Practice Reports / Peacock's practice cam streaming schedule (2021 US Nats)

[Sylvia]

Athlete Skating Schedule - Practice Groups & Music Rotation (10 pages; contains each athlete’s skating schedule and practice ice skating order for the week):
https://cdn4.sportngin.com/attachme...42/2021USFSChampsAthleteScheduleDraft12.1.pdf (Revision: Draft 12.1; Updated: 1/13/2021)

PAIRS (2 official practices on Wed. Jan. 14; 1 practice on Friday)
Group A: Jessica Calalang & Brian Johnson, Audrey Lu & Misha Mitrofanov, Evelyn Grace Hanns & Jim Garbutt
Group B: Alexa Knierim & Brandon Frazier, Olivia Serafini & Mervin Tran, Laiken Lockley & Keenan Prochnow
Group C: Ashley Cain-Gribble & Timothy LeDuc, Emily Chan & Spencer Howe, Katie McBeath & Nathan Bartholomay

ICE DANCE (2 official practices on Wed. Jan. 14; 1 practice on Thursday)
Group A: Hilary Asher & Ryan O'Donnell, Madison Chock & Evan Bates, Caroline Green & Michael Parsons, Livvy Shilling & Alexander Petrov
Group B: Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker, Lorraine McNamara & Anton Spiridonov, Cara Murphy & Joshua Levitt
Group C: Molly Cesanek & Yehor Yehorov, Madison Hubell & Zachary Donohue, Eva Pate & Logan Bye, Breelie Taylor & Tyler Vollmer

LADIES (1 official practice on Wed. Jan. 14)
Group A: Amber Glenn, Hanna Harrell, Finley Hawk, Gabriella Izzo, Alysa Liu
Group B: Mariah Bell, Karen Chen, Pooja Kalyan, Rena Ikenishi, Emilia Murdock, Lindsay Thorngren
Group C: Starr Andrews, Gracie Gold, Heidi Munger, Audrey Shin, Bradie Tennell, Violeta Ushakova

MEN (2 official practices on Thu., Jan. 15; 1 practice on Friday)
Group A: Nathan Chen, Ryan Dunk, Joonsoo Kim, Aleksei Krasnozhon, Peter Liu, Dinh Tran
Group B: Jason Brown, Mitchell Friess, Jimmy Ma, Jordan Moeller, Eric Sjoberg, Vincent Zhou
Group C: Tomoki Hiwitashi, Joseph Kang, Yaroslav Paniot, Camden Pulkinen, Maxim Naumov

Colored matrix schedule Draft 14.2 (in Pacific time) was updated on 1/13:
https://cdn4.sportngin.com/attachme...218/2021USFSChampsMatrixScheduleDraft14.2.pdf

Peacock's schedule of official practices & warmups being streamed for Premium subscribers (in Eastern time):

Wednesday, January 13, 2021:
Practice Cam, Pt. 1 12:00pm [Pairs/Dance/Ladies]
Practice Cam, Pt. 2 5:00pm [Pairs/Dance]

Thursday, January 14:
Practice Cam, Pt. 1 10:00am [Pairs/Ladies SP warmups, Dance/Men]
Thu. Jan. 14 (Central/Mountain/Pacific time)/Fri. Jan. 15 (Eastern time): Practice Cam, Pt. 2 12:05am [Men]

Friday, January 15:
Practice Cam, Pt. 1 11:40am [Dance RD warmup/Men]
Practice Cam, Pt. 2 6:00pm [Ladies FS warmup]
Practice Cam, Pt. 3 11:05pm [Pairs]

Saturday, January 16: Practice Cam 10:40am [warmups for Men SP/Pairs FS/Dance FD]

Sunday, January 17: Practice Cam 12:45pm [Men FS warmup]

ETA link to the thread in the TV Alerts forum for Peacock streaming issues/advice/questions/etc.: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...rting-in-fall-2020.107653/page-6#post-5924575

 

[Sylvia]

"Amber Glenn and her triple axel are here to play." https://twitter.com/JohnnyGWeir/status/1349133753487028225

 

[Frau Muller]

I’m wondering if Johnny also caught Alysa in either of yesterday’s two ladies practices...in the same practice group as Amber. Not all skaters attend first-day practices, I realize...but last night’s practice was the second one for ladies.

I’m so looking forward to the camera becoming available today...around my noon est!

 

[Sylvia]

Practice Cam went LIVE for a few mins. just now (shot of the ice/kiss & cry) for a test, I presume. Less than 40 mins. until Pairs practice - order of groups for the first practice is B C A (names in each group are listed in my post above).

Tip: Practice Cam brings up all the upcoming streams when I search.

 

[Sylvia]

Lockley/Prochnow are doing their SP, choreo. by Rohene Ward. Rockne Brubaker is with them here.

ETA:

Knierim/Frazier ran through most of their SP - 3 twist/nice catch, BIG throw 3Lo and their sbs spins had good unison and looked close together. Todd Sand and Christine Binder are here with them.

Serafini/Tran skated parts of their FS - skipped the opening sbs jump (3F?) but went for the 3T-half-loop-2S later. Jason Briggs is with them.

 

[skipaway]

I just don’t understand skating through SBS jumps during practice. IMHO, they need to “practice “ them so they can maybe actually be successful during the comp. As our Pair skaters have consistently demonstrated their inability to land such SBS, maybe practice would make perfect?

 

[Frau Muller]

Only K/F, among the pairs in this first group, skated most (all?) of their elements...the other two mostly marked. Even so, I believe that Brandon doubled his sbs jump.

 

[Rukia]

K/F keep drilling their sbs jumps. Unison still seems a bit off, but also they are landing them so I think they'll take it.

 

[Sylvia]

K/F did nice sbs 3S just now.

ETA:

Cool cantilever entry into pivot by Mervin in BODS with Olivia.

Laiken & Keenan worked on throw 3S near the end of practice - one fall, 2 landed that I saw.

 

[maureenfarone]

Lots of "fans" in the stands

 

[acraven]

Most skaters like to warm up quite a bit before they start doing triples, so skaters whose music is played early in the rotation are likely to skate through their jumps or just do doubles. This is something that's pretty obvious if you're watching the practice in person.

 

[Frau Muller]

Lots of "fans" in the stands

Some of the pets in the front row are gone...or moved. Ha.

 

[sk8nlizard]

K/F keep drilling their sbs jumps. Unison still seems a bit off, but also they are landing them so I think they'll take it.

I thought the unison looked better (though not completely there yet). He did double his in the run through. Their throw triple loop was very nice! I thought all 3 pairs looked a bit tight and nervous, which is to be expected.

 

[Doggygirl]

In this crazy mixed up world, I'm grateful to have figure skating, Michael Buble, and Ollie's Bargain Basement sponsorship as my constants.....

 

[skipaway]

Most skaters like to warm up quite a bit before they start doing triples, so skaters whose music is played early in the rotation are likely to skate through their jumps or just do doubles. This is something that's pretty obvious if you're watching the practice in person.

Ok, makes sense.

 

[Frau Muller]

Second group of PRs-

Beath/Bartholomey- Cry Me a River SP - very good exc for Nate hands-down on sbs jump. Lovely lift featuring unusual “presage” ballet position (look it up...ha)

Gribbles - Never Tear Us SP - most elements great but she seemed to put free foot down after the throw jump. Lift ok but a bit slowish. So far, they’re the best but...no smiles...all business.

Chan/Howe - The Prayer (must be their LP). She fell on the first sbs jump...but basically fine.

 

[mtnskater]

Loving that Peacock is streaming practices. I have the TV on mute while attending a Microsoft Teams meeting for work so I can still watch out of the corner of my eye. . Shows how hungry for any skating I am!!!

 

[Karen-W]

Second group of PRs-

Beath/Bartholomey- Cry Me a River SP - very good exc for Nate hands-down on sbs jump. Lovely lift featuring unusual “presage” ballet position (look it up...ha)

Gribbles - Never Tear Us SP - most elements great but she seemed to put free foot down after the throw jump. Lift ok but a bit slowish. So far, they’re the best but...no smiles...all business.

Chan/Howe - The Prayer (must be their LP). She fell on the first sbs jump...but basically fine.

Ashley def 2-footed the landing of the throw.

 

[Sylvia]

Katie McBeath seems to have adapted very well to pairs in her first season competing. I spoke to her briefly in Greensboro last year when she came to watch the event, and she was very excited about starting a new discipline. Nice throw 3Lo in the SP run through. I think Christine Binder was with them? (They all took a photo together in the kiss & cry after they got off the ice.)

Ashley and Timothy landed sbs 3S in the SP run through and her free foot brushed upon landing the throw 3Lz. They later did jumps from their FS - 3S+2T+2Lo and 3Lo (she fell out).

Spencer (with man bun ) landed the opening sbs 3S (she fell), then both landed 3T+2T and did throw doubles in their FS run through - they move well together with nice extensions, IMO. Their lifts look improved. Aleksey Letov is with them. She was working on her Salchow at the end - mostly doubles from what I saw.

 

[Frau Muller]

Zamboni break. No bathroom line at home!

 

[just tuned in]

Feed just froze. Everyone is tuning in to see Jessica Calalang in her amazing pleather pants land gorgeous twists and throw jumps.

 

[mtnskater]

My feed is still frozen too. C&J looking REALLY good from what I did see.

 

[Rukia]

My feed never froze so I hope you all refreshed or something

 

[just tuned in]

I am liking Lu more than Mitrofanov...

 

[annie720]

Darn! I restarted it and now it stopped again.

 

[clairecloutier]

Solid run-throughs for Calalang/Johnson and Lu/Mitrofanov, with L/M landing both SBS jump elements and throw triple flip.

 

[mtnskater]

Mine keeps freezing. I keep backing out and opening again. Any other suggestions?

 

[Carolla5501]

I am having a horrid time with the feed, but considering how bad my internet has been lately and that I am "working" on an article which has me doing a lot of google searches it may just be me!

 

[Sylvia]

Hanns/Garbutt (making their senior national debut here) did a nice throw 3S in their SP run through.

Calalang/Johnson's 3twist was SO HIGH! They also landed their throw 3Lz in their SP run through. Looks like Jenni Meno has joined her husband by the boards.

Lu/Mitrofanov landed their sbs jumps (3S-half loop-2S and 3T) in their FS run through, along with both triple throws (3Lz & 3Lo). She's very serious when skating - he is more expressive with the Chaplin theme.

 

[annie720]

I am having a horrid time with the feed, but considering how bad my internet has been lately and that I am "working" on an article which has me doing a lot of google searches it may just be me!

Don't think it's just you! I just got out of Peacock completely and went back in... we'll see.