2017 GP NHK Mens SP

[matmuh]

Kazuki is very Yuzuresque. SP score for his clean program with quad jump lower than Evgenia Medvedeva though ISU :disapp: Not shocked though anymore.

well, he needs to hits his levels, level2 stsq and level 3 on one of his spins cost him about 2 points, and needs to hit GOE bullets, his spins are rather slow and considering he is new to senior scene PCS was conservative, i am sure his scores will go up as long as he doesnt make any big miskates :agree:

 

[risingtrot]

Oh that's what the message was!! What did it say?

Jason wrote "Yuzuru, get well soon" ^_^

 

[Mrs. P]

Jason wrote "Yuzuru, get well soon" ^_^

Awwwww that is super sweet.

 

[karne]

Jason wrote "Yuzuru, get well soon" ^_^

of course he did. literal ray of sunshine. <3

 

[da96103]

The event is a bit lacklustre.

 

[Tolstoj]

Deniss is what Jason woudl be if he was not from the US I guess. :/ Part of it is that he could stand to be more consistent with clean programs. That's annoying, but clean programs day in and day out seems to curry favor from judges.

Yes but Jason Brown is not a consistent skater: if you look at his past seasons, he tends to bomb the second GP event, and the first one is always Skate America or Skate Canada where judges are very kind with him.

 

[snowflake]

Ooh, since you are from Sweden, off topic, tell us what's happening to Majorov. Is he going to Olympics or what?

If he can't even skate his programs clean, like he couldn't in Cup of China... I doubt it. Should be decided after Swedish Nationals in December. But perhaps the Swe oly committe let's him fight for a spot over Europeans.

 

[NoNameFace]

The event is a bit lacklustre.

Ice Dance will bring the DRAMAHHHH

 

[karne]

Yes but Jason Brown is not a consistent skater: if you look at his past seasons, he tends to bomb the second GP event, and the first one is always Skate America or Skate Canada where judges are very kind with him.

2013 (debut): Skate America (5th), TEB (3rd)
2014: Skate America (2nd), Rostelecom Cup (5th)
2015: Skate America (3rd), NHK WD (back injury)
2016: Skate America (2nd), NHK (7th, stress fracture)
2017: Skate Canada (2nd), NHK (currently 3rd)

 

[bobbob]

In regards to scoring, Rippon should have definitely been above Jason. But none of these are remotely competitive scores, at the world stage they would all probably be out of the top 10.

 

[Mrs. P]

Yes but Jason Brown is not a consistent skater: if you look at his past seasons, he tends to bomb the second GP event, and the first one is always Skate America or Skate Canada where judges are very kind with him.

Here technically it wasn't a great short program for him: step-out on the 3A, only 2t on the combo and the final spin was level 3 and yet 85 is a big score for what he did.

Actually in his debut season -- Jason didn't miss a single SP from Nebelhorn through the Olympics. At SkAM, he struggled in the FS to get OTP, but he actually had a great SP and was 2nd after that segment.

As for here, he can score 94 with a perfect program. He's 9 points off from that. I could see an argument to dock him 2 points off PCS perhaps. The program still has cohesion and there's a lot of complexity, so I don't think the mistakes merit like 10 points off PCS.

 

[Ares]

wat? how can happiness be irritating? i am confuse.

Jason tends to be all smiles all the time and it comes off as childlike for a European like me. Many also bring that phoney plastered smile on various occasions, in Poland it's not popular (but I know it is in U.S & UK). Here smile generally means that you like somebody / or something happy / funny took place.

 

[iskate]

Vasiljevs' PCS were too low. [emoji847]

 

[risingtrot]

While Dmitri did not do so well, I think he is someone to watch out for in the future.

Regarding Kazuki, I feel somehow he has physically matured a bit. Expected though. He has lost his 'baby face' a bit.

I get a Plushenko vibe from Voronov. Not a bad thing though.

 

[zanadude]

That's the most mediocre Grand Prix I've seen in a long time.

 

[OS]

Jason tends to be all smiles all the time and it comes off as childlike for a European like me. Many also bring that phoney plastered smile on various occasions, in Poland it's not popular (but I know it is in U.S & UK). Here smile generally means that you like somebody / or something happy / funny took place.

UK? You should come to London. Love actually is not real. We are depressed as hell here, think all 24-7 smiling people must be on drugs or bit creepy.

 

[Kutien]

1	Sergei VORONOV	RUS	90.06	video
2	Alexei BYCHENKO	ISR	85.52	video
3	Jason BROWN	USA	85.36	video
4	Adam RIPPON	USA	84.95	video
5	Keegan MESSING	CAN	80.13	video
6	Kazuki TOMONO	JPN	79.88	video
7	Dmitri ALIEV	RUS	77.51	video
8	Deniss VASILJEVS	LAT	76.51	video
9	Michal BREZINA	CZE	76.24	video
10	Hiroaki SATO	JPN	75.95	video
11	Nam NGUYEN	CAN	65.82	video

 

[MaiKatze]

Congratulations Voronov!!! Clearly the best in the field, please bring it home and win NHK!

 

[OS]

Oh come on. Have you ever heard of rippon having vocal coaching? The idea of him skating to his own singing would have been a hot mess. Besides, we don't know the USFS ordered him to go back to this. maybe they just said "different program?" and he chose to go back.

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protocols as always tell the story - and jason does everything with such high quality that he racks up the points.

Sorry I am not up to date, what was his original SP? He is singing in them? bit confused.

I am just not a fan or repeats, including music reused over and over

 

[Mrs. P]

Sorry I am not up to date, what was his original SP? He is singing in them? bit confused.

Adam originally recorded a cover of Rihanna's "Diamonds" for his SP, which was actually a competition version of an exhibition he did at Stars on Ice last year. But it was nixed at Champs Camp, so the cover (and the SP) hasn't seen the light of day.