Good luck to them! They are still my fave new couple!
They scored 51.08. It looked like Nicole lost her edge on the first rotation of the first set of twizzles and could not hold on to her blade, which caused her to lose the entire first set of twizzles. I'm wondering if they got zero credit for their twizzles....the rest of their dance was so smooth, and they had the biggest and smoothest Ravensburger of group 1. I'm sure they would have been leading if not for the error.
Well, no twizzle mishaps, I held my breath! it looked as though Asher missed Nicole's hand at one point (far from an ice dance expert, don't know what that is called, other than a hold?) and part of Nicole's costume fell off.
No idea if there was a costume deduction, but 85 something and in first so far. May not hold it, but an improvement over the SD!
Skate Canada's DailyMotion page has posted videos of O/H's programs from the Challenge.
SD: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3h4jzz_orford-hill_sport
FD: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3h4qq0_orfor-hill_sport
FD Protocol: http://skatecanada.ca/results/2016challenge/2016challSrDanceFreesegJudgesDetails.pdf
They got L4 on all of their lifts, L3 on twizzles (this is an area that can be improved, they have not consistently gotten L4 twizzles in their competitions), and L2 on both footwork sequences (it's hard for new teams to get the levels on footwork). Almost all positive GOE and no negative GOE.
Even though the Challenge was not the best competition for O/H, I thought they made all of the other teams look clunky. They are just so smooth and polished, especially for a team that only started training together in June.
Nicole and Asher are in 5th after the SD at the Canadian Nats:
1 Weaver/Poje 76.20
2 Gilles/Poirier 70.63
3 Paul/Islam 68.30
4 Paradis/Ouellette 63.03
5 Orford/Hill 61.46
Third may not be within reach, but fourth? And by all accounts (yet to see a video) they were their charming selves.
And the protocols, thanks to Caro_Liza Fan are in the Canadian Nats SD thread since the Canadian score sheets PDFs come up blank on my desktop? They don't use Preview? Oh well
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...6-Canadian-Nationals-Senior-Short-Dance/page2
Keep it going, Nicole and Asher!