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Season recap: Best specific performances

Eclair

Medalist
Joined
Dec 10, 2012
I thought it would be nice for archiving purposes to collect the best performances of last season. With that I mean the skater, one specific competition where he/she/they out skated themselves and which turned out to be the best performance of that skater of the season.

For example:

Yuzuru Hanyu: LP Hope and Legacy
Best performance: definitely Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxDCfgVfTc

Yuzuru Hanyu: SP Let's go crazy
Best performance: probably GPF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08m9CebBBF4
comment: the landing of the 4loop was not perfect there, but it's the fastest step sequence of the whole season and he skates it with more abandon than at worlds. Also, all 4cc audios on youtube are weird.

Shoma Uno
both SP and LP
Best performance: definitely Worlds:
SP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeQUf37dutQ
LP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eqgI6-DUTc

Boyang Jin
both SP and LP
Best performance: definitely Worlds:
SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRrBNaWlV8
LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vXj38E-vrQ

Nathan Chen
Best performance SP: definitely 4cc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYOzYSgrBWM
Best performance LP: probably GPF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzbS6kNGq4
maybe 4cc?

Patrick Chan
Best performance SP: Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jUj19aHJI
Best performance LP : Canadian Nationals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm0jmrDWZiY

Javier Fernandez
Best performance SP: Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg4-2w0nI78
Best performance LP: Cup of Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2rPDFQOZKI

etc.

Ladies
I stopped following ladies as a whole as I can't deal with the amount of UR and edge passes the top skaters get, but I still follow some of my favorites, so here are they:

Zijun Li: LP Only for Love
Best performance: Definitely definitely WTT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bARqJw1FMQ

Ashley Wagner: LP Muse
Best performance: probably US Nats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2KVmX7B4Nc
but Worlds were good too and she was't totally clean on both occasions.


Kaetlyn Osmond:
Best performance SP: Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UTaaMqtUEQ
her Canadian Nats performances was pretty good, too but the camera angle at worlds were better

Anna Pogorilaya:
Best performance LP: Russian Nats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGuv77vDKHo
Ionna also suggested GPF, Anna was clean on both occasion, but I thought her opening choreography was at Nationals more precise and more expressive, also the commentators didn't talk through her opening pose. On the other hand, her jumps were landed more securely at GPF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHg8x2YnFCs

Karen Chen:
Best performance SP: both US Nats and Worlds were good, but her UR was less obvious at Worlds because of the camera angle. Also, the NBC commentators were talking through her performance :rolleye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpnwVdXrYY

Best performance LP: definitely US Nats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIk-DT8CQYg

Pairs:
not such a fervent follower of pairs either, but I remember some highlights

Peng/Jin
Best performance LP: definitely 4cc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wQvb6FZgM8

Sui/Han

Best performance SP: I would say worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehjtw5He5g

Savchenko/Massot LP: I would say worlds again, if not someone please correct me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUqWRVIbALk

Knierm/Knierm
Best performance SP: I'd say 4cc - they were cleaner at worlds, but the performance, expression, speed and camera angle at 4cc were better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_e0fLkfyc

James/Cipres
Best performance LP: both WTT and Europeans were good. Personally I liked the WTT more : https://youtu.be/g0wTwWEVDsQ?t=526
 

Eclair

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Joined
Dec 10, 2012
Nice idea for a tread :agree:

Laurine Lecavalier:
Best performance SP: Trophee de France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD15HYNkV1c
Comment: I think this program is an artistic masterpiece and perfect for Laurine.

Best performance LP: Europeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Uy16jdvZg

lol I think you can read my mind. I was thinking of putting Laurine's sp here, but only saw her at worlds and WTT, both skates were not great. Glad to finally see her SP skated to it's full potential :) it may not be the most difficult program technically, but it really has some nice qualities :luv17:
 

Ender

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May 17, 2017
Carolina Kostner at European 2017. Both of her programs. She was not at her prime but those programs should be counted as nice contribution to the skating world.
 

skylark

Gazing at a Glorious Great Lakes sunset
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mrrice

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Jul 9, 2014
Do you think that 4cc was their best performance? it was not in nationals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEWMx3pg4mc

eta. NVM, I remembered a lot of fuss about them in nationals, but it was about the FD.

C/B fd nationals 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjmcri6tTlc

I think their nationals performance was better but, the YouTube video was low quality so I went with the one from 4CC.

Mariah Bell.......Her performance at Skate America made the World take notice of the rising star. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2q2B2CsWc
 

Tulipstar

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Apr 5, 2017
lol I think you can read my mind. I was thinking of putting Laurine's sp here, but only saw her at worlds and WTT, both skates were not great. Glad to finally see her SP skated to it's full potential :) it may not be the most difficult program technically, but it really has some nice qualities :luv17:

Yes, I agree. The music, the usage of sign language (for her hearing-impaired sister), the elegance... I just love that program :hap10:
She skated it well at Europeans too.
 

koatcue

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Joined
Aug 31, 2011
Country
Russia
From Russian ladies the best performances this year, in my opinion are:
1)Polina Tsurskaya short program from Saransk remains to be the best short for me this year from everybody. Nothing comes close to THIS very performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuO1TWFUXAs&t=209s
2)Alina Zagitova's long from Nationals - absolute WOW factor progrm, and so with the music, every jump on crescendo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqmxGt4uzas&t=254s
3)Zhenia's long program from WTT, where she showed why she is considered to be the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOB3AzjeK4U
 

ioanna

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Feb 25, 2014
Anna Pogorilaya SP Por Una Cabeza
Rostelecom Cup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkPMXadirs

Anna Pogorilaya FS Modigliani Suite
Grand Prix Final https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHg8x2YnFCs

Satoko Miyahara SP Musetta's Waltz
Japanese Nationals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwY1K3Btsuk

Satoko Miyahara
FS The Planets
Grand Prix Final https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLa7wulJ2dY

Mai Mihara SP Rondo Capriccioso
World Team Trophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wjLUcdXLuA

Mai Mihara FS Cinderella
World Team Trophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTIxX2l2xTw

Wakaba Higuchi SP La Califfa
World Team Trophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytzyFAcy7q4

Wakaba Higuchi FS Scheherazade
World Team Trophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDDkTNDwEc

Dabin Choi SP La La Land
Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKG903WvXdw

Dabin Choi FS Doctor Zhivago
Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EnYIZn8nPs

Marin Honda SP Smile
Jr Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A71jz-kOAcQ

Marin Honda FS Romeo & Juliet
Jr Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7auua1fqb4k

Eunsoo Lim SP Besame Mucho
Jr Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bttBKPOqg0

Eunsoo Lim FS Miss Saigon
Jr Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krBx_iJLUk0
 

Eclair

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Joined
Dec 10, 2012
Thank you so much to all contributors! It's awesome to just click on all those perfect performances!:love:
 
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