Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Figure Skating SPOILER: Turino Men's short

I'm watching the men's short on Russian webcast. Here's the first group sans Plushenko and Takahashi. I missed them picking up my kids from school

Zhang Min. China
Fuschia shirt, black pants with white sequined stripes,suspenders, with deep inset of illusion fabric
big band music
4T-3T close to the boards, but clean. nice speed. 3A. pitiful death drop bad travel inside. steps to 3Z, back sit inside ch sit. slow footwork, sloppy. but he does seem to get the music. camel sit layback ch sit inside crossfoot.
36.29 + 31.10 = 67.39 currently in 2nd

Here's Li. GOOOOOO Li!
Chingian Li, China
medium blue pants, turquoise shirt with wispy chiffon
familiar music, Gershwin?
4T fall (I think fully rotated). NICE speed. 3A fall out (fully rotated). flying camel layover inside upright. SL FW nice speed, clean not much expression though. 3L nice. camel sit ch sit catch foot. very fast and frenetic circle steps. back sit ch forward sit, good positions, traveled.
30.55 + 30.68 -1 = 60.23

Jeffery Buttle, Canada
black sweater and pants with understated neon colored shapes, white collar and cuffs
weird jazz with trumpets
3F 3T, nice. great speed. 3A fully rotated, fall, looks like he hit his free foot on the ice before he went up. NICE DD inside ch pancake. great expression in circle FW, NICE, but maybe looks simple. sit inside ch sit pancake sit. 3Z hand down. SL FW NICE. (middle child had splinter) camel layover upright cit ch sit twisty sit upright scratch. mugs for judges. He said "sorry" to the camera
37.01 + 37.28 -1 = 73.29

WAY HELD UP. How did his TECH score get higher than Min Zhang?!!

Ivan Dinev, Russia
black tux with white trim and W Y Z in sequins ("whiz?" thins I)
gentle piano music
3Z-2T careful. 3A nice. decent DD inside. drummy music. circle FW. he could sell this better. steps 3F two footed. camel sit inside upright ch sit outside edge spin. SL FW L2? sit inside ch sit inside. tap dancy steps and finish. He's cute and has nice flair, but the's sloppy and needs lessons from Buttle on how to sell this program. Hummm with Angela Nicodinov in the K&C.
34.29 + 29.35 = 63.64

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