Four Continents (4CC) 2012 - Colorado Springs

HI EVERYONE!!!

I will be watching Mao tonight!

Any links, and what time will it start?

did the ladies free skate started yet? The link is not working again

will_power wrote:

For people who don't have facebook, I uploaded 4 pictures on my tumblr haha

http://preludeopthreeno2.tumblr.com/post/17448819333/taken-by-me-dont-steal-please

I love the new costume. The coloring and top reminds me of the Marchesa dress that Zoe Saldana wore

Thank you so much for sharing, will_power!

Good morning everyone, it's 3 a.am. here, I can barely keep my eyes open, but it's worth it, can't wait for Mao to skate!

Go Mao! Kick some butt!

Mao_Asada_sunrise it has already started

Edit: babayaga thanks for posting the link. For some reason, I have problems with posting links. don't understand why.

It has already started! I am watching on icenetwork, but there is a free stream here:
http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-vid...t/infotele.asx

Thank you everyone, and I know! I'm late zarinaballerina! Lol!

The link doesn't work for me babayaga.

Try this maybe: http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/pop.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/endirect/infotele.asx

babayaga wrote:

Try this maybe: http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/pop.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/endirect/infotele.asx

Thank you!!!

Do you, by any chance, know how long until Mao skates?

Also, do you know how to make it into a bigger screen?

babayaga wrote:

Try this maybe: http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/pop.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/endirect/infotele.asx

Never mind! I found it! It's because I don't know how to speak or read French. Hahaha! I tried clicking a button, and it worked!

My guess it's "plein ekran" button in the upper left corner

ETA: I am too late

Mao_asada_sunrise here is the time scedule:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/fc2012/fc2012_Ladies_FS_TimeSchedule.pdf

Edit: yay, I know how to post the links again. I'm such an idiot. it's to early here to think straight.

babayaga wrote:

My guess it's "plein ekran" button in the upper left corner

ETA: I am too late

Mao won't be skating until two hours from now?

chiyori wrote:

Lol at Ashley being ahead of Kanako and getting +GOE on her two-footed 3-3. I want to be happy for her because her efforts are being recognised, but I can't. Not this way. I think the judges got a memo that the best way to get the crowd involved was to have an american in contention, not a complete beat down by the japanese girls. That's the only explanation I see. I love Ashley's SP, but it should have barely cracked the 60 mark.

Kanako will always be underrated in the PCS departement, simply because there's Mao. We've seen it before. When the judges have the slightest opportunity to do it, they will avoid one country dominating the international podiums at all costs. Kanako is on the receiving end of being the 3rd japanese skater. Just like Taka-chan was for such a long time. Clean or not, I doubt he will get the PCS he deserves at Worlds (which should be Dai and Chan-level) because he's the 2nd japanese man. Same for Kanako, unless Akiko has a complete meltdown, the judges will hold Kanako's PCS below hers. It's awful but that's how it works. With Kanako becoming consistent again and building confidence, I think Japan has all it takes this year to sweep the podium at Worlds, but that will never happen. If it comes to that, they will use the serial killer Amano to downgrade her jumps and keep her away from the top 3 lol.

Nice skate for Mao though! She had a lot of "easy" speed. I think Caro and Kanako are still faster, but you can see them building speed, pumping the upper body, etc. while Mao just glides smoothly over the ice, almost as quickly as them, but elegant and straight-backed. Gorgeous!!

Close up, the fluff on her chest is ugly, but from afar, it does make her look curvier, more feminine, which is the whole point of it, I think. Let's not kid ourserlves... As skinny as she is at the moment, Mao has very little curves to display and is mostly flat. I think that is one of the reason for the costume change. Her pants were awesome but they elongated her and the top part really highlighted her lack of curves. With a dress, she suddenly seems to have rounder hips and to the people up in the audience, the fluff on her chest was probably seen as breasts, and not fabric. The design on her stomach is also obviously doing awesome things to narrow her waist, again adding to her hips. From my point of view, this was the designer's goal. And it works very nicely, though I'm not sure I really like the color. I would have kept the gorgeous puprple color or used a more eye-popping blue.

Anyway, I hope she has a new FS dress as well because since her loss of weight before Worlds last year, it has been doing nothing for her. It just emphasizes her the lack of "relief" between her waist and hips. The skirt could use a bit of fluffling up, otherwise she just looks like a wooden plank from the side, albeit a very pretty one!

Sorry, I always end up talking about her costumes in very long posts lol. I'm not critisizing Mao's figure, but her designer's usual inability to work with it. I just find it sad when the designs are highlighting things they shouldn't be... (another good example of this is Alissa's white nightgown at Nationals... when you've got a long torso like she has, you do not use a very low-cut stark white dress with a low waist line and a long skirt... Her torso looked like it was 4 feet long while her legs looked ridiculously short... being tall and skinny doesn't mean everything will fit you. A creamier color and a higher cut neck line would have made all this much prettier.) I mean what's a profesional designer for, if not to point out these things to the skater and her team. This SP dress is a step in the right direction, though there's still work to do

I so much agree with you Chiyori. It's sad that in FS, skaters are classified according to their reputation or so. The judges should score them according to what they see in front of their eyes.

Thanks for all of you for your wonderful posts and letting me know the time FS starts.

I love Mao's new costume. If it's longer, it could be a nice cocktail dress !!!! she's lovely.
I hope she won't do 3A today. No not now. I'd rather she keeps her energy till the end.
GO MAO!

ddmm I'm hoping for no 3A as well, but I think she's going for it.

mimi tanasorn chindasook of thailand must be a mao fan because her costume looks really similar to mao's jupiter costume. so many of mao's dresses have copies, which i find really flattering.

Wow, everyone keeps falling.

I'm getting nervous for Mao.

The thing I don't really like about her both new dresses is the top.
The SP one with fur bra and the one, when I saw pic from other blogger, they put the fiber to add the volume of her top which is not totally unnecessary they should just keep that more fit her not fiber everywhere.

ETA: but her dress didn't bother me when she was moving most of time. the only one really bothered me is the one of 2011 world SP~ too annoying and can't be ignored.

shikure wrote:

The thing I don't really like about her both new dresses is the top.
The SP one with fur bra and the one, when I saw pic from other blogger, they put the fiber to add the volume of her top which is not totally unnecessary they should just keep that more fit her not fiber everywhere.

ETA: but her dress didn't bother me when she was moving most of time. the only one really bothered me is the one of 2011 world SP~ too annoying and can't be ignored.

I actually like the new dress. It's something different at least! Mao changes her dress often! Lol!

Pretty much everyone bombed so far..

Maybe ISU should rethink about holding competition at such high altitude, although I'm consoling myself, that these aren't the worlds best skaters, but I am a bit worried.

Go Mao! You can do it!

Thanks for the link:

Oh I love the music 'the mission'. It reminds me of last year's Miki's SP.

BTW, I wonder how they choose the skaters who compete. Frankly, some skaters barely go above 50 marks in the FP. And when you think of the number of hours the competition lasts.....or do they have no choice because there are less and less skaters in the world.

This did not count as a fall, remember judges she kept her butt OFF ice

ddmm wrote:

Thanks for the link:

Oh I love the music 'the mission'. It reminds me of last year's Miki's SP.

BTW, I wonder how they choose the skaters who compete. Frankly, some skaters hardly go above 50 marks in the FP. And when you think of the number of hours the competition lasts.....or do they have no choice because there are less and less skaters in the world.

Do you know the music Zhaira Costiniano skated to?

zarinaballerina wrote:

This did not count as a fall, remember judges she kept her butt OFF ice

My thought exactly

Mao_Asada_sunrise wrote:

ddmm wrote:

Thanks for the link:

Oh I love the music 'the mission'. It reminds me of last year's Miki's SP.

BTW, I wonder how they choose the skaters who compete. Frankly, some skaters hardly go above 50 marks in the FP. And when you think of the number of hours the competition lasts.....or do they have no choice because there are less and less skaters in the world.

Do you know the music Zhaira Costiniano skated to?

Couldn't watch her....the stream just kept freezing. Was it a nice music ?
I just saw the chinese skater skating to 'por una cabeza'.