News and updates à la Française, part trois

He is not naughty. He is beautiful and he wants you to know it. Can you blame him? :P
 
IceAlisa said:
He is not naughty. He is beautiful and he wants you to know it. Can you blame him? :p
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Not that I'm complaining, but we don't need pictures like that as proof that he is beautiful. Fully clothed, half-clothed, unclothed; head-shot or full-body; makes no difference. He's just plain beautiful.
 
Enchanted said:
Interview with Besseghier, in German.

I don't have time to translate the article now but I guess the main information here is his choreographer. Chafik will work with Allen Schramm in Dallas.
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Thanks for posting that. Props to Chafik for keeping his cool in the face of repeated references to him being the "exotic" "Oriental" skater. Additional props to him for lining up multiple options for his post-competitive career.
 
The FFSG has published its "chemin de selection" (clik on "ici") with the criterias for the selections.

To go to Europeans :

- men will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season : a quad in the SP and a quad in the FS (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 189 points

- ladies will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season: a 3-3 in the SP and a 3-3 in the FS (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 143 points

- pairs will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season: solo 3 and 2a jumps, a triple twist OR if it is a double twist, 2 solo 3 (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 109 points

- dancers will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 134 points



To go to Worlds :

- men will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season : a quad in the SP and a quad in the FS (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 223 points

- ladies will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season: a 3-3 in the SP and a 3-3 in the FS (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 158 points

- pairs will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season: solo 3 and 2a jumps, a triple twist OR if it is a double twist, 2 solo 3 (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 168 points

- dancers will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 147 points




To go to Jr Worlds

- men will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season : a 3a or a quad in either the SP or the FS (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 179 points

- ladies will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season: 4 different triple jumps and a 3-3 or a 2a-3 or a 3-2a in either the SP or the FS (with positive GOE)
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 138 points

- pairs will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 112 points

- dancers will have to get registered in competition
+ during the current season or the previous one, the minimum total score of 112 points



If applied immediatly to the current crop of skaters :
Besseghier is not even sure to qualify for Worlds, neither is Maé and Laurine is not sure to qualify for Euros, James Ciprès should be ok.
Lauriault / Le Gac should join Papadakis / Cizeron.
Esbrat / Novoselov would be able to go to Euros but not Worlds.
In junior, 1 boy, maybe 2 would be ok. Girls are a big question mark. Dance should be ok.



Bold prediction ( :p ): the FFSG won't fill all its quotas this season. It could be worse than last year.
 
Evolution of the minimum scores of the FFSG's selections

For men 2016 / 2017
Euros : 176 / 189 (+ 13 points)
Worlds : 213 / 223 (+ 10 points)
Jr Worlds : 176 / 179 (+ 3 points)

For ladies
Euros : 143 / 143 (+ 0 points)
Worlds : 152 / 158 (+ 6 points)
Jr Worlds : 134 / 138 (+ 4 points)

For pairs
Euros : 118 / 109 (- 9 points)
Worlds : 147 / 168 (+ 21 points)
Jr Worlds : 118 / 112 (- 6 points)


For dance 2016 / 2017
Euros : 127 / 134 (+ 7 points)
Worlds : 142 / 147 (+ 5 points)
Jr Worlds : 110 / 112 (+ 2 points)
 
Golden Skate article: Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac: "Love was stronger"
Excerpts:
“I said I never will go out with my partner and she thought the same way,” recalled Le Gac.
“Truly, in the beginning I had a barrier to overcome,” added Lauriault, “but love was stronger.”
Now that they are married, the team is hoping that Lauriault will receive her French citizenship in time to compete at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. However, Le Gac stressed that theirs was not just a marriage on paper.
“It is sincere,” he emphasized.
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“Our music choice hasn’t been finalized yet, but soon will be,” Lauriault offered. “We are still looking for a good concept for our senior year, and one that the audience and we can enjoy. For the short, we prefer a more groovy music, but it doesn’t have to be modern necessarily.”
Last season, the team skated to Beatles medley, and are now looking for something more “calm.”
“Our whole team—us, Marie-France (Dubreuil), Pascal Denis, Romain Haguenauer and Patrice (Lauzon) participate in selecting the music,” said Le Gac. “It is always team work that develops the concept of the programs, and the music is the starting point.”
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Re-posting from the Summer Cup topic.

Here is a link to Aurea Furno's facebook page.
She has posted her programs from the Summer Cup where she blasted all the french juniors who were trying to get a JGP selection.
She is ineligible though, as she is 11yo.

SP is on Louane' Emera's "Je vole" and FS on Lillies of the Valley by Jun Miyake (from Pina's soudtrack)
 
i have to admit, i kinda like the intention with the selection process to remain competitve;
a quad is necessary. same with 3-3 for the girls, let's face it.
neither ponsart, meite, lecavelier & co. can hope for pcs like rippon or brown (who were mentioned above); they need to stand out with their elements during the season and hope to raise their pcs alongside.

and it seems they have time over the season, so, there should be some competition where they might land any stuff. i mean remember laurine at nrw trophy last season.
 
Jeschke said:
i have to admit, i kinda like the intention with the selection process to remain competitve;
a quad is necessary. same with 3-3 for the girls, let's face it.
neither ponsart, meite, lecavelier & co. can hope for pcs like rippon or brown (who were mentioned above); they need to stand out with their elements during the season and hope to raise their pcs alongside.

and it seems they have time over the season, so, there should be some competition where they might land any stuff. i mean remember laurine at nrw trophy last season.
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Remain competitive, yes.
But multiplying the objectives, no.
A skater may go after mandatory difficult elements or after a big score but both at the same time ? it means they have no choice about how to achieve their goals. They must push, push, push and if the seniors' body might resist, many juniors ended up injured at the end of the season and couldn't defend their chance when national championships happened.
That's absurd. Give them some options so they will make the most appropriate choices for themselves.
 
Nmsis said:
A skater may go after mandatory difficult elements or after a big score but both at the same time ? it means they have no choice about how to achieve their goals.
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does it say, they have to get all criterias in one competition?
the points, the positive goe for the jumps in the short and in the free?

that would be kinda harsh, i admit (even though i still like the intention).
 
Jeschke said:
does it say, they have to get all criterias in one competition?
the points, the positive goe for the jumps in the short and in the free?

that would be kinda harsh, i admit (even though i still like the intention).
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No, it doesn't.
But the conditions have to be fulfilled in international competitions.
So juniors have one, two or three tries according to the number of international competitions they are sent to in the first part of the season.
JGPs become the place where 13 or 14 yo skaters need to achieve a 3-3 with positive GOEs. And when they don't, the score is down anyway so it's rewind and repeat on the next international comp.
Some skaters not favored by the FFSG don't get much more than one international comp anyway.
 
Nmsis said:
Re-posting from the Summer Cup topic.

Here is a link to Aurea Furno's facebook page.
She has posted her programs from the Summer Cup where she blasted all the french juniors who were trying to get a JGP selection.
She is ineligible though, as she is 11yo.

SP is on Louane' Emera's "Je vole" and FS on Lillies of the Valley by Jun Miyake (from Pina's soudtrack)
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Link to the Summer Cup competition thread in Lyon with results and some videos: http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/index.php?threads/2016-summer-cup-lyon-july-21-23.98915/

Results/Protocols: http://www.csndg.org/resultats/SC2016/html/index.htm
 
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Update on Eric Millot, now 47 years old, who moved his coaching base from the San Diego area to the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California 3 years ago (article includes a family photo): http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2016...ot-benefits-from-move-to-toyota-sports-center
Excerpts:
"I worked with the Chinese team before the world championships," said Millot, who is the primary coach of 12 students and assists other coaches with their students. "Mr. Frank Carroll has been very nice with me. He let me work with Gracie Gold. I help the students with the free harness. I worked with Jason Brown. So I have skaters through novice, but I also work with higher level. It keeps me in the loop on technique and the atmosphere of world-class skating."
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"I'm so grateful to America for welcoming me and giving me a chance to do what I love: teach skating," Millot said. "I'm in an elite ice arena. There are coaches like Frank [Carroll] and Christa [Fassi] with great knowledge. This brings such a quality of teaching. It makes my teaching very rich as well."
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I just watched these programmes and also FB/S Denmark and I much prefer these.As with Coombs/Buckland I don't like the height difference with this team:shuffle:
 
nuge said:
I just watched these programmes and also FB/S Denmark and I much prefer these.As with Coombs/Buckland I don't like the height difference with this team:shuffle:
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yes, I prefer FB/S SD too, much smoother and a better interpretation of the music. I don't like any of the FD though.
 
I had no idea Kevin Aymoz was also senior men's national baton twirling champion. Pretty cool!

Hopefully his endurance ramps up as this season progresses to handle senior long program length.
 
Cross-posting with this post.

Maé Bérénice Méité has moved to north-America for training and has lost her funding from the french fed.
She has opened a crowdfunding page.

Gailhaguet has been cutting off a lot of skaters recently.
Like "You're dead wood ! Next !"
We're likely to have a very thin french team in Pyeongchang, not aiming at the team comp at all.

Anyway, go Maé.
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