2015 JGP Colorado Springs Ladies FS Sep 5

[FTnoona]

Yuna's 3s-3lo looked great. The 3lo looked more rotated than the 3s.

 

[sunnystars]

looking at the protocols, awesome for nahyun to finally ratify that 3lo-3lo

 

[andyjo24]

Btw, does Vivian do the 2Lz on purpose? I see that she didn't do a 3S? Can someone confirm?

 

[StitchMonkey]

i wonder too
maybe ashley shin could've competed here...she is training with kori, right?

She is not on the USFSA's international selection pool list so she could not have. Tyler Pierce is young enough and trains with Koro, but I think she is focusing on senior. She is also at Golden West currently along with Ashely Shin and Christina Cleveland from team Koro. It is her home club's competition, so maybe it was important to her to go to that one.

 

[invisiblespiral]

Btw, does Vivian do the 2Lz on purpose? I see that she didn't do a 3S? Can someone confirm?

The 2lz is deliberate. She's working on the 3s.

 

[andyjo24]

The 2lz is deliberate. She's working on the 3s.

Thanks!

 

[sunnystars]

She is not on the USFSA's international selection pool list so she could not have. Tyler Pierce is young enough and trains with Koro, but I think she is focusing on senior. She is also at Golden West currently along with Ashely Shin and Christina Cleveland from team Koro. It is her home club's competition, so maybe it was important to her to go to that one.

ahh I see. thanks for the head's up!

 

[kwanatic]

Vivian is a classic over-jumper similar to a Bebe Liang, Gabrielle Daleman, Courtney Hicks...she's a monster powerhouse jump who lacks a lot of control. She jumps big but she's wild. She often jumps so high on that first lutz that she loses all flow and can barely eek out the second jump in her combo. I don't want to see a Gracie Gold situation where someone slows her all the way down and her jumps lose their explosiveness, but someone does need to rein her in enough to where she can control the jump.

Also, someone needs to work on her facial expressions. She's always stuck on this one kinda manic smile regardless of the music playing...it's almost a little creepy. Lol!

She's an amazing skater (great speed, huge jumps, lovely spins) but she needs some control and refinement...and competitive focus. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for her.

 

[OS]

What weird funny medals? All the same colour? I didn't know ISU is that short of funding these days.

 

[bluelutz]

She still has the highest bronze score, so that's something? (although any 4+1 and 2+3, and so on are all going over her...)

Nope, she really had to win this to go to the final.
Last year, girls who finished like 1-1,1-2,2-2 & 1-4 were qualified.
As Vivian's last placement was 3rd, she had to win this.

Like last year, this year's final will consist only Russian and Japanese girls
unless Dabin wins her next one which I do not think will happen.

 

[invisiblespiral]

What weird funny medals? All the same colour? I didn't know ISU is that short of funding these days.

Doesn't SC do the same thing? Or at least they did it one year... and they really should stop hosting stuff at altitude, IMHO.

 

[OS]

Vivian is a classic over-jumper similar to a Bebe Liang, Gabrielle Daleman, Courtney Hicks...she's a monster powerhouse jump who lacks a lot of control. She jumps big but she's wild. She often jumps so high on that first lutz that she loses all flow and can barely eek out the second jump in her combo. I don't want to see a Gracie Gold situation where someone slows her all the way down and her jumps lose their explosiveness, but someone does need to rein her in enough to where she can control the jump.

Also, someone needs to work on her facial expressions. She's always stuck on this one kinda manic smile regardless of the music playing...it's almost a little creepy. Lol!

She's an amazing skater (great speed, huge jumps, lovely spins) but she needs some control and refinement...and competitive focus. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for her.

Facial expression wise, she is no worse than Miyahara.

 

[andyjo24]

Vivian is a classic over-jumper similar to a Bebe Liang, Gabrielle Daleman, Courtney Hicks...she's a monster powerhouse jump who lacks a lot of control. She jumps big but she's wild. She often jumps so high on that first lutz that she loses all flow and can barely eek out the second jump in her combo. I don't want to see a Gracie Gold situation where someone slows her all the way down and her jumps lose their explosiveness, but someone does need to rein her in enough to where she can control the jump.

Also, someone needs to work on her facial expressions. She's always stuck on this one kinda manic smile regardless of the music playing...it's almost a little creepy. Lol!

She's an amazing skater (great speed, huge jumps, lovely spins) but she needs some control and refinement...and competitive focus. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for her.

HAHAHAAH. I noticed that creep smile too!!

But yeah, she needs to work on her expressions. I do like her SS, speed, and overall bounciness though.

 

[yyyskate]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

What did you base it on? Just curious... i have never seen these 2 before, glad I did. Very impressed. Wow with Yuna AoKi, it is going to be funny to find so many Japanese goes "Gooo Yuna!"

I checked her up a little before this comp and watched her warm-up very closely, I like her flip (her flip and 3S-3LO in warm-up totally wowed me) and very solid basic skills. Also her seemly happy_go_ lucky personality. And she is a Yuna.

 

[invisiblespiral]

I like Yuna_A better. And Yuna_K a lot better.

 

[Totentanz]

Shiraiwa wasn't assigned to another JGP event so far, I guess she will be in Croatia then.

 

[andyjo24]

I checked her up a little before this comp and watched her warm-up very closely, I like her flip (her flip and 3S-3LO in warm-up totally wowed me) and very solid basic skills. Also her seemly happy_go_ lucky personality. And she is a Yuna.

Too bad she has edge issues with her 3F. Her 3S-3Lo was massive though!

 

[yyyskate]

I like Yuna_A better. And Yuna_K a lot better.

Yuna_aaaaa:::

 

[OS]

I like Yuna_A better. And Yuna_K a lot better.

Wait.. there's a third Yuna_K? 3x Japanese Yuna(s)?

 

[Chemistry66]

Nope, she really had to win this to go to the final.
Last year, girls who finished like 1-1,1-2,2-2 & 1-4 were qualified.
As Vivian's last placement was 3rd, she had to win this.

Like last year, this year's final will consist only Russian and Japanese girls
unless Dabin wins her next one which I do not think will happen.

I agree that Vivian, while not mathematically out for sure, is out based on previous scores needed for qualifying.

But regarding the Russian/Japanese girls final, I'll be interested to see how USA's Bradie Tennell does next week to play spoiler to that.