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Envelope money is based on prior year's results. GP spots are skater-specific.
He earned both.
He earned both.
Seems people aren't looking at this critically. Nathan receives financial support from USFS. He takes the spot of other skaters. It's not just his decision.
If it wasn't for Yale we would be asking what's wrong. His solution includes coaching himself? Doesn't experience show skaters in elite academic programs rarely meet their skating goals? He wouldn't be the first 18 YO to make rash decisions.
(In the run up to Pyongchang he was quoted as saying he's not sure if he is up to another 4 years. Maybe he's had enough.)
Actually what it seems like is the posters on here don’t agree with you.
No, but you seem upset that we aren't all saying you are correct. LOL!Don't base my opinions on what others agree with. Why would I?
This!Re Nathan: can we put things in perspective, please? He had a rough skate but landed a solid 3Ax, his nemesis jump. He landed one clean quad. It was the Japan Open, the only man who skated a good program was Oda. Nathan will be fine.
I believe Alexei said he does want one. Well, I think he said he's hoping for either JW or 4CC. If he does really well and just makes the 4CC/Worlds team, he wouldn't do JW. Otherwise, like you said, he'd need to beat one of them at Nationals. I think they're all skating senior. Right now he has the lowest SB of the four of them, but he's also had only one comp and seniors are generally ready a bit later, plus the comeback from injury. But yes, he'd go to JW if they gave him a spot as of now.I'm really pleased all three made the JGPF. I was hoping they would all qualify, and the uSFSA of course made their lives easier by spreading out their assignments, but they still had to skate well.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the junior world team this season. If Alexei K. doesn't want a spot, then it will be the same three. If he does, then I think he'll need to beat at least one of them at Nats unless he absolutely kills it on the GP.
Also congrats to Ryan Dunk on two great competitions! I'm really pleased by his improvement this season.
for Ryan!Also congrats to Ryan Dunk on two great competitions! I'm really pleased by his improvement this season.
ETA from the thread on the new "Skate Talk Online" YT channel:"Sure, I'm a little bit nervous about Skate America," Ma, a native New Yorker, said. "This is the first time I've been (assigned to) anything big, let alone a Grand Prix. I called Nikolai (Morozov) the other day, talked to him about it. And there's this 10-second pause, I thought he cut out. Then he said, 'So what? Who cares? Just go out there and take it one element at a time.'"
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Ma is sticking with his Rachmaninoff free skate this season, after jettisoning an earlier program choreographed with Joshua Farris during a visit to Colorado Springs in June.
"I definitely love the program, music-wise," Ma said. "I (incorporated) a little bit of the choreography that Josh gave me, and changed the jumps around some…It was an easy hot fix."
Interview with Jimmy Ma is up! Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXHTtQszIk0
Nathan Chen on balancing school and skating: it’s been a process, things are definitely looking better than they were a few weeks ago [at Japan Open] ... I train about 1.5 hrs by myself, and then off campus with other people ... I do FaceTime with Raf sometimes
Nathan Chen on the most important topic, his hair: I was on the opposite end of that situation last year, but I’m seeing it how it goes ... but I like it
Nathan Chen: I got really really sick before Japan Open - I had a cold that turned into an infection ... so having that extra time has been good for me
practice was pretty good; working on some mental tools I can use for my programs ... I tend to overthink; my back is fully healed, no trouble with that anymore; part of being an athlete is being resilient
I hurt my back the day before I left for Worlds ... I wasn’t able to do full programs before SLC; I’m not in the getting-back-into-things shape like I was there
I got my legs under me after SLC, got to recharge a bit ... [Daisuke Takahashi’s hip hop swan lake] was one of my favorite programs of all time, I tried to channel that ... to express the music and follow that model
Jimmy Ma on Daisuke Takahashi’s comeback: There’s a small opportunity that I might get to compete with him but I would be so so so excited for it. I’m not going to think that far.
Wow, long. I love Adam as a competitor. I have admit and this is true of the Shibs too - I like the media stuff in conjunction with their skating. But on it's own it's tough. You really need a talent - comedic, Ru-Paul-personality, something. Adam was funny on Ellen - the first time. But, I haven't paid much attention since. The Shibs travel-logs aren't so interesting separate from their competitive lives. Maybe a year of media stuff can repay some of the huge costs of a skating career.New article from the Washington Post on Adam’s post-Olympic life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-famous/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3d2e5d65d42b
New article from the Washington Post on Adam’s post-Olympic life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-famous/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3d2e5d65d42b
Nathan Chen is not anywhere near his level last year jump-wise, but it's fine.
Actually, Nathan took a slow approach last year too with putting quads in his programs. And this year, Nathan has even more incentive to slow it down with putting in too many quads, especially earlier on until the dust settles with the new rules. Nathan's sp is simply boss! A great melding of program and personality! Shae Lynn Bourne is a genius choreographer.
Vincent also skated well and would have been at least 2nd if not for the poor judging.
Zhou wuzrobbed. The judges have got to not call things on assumptions. When it's very close and they don't have a good view, they got to give it to the skaters when it's that close and that clean.
Uh, except it was super obvious that the jumps were UR. So they did call what they saw and did not make assumptions.
I know you probably didn't see the US Broadcast, but Tara and Johnny were complaining that the UR calls against Vincent were unfair and that the 4Lz in particular looked entirely clean to them. It was even more annoying because they were harping on the "if there's ice flying up it's probably underrotated." Cue tons of ice flying up on the 4F landing and them claiming they can't believe it was called UR. One wonders if they read the new rule about UR calls...Let me correct you. Vincent would have been at least 2nd if he rotated his jumps.
Uh, except it was super obvious that the jumps were UR. So they did call what they saw and did not make assumptions.
Become a tech specialist if you're such an expert.
I know you probably didn't see the US Broadcast, but Tara and Johnny were complaining that the UR calls against Vincent were unfair and that the 4Lz in particular looked entirely clean to them. It was even more annoying because they were harping on the "if there's ice flying up it's probably underrotated." Cue tons of ice flying up on the 4F landing and them claiming they can't believe it was called UR. One wonders if they read the new rule about UR calls...
And how do you know I'm not?
Still rocking themselves in the corner because he only attempted 4 quads in one competition - a fcuking disaster really.So, where are all those people who were freaking out about Nathan after Japan Open?