I loved Alysa! As an uber Kristi Yamaguchi fan I have always loved that Violin Concerto (Kristi did a beautiful pro program to it). Alysa looked great to me! I agree that I thought it must be her freeskate. I so hope she has an awesome year!
She is skating really well. I can’t wait for her Senior debut. Something tells me she could surprise and give the Eteri girls a battle this upcoming season. She seems to be really happy out there.
Protocols from Silicon Valey Open. Looks like Alysa is trying to insert a 3Lz+3Lo combo and is already trying to bring her 3A back. It is August so she still as many months to clean everything up
So her SP music is Gypsy Dance, I love that choice for her! The switch-up was unnecessary though, I overall still liked it. The jazzy hands during Ina Bauer into 3F is already iconic lol Prayer circle for two good programs
Alysa's making a really great case for herself to be the skater sent to Nebelhorn to secure that 3rd spot. I'd be surprised if she wasn't chosen tbh. 3A aside (looked hesitant going to it to me), her jumps all look solid.
I love this music choice for her, the choreo sequence onwards builds to an especially exciting climax that will play well in front of an audience. I loved how well the 2A+1Eu+3S was timed to the music.
Alysa's SP at Lombardia. She has her usual mega-watt smile, and skated the programme with real verve.
Protocols linked here. Positive GOE on all elements, total score 74.31, TES 41.15, PCS 33.16. Judges all liked her performance and interpretation - nice and vibrant!
I just have to get this off my chest once and then I'll go back to simply uplifting our girl:
I find it hilarious how every! single! time! Alysa does well at a competition, all these keyboard warriors come crawling out of the woodwork to insist that she has no shot at medalling at any of her GP events (let alone the Olympics!), she's way behind the Russians/Japanese/Koreans/all of the above in every aspect of skating, she poses no threat to [insert their fave(s)], etc etc etc
Why are they so pressed if they really think she's not a threat? If it's so obvious that she doesn't have any chance of medalling even at the GPs, why bother going to the effort of constantly (obsessively!) anonymously denigrating her on the internet? Truly fan behavior