I like Polina's SP music a lot. She's making some progress on her jumps, and showing up here shows she is serious about competing this season.
Watching her program, I think the score and placement were right, but she is almost there if she can clean up the silly errors. It's good to see her attempting a 3/3 in the SP already. I don't think she's out of the hunt for an Olympic spot, but she probably is more likely than not to miss the team.
Angela should have been above Caro.
.... Angela's program today was a jewel. She embodied the music ... gentle, melodic, whispering, looking upwards, dreaming, with everything curved and graceful.
Since I first saw this program last year, I've been waiting for her to perform it this way. ...
Loved reading your praise for Angela today :agree:.
I had the good fortune to see this SP in person at the Philadelphia International, and Angela's performance there absolutely blew me away.
If you have not seen it, I hope you would find it as stunning a thing of beauty as I did.
It was thrilling to get a firsthand look at other favorites -- Max, Sean, Alex J, Donovan, Torgashev, etc. -- at the Philadelphia comp.
But only Angela's SP was so breathtaking that it literally made me cry.
I'm so happy for Angela that she now has had two consecutive successful outings of this special program.
Go get 'em in the FS :yay:.
And her SP today was so breathtaking that it gave me chills ... even thru the tube. I think my eyes were a little damp, too. I'll need to look for the video at PI.
I wonder if Polina is going to single or double her Lutz and flip in her fs. It's telling she did mostly edge jumps and not toe jumps as they must be giving her issues as she gets them back.
I do like the grown up Polina and wish her the best this season.
I have a question for you guys. Who is Emma Ma? Her Bio says that she's Mass, so I was wondering if she trains with Ross Miner? She did fairly well this weekend coming in 6th at her JGP event. Is she seen as a promising up and comer?
I have a question for you guys. Who is Emma Ma? Her Bio says that she's from Mass, so I was wondering if she trains with Ross Miner? She did fairly well this weekend coming in 6th at her JGP event. Is she seen as a promising up and comer?
I hope you can get an idea of the Philadelphia International from this fancam (much appreciated ):
https://youtu.be/8kJxn0hmhok (2:53, Aug 5)
Shot thru hockey glass ... still made me a little teary all over again.
As much as I love Karen, they need to reevaluate FS. The spin and jump are really in the wrong part of the music. At this point, I rather she pick the FS last year or the one in 2015 when she won bronze in US championship.It won’t matter if she skates it clean, but Karen’s Carmen is a huge cliche with the same music cuts and choreography as everyone else has done. I think it’s very blah and it looks like she did the choreography herself.
As much as I love Karen, they need to reevaluate FS. The spin and jump are really in the wrong part of the music. At this point, I rather she pick the FS last year or the one in 2015 when she won bronze in US championship.
It’s odd that Mark Pillay choreograph both programs when SP is so good and then FS is meh? Is it Karen changing the program again or is it the music cut itself?
Also on separate note(I’m still new to the forum so I don’t know how to copy different quote...my apologies), I am not sure Polina making the team at this point. She is super optimistic in the articles and such but she is competing against people who train full time vs her going to college, sororities activities (per her Instagram)...