How long do you believe skaters spend on choreographing things? I won't be shocked if it takes around a day for most, given the quality.
TBH it's probably more like 2 hours for most skaters who lift choreography directly from previous seasons, probably it takes some time to pick out new music?
-- that can apply to MANY other skaters, too.
so it's not exclusive to IJS, but it's definitely become easier to pick up on for the masses.
Mark and Nica confirmed!
Drew Meekins on Instagram: "Wrapping up three weeks of training and collaboration with @wasapairs coaches and @severin_kiefer. This crew is working hard and ready for big things! @natalia.mishkutenok"
397 likes, 1 comments - drew_meekins on June 21, 2024: "Wrapping up three weeks of training and collaboration with @wasapairs coaches and @severin_kiefer. This crew is working hard and ready for big things! @natalia.mishkutenok".www.instagram.com
Uhm, this is the US Men's thread...
Lol how did I get here. Guess the quote didn't go to right thread
From Lake Placid Figure Skating Championships:
Junior Men SP
Alexsander Fegan 1st
05 ALEKSANDR FEGAN.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.cinematic-images.smugmug.com
Zachary LoPinto 3rd
01 ZACHARY LOPINTO.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
Kirk Haugeto 4th
04 KIRK HAUGETO.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
Senior Men SP
Will Annis 2nd
01 WILL ANNIS.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
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Junior Men FS
Kirk Haugeto 2nd
02 KIRK HAUGETO.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
Alexsander Fegan 3rd
07 ALEKSANDR FEGAN.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
Senior Men FS
Will Annis 2nd
01 WILL ANNIS.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
Results:
https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2024/34442/index.asp
Good-bye, cartwheels; hello, backflips. It's going to be a long season, folks.Senior Men FS
Will Annis 2nd
01 WILL ANNIS.mp4
Cinematic Images - Photography and Videography - Berlin, CT. Husband-wife team for over 20 years.
Angela Nikodinov's "post transformation" short programs...Some younger skaters who aren't as experienced may need a few weeks or months to get into their programs, but the top skaters more often than not just show up with very similar programs (jump layouts, spins, even the step sequences) year in and out. Savchenko and Szolkowy went to Skate Canada in 2009 with a week-old program after their first long program was panned, and they ended up setting a world record. Sergei Voronov in 2018 openly spoke about how he dumped one program, found a new style of music, but 'didn't have to change anything' because the choreography somehow fit exactly to the new music
IJS has caused almost everything to look the same, give or take a few transitional moves that might be added to a specific program, but let's not pretend we didn't notice Liashenko skating the same free skate year after year after year, too
Perhaps the hope is that we’ll be so dazzled by the backflip that we won’t notice the rest of the jumps?Don't see how adding in a back flip helps him much when the jumps that count were pretty AWOL at this comp.
Totally! The long program made me forget IJS, which coming from me is always the highest compliment. What a musical guy, rooting for him!Kirk is such a joy to watch !
Yeah they are in that bad of shape except for Ilia. Ironic that for most of the 2010's the US had much more depth overall and had more then one skater winning GP medals but didn't have anyone who could land quads so getting on a Worlds podium wasn't going to happen. Then Nathan came along and Vincent and now Ilia but in the meantime some of the other promising younger skaters never progressed or have regressed and now there's no one backing up Ilia except a almost 30 year old Jason.
It is. Just don't know how many agreed to do it (and whether the international committee selects them).
He doesn't need a backflip for that.
I think saying that we have 4 men skaters that can compete with many of the best in the worlds is a bit of an overstatement. None of them (not including Brown) have ever medaled on the GP and have only medaled on the CS circuit a handful of times adding them all together in their entire careers. They are all extremely inconsistent, going into any jump you literally have no idea what is going to happen and even on a good day don't medal anywhere. I am not sure how we know they could be competing with the best in the world when they are 30-40 points behind approaching any podium. They are very much ranked accurately to me. That doesn't mean I dislike their skating at all and would be happy if they were better but they haven't shown much progress in the many years most of that have been around.
