lz+3T
2A
3F! - 3-turn exit
3S+2T
Flying Sit Spin 4
3Lzq
3T+2A+2T+SEQ
3Lo< - step out
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Nice overall sense of presentation, and a pretty solid technical skate.

122.36 = 4th Place
175.11 = 6th Place

 

[skatingguy]

5th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GutmdbVnns
Ryoto Mori
Age: 15
Coach: K. Nakaniwa, M. Nakata, M. Nagumo, A. Tanoue
Music: The Man in the Iron Mask (soundtrack)

3A - big lean, hand down
3Lz - hand down
3F+2A+SEQ
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
3Lo - step out
Choreo Sequence
3Lz+1Eu+2S
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
3F< - messy landing
2A - messier landing
Flying Sit Spin 4

Just couldn't quite get control of the jumps today, and almost all of the landings were off balance, and messy.

117.52 = 5th Place
188.17 = 5th Place

 

[skatingguy]

4th Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Co2Lm_Ofq4
Patrick Blackwell
Age: 17
Coach: A. Blackwell, O. Ganicheva, A. Letov
Music: Autumn Moon, Warriors, Polaris

2T+3T
3A - step out
3Lo
Change Foot Camel Spin 3
2T
3Lz+1Eu+3Sq - hand down
3A+REP - fall
3F
Flying Sit Spin 2
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Never found his timing on the quadruple toeloops, and it bled through to the rest of the program.

-1.00 = Falls
117.29 = 6th Place
193.15 = 4th Place

 

[skatingguy]

3rd Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C0JiN6PuaI
Caleb Farrington
Age: 17
Coach: O. Makarov, L. Selezneva, P. David
Music: Fantastic Beasts by James Newton Howard

4T
2A
3S+3T
3F
Flying Camel Spin 4
3Lz+3Tq
3Lzq+2A+2T+SEQ
Choreo Sequence
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4
2Lo
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

What a beautiful performance from Caleb. The line, and stylization he has is just wonderful.

139.83 = 2nd Place
210.66 = 3rd Place

 

[skatingguy]

2nd Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWQLW5MjUE
Dennis Krouglov
Age: 15
Coach: L. Stewart, T. Dickson, R. Gazave
Music: Seven Years in Tibet by John Williams

3A
3Lz+3T
3Lo
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
3F!+2T
3Lz
3Lo+2A+2A+SEQ
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
3S

Another beautiful skate. Dennis with a wonderful sense of presentation, and performance that used the music, and created a moment for himself.

139.72 = 3rd Place
213.47 = 2nd Place

 

[skatingguy]

1st Place - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG3p9PtqQ4s
Minkyu Seo
Age: 16
Coach: Eun Ju Kim
Music: Exogenesis Symphony Part 3 by Muse

4S< - fall, hit the boards
3A+3T
3F+2T
3Lo
Flying Camel Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
3A
3F+2A+2A+SEQ
3S
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
Change Foot Sit Spin 4

The opening quadruple Salchow was a bit of a disaster, but Minkyu didn't let that affect the rest of the performance.

-1.00 = Falls
153.78 = 1st Place
236.45 = 1st Place

 

[PRlady]

Just watched Caleb in replay, what an unexpected talent! So glad to see another competitive Junior guy. Beautiful lines.