2018 Canadian Nationals Senior Men - SP

[Crossover]

Because Kevin is Peter Pan.

A funny thing is that when I congratulated that birthday, I was also bewildered by his older age that his actual look. I probably said like "Oh, isn't he 22 yo?, I can't believe it!". Haha, Kevin can be compared with pixies, ageless fairies in folklore.

 

[Mrs. P]

But would he have qualified for the GPF based on his Skate Canada placement?

Yes, especially if he won. Even if he got second it wasn't out of r question. Boyang was 2nd/4th as was Jason, who replaced him.

 

[Violet Bliss]

Patrick was talking about small mistakes here and there, did I miss anything? Small a fall?

Small mistakes as the causes, not the effects which can be major or minor. Most mistakes are micro second mental issues. A self aware and experienced skater knows how to identify them and will try to adjust and fix them which may or may not be easy.

 

[Mrs. P]

You know, it's actually interesting, I noticed that. I mean, he'll obviously go to the Olympics, but I expected more to be honest.

Yeah, I wouldn't have raised an eyebrow at 47 or 48.

 

[CAS]

Well, in the case of Nam, he had a huge growth spurt between 2015-2017.

I was impressed with the improvement in Nam, have not seen him skate in quite some time so the improvement was quite noticeable.

 

[Yatagarasu]

I wonder if Canada will take the path that Russia did, and put all the eggs in the Team Event Basket, potentially sacrificing a men's medal?

Nobody but Patrick can medal for Canada in the individual men, and even he is on the lower end, unless the quadsters splat. So I don't really think they're sacrificing anything. The trouble is - Kolyada. If Samarin can deliver a stable short, and he seems to be hitting those, then they're going to have to contend with a good if not more Kolyada, whose PCS is growing, steadily. I understand why SC is going for Patrick, and hopefully he can nail it by the time PC happens, but we're talking about a bit more than two weeks before the first official practice for the Team event short. Time is close.

 

[SarahSynchro]

Five guys within six points of Patrick:shocked:

Including Elladj (sorry, mon brave, I won’t make the same jinxing mistake in the LP)

What alternate universe have I stepped into?

You’ll get worse than the cattle prod if you start with your jinxing antics in the free program. *prepares cannon, muskets, and bow ‘n arrows* We’re kicking it old skool, civil war style!

 

[synteis]

Really too bad about this last flight :cccc Patrick's never been my fave as a person but I love to watch him skate. Just want so badly for him to go clean one last time. It's a real shame about the mistakes since I think if he'd gone clean here it would have given him some much needed feet under him. Ah well.

At least Ellajd had that beautiful glorious skate.

 

[CAS]

Patrick was a mess at Skate Canada and was in no shape for NHK. He wouldn't have skated well there and seemed on the verge of quitting.
He does seem to want to skate the team event so maybe he will put in the training to manage it. It's only a month of grind left so I think he should be able to find the motivation for that. Hopefully, for the sake of his teammates anyway.

 

[cheerknithanson]

A funny thing is that when I congratulated that birthday, I was also bewildered by his older age that his actual look. I probably said like "Oh, isn't he 22 yo?, I can't believe it!". Haha, Kevin can be compared with pixies, ageless fairies in folklore.

That's how I was the day I became a fan of him. When during the team event, they showed his age, and I was like, "Huh? No he's not!" And I checked and sure he enough, he was the age he was. He looked 16-17 at the time.

 

[synteis]

Nobody but Patrick can medal for Canada in the individual men, and even he is on the lower end, unless the quadsters splat. So I don't really think they're sacrificing anything. The trouble is - Kolyada. If Samarin can deliver a stable short, and he seems to be hitting those, then they're going to have to contend with a good if not more Kolyada, whose PCS is growing, steadily. I understand why SC is going for Patrick, and hopefully he can nail it by the time PC happens, but we're talking about a bit more than two weeks before the first official practice for the Team event short. Time is close.

Ugh, don't remind me :ccc

 

[Mrs. P]

Patrick was a mess at Skate Canada and was in no shape for NHK. He wouldn't have skated well there and seemed on the verge of quitting.
He does seem to want to skate the team event so maybe he will put in the training to manage it. It's only a month of grind left so I think he should be able to find the motivation for that. Hopefully, for the sake of his teammates anyway.

No you're probably right, but I just found the "would have been nice to have more competitions" comment interesting.

 

[penniavaswen]

Well, even if this event was a bit of a splat fest, at least we'll always have Elladj's barn burner of an SP. BRB, gonna go find that and cry myself to sleep watching it.

There might be better recordings, but I uploaded this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFrsk7W4fY
Sadly. no stable streams for the last group, so they're all choppy and drop out

 

[Violet Bliss]

They still haven't put up protocol of Patrick's skate.

 

[SarahSynchro]

No you're probably right, but I just found the "would have been nice to have more competitions" comment interesting.

I mean, he could’ve gone to Skate Canada Challenge a few months ago if he wanted to? Sure, he’d mop the field there even if he had a crappy skate, but it hasn’t been beneath other top skaters in recent years to attend.

 

[vorravorra]

Nobody but Patrick can medal for Canada in the individual men, and even he is on the lower end, unless the quadsters splat. So I don't really think they're sacrificing anything. The trouble is - Kolyada. If Samarin can deliver a stable short, and he seems to be hitting those, then they're going to have to contend with a good if not more Kolyada, whose PCS is growing, steadily. I understand why SC is going for Patrick, and hopefully he can nail it by the time PC happens, but we're talking about a bit more than two weeks before the first official practice for the Team event short. Time is close.

I would be all for Samarin skating the short (if he can get a good one at Euros and score well), but it seems likely they will decide not to switch out men and Kolyada will have to skate two programs. So far the talk has been about switching ladies and pairs. But we'll have to see what happens at Euros and what shape everyone is in.

 

[Mrs. P]

I mean, he could’ve gone to Skate Canada Challenge a few months ago if he wanted to? Sure, he’d mop the field there even if he had a crappy skate, but it hasn’t been beneath other top skaters in recent years to attend.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. And he did that summer comp in Detroit, so it's not like he hasn't done such a thing before.

 

[SarahSynchro]

Patrick was a mess at Skate Canada and was in no shape for NHK. He wouldn't have skated well there and seemed on the verge of quitting.
He does seem to want to skate the team event so maybe he will put in the training to manage it. It's only a month of grind left so I think he should be able to find the motivation for that. Hopefully, for the sake of his teammates anyway.

I hate myself for even thinking this, but I hope he doesn’t pull a Plushy...

 

[Victura]

Patrick was talking about small mistakes here and there, did I miss anything? Small a fall?

Looking at the replay, the fall was a bit of a fluke because he hit his toe pick. He landed it and probably tightened up trying to get into the 3T. I'm glad he got the 3T after the lutz though since he doesn't usually miss the quad. When skaters have to make up the jump for a combination, it seems like many end up doing a double at the end instead of the triple (like Kaetlyn did here).

Ravi seems like a calming influence though and hopefully Patrick will deliver in the long. Wondering if there's a local club competition he could do after this just to get more mileage on these programs in competition.

 

[jccool5000]

They still haven't put up protocol of Patrick's skate.

uhhh its been out for like 20 minutes now? The actually update the protocol after each skater with skate canada's new live system. you might have to give it a couple of refreshes.

http://skatecanada.ca/results/2018CDNS/2018CDNSSeniorMenSPDRO.pdf