The Dance Hall 13: When You Dance on the Ice and Your Feet Twizzle Twice, That's Amore

[Vagabond]

R&A on the podium?

Does anyone know how to prevent nightmares after reading a post like this?

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Does anyone know how to prevent nightmares after reading a post like this?

Does anyone know how to prevent posts like this from coming true?

 

[kwanfan1818]

@rfisher could put it on her wish list.

 

[Andora]

Does anyone know how to prevent nightmares after reading a post like this?

I'll go burn Palo Santo and incense to clear that energy out. My bad.

 

[genevieve]

Hey, the US got a World gold in Pairs after the last Olys. Anything is possible!

I would kind of love them to medal

 

[Dobre]

R&A have the best RD in the senior field this season, IMO. The event is generally close to home. They are likely near retirement. They finished fifth at the GPF, and one of the teams that finished above them has pulled out.

More power to them. I hope they have a great event.

 

[manhn]

Have rules changed since the 23-24 season? Vincent had to be transformed quite significantly for this season due to rule changes.

 

[BittyBug]

Maybe they’re going to pull an Adam Siao Him Fa before back flips were legalized and just skate the program as they want to and not care about the scores.

 

[Vagabond]

Base Value
Grade of Execution
Bullet Points

FREE THE FREE DANCE!

 

[coralline]

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I'm trying to find the music of this cha cha pattern dance...
Calling all ice dance music experts: does anyone know this track? Thank you so much!

https://youtu.be/usaKXF49x8s?si=-m1poT-A0-7qwarc

 

[jlai]

And a year ago, no one expected CarPon to drop behind ZingKol the way they have this season. And four years ago, no one expected GreenP to wind up behind both of those teams by now. It really is dependent on good material for all of these teams.

I know the ZingKol ubers are riding high right now - as high as us CarPon ubers were a year ago and as high as the GreenP ubers were 3-4 years ago. Enjoy it now but nothing about any of these three teams makes me think ZingKol are secure in their position at the top of the heap.

Just going by protocols at worlds, the one thing C/P has over Z/K is they didn't get level 2 steps or patterns. Z/K are pretty new still and it shows in the levels for those elements.

Better material will help, but I think they can get some technical advantage over the patterns and steps. (hopefully that will also motivate Z/K to work hard to not get those level 2s. )

 

[Karen-W]

Spots for next season -

3 - FRA, CAN, USA
2 - GBR, ESP, LTU, GEO, CZE
1 - all other feds

Seeded GP teams next season -
Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron
Gilles/Poirier
Zingas/Kolesnik
Fear/Gibson
Smart/Dieck
Lopareva/Brissaud
Reed/Ambrulevicius
Carreira/Ponomarenko

Invited GP teams next season -
Lajoie/Lagha
Davis/Smolkin
Mrazkova/Mrazek
Green/Parsons

 

[ice coverage]

Just going by protocols at worlds, the one thing C/P has over Z/K is they didn't get level 2 steps or patterns. Z/K are pretty new still and it shows in the levels for those elements.

Better material will help, but I think they can get some technical advantage over the patterns and steps. (hopefully that will also motivate Z/K to work hard to not get those level 2s. )

I don't think that just the protocols from Worlds are the be-all and end-all.
It's not as if Z/K always get Level 2s -- for example, for 2026 Worlds RD step sequence, Z/K earned the same Level 3s as C/P. And Z/K earned 3.14 GOE versus C/P's 2.69.
And it's not as if C/P always are immune from Level 2s.
Yes, Z/K have room for improvement, but they are not alone here.

At Olympics:

Z/K and C/P both earned PSt3. GOE for Z/K was 3.35; for C/P was 2.56.​

​

Z/K rhythm: MiStW2+MiStM3 7.83 + 3.29 GOE = 11.12​

C/P rhythm: MiStW3+MiStM2 7.83 + 2.99 GOE = 10.82​

​

Z/K free: DiStW2+DiStM3 7.83 + 3.14 GOE = 10.97​

C/P free: CiStW3+CiStM2 7.83 + 2.53 GOE 10.36​

At 2026 U.S. Nationals:

Z/K earned PSt4 versus C/P's PSt3. Same GOE of 3.35 for both.​

​

Z/K rhythm: MiStW3+MiStM4 8.58 + 3.14 GOE = 11.72​

C/P rhythm: MiStW3+MiStM3 8.20 + 3.29 GOE = 11.49​

​

Z/K free: DiStW3+DiStM2 7.83 + 3.14 GOE = 10.97​

C/P free: CiStW4+CiStM2 8.21 + 3.14 GOE = 11.35​

Thanks to both teams for earning three spots for 2027 Worlds.