Skate Canada announces 2018-2019 national team

[Erin]

I've already mentally started pairing him with Julianne Seguin.

He looks like he'd be a great lifter.

But okay, I'll respect his wishes to be a singles skater!

Probably the biggest hindrance to him being a pairs skater is that he rotates clockwise.

 

[RoseRed]

Probably the biggest hindrance to him being a pairs skater is that he rotates clockwise.

He'd need to talk Kaetlyn into if he wanted to do it. But I'm happy with him in singles.

 

[screech]

Probably the biggest hindrance to him being a pairs skater is that he rotates clockwise.

It can definitely be done...
(has there been another mirror pair team since Yamaguchi/Galindo? Also, why does nobody these days do their amazing front inside death spiral entry?)

 

[Deleted member 19433]

It can definitely be done...
(has there been another mirror pair team since Yamaguchi/Galindo? Also, why does nobody these days do their amazing front inside death spiral entry?)

Vise & Trent are the other (more recent) mirror pair that comes to mind for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAZ02SsfgI0

 

[overedge]

How strictly is the top 5 at Nationals requirement taken?

For dance and pairs, the wording of the selection criteria gives SC some discretion of appointing athletes who don't make that criteria. Specifically: "Athletes can be added at the discretion of Skate Canada based on new partnerships of current and former national team members."

Otherwise, the athlete has to have placed in the top 5 at nationals and/or (note the "or") be assigned to a GP event and be competing in the coming year. So if SC really wanted to get someone on the national team who didn't place in the Top 5, all they would have to do is assign them a GP event and use that as the basis to appoint them.

 

[starrynight]

Probably the biggest hindrance to him being a pairs skater is that he rotates clockwise.

Well that does make sense. I was looking at him wondering how it was that he hadn't been encouraged into pairs. (All the tools to be very competitive as a pairs skater, but at a disadvantage in singles due to quads being easier with a slighter frame).

But I did really enjoy those mirrored jumps by Yamaguchi & Galindo. A bit of choreography around them and you could make them a feature. Is it really a big problem in pairs to have mirrored jumps?

 

[overedge]

But I did really enjoy those mirrored jumps by Yamaguchi & Galindo. A bit of choreography around them and you could make them a feature. Is it really a big problem in pairs to have mirrored jumps?

IIRC (at least under the older judging systems) some judges found mirrored jumps difficult to assess in terms of unison. The skaters were doing the same thing and the judges could assess e.g. height, landing position, # of turns in the air. But because the skaters were jumping in different directions, they didn't "look" as much the same as skaters both doing the jump in the same direction.

 

[screech]

IIRC (at least under the older judging systems) some judges found mirrored jumps difficult to assess in terms of unison. The skaters were doing the same thing and the judges could assess e.g. height, landing position, # of turns in the air. But because the skaters were jumping in different directions, they didn't "look" as much the same as skaters both doing the jump in the same direction.

IMO what was harder was looking at the spins. Hard to see unison when spinning in opposite directions. When I was watching that video of Yamaguchi/Galindo, I loved their SBS double axels.
It would definitely be easier for judges to assess these days with the video capabilities they have.