I wholeheartedly agree with you. Kostner had great choreography that she really commited to, and good packaging. She was tall and had nice lines. But true, genuine, innate artistry? No. She was no Sasha Cohen.
Yeah they’ve managed to impress and surprise me over the last couple of years and I’m really liking the direction of Carrrera/Ponamarenko.
I like the Taschler sibs but she bends forwards so much at the waist its distracting.
I am liking the french team La/Ca. They performed at Lombardia this week. I cannot believe what I saw from Gui/Fab, this MUST be a gap season. LOL. Car/Pom are showing promise and I am hopeful that the Russian pairing of Kag/Nek will develop. I find Kha/Nar somewhat monotonous and flat. But as they say, we'll know in time.
Couldn't agree more about L&B. I am happy to be wrong at any time, but I find their costumes and her hair are the only remarkable thing about them at this point....
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, just facts. Even their Snake programme though cute was missing an edge because of her lack of skating skills. Their main drawing cards are looks, elegance and the acrobatics. If you have the right coach and partner drilling and training to create programs catered for the judges is an easy peasy thing. Blowing the judges minds, is a whole other stratosphere. You have to be born with that.
I wouldn't call them vulgar, but insecure. They lacked the poker face and calmness of the Shibsibs. They did not have that confidence. What I didn't appreciate was their constant tinkering with good programs. They were often trying too hard because of issues or these insecurities, both real and imagined.But, here`s an unpopular opinion. Hubbell and Donohue`s skating was vulgar. Throwing each other around. How fast could they go? That ratty `Marilyn Monrow`fake fur.
Carol certainly saves her best ideas for PP.The FD for BB is so old fashioned and the dress
How is this “unpopular"?
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Because I remember when IJS first came out and during the Yuzuru hey day when it seemed the only thing that mattered were transitions and nothing else.How is this “unpopular"?
We also had Irina Slutskaya’s nonsensical programs that were packed with incoherent busy moves. It got to where by 2010, Evan was giving interviews telling people how many transitions his program had because people talked about them non-stop.
I thought Mao’s Tarasova era was one of her worst and Yuna Kim’s programs were made for IJS and felt mechanical to me rather than real programs. I did like her Danse Macabre SP and Lark Ascending LP though while her Bond SP was great at Skate America.
I agree even though his skating skills were like butter. I liked them better after 2014.
Yeah but I felt Javier and Jason’s transitions had coherency and made much more sense with their style of movement and choreography. They were more the exception than the rule, especially Brown who can place as well as he does despite his lower base values. Yuzuru looked like he was just doing them for points.
See my opinion that my take is unpopular is unpopular with you.
Well if you think Transitions quite literally from the very offset made it seem like the only things that mattered were transitions and nothing else, then yes. Unpopular. I don't at all see how that was the case, when we had someone like Plushy, or with the Lysacek case you gave, when he did all of three or four transitions in his Vancouver programs, and outscored Chan's overstuffed programs on PCS IIRC, and Kozuka on Skating Skills and every other important thing.
I hated the choreography for Mao from Tarasova many times, but don't see how transitions made them that way.
Was this because of his transitions or his overall skating?
Did you really think this about Javier's long programs between 2013-2015? Then yes, I'd disagree, because I thought they were 100% bad programs, and he was only moving for the sake of movement. And I never thought he showed particularly stylized movement outside of Malaguena/Guys and Dolls from the 2015-16 season.
The feeding the ducks moves were inspiring!
I thought the chickens were getting fed, but ducks or geese would be more Russian, I suppose.
See? My post isn’t popular with you. So it belongs in this thread.
And don’t forget her thrashing her arms around like a hurricane at the end of her Tosca program. Emoooootion don’t you know.
One person makes an opinion unpopular?
You think you’re the only one with your opinions? I expected your kind of response based on my decades posting here. You’re not the arbiter of what’s popular and unpopular.One person makes an opinion unpopular?
You said " See? My post isn’t popular with you. So it belongs in this thread."
" I guess.Well I'm glad I've not posted on a skating forum for decades, then.
I didn't say I was, but thank you for informing me. I would be nowhere without it.
Yeah, and you are representative of a class of people I strongly suspect would have reacted similarly to my post, which went back to my point about many others having your opinion.
Thank you.Sorry for posting a reply with “
Yeah, our different experiences shape how we perceive these things.
I was cutting to the chase and getting to the source of our whole exchange.
You’re welcome.
I really like their Astronaut & Alien program. I don't think their FDs for the past two seasons were necessarily World Championship gold medal worthy though, especially when they had obvious mistakes in both. I was glad that they won anyway, but I think a third time will be difficult.
My unpopular opinion is I like figure skating, but I don't watch it much, even though I have Peacock. I can't watch it live, and then I don't feel like trying to catch the replay (if there is one), as quickly as I need to. I may try to watch this year. I don't even know if I watched 2024 Worlds.
