Not today. His SP is his best he has ever had.I totally agree with you Blades of Passion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joubert is always overscored!!!!It's crazy!
I find Joubert's 2008 SP to be the best he's ever had (courtesy of Kurt Browning). I think his 2009/2010 SP was also better for him than this season's SP because he was more attuned to the movements. His SP this season is choreographically more complex but Joubert isn't always comfortable performing the movements.
Patrick Chan was scored correctly. He executed the most difficult technical elements perfectly (while all his closest competitors attempted less difficult elements and made mistakes). His skating skills are not in doubt. While in the past, I've not been totally on board with Chan's performance ability, with this program Nichols created a great program for Chan and he expanded his expression to live up to it. It's a very laid back piece, but done with very old school lines and posture. He skates impossibly intricate steps at breakneck speeds while looking like he's strolling through a park. It's a combination of all the best things about the older and newer styles of skating. This is one of the greatest SP performances in skating history.
Technically there is no doubt that it's one of the greatest SP performances in skating history (even if still overscored, as I talked about). I also agree with you that the display of basic skating in the program is among the best ever in history. I do not think the program is a masterful one, though, and I do not think Chan's performance was masterful. For me, his last spin in the program had little to do with the music and the first part of the footwork sequence also does not quite gel with the mood.
But the real problem is that this program is about Patrick Chan trying to pick up a girl at a bar. He does not give off that kind of swagger but rather seems like a middle school student playing during recess at school. He doesn't have deep gravitas in his skating either, which then makes programs like Phantom of the Opera have a certain triteness.
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