2024 NHK Trophy Men SP PBP - Game of Groans

[tony]

Gorodnitsky got his 3A back together here, with that same quick entry that he's been doing for years now. I've said it in other threads but he is constantly posting the jump on IG, and it's always been the same. I wish he'd go for bigger jumps by now, seeing how he very nearly was in the top 10 at Worlds.

I also read a comment from SC where he said he was focused on the skating and took out almost all of the choreography, which certainly appeared to be the case because neither program gave anything.

This isn't so bad for him this time, though.

 

[genevieve]

There's the presentation I'm used to from Gorodnitsky! Much, much better than SCI! Program doesn't seem like a complete mismatch like it did there.

 

[Rukia]

this dj really loves taylor swift but also they're not using any of the taylor's versions which is a travesty

 

[Rukia]

is the ? on his hand representing his mindset as he goes into jumps?

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - oh, Chris... Grassl wasn't out last season due to injury.

Of course, he then falls on literally NOTHING.

 

[MacMadame]

cracker!

 

[genevieve]

Oh Grassl, how I wish it were 2021-22 again and I could be charmed by your wack Armageddon/Interstellar mashup and frightening leg positions. Innocent times, then

 

[Karen-W]

What a cracker!

 

[Rukia]

that lutz-toe deserves negative goe just for, well, everything about it

 

[jenny12]

The mens field just has so much endless talent. I keep saying it but it's crazy how far ahead the discipline is of all the others. So much quality.

Agreed. I hate to sound like a bad fan but it’s the only discipline right now that I can watch the whole way through without getting bored.

 

[tony]

Such a shock every time he starts moving well to the music and then the jumps come and it's all just thrown out the window.

Quad loop ambitious for the short, and the jump itself lends to really curling the landing edge. Don't think it was clean but it was very close if not. And then of course he makes the 3Lutz+3Toe look extremely difficult. "Easy" my ass, Chris.

 

[Rukia]

stop hitting nice positions and trying to make me like you

 

[Karen-W]

I know Grassl has always had terrible posture but this program seems to accentuate it in all the wrong ways.

 

[MacMadame]

Agreed. I hate to sound like a bad fan but it’s the only discipline right now that I can watch the whole way through without getting bored.

I still love dance. But I was thinking after the pairs that we're one season out from the Olympics and no one is really stepping up.

 

[tony]

I know Grassl has always had terrible posture but this program seems to accentuate it in all the wrong ways.

Can't agree. White Crow and now this show off that he actually has some nice stretch and positions, but the jump technique is still horrible and won't ever change at this point.

 

[Rukia]

ok really what is the question mark about is it just skating while italian?

 

[MacMadame]

brilliant

 

[tony]

ok really what is the question mark about is it just skating while italian?

B E N O I T.

Wait for a three-paragraph explanation of the story behind the program in the quick comments.

 

[genevieve]

That coach looks like he's wearing a disguise. Is it really
B E N O I T???

 

[Rukia]

B E N O I T.

Wait for a three-paragraph explanation of the story behind the program in the quick comments.

hahaha i didn't realize this was a benoit program I look forward to his thesis about it

 

[Karen-W]

Can't agree. White Crow and now this show off that he actually has some nice stretch and positions, but the jump technique is still horrible and won't ever change at this point.

I think this program has the potential to show some nice stretch and positions, but there are places where it's not quite finished. I was actually thinking of and comparing it to White Crow and feeling it comes up short. I'm open to feeling differently about it later in the season as it's more fully trained.

 

[Karen-W]

B E N O I T.

Wait for a three-paragraph explanation of the story behind the program in the quick comments.

Don't you worry! We have Mark at Finlandia next week to read us the full program explanation when Grassl takes the ice, lol.

 

[genevieve]

oh god I am not prepared for more of the tragic demise of Jason Brown's skating. But I want to see Kagiyama.

 

[genevieve]

Brown in brown is almost as bad as Zhou skating to Vincent

 

[YukiNieve]

I heard Kao's injury has gotten worse, Hope it will not affect his performance.

 

[Karen-W]

Brown in brown is almost as bad as Zhou skating to Vincent

It is rather meta, isn't it?

 

[genevieve]

I wish Chris would pipe down - I have been trying to learn Japanese* and the arena announcers are speaking nice and slow and I want to hear them


*Morgan Freeman voice: genevieve cannot, in fact, speak Japanese

 

[MacMadame]

Does just about made the 3X mean he didn't actually make it? Asking for a friend.

 

[Rukia]

"just about makes the triple axle" sure i guess

 

[Karen-W]

Oh, Chris... That was not "just about makes the 3a"! Sure, it was the best looking 3a he's had all season, but that thing is getting a <<. And he falls on the combo again?! We are EFFED.