U.S. Men in 2018 - articles & latest news

[VGThuy]

It seems Vincent is hoping to have a good international outing before Nationals.

 

[Marco]

Well he needs some good momentum heading into Nationals.

 

[Sylvia]

Good Luck to Camden Pulkinen and Tomoki Hiwatashi at CS Inge Solar Memorial in Innsbruck, Austria! Camden (his CS debut) drew 2nd to skate in tomorrow's SP and Tomoki drew 2nd to last!

 

[Marco]

Good Luck to Camden Pulkinen and Tomoki Hiwatashi at CS Inge Solar Memorial in Innsbruck, Austria! Camden (his CS debut) drew 2nd to skate in tomorrow's SP and Tomoki drew 2nd to last!

I love that they both have this and then JGPF before Nationals. Whether they make Jr Worlds or not, I hope they have accumulated enough points / high enough scores to score a senior GP invite next season.

 

[Wyliefan]

Here's a nice little story about three brothers from Burke, Va., right down the road from me, who will all be skating at sectionals. They train at Michael Weiss's old rink in Fairfax. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...c39d4c-e21d-11e8-b759-3d88a5ce9e19_story.html

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks, @Wyliefan! Here's a Houston Chronicle article on a Novice man competing at Midwestern Sectionals: After late start to figure skating, Daniel Argueta is on the rise
He is in 2nd place after the Novice Men's SP earlier today.

 

[carriecmu0503]

The third alternate went to Worlds as it was. We were lucky Max was ready to go for Adam.

Max actually wasn’t ready to go. He had already retired, moved home to Arizona, and had started a job. Being third alternate, he did not think he would be called on to compete. By the time he got the call to compete, he only had a couple weeks to train. USFS is lucky Max agreed to go, and that he did well!

 

[TanithandBenFan]

I hope training a senior free skate for the Innsbruck competition won't mess up Camden's and Tomoki's training for the JGPF too much. They both looked out of sorts in their free skates today. I know the points help, but it seems like an odd time to put them in a senior competition when they have a big junior competition three weeks from now.

 

[RoseRed]

I hope training a senior free skate for the Innsbruck competition won't mess up Camden's and Tomoki's training for the JGPF too much. They both looked out of sorts in their free skates today. I know the points help, but it seems like an odd time to put them in a senior competition when they have a big junior competition three weeks from now.

Petr Gummenik just did Sr at the Russian Cup event a week or two ago. Stephen Gogolev did Sr at Sectionals ~2 weeks ago. Those guys have had a bit more time to switch back to junior programs since (well except I'm not sure when Stephen even found he was in so maybe not). And then Adam was at this event with Camden and Tomoki. So Koshiro aside, they've all spent time doing senior programs fairly recently - hopefully won't be a big disadvantage. Of course this event involved travel, compared to domestic comps.

Petr has been quite strong. He introduced the 4S into both programs and landed it called clean (although I have seen a few people question the rotation - I didn't watch that closely), and otherwise pretty clean programs IIRC. Stephen had a very strong SP at sectionals, but he can't include the quad combo at JGPF. Then a mixed FS with starting with a 1Lz and 3T (both intended to be quads), but then clean on everything else including 4S-3T, 3A-2T, 3A, and 3Lz+1Eu+3S. So pretty strong, but always a risky program of course.

I suspect at least one of the US boys will be on the podium (with at least one of Petr or Stephen let's say) - that's as far as I'm willing to predict for junior men.

 

[wickedwitch]

So I wasn't paying super close attention, but I belive Josh Farris was in the kiss and cry with Alex Wellman at Sectionals.

 

[Sylvia]

So I wasn't paying super close attention, but I belive Josh Farris was in the kiss and cry with Alex Wellman at Sectionals.

Yes, Josh was wearing glasses and sported quite a bit of facial hair. (Damon Allen is in Innsbruck, Austria with Tomoki Hiwatashi, while Christy Krall is at Pacific Coast Sectionals in SLC.)

 

[ilovepaydays]

Yes, Josh was wearing glasses and sported quite a bit of facial hair. (Damon Allen is in Innsbruck, Austria with Tomoki Hiwatashi, while Christy Krall is at Pacific Coast Sectionals in SLC.)

He’s had a beard that’s been kept neat and short for awhile now - please tell me he hasn’t gone to a hipster beard. That would be a very bad look for him - or really 95% of young men, IMHO.

I’m just glad he has apparently recovered enough by now and I hope he is happy and successful in what he’s doing now.

 

[misskarne]

Max actually wasn’t ready to go. He had already retired, moved home to Arizona, and had started a job. Being third alternate, he did not think he would be called on to compete. By the time he got the call to compete, he only had a couple weeks to train. USFS is lucky Max agreed to go, and that he did well!

And I remember people complaining that he was named 3rd alternate. That it was some kind of gift, some kind of Tom Z politiking, some kind of favouritism. There were even one or two posters here who said Max would lose the US the third spot.

 

[Sylvia]

Camden Pulkinen mentioned in his IG post yesterday that he was "disappointed with my performances" in Innsbruck and that his skate blade had to be "glued back together when it broke before my SP" : https://www.instagram.com/p/BqOTACPhE5Y/

Here's Tomoki Hiwatashi's IG message in English ("Long didn't go to well but I was able to get third! Thank you to everyone who was watching! I will try to do better free next time!") and Japanese: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqOX16bHS8X/

I didn't expect Alex Krasnozhon to make the second group of the FS at Rostelecom Cup but he skated well enough in the SP and others didn't.

 

[misskarne]

Camden Pulkinen mentioned in his IG post yesterday that he was "disappointed with my performances" in Innsbruck and that his skate blade had to be "glued back together when it broke before my SP" : https://www.instagram.com/p/BqOTACPhE5Y/

 

[Willin]

Imma need a picture of Camden's skate. Not because I don't believe him, but rather to see the impressive glue job on that blade. Even a minor problem with a blade can spell disaster - I can't imagine skating let alone competing on one that had been glued together.

 

[VGThuy]

I hope there's no backlash to Camden's post about his boot.

 

[Carolla5501]

I hope there's no backlash to Camden's post about his boot.

As long as he’s not using Karen Chen’s former bootmaker he’ll be fine.

 

[haribobo]

INTL + SECTIONALS

Nathan Chen 90
Jason Brown 88
Camden Pulkinen 81
Tim Dolensky, Jordan Moeller 78
Tomoki Hiwatashi, Vincent Zhou 76
Sean Rabbitt, Alex Krasnozhon 75
Alex Johnson 72
William Hubbart 70
Jimmy Ma (73 @ Intl), Andrew Torgashev, Kevin Shum 69
Emmanuel Savary, Sebastian Payannet 66
Ben Jalovick 65
Daniel Kulenkamp 61
Tony Lu 60
Andrew Austin 56

 

[haribobo]

Nathan Chen 280
Jason Brown 234
E1 Tim Dolensky 226
Vincent Zhou 225
Camden Pulkinen 223
E2 Jimmy Ma 217
P1 Sean Rabbitt 215
Tomoki Hiwatashi 215
Alex Krasnozhon 211
Andrew Torgashev 201
E3 Kevin Shum 201
Alex Johnson 199
M1 Jordan Moeller 197
P2 Sebastian Payannet 195
M2 Emmanuel Savary 194
P3 Daniel Kulenkamp 180
P4 William Hubbart 179
E4 Tony Lu 167
M3 Ben Jalovick 164
M4 Andrew Austin 159

 

[livetoskate]

Jimmy Ma's free skate before I was told to stop recording. Apparently he landed his 1st quad toe in competition!

https://youtu.be/jMlDXEIkijU

Kevin Shum's short program
https://youtu.be/gYd49IaEoyE

 

[haribobo]

I am hopeful that Tim Dolensky (SB 41), Jimmy Ma (SB 46) and Sean Rabbitt (SB 59) are given another shot this season to improve hopefully into the 20s and 30s where they belong.

 

[rinettoii]

I am hopeful that Tim Dolensky (SB 41), Jimmy Ma (SB 46) and Sean Rabbitt (SB 59) are given another shot this season to improve hopefully into the 20s and 30s where they belong.

Hmm... Unless they make the Worlds or 4CC team, they don't have any more chances to improve their SBs. That is, unless, one of them gets assigned last minute to Golden Spin.

 

[misskarne]

Jaysus. Only two men over 230. One over 250. That's...dire, even taking into account the new IJS.

 

[livetoskate]

Tim Dolensky's free skate at easterns:

https://youtu.be/ioEYxATVoek

Tim's jump and spin techniques are top notch. He was landing triple axels left and right perfectly. I was really impressed by him. He could contend for a medal at nationals.

 

[Willin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmZSwgalSM&feature=youtu.be

Liza Tuktamysheva interviewing Nathan at Rostelecom Cup
They're both hilarious! It was great to see Nathan show some personality and hilarious to see all the jokes about Harvard

 

[VGThuy]

Not to minimize her to her looks, but I think Liza is so beautiful. I’m glad she’s a world champion. Someone like her is a total .

Nathan is totally adorable in that interview. I can see why he has a ton of adoring young admirers.

 

[casken]

Jimmy Ma's free skate before I was told to stop recording.

Has there always been a no recording policy at sectionals or is this new??

 

[BittyBug]

Has there always been a no recording policy at sectionals or is this new??

Yes, if the event being recorded professionally.

 

[Deleted member 19433]

I hope there's no backlash to Camden's post about his boot.

As long as he’s not using Karen Chen’s former bootmaker he’ll be fine.

That prompted me to go check Avanta's Instagram and the vile post against Karen that was "in the process of being removed" per a comment on the board from March 6 is still up. Apparently removing an Instagram post is quite a long and arduous process indeed. 8.5 months so far! Maybe it takes 9 months like a human pregnancy?