Nathan Chen

alexaa · Oct 17, 2019

alexaa · Oct 17, 2019

Please remember to vote for Nathan, he is losing some lead today.
https://awards.teamusa.org/leaderboard

ltc · Oct 18, 2019

sheetz said:
This person uploaded a bunch of jumps. He also missed the 4Lz.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3u3E46ntet/

for the axels

I can't get over the one in the third to last clip - the entry looks :love:

oatmella · Oct 18, 2019

Nathan looks to be in good shape and well prepared. Nice to see all the photos, videos, and articles!

Good luck to him tomorrow! :cheer:

Tahuu · Oct 18, 2019

Nice ice level video from today's FS practice, showing skating skills and nuances to the music. I downloaded it and frame checked the stsq: choctaw - (rocker/counter/loop) - bracket - (rocker/counter/twizzle) - loop - twizzle - choctaw - bracket, level 4.

sheetz · Oct 18, 2019

Tahuu said:
Nice ice level video from today's FS practice, showing skating skills and nuances to the music. I downloaded it and frame checked the stsq: choctaw - (rocker/counter/loop) - bracket - (rocker/counter/twizzle) - loop - twizzle - choctaw - bracket, level 4.

It's kind of crazy how he gets interrupted after the 4S attempt, then just casually continues on into the 4T.

discode · Oct 18, 2019

Yeah, someone in the FSU practice report mentioned he got interrupted a few times by skaters getting too close and he would adjust and just continue to do his quads out of nowhere anyway. Also mentioned his rotation speed is jaw dropping.

shine · Oct 18, 2019

Can we talk about Nathan’s new 3A entry??? I know he did it at JO too but I think I’m just now recovering from the shock. Never would’ve thought he would be able to add something like this :biggrin:

Also praying hard that he’ll keep his counter entry into the 3A in the SP too!!

Tahuu · Oct 18, 2019

sheetz said:
It's kind of crazy how he gets interrupted after the 4S attempt, then just casually continues on into the 4T.

Yeah, just a 3 turn and boom into a 4T out of nowhere. His quads are starting to like triples.

1111bm · Oct 18, 2019

I can't believe the shape he's in, he's got almost all of his quads except for 4Lo, and it's just the beginning of the season and all of them look so stable compared to last season. Wth did he do with Raf over the summer, or are these just lasting effects of their time together and it's all uphill from here...?
If he can execute his jumps this well during competition too... wow.

Speaking after practice, Chen told the media he was enjoying incorporating hip-hop moves into his choreography. "I haven’t really seen much of this," said Chen. "It wasn’t something that no one has ever done but rarely do you see it within… I guess within the top six guys you probably won’t see that very often. I figured it would be kind of interesting to breach into it.

"When Marie (France Dubreuil, choreographer) kind of pitched it to me I thought it was a little risky, I just didn’t know how people would respond to it but even in Japan, I got a pretty good response, so hopefully it will continue growing as the season goes on.

I love that he acknowledges, that his hip hop sequence is not something totally unique and never before seen, although it's still unusual and creative relative to the rest of the field.

I wonder if it was truly MFD's input and not rather something Sam or Nathan himself wanted to do? Because he's said in the past, that it is his wish to do a hip hop type program, and now he calls it risky and it sounds like he wasn't the one to come up with it?

shine said:
Can we talk about Nathan’s new 3A entry??? I know he did it at JO too but I think I’m just now recovering from the shock. Never would’ve thought he would be able to add something like this Also praying hard that he’ll keep his counter entry into the 3A in the SP too!!

It's a bracket.

ltc said:
for the axels

I can't get over the one in the third to last clip - the entry looks

I think he's done that entry in his junior days for the 2A, but obviously never for his 3A, because he's struggled too much with it, so yay for him attempting it now and not playing it safe.

sheetz said:
It's kind of crazy how he gets interrupted after the 4S attempt, then just casually continues on into the 4T.

That 4T looked UR though, so the interruption did (possibly) affect him.

bonita said:
It seems that he has some stress zits again. What has Yale done to this boi in the past two weeks? He didn’t have those at JO.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3vU8WpJD51/?igshid=t4e61fza0bxy

Looks like it could be just irritation from shaving, and not necessarily lifestyle related.

shine · Oct 18, 2019

^i must be remembering CoR 2017 since that was the last time he had a difficult entry into 3A (that’s not a spreadeagle

)

sheetz · Oct 18, 2019

Live practice for those without NBC Gold
https://youtu.be/6MstMmM0WNs

alexaa · Oct 18, 2019

Practice/run through Report:
From Jackie
“Chen: 3Lz, 4F, 4T, 3Lz, 4Lz3T, 3A, 4T, runthru (4Lz3T, 3A, 4T(turn)), 4T, 4T, 3Lz, 3Lz(step), 3Lz, 3A“
https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/1185233494525407232?s=20

From FigureSkatersOnline
https://twitter.com/fsonline/status/1185234002405257216?s=20

Such hang time on a lot of Nathan Chen's jumps. His rotation finishes well above the ice.

discode · Oct 18, 2019

His run through was good. Slight 4T mistake, but went right back into a clean one.

Seems like every Nathan fan I follow on twitter is in Vegas. :laugh:

sheetz · Oct 18, 2019

I think he's feeling confident because he's not attempting as many jumps as I've seen him do in the past. Usually he'll drill at least 3A and maybe 4Lz/4F.

sheetz · Oct 18, 2019

Run thru from ice level
https://twitter.com/fuguesque/status/1185251662392365063

Nathan "told reporters he worried about how coach Raf Arutunian would react to the hip hop section in his Rocketman free. Raf loves it: "He does it so well .... he manipulates his feet like he is in shoes."
https://twitter.com/LynnRutherford/status/1185251873420271616

discode · Oct 18, 2019

He wasn't perfect, but on the plus side his SP was much better than Skate America last year.

1111bm · Oct 18, 2019

Could anyone understand what Raf was saying to Nathan and what he was talking about with Nadia? (I got the 'should've blown my nose' part lol, but after that...?)

frida80 · Oct 18, 2019

I suspected Nathan would be pretty strong this year since he’s learned how to handle his college/coach situation from last year. That means no adjusting to the rink hopping, classes, labs, and knows how to maintain his jumps. He looks very strong focused. I’m a very happy and proud auntie.

Mamamiia · Oct 18, 2019

I was quite nervous at the beginning and then the curl dropped lol. Good luck with free skate tomorrow Nathan!

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