Timestamps (in progress): 0:00 Intro 0:33 Meagan virtually commentating Autumn Classic 1:19 early season debacle. Meagan advice/input, normality of early season performances. 2:35 Ted Barton (commentates JGP events for those who are new to skating or don’t know in general). He has been doing commentary at Russian nationals and Test events starting last year as well. 2:50 Canadian skaters-not competing much. 3:19 mentality going into the Olympic season. Meagans input, Worlds leading up to Olympics (2015 and 2016) 5:30 Meagan/Eric winning with old Muse program at Skate Canada beating Aliona and Bruno. 6:28 Eric/Vanessa (I didn’t like them lol, programs were dreadful honestly) analyzing the programs. Had a lot of buzz going into ACI. A lot of marketing behind them. Skating skills are not equivalent with each other, lines are but not SS. No chemistry between each other. Vacant music. Not very effective. Left at where this is going, I actually have to agree with Dave. I thought they skated meh to fair (being very generous). I don’t think they are a threat to Kirsten and Marinaro really. What is the motivation coming back? Flat no innovation 14:10 ACI Pairs Event 14:20 Japanese Team winning by a large margin at ACI. Momentum 19:56 More pairs 23:28 Deanna Stellato 25:32 Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc 27:29 Jessica and Brian 52:13 Trusova 53:45 Trusova mentality?
Meaghan is so great!!! She never holds back what she really thinks but is always careful to be fair and her enthusiasm is really infectious. And ofc she's so knowledgeable and can put things in context. I hope she gets to do more commentating, we really need more people with integrity in that role who can educate the audience.
I’m aware Trusova’s free is far from a well constructed program but it is the best one for her so far in terms of showcasing what she wants to achieve(5 quads). She’s always been a go big or go home girl.
NBC should hire her to do commentary on Pairs skating. Tara and Johnny don't have experience with Pairs. It would be good to have someone who has pairs experience.
Yes! Skating Lesson with my favourite guest…. Meagan. I love her! She is so honest with such a good memory. There is nothing better than listening to a figure skating geek ramble. Love anybody that has such a strong passion for anything they do. Meagan is the best! Also, her commentating in the Challenger event was really good.
Has Trusova grown inches taller this year? Her improvement since last season is amazing! I compared her 2020 Russian Nationals vs 2021 Test Skate. Wow. She seems more powerful on stroking, much better in upper body, and her jumps look much higher in relation to the boards. I love that she’s always pushing the limits!
Marilena Kitromilis the unknown Cypriot winning the ACI women's event will be very hard to top as the most surprising and rewarding result of the season. That was delightful to watch.
Marilena has been amazing since US Novice ladies. Injury free - this is no shock. Very gifted skater and likely to do effortless quads. Her talent has been very evident for years. Much like Sasha Cohen leading up to Olympics. Check out her results leading up to Olympics.
Meaghan just gives the best TSL intvs, just so smart, not coming from an emotional place, just stating facts how she sees things, is technical but not so much so that it alienates a novice fan from understanding what she is saying. She has a lot of Dick button vibes without being snarky like he could be. I always love it when she's on TSL and thanks Dave and Jonathan for having her on to discuss!
Many fans confusing excitement watching 5 quads with artistry and performance quality. So when Sasha failed to deliver the 5 quads, the illusion of program and artistic improvements went away. Personally I prefer she goes with 3 consistent quads but with a cohesive program. Why does she need a 4F where her edge sometimes not clear? Or she can put 3A in the free as well so she can have more times to try and perfect it for the short as well.
@@Essylte it’s not about the number of quads. don’t you remember what happened before she left eteri? reduced the number of quads after GPF and Nationals and she still bombed at Europeans
The issue is that her consistency is not related to the number of her quads. She can nail a 5 quad program or flop on 2 or 3 quad program it's all in her head. Honestly I think they shouldn't change the program anymore since every time they change the program it's another one to practice
Can we talk about the insanity that was us classic ice dance!!! We all knew Diana would get the Eteri bonus but that much??? I love listening to Meagan her commentary this week was so insightful while being respectful and here also, unlike Polina last week
At this point i'm just curious on how far this can go, Russia has 2-3 junior couples in Ice Dance that are already way better than Davis / Smolkin, but clearly it's all about the politics these days.
I was there at US Classic. Michal Brezina, his warm up was so different from the rest. Lots of deep stroke skating around the rink. Interesting. Maxim Naumov keeps trying to do that second triple axel so late in the free. They should change that. Yeah, Trusova did too many quads in warm up, I agree with you guys.
Trusova is a bit of a head case. She can do these quads in practice with her eyes closed but falls apart when it counts. She needs a sports psychologist ASAP.
Maybe she needs to get off internet to get away from armchair coaches? I see so much advice for her when she falls, cannot be good for her to read all of this💀
I see Russian commenters responding with stigma to this suggestion, saying she is not "mentally weak" so she doesn't need a psychologist. Any athlete is under pressure to perform in the moment, so it could help a lot.
Can someone please explain to me why on earth Starr Andrews tried a 3A? The girl can't even do a 3Lz! Shouldn't you concentrate on getting your basic jumps sorted out first before you go for a 3A? Such a waste of time of training imo. Even if she gets the 3A, her score will go nowhere with the rest of the weak tech content.
and trusova is trying 4Lz, while she can't do even a 3A. while tuktamysheva has a solid 3A, but having problems with 3F, and 3+3 combos. sometimes, for particular skaters, one jump is working better than the other , you don't need to learn jumps in base value order.
I love Meagan as a guest! Of all the rhythm dances we've seen so far, H/D is the most refined, but I would have loved for them something that had the feel of the sexy free dance of the past Olympic season...
Choice is OBVIOUS. The gap between Alysa and the rest of US ladies is HUUUUGGGE by far. Sure, other ladies can improve in the next few months but so does Alysa. I have never seen a skater can improve as fast as Alysa in a short period of time. She skates like a complete different skater compared to last Nationals. Alysa still doesn't stop and she is still improving. She skates faster, more fluid and better in Lombardia compared to Cranberry cup .....which is only 2 weeks apart between these 2 competitions!! If Alysa continues her lightening improving speed, she may get her triple axel and even quad fully rotated by nationals. Hope Bradie can recover her injuries and put out great performance soon. Bradie was the best senior skater in the past 4 years. Amber is very powerful and hope she can show off her triple axel soon. On the other hand, both Mariah and Karen seems like skating slower and spins slower recently. Not sure they are regressing or just being nervous. Given that the rest of US ladies perform so poor by far, perhaps some other teenagers like Lindsay Thorngren may end up go to Olympics. Too bad, Isabeau Levito is not age eligible for Olympics season. 1. Alysa Liu, 219.24 (CS Lombardia Trophy) 2. Gabriella Izzo, 182.76 (US Classic) 3. Mariah Bell, 179.42 (Cranberry Cup) 4. Sierra Venetta, 177.40 (US Classic) 5. Audrey Shin, 174.73 (Cranberry Cup) 6. Karen Chen, 173.00 (Autumn Classic) 7. Paige Rydberg, 170.51 (Cranberry Cup) 8. Starr Andrews 155.25 (Autumn Classic) If Isabeau Levito is age eligible, she should be sent to Olympics, together with Lindsay Thorngren and Alysa Liu. Sorry, senior ladies (Except Bradie)....I just don't think they are compete and good enough.
i think an interesting way we can look at trusova’s problem w the triple axel is music wise, now bare with me. being a figure skater myself i can say that sometimes while we practice with the music we can’t get the jump timing correctly and we just feels like we’re falling for no reason, because without the music we always land them. looking at trusova’s trixel in competition compared to the ones she does in practices and warm ups it always feels like while she’s competing she’s dragging out the takeoff edge more than she normally does. it could be a mental thing but could it be that even if she practices so many programs everyday the problem is the music and the nerves all together? now it also could be that she’s just over rotating it cause she feels like she won’t land it fully rotated but who knows to be honest, i just hope she’ll finally land it in vegas so she can get the confidence to always land it in comps
Interestingly Sasha said in the interview after the test skates that she absolutely loved her FS music, especially the beginning part, and that at first she could not jump to it at all because she would get too emotional.
Karen is by far my favorite skater of this era but I’m really disappointed that she’s been getting the same results for the past 6 years now and isn’t making any aggressive changes to the surroundings of her career. As Sasha Cohen would say, “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten”
Meagan is the sport's best cheerleader. Love her honesty. I loved Maddie and Zach's performances. Prikita and Friend aren't fit to hold their skate guards.
good on jonathan for watching the junior grand prix. I think jgp ice dance was the most exciting to watch this week because the field was just so deep (and not just the russians)
I haven't realized how empty trusova's cruella performance was until she couldn't perform the 5 quads. Maybe this will spark some conversation around scoring PCS fairly for the upcoming Olympics.
Why are we expecting five quads and no substance behind it? That's why I stopped watching skating: people expect these insane results, then get pissed when they don't happen! Just saying! Thanks for the run down!
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS DID I THINK CYPRUS WOULD HAVE SKATERS :’) SO PROUD PAME KYPROS!!!!!!!!!!!!! ATE KOPELLES PAME OLYMPIAKOUS SAS PARAKALW!!!!!!!!
Also to put it into perspective growing up there was only a temporary ice rink at a Christmas Market for like a month, nothing else! The country is super freakin' hot!
@@pandaz1993himick to be fair, she seems to grow up and trained in the US, so the ice condition in Cyprus doesnt really effect her. She is only representating Cyprus bcs she had dual nationality.
@@mix4715 thanks for the context (makes sense!), but we've never really had a successful skaters so we will claim her and fully use the sob story -- it can't just be the Russians monopolising FS drama 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Someone needs to tell Madi and Zach, "I know you get bored, but if you want to win an Olympic medal, you need to go back to Caught Out in the Rain." Their new free is just not landing the way they intend it to.
I can’t understand why people keep repeating the same thing about Trusova every season, when the girl herself claims that her main goal is jumping 5 quads in a free program. This is too difficult and requires a lot of energy and time to prepare. She said she wanted to make her short program pretty all about skating and presentation which she nailed honestly, the short program is amazing, even with unsuccessful 3axel. But it is too hard to give the same attention to both presentation and 5 quads, and its still beginning of the season, the program needs and will grow for sure. Difficult layout has to beat the presentation side, even Kamila performing bolero on recent test skates was nowhere close to her rusnats2020 performance, because she was too focused on the difficult layout they gave her, and she looked like she just wants to go home as soon as possible.
@@Chastaken You are right, her 3A looks amazing, they should add second 3A to her free and remove the 4S. With two quads and two 3A in free she is as strong as Sasha with 5 quads, because of other advantages she has over Sasha
Any idea why neither of the pairs events for US classic aren’t on peacock? The SP RP and FP are up for all the other categories??! Update! Dave says there was no pair event, it was the previous week in New York. Which competition was this?
Watching a few of the skates at ACI and US Intl Classic, I gotta say that Riku and Ryuichi did great! Not sure they can threaten the Russians or Sui/Han and Peng/Jin yet (and we haven't seen them at all, so who knows what they're doing), but they can really get into top 10 or even top 6 at the Grand Prix and Olympics if they keep this up. Japan should support pairs and ice-dance more. Trusova and the 3A do not mix; she should stick with the quads. She did excellent with the 4S; this was her best one. Surprised she fell on the 4F and doubled the 4T, though. I think she should stick with her best quads 4Lz, 4F (even if she gets a e or ! on it) and 4T (4S too inconsistent), combo one of them in the last half of the program, and she'd still win the Free over everyone. Yeonjeong Park was excellent - she showed that by going clean, you can still beat out the top skaters with 3As and/or quads. PCS matters as much as the TES, judges; attempting quads should not equal high PCS at all. You Young managed to at least hang on to 2 3As in her Free. The issue with her is quite simple: during 2020, South Korea shut down their ice rinks, and the poor skaters had no real place to actually practice and maintain and improve themselves. Other countries had the COVID restrictions in place, so getting to Japan (where her other coach, Hamada, is) or America was not going to happen. No access to ice rink or coaches - no progression in skating skills or jumps or anything else. So I was not surprised that she is not doing so great this season. Her practice regimen has been set back. It's going to be an uphill battle for her to even get the Korean skating fed to take her seriously to be on the Olympic team if she's not consistent. Very surprised with Smart/Diaz' Free dance. Zorro has not been used as much in programs. I really enjoyed this Zorro program of theirs. It's too bad that only one Spanish team can go to the Olympics, though. It will be interesting to see who gets to go to Beijing 2022.
@@Opethiansoul Yes, they can. In fact, (assuming Japan qualifies for the team FS) they will have to skate both parts as Japan has only qualified one pairs team.
It has become a pattern, every year a new girl makes her first senior debut, stuns us with her technique, ability to do crazy elements and then next year her body changes, it takes time to restore and adjust, but by the time they do, there are others… younger, fresher, better, not shuttered by the previous meltdowns… hungry for accomplishments. It’s become now or never… there’s been so many of these Russian, Korean, Japanese girls with so much potential and no future
This is why many (including myself) watch Kim Yuna, Asada Mao, and Carolina Kostner's past performances time and time again, along with Arakawa Shizuka, Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya.
That's why many advocate for upping the senior age eligibility so that coaches do not force young prepuberscent skaters to jump quads with unsustainable technique. Now skaters like Alina or Zhenya would be demotivated because even if they try their hardest to get consistent again with their 3 jumps, they would not be able to compete with quads and trixels from 15 y.o. then the cruel cycle continues.
I would go with brian/jessica > ashley/timothy because brian/jessica can be a future investment for 2026 but Ashley/tim do not seem like a long term investment.
I love it when Meagan is a guest,,,,,and your thoughts, Dave? 😂 From my viewpoint, there were very very few special moments at either of these competitions. I was happy to see Cypress snag the Gold medal,,,what a confidence boost and she skated well! Gabby Daleman was a disaster and surprisingly Schumacher was as well. I enjoyed the American dance team, the Japanese SP in pairs and the SP from Conrad Orzel , but that was about it. Eric and Vanessa had no wow factor and of course the technical failures were obvious. Hopefully, everyone can pull themselves together.
What makes her so ordinary? Im genuinely curious. Because of her fascinating life, I’m ENTHRALLED, plus I have trash taste and Moulin Rouge is my kryptonite. Who are two good dance ladies to compare her to? That are of the same type (aka not HD)One the is at the TOP and one that is clearly better than her but not like TOP. That would be such a blessing to trashy fans like me!
@@anneramones2923 I think Davis’ facial expressions play really well and authentically to a tv audience in a way that Morozov and Bell don’t. But those two are possibly better in an arena setting.
Can someone explain the Nebelhorn Event. I remember hearing that the US ladies will only get the 3 spots if there is a specific placement. Does Amber have to do that skate?
Alysa Liu is going to Nebelhorn next weekend. She needs to place Top 6 to qualify the US for the third spot. Doesn't guarantee that Alysa will be on the team, but her current winning streak makes a great case. I'm sure there is a more complicated explanation but this is what I understand.
I love Sasha, and I think Rusfed wants to support her, but she can be off of the team if she skates like this. Daria could have won this competition without 3a and quads. Nobody doubt of her talent but she has a big problem. I love to see her winning the olympics.
There was a mistake in the timing. She had just skated in Russia, and she immediately went to the competition in the United States. Without regaining strength as needed. Therefore, the acclimatization period was clearly manifested during the performance of the free program. Eteri will take this into account in the next starts. Three days ago, she lived according to Russian time - now she had to carry out the program when it was three in the morning in Russia.
i have a hunch that even if she flops (hopefully not), rusfed would still want to send her, for publicity’s sake. it’d be a shame not to send the girl who began the quad rev
Ok quick question for everyone, whatever happened to stephen gogolev from canada. I remember he went to rafael but no word since then. He was so promising!
He got injured and grew like 2 feet. He's still young so he can come back, but it might be awhile. Apparently he is going to some random Canadian event
You forget that Bukin did not receive invite to Olimpic games last time. It will probably happen again. That means that one spot is up for grabs for miss D
She needs to realize that she needs to maintain her energy at certain places in the program, and all quads in a program will not do this for her the way Valieva's two quad + 3A program and Kostornaia's 2019/2020 all clean triples do.
I agree that it felt like a virtual competition between Gilles/Poirier and Hubbell/Donohue. I think H/D have the stronger RD and G/P the stronger FD, which was reflected in the scores. Both teams funnily enough were 5 points behind their SBs from Worlds. H/Ds free music was AWFUL, that "ah ah ah ah ah" was really distracting, to the point I couldn't concentrate on the dance, which shouldn't be happening when you consider that H/D frankly have the best skating skills of the entire dance field and should really be winning based on that. There were mixed reactions to G/Ps free, and I think there are still tweaks to be made to it, but I think there's lot of potential for it to grow. It has a more classic "olympic ending build" than their previous programmes but I also felt captured the best of some of their previous FDs. Plus, I'm sentimental, but I really felt it has been a Long and Winding Road for them both, especially when you consider the journey Piper has been on with losing her Mother. I'm excited to see it develop - I felt similar to Both Sides Now at the beginning of the season and was in love with it by last Worlds. In regards to the RD as a choice - honestly, V/M's Prince programme completely owned the style, and lets be honest, none of these current ice dancers are tessa virtue!! Final shout out to Green and Parsons - I was in AWE of both of their programmes! If I was Hawayek and Baker I would be feeling seriously worried...
I loved both of Vanessa's and Eric's programs. Vanessa needs to fix her jumps, and maybe they have some work to do on lifts, but I loved their skating. They look so well fitted together, and have a really lovely line. I think they have a nice connection, and I think their programs are very interesting. I'm grateful they both came back, and I'm so glad they're skating together.
Question… now that Elizabet Tursynbaeva has retired I was just wondering… imagine if at the world championships in 2019, that she had bet Alina. What would eteri do, and even more so what would the Russians do since eteri ( a Russian ) coached her from Kazakhstan to eventually beat the Russians. I know it didn’t happen but what do you think.
If Tiffany and Jonathan wanted a guaranteed trip to go to the Olympics, they should've been skating for Australia. Makes no sense that they aren't, as being a Brit and Aussie, this would've been easy. I'm sure Australia would've paid for everything, to have a top 10 team. 🤷
They would never have been able to skate together if Jon had wanted to represent Australia. The only way Tiffany was able to escape Didier was RusFed's influence.
@@etherealtb6021 Tiffany skated for France, but after her previous partnership split up she couldn't find another Frenchman tall enough to skate with her. But Didier refused to give her a release to skate for anybody else; when she teamed up with Jonathan, Didier eventually acquiesced because RusFed asked.
@@ColonelGreen ohhhh! Thank you. It made no sense her being a Brit & how easy they can get Aussie citizenship, but I get it now. How bizarre these federations are!
Classy commentary Meagan - great job. Vanessa / Eric Short Program I don't know who the judges thought they were judging - but they did NOT deserve any 8s on their PCS marks. I think they barely deserved low 7s, but even that's a push. The Japanese team were in a league entirely on their own, and were seriously under-marked in that regard. Free Program As Deadpool would say "it was an epic sh*t show" Right now, they're just a pair of almost-relevant has-beens trying to steal someone else's Olympic dream. They've had their turn, now isn't their time, and there are far better, younger pairs teams in Canada who have enormous potential, who are being denied coaching, funding and support. If they had any dignity, they'd just disappear and turn up for shows. But after this performance, I'm not sure anyone would be willing to pay to view James/Radford in a show. The music for both programs was dull, the only highlight being the throw on the cymbal crescendo (choreographed in the same way for each program). Where's the innovation? It was just, meh! I'm usually a good natured person who wishes everyone well, but something inside me wants to see this pair crash and burn, and retire with their reputation in tatters. You reap what you sow. Vanessa failed so many abuse victims with her silence, and Eric showed a shade that demonstrated his true self-serving nature. Its not a nice colour. The only person who had dignity or class in this was the commentator. What have we learned? That a Country will push and reward a team, even a bad one, with support, funding, and undeserved marks if they want to push them. And here was me thinking that IJS scoring was supposed to eliminate "preferential" treatment. Something didn't work there.
I totally concur with your analysis and sentiment, especially on the scores Vanessa/Eric were awarded! A string of 8.5s and 8.75s in PCS for that unfortunate SP-dramatically higher than what Riku/Ryuichi earned-tells me that the judges really wanted Vanessa/Eric to win. I also do not think Vanessa’s and Eric’s styles work well together, although they both have an elongated look with long limbs. The genuine fluidity and elegance with which Eric moves, to me, only accentuate Vanessa’s somewhat stiff presence on the ice, especially with her tendency to be less than careful with her posture-with rounded shoulders.
@@ColonelGreen Skate Canada and CBC is going all out for them. And we certainly didn't see this type of support towards the younger pair teams, which can be discouraging. We didn't necessarily see this type of support for Kirsten and Michael or Evelyn/Trennt during the past three years either.
It's true that Trusova was a better spinner as a junior, but I think she has always been the weakest spinner of the Eteri girls other than possibly Medvedeva. Trusova isn't the most flexible and doesn't hit very aesthetic positions.
She's flexible enough to do the donut spin and layback. However, the attempt at Yuna's signature camel variation is ugly, and she needs to stick to the basic spins, cuz she'd still be getting a level four with high PCS for her quads.
@@Essylte almost no one can do Yuna camel properly. They mosly do not lay back enough, the knee bent stick up and not in control. The only skater who in my opinion comes close is Junhwan Cha
@@yohanes2034 I think it’s funny that a lot of people try to say that Yuna wasn’t a good spinner, yet almost no skaters can do a proper Yuna camel lol Like, was she the best spinner? No. But she was decent to above average. She always got good GOE on her spins because they were well-centered and decently fast.
she did spin slower, that's also fatigue from all that crazy jumping, but her extension gets better. at this time, she's better than Kostornaya. We will see about Anna when she starts jumping her full content.
@sakuraplans Allison consistent? She simply returned to form as the queen of popped jumps. I am far more concerned about You Young. The only senior Canadian Ladies single skater I care for at this point is Madeline. That SP at World's likely got her the 2 berths in the GP. I would just ink her name in for the Olympics already.
Thanks for your channel! One detail that I've been hoping someone would talk about is why many of the skaters, especially women, wear gloves now during their programs. Gloves really cut down on the expression of their hands while skating. During practice, I totally understand as it protect their hands. I'm hoping, though, that it's a fad and will go away at some point. If you get a chance, will you please share your thoughts about this?
I knew all of the hype behind Trusova’s five quads was eventually going to fizzle out. Once again, she performed a pretty bland program while failing execute a clean Jump during the US competition. Yet, managed to win over the cleaner and artistically better skater from South Korea!
I love how everyone is calling it quits on her, but lets see them travel from Russia to Boston and do two completions within a few week and do better? 🤷
@@etherealtb6021 travelling is part of the package of being an international athlete and she has been doing it since junior years. She don't need anyone to defend her by saying because she travelled far and maybe having a jetlag. Jumping 5 quads is difficult, she might be not consistent, or she's not on top of her mental game.
I had a feeling the 3A would be a failed element in actual competition. The fact is she's a quad jumper, not a 3A jumper. And she's a Toe-jumper, not an edge jumper. The Cruella music isn't bland; Trusova needs to perform more than just picking rock music to rip into the quads. I expected her to win with a large margin over all the other women, but instead, Park skated 5 clean triples and a 2A, and was so close to her, even in the SP. Tutberdize should be grilling Trusova on this.
@@etherealtb6021 what a dumb argument, it's not like she was the only skater in that event who had to travel from another country. although yes people are super quick to count her out after her first international competition at the beginning of the season. but traveling is a dumb excuse to use as to why someone didn't perform well.
I hope this is not like a couple seasons ago where Sasha peaked in her first performance of the season and just went downhill from there. But she'll probably still make the Olympic team, unless she continues to skate like she did today constantly. But she won't make the team event. She just can't be trusted. Even a mid-tier Russian lady would have buried Sasha here.
Yeonjeong Park doesn't have any Grand Prix assignments. I wish Skate America could give her Audrey Shin's spot. No offense to Audrey, who I know is American and is a lovely skater, but she's nowhere near as competitive as Yeonjong. Hopefully she'll get an assignment or two when people inevitably pull out of Grand Prixs due to injury.
Why would Skate America give a spot to non American skater? That would be great because Yeonjeong definitely needs the experience but I don't see how they would do it. Maybe someone from Cup of Italia (i/o Cup if China) cancels because of region change (and perhaps permit issue)?
@@cutiepie-lh7fj I know. I don’t think a spot should be given away to a skater just because they’re from the host country. I think the spot should go to the most competitive skater. I have the same opinion about wild cards in tennis.
@@evanperilstein5308 but would USFS make the right choice? Because the pick is entirely up to the host country right? I would like to see Yeonjeong again, with better camera and angle preferrably.
Dave, Please read Philip Hersh's new article about Alysa Liu. It's time to change your biased and "personal" perspective of Alysa. Sonia Bianchetti of Italy, a longtime International Skating Union official and judge, went to Lombardia Trophy as a spectator. She came away very impressed by Liu, whose total and free skate scores were second best ever by a U.S. woman, with easily her highest component scores ever internationally. “She skated very well both in the short and the free,” Bianchetti said in an email. “All her jumps are very well executed, effortless, high and long. She has also beautiful spins. What is even more important for me is that she glides well on the ice, with deep edges, and she moves her hands and body according to the music. She is very elegant considering her age.”
@CassieThe most important is....Alysa is way ahead of the remaining US senior ladies which Dave still refuses to believe. He still believes Mariah Bell and Gracie Gold are skating better than Alysa as of RIGHT NOW. It's ridiculous for him to say that in another this and that video.
What did u guys think of Allysa Liu performance at the flambory trophy I think it’s called? I feel like I’m starting to like her free skate more and more. And she sort of landed her triple axle, even though it was underotated
Don't ask Dave Lease, he is very biased and personal towards Alysa. Dave still thinks that Mariah bell is the front contender for US Olympics team. You can look up the skating forum and there are tons of skating fans will tell you the same thing. Lol You should ask Jonathan who is great on giving out honest comment about Figure Skating sport. At the end of the day, the only person with authority (professional) to give out comments about Alysa skating is Sonia Bianchetti of Italy, NOT the amateur THIS AND THAT channel. The following is comment from Sonia during interview with Philip Hersh reporter Sonia Bianchetti of Italy, a longtime International Skating Union official and judge, went to Lombardia Trophy as a spectator. She came away very impressed by Liu, whose total and free skate scores were second best ever by a U.S. woman, with easily her highest component scores ever internationally. “She skated very well both in the short and the free,” Bianchetti said in an email. “All her jumps are very well executed, effortless, high and long. She has also beautiful spins. What is even more important for me is that she glides well on the ice, with deep edges, and she moves her hands and body according to the music. She is very elegant considering her age.”
I mean if her mom is giving to you an entire sweep in Olympics and maybe a pairs Omedal, you have to pay that¡¡¡ btw i dont think they are going, Guerreiro pair will go, the other two are locks
But, don't forget 3 top Russian pairs- Vika and Nikita, Step& Bukin and Tifani & Jonathan...Diana & Gleb have no chance, but they're young and time is on their side, maybe the next Olympics season will be to them.
@@nenavujicin7882 Have you seen their scores at US Classic? Eteri obviously wants them to go for the Olympics and does everything to politick them. Those scores were ridiculous for an average team like them.
@@flywings111 , Eteri ( as a mother, and like all other mothers are) would probably like to see her daughter at such an important competition as the Olympics, but Eteri isn't a God neither makes decisions, nor has influence over judges ( i believe that U checked panel of judges- there are no Russians among them). But some fans have created a story about Eteri's great influence and her as a almighty person ( fan's paranoia). I guess, Rus skating Fed is interested in delegating THE BEST couples, with the experience, to the Olympics - at that moment they are Vika & Nikita, Stepanova& Bukin and Tifani & Jonathan,.......
A kaleidoscope of drama Olympic season now begins New sequins, and glitter, and shady Dance wins Busted quads for ladies gold? Na. Na. Na, Bro! That’s baloney Azz polishing ice Like a spun-out Zamboni.
How difficult was it for AVT to fly over and compete , could she have been suffering from Jet Lag? Do they sleep and eat well when they are at one of these events ?
Sports evolve. Baseball went from batting to pitching. Basketball went from big men to threes. Unless the skater's name is Yuna Kim some of you will never be satisfied no matter what.
A sport evolving does not mean people should incorporate poor technique with the wrong edges. It also doesn't mean you should prioritize jumps with little to no choreo. Figure skating is ballet on ice but still a sport.
I always love when Meagan is on the show, so honest¡¡¡ And i really like that she love the russians but she hates the russians, is very interesting and like her opinions btw Told you sooooo, Trusova cant beat Valieva, but you dont wanna listen, down bad
