Skate America 2007-08

Results
http://www.isufs.org/results/gpusa07/

ladies SP

Kimmie Meisner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUIcbnKRM8
Miki Ando
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Q7Rvv22vs
Caroline Zhang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_U3Ig_weY

Is this commentator TAT? :drunken:
Mai is 5th place after her SP!!!

Thank you Popon for the link
Kimmie and caroline skated nice Love Caroline's SP
Poor miki for the fall and combination jump looks like became 3+2..., good luck for tomorrow's free
Mai-chan ganbatte tomorrow

And again congratulations to Dai-chan

Mai Asada SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTeG4uwsB34

Thanks for the links, Popon!

I'm sooo happy for Dai!!!!!

Daisuke

It seems I fell in love with his new programs even more than with the ones from the last season, which is quite impossible, actually His step sequences are completely insane. (This reminds me of the "World Record" episode from The Animatrix, where an athlete broke a world record by violating the physical laws of the world inside the matrix ).
And I like his 'Romeo and Juliet' outfit. =P
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Mai
I just love her. Good luck all the season long, dear Mai!

And good luck for Miki!

Yes, Popon, TAT is commenting. It seems that she likes Daisuke quite much. She was very fond of his last step sequence (straight line) in the LP (she said "amazing" three times in a row ).
And it's pity that the Mai's SP video from the YouTube is so cut. I would like to hear TAT's commentary over her.

summervie wrote:

Yes, Popon, TAT is commenting. It seems that she likes Daisuke quite much. She was very fond of his last step sequence (straight line) in the LP (she said "amazing" three times in a row ).
And it's pity that the Mai's SP video from the YouTube is so cut. I would like to hear TAT's commentary over her.

Thanks for sharing TAT's comment I loved Daisuke's step as always too, but judge seems strict giving Slst1 for SP, and Cist2 and Slst2.... Loved his quad It was perfect I wanted to know what TAT says about Mai's SP that she choreographed too!

I only saw result of ladies FS, but it doesn't seem anybody skated their best. Yet, Congratulations to Kimmie for winning SA
Miki, ya still have time till NHK, so ganbatte next time
Caroline, Congratulations for your first senior medal
Mai-chan, ganbatte for nationals

I loved choreo of Miki and Mai's performances. Too bad about the jumps, hopefully they'll get better with time.
I'm worried about Miki's injuries. She didn't seem fully recovered - she could not even do a catchfoot layback, not to mention Biellman.

The American commentators were so clueless and annoying - I thought that Miki did very well considering she was not in full health. She improved artistically, her spirals got better and she did her best to fix her lip.
And saying that skating to slow music is way easier is just just wrong. It is very difficult to skate to slow music and still interpret it well enough to make it interesting. Mao's Nocturne SP was skated to slow music, but it had very compex choreography. Mai was also great at interpreting the music at SA. Insinuating that she picked it just to make her life easier is in bad taste, IMHO, especially considering that her last season's SP (second part, Libertango) was rather fast.

Overall, I liked the programs more than the commentators.