NHK Trophy 2023 Womens SP - Madam Butt or Fly

[PRlady]

Starting Order

StN.	Name	Nation
Warm-up Group 1
1	Yuna AOKI	JPN
2	Seoyeong WI	KOR
3	Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT	NED
4	Lea SERNA	FRA
5	Ava Marie ZIEGLER	USA
6	Wakaba HIGUCHI	JPN
Warm-up Group 2
7	Nina PINZARRONE	BEL
8	Lindsay THORNGREN	USA
9	Anastasiia GUBANOVA	GEO
10	Mai MIHARA	JPN
11	Yelim KIM	KOR
12	Haein LEE	KOR

Wedgie

 

[skateboy]

Starting Order

Wedgie

The thread title!

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I’ll try to make it through as much as I can, oh no, Ava just took a spill

 

[skatingguy]

Aoki, Yuna
Coach: Kensuke Nakaniwa, Makoto Nakata
Music: Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray

 

[Amy L]

I should be okay for this event, I've been in a night owl phase lately. If I get sleepy it will be the ladiiieeeezzzzzzzz fault

 

[Rukia]

wow I think that was one of the cleanest 3 loops in the back half of a combo. They usually look very short.

 

[tony]

wow I think that was one of the cleanest 3 loops in the back half of a combo. They usually look very short.

And her 2A managed to look underrotated to me

Anyways this program is much nicer and much better choreographed than Higuchi's snooze, even If she is one of my favorites.

 

[Coco]

Seriously - it was so easy, I thought it was a double.

 

[Karen-W]

Aoki - nice skate, but utterly forgettable.

 

[once_upon]

I slept until 10:30 am, so I might make it through the ladies.
But not if we have generic girl music.

 

[skatingguy]

Aoki, Yuna
Coach: Kensuke Nakaniwa, Makoto Nakata
Music: Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray

3Lz<+3Lo< - leg wrap
2A<
Fly Camel Spin 4
Ch Combo Spin 4
3F!
Step Sequence 3
Layback Spin 4 (3 after review)

The skating quality from a somewhat random Japanese skater is quite astounding - lovely moments in the program with the blades. The leg wrap does mar the jumps to some extent.

58.28 = 1st Place

 

[Rukia]

well it didn't look so good on replay lol

 

[peibeck]

I'm not a fan of this "Gatsby" music but Yuna was good. Lovely presentation.

Lutz and axel both looked a bit under to me.

 

[airgelaal]

I’m no longer young and beautiful, so getting up so early is a feat.
Girls, you better not upset me

 

[skatingguy]

Wi, Seoyeong
Coach: Hyungjyung Choi
Music: Dawn and a Postcard to Harry Purcell

 

[once_upon]

The good thing about skating 1st, Is that you know you will be in 1st place for at least 3 minutes.

 

[Rukia]

She seemed very hesitant going into that loop. I almost thought she was just going to say nope and move on.

 

[peibeck]

Wi has amazing jumps today, but the performance is soulless.

 

[Karen-W]

Wi - see my comment about Aoki...

 

[skatingguy]

Wi, Seoyeong
Coach: Hyungjyung Choi
Music: Dawn and a Postcard to Harry Purcell

3Lz+3T
2A
Fly Camel Spin 2 - a bit sloppy, not snapping into the positions
3Lo
Ch Combo Spin 4
Sit Spin 3
Step Sequence 2

Nice skate, but not the most memorable performance.

60.63 = 1st Place

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Wi - seem my comment about Aoki...

I was going to see the exact same thing and copy you

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

My goal here is to make it to Nina and Lindsay

 

[skatingguy]

van Zundert, Lindsay
Coach: Carine Herrygers, Thomas Kennes
Music: Can't Help Falling in Love

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Dreadful, emo, cover music

 

[airgelaal]

I can't help falling...

 

[Rukia]

this is the kind of cover they play on the trailer for a true crime podcast

 

[FiveRinger]

Dreadful, emo, cover music

Where is the pukeface emoji?

 

[tony]

Really big regression for Van Zundert in the last two seasons. The jumps are never rotated and the energy hasn't been there for a while.

 

[Tak]

Arakawa who is commentating on Japanese TV, felt Yuna Aoki 3Lz+3Lo was too severely evaluated.
She said 3Lo as second jump is extremely difficult and if you rotate it completely, one will tend to over-turn, so slightly under-rotated is the only way to do it.
No wonder, nobody even tries +3Lo anymore.
Arakawa agrees with 2A under-rotation call.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Really big regression for Van Zundert in the last two seasons. The jumps are never rotated and the energy hasn't been there for a while.

totally