Updated: 19-Feb-2007 11:48 PM
Cover Page
- Feb 5: Practices
- (06-Feb-2007 11:54 AM)
- Feb 6: More Practices
- (06-Feb-2007 11:25 PM)
- Feb 7: Compulsory Dance
- (07-Feb-2007 08:29 PM)
- Feb 7: Pairs Short
- (07-Feb-2007 08:33 PM)
- Feb 7: Men's Short
- (09-Feb-2007 08:46 PM)
- Feb 8: Original Dance
- (09-Feb-2007 08:46 PM)
- Promises of More to Come,
and Some Pictures as a Bribe
(please read)
- (12-Feb-2007 10:49 PM)
- Feb 8: Pairs Free
- (12-Feb-2007 10:52 PM)
- Feb 8: Ladies Short (fixed missing skaters)
- (13-Feb-2007 06:24 PM)
- Feb 9: Men's Free
- (14-Feb-2007 01:31 AM)
- Feb 10: Ladies Free
- (16-Feb-2007 01:03 AM)
- Feb 10: Exhibition
- (19-Feb-2007 11:49 PM)
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Baby isn't a leopard, Baby is a jaguar. You know the famous "leopard"
in
"Bringing Up Baby",
the most famous leopard in movies, he is a jaguar. Katherine Hepburn's
brother gets him in South America, and leopards are from Africa. Plus
Baby's spots are the dot in a circle spots of a jaguar, not a leopard
spots and his size is more in keeping with a jaguar than a leopard. I
have seen the movie umpteen times and I just noticed that Baby has to be
a jaguar.
What does this have to do with the lady's short program at Four
Continents? Well I was watching the movie on the first leg of the plane
trip home and I just noticed for the first time that Baby must be a
jaguar and I thought the world should know.
- Kristine Lee - Hong Kong
- Music is Tango de los Exilados - She
did a triple sal/double toe combo, but stepped out of the sal. She
landed a double out of steps and a single axel. She had a big smile on
her face and was very cute.
- Yea-Ji Shin - Korea
- Music is Ritual Fire Dance - She has
beautiful spin positions. She has willowy arms and holds them very
gracefully, she moves like a ballerina. Fell on a triple jump, landed a
triple salchow. She did a layback into a Biellman spin, with lovely
positions and a true stretched Bielman. Very extended spirals, gorgeous
positions and a dramatic, expressive footwork sequence. Her score was a
new personal best.
- Ami Parekh - India
- Music is a medley of Bollywood music. - She landed a ripple jump,
but did three turns out. Singled, and double footed the axel. She has a
really beautiful layback spin that she had to turn into a Bielman
because of COP. (Oh how I long for the days when we could just enjoy a
layback.) She has good speed in her footwork sequence that includes a
cool leap. She fell out of a triple sal. She held her Bielman spiral
very long.
- Na-Young Kim - Korea
- Music is Romeo & Juliet - I think
the movie version- Very pretty opening spiral sequence. She landed a
triple and a triple lutz/double toe and a double axel. She did a split
jump in her circular footwork sequence. New Personal Best
- Anastasia Gimazetdinova - Uzbekistan
- Music is From a Distance - She first
caught my eye in practice, zooming around the rink like a speed skater.
She is fast and powerful with very soft knees; when her jumps work they
are great. She landed a double axel. She did a triple lutz/double toe
but put her hand down and did turns after the lutz. She landed a triple
out of steps. She has a fast camel spin with a nice line. Her spiral
sequence was fast and her outside edge spiral was very deep. She ended
with a Bielman spin.
- Phoebe Di Tommaso - Australia
- Her music is Chicago - Opened with a
layback/Bielman spin. She fell on a triple jump landed a double
lutz/double toe and a double axel. She did a one footed flying sit spin.
New Personal Best.
- Michelle Cantu - Mexico
- Music is Duke Ellington's Satin Doll -
She has nice expression. She landed a triple loop, popped a salchow and
then did a toe jump. She did a nice interpretation of the music. Fell on
a double axel. Pretty layback into a catchfoot into a Bielman. She also
did catchfoot turns in her serpentine step sequence.
- Jocelyn Ho - Chinese Taipei
- She stepped out of a triple salchow. She did difficult steps into a
triple jump. She held her spirals well and landed a double axel.
- Cynthia Phaneuf - Canada
- She looks like she has grown a few inches since last season. Music
is You Are So Beautiful - She had great flow
coming out of her double axel, held he edge very nicely. She singled the
lutz and stepped out of the triple out of steps. Intricate straighline
footwork sequence.
- Stephanie Gardner - Brazil
- By the way now that South American's are competing don't they have
to change the name of this competition to the Five Continents. Or better
yet come up with a good name - Skated to Girl From Ipanema - She did a
single sal/single loop combo and a double out of steps and I don't have
any notes about her axel. She had a big grin on her face the whole time
and just seemed happy to be here.
(Not to pick on any one skater, cause a lot them were
doing it, but enough with skating to the cheesiest of pop songs!!! This
has to be stopped before someone skates to Having My
Baby or Feelings)
- Ana Cecilia Cantu - Mexico
- Music is Get Ready For This - Landed a
triple/double combo and a triple out of steps. She had nice height in
her flying sit spin. She stepped out of her double axel. She has lots of
personality. She did a sit spin with her leg extended that looked almost
like the Danielle Shepard spin. New Personal Best.
- Abigail Pietersen - Republic of South Africa
- Music is Tango de los Exilados, which I
think is the third time I heard this music used at this event. - She
fell on a double axel, landed a double lutz/double toe and d double out
of steps. She also smiled a lot and was clearly just enjoying being here
and skating for us.
- Emily Napthal - Mexico
- Music from The Matrix - Fell on a double axel and fell
on a lutz. She has nice positions in her combo spin. She landed a triple
sal. She did a nice catchfoot layback into the ubiquitous Bielman (yes I
know I sound like Dick Button.). New personal best.
- Lesley Hawker - Canada
- Music is Les Miz - She did a lovely
layback spin which she let us enjoy without turning into a Bielman. She
held onto a triple lutz and landed a double axel. But popped another
jump. She did a long held spiral right on the music's crescendo.
- Joanne Carter - Australia
- Russian Gypsy Fire - popped the lutz.
Fell on something. She did a doughnut camel spin (I have been on an
airplane all day and I would kill for a jelly doughnut.) She is very
fast, amazing ice coverage on this girl. She did a catch spiral into a
double axel.
- Dan Fang - China
- Music is Romeo & Juliet - She landed
he triple lutz/double toe and got the biggest, cutest grin on her face.
She stepped out of a triple sal. She did a layback/catchfoot/Bielman
spin. She did a fast catchfoot spiral. Smiled throughout her program and
fun to watch. I don't know what happened to her axel it is not in my
notes.
- Chae-Hwa Kim - Korea
- She did this cool back leap at the beginning of her program. She
landed a double axel and a triple out of steps. She has fast, deep
edges. She landed a triple salchow/double toe combo. Nice presentation
but slow spins. New Personal Best
- Kimmie Meissner - USA
- Music is Snow Storm - I was across the
rink from where she did her lutz but I could tell that baby wasn't going
to land, she just didn't have the height. She had a bobbly landing on
the triple flip. She has good speed throughout, great speed in her
spiral sequence an improved edging. She did butterflies into flying sit
spin. The double axle was very nice. I haven't seen her skate live in
over a year and I could tell she has worked hard and improved her basic
skating.
- Alissa Czisny - USA
- Music is Prelude and Quadukka - Of course
you know she has great spirals and beautiful spin positions. She also
had good height in her flying sit spin. She fell on a triple flip. She
landed a double axle and a triple lutz. Her Moves in the Field and spins
really wowed the crowd and deservedly so.
- Fumie Suguri - Japan
- Music is Bolero - Oh the poor kid. She
fell on both her triples and later I found out she was injured. She had
great footwork and spirals and I hope one day to see this program when
she is healthy. Get better soon Fumie!
- Yan Liu - China
- Music is Song of Boundless Traveling -
She landed a triple lutz/double toe and a triple loop and double axel.
She has very intricate footwork. Ended with a layback/Bielman spin.
Pretty Program, lovely skating. New Personal Best.
- Yoshie Onda - Japan
- Music is Love Dance - She almost put her
hand down on he lutz, and couldn't do the combo. She landed a triple
flip almost fell out of a double axel (Now it is getting late and I am
tired and my notes are inadequate.)
- Emily Hughes - USA
- Music is Carmen - She fell on the flip,
landed a triple lutz/double toe and a double axel.
- Joannie Rochette - Canada
- Music is Little Wing - She did a triple
lutz/double toe combo with a step out on the lutz. She landed a triple
flip and a double axel. Good footwork, beautiful layback, great edges.
- Binshu Xu - China
- Music is LeeLoo's Theme - She landed a
triple/double combo. Fell on the jump out of steps. She is a fast skater
with nice flow, light and airy. She landed the double axel. She did a
Bielman spiral, held long. She ended with a catchfoot layback bringing
her foot right to her face and then up into a Bielman.
- Aki Sawada - Japan
- She is a cute with a big grin. She landed triple lutz/double toe,
triple flip and double axel. She tapped out the rhythm of her music with
her finger during her spiral, or a spin I can't tell from the notes, but
it was fun. The look on her face when she saw her scores was priceless,
she was lots of fun. New Personal Best
Copyright © 2007, Antoinette M. Aubert & Richard M. Hartman
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