To think that he was only 17 and in his senior debut season and still won the free skate here over an Olympic champion and two world champions. Just incredible from day one.
The way he improved between JGPF 2015 and this is insane. A year before this he was barely landing 4Ts and 3As and here he delivered a 4 quad LP, including a lutz and a flip, like it was child's play. And he had a massive injury in between too! What an athlete. I love coming back to teenage Nathan upsetting the established champions.
Lost count how many times I've watched this program, it always thrills me with each jump that was perfectly on the beat. I doubt most people would understand how difficult it is. Thanks so much for uploading this. 2023 note: Here I'm back to watch this for the X+1 times. To put this free skate in today's context, no doubt it was underscored. The reason why is the judging panel didn't know what to do with 4 near perfect quads, because they have never seen such program before. I mean how do you score something so unimaginable yet so brilliant done by a 17 yo teenager!
Would love to see Nathan re-do some of these earlier programs in his current, more polished form. He was great back then but he would be so freakin' amazing today.
During this Olympic cycle the programs were 4:30. Now they are 4:00. Also the jumping passes were lowered from 8 to 7. This program wouldn’t be eligible to be re-done.
@@jjh2456...oh, yeah, I understand that. I was merely speaking from the perspective of a fan. Just something I would personally love to see for the sake of fun and for comparing.
What I wish to see as a fan is a skate from him with all of his quad arsenal, 4lutz, 4flip, 4loop, 4salchow, 4toe, and maybe a 4axel, boy the clownyus will explode 😉🤣 and im totally for that 🤣🤣🤣
