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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Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
- Robert Frost
Look I get it, I really do. I miss her too, whenever a lady's event
starts without her I get a lump in my throat the size of a cabbage. But
it is ridiculous to criticize Kimmie for not being as good as Michelle
Kwan. It's unfair to Kimmie and demeaning to Michelle. Of course Kimmie
isn't as good as Michelle, neither is Mao or Yu-Na or anyone else for
that matter. How can they be? Michelle was one of the greatest ever! Do
you remember the last time there was a five time World Champion? Neither
do I, I wasn't born yet! Nobody says that Neil Simon is a failure
because he isn't as good as Shakespeare. Why do people think Kimmie is a
failure because she isn't as good as Michelle Kwan? In figure skating
Michelle is Shakespeare she has set an unatainable standard. We were all
priveleged to have been there to have seen that. But don't expect to see
it again for a long time. Michelle Kwan was one of a kind, but her
season is suspended and may never come again. Let's judge this new crop
of skaters against the standard of the here and now and not against the
magic that Michelle alone created.
Besides I think Ambassador Kwan would want it this way.
My notes are incomplete for the first skaters and the last.
- Jocelyn Ho - Chinese Taipei
- All I written down is that she landed a triple sal and a double
axel/double toe.
- Emily Naphtal - Mexico
- Music was Romeo & Juliet (the
Tchaikovsky version) - She fell on a triple lutz, landed a double
axel/double toe/double loop and a double salchow. She has a great
Bielman spin.
- Phoebe Di Tommaso - Australia
- Skated to music from Cats - I have no notes for her,
but Marshall enjoyed her program very much.
- Ami - India
- Music is La Bayadere - She did a high
one footed flying sit spin. She has a beautiful layback spin. She landed
a triple toe/double toe, she has very pretty spins. She did a sal/popped
jump combo. She stepped out of another double axel and fell on a triple
toe. She is very musical and has a real dance quality to her skating.
- Michelle Cantu - Mexico
- Music listed as I Could Have Danced All
Night, but it was really a piano medley from My Fair
Lady - She landed a double loop a double sal and a triple sal.
She popped a loop and a double axel. She did a very musical circular
step sequence. She landed another double axel.
- Cynthia Phanuef - Canada
- Clair De Lune - Landed a double axel into
another double axel. She fell on the lutz. She had a dreamy expression
throughout and really seemed to feel the music. She did a double sal and
a triple/double toe/double loop combo. She had a deep outside edge on
her change edge spiral. She fell on something. Had a lovley footwork
sequence.
- Joanne Carter - Australia
- Cubeman - She is very fast. She landed a
high triple/double combo with good speed. She popped a lutz, she did a
spread eagle into a popped salchow, fell on a triple flip. She did
really fast three turns into a loop but singled the loop. She landed a
double axel. She did lots of twizzles in an intricate footwork seqence.
Harem- esque music and choreography.
- Ana Cecilia Cantu - Mexico
- Music from Kill Bill - She landed a
triple sal and a triple toe. She has good height in her flying sit spin.
She landed a double/single combo and a double/double combo.
- Na-Young Kim - Korea
- Music is Argentine Tango - She landed a
triple flip with good height a double axel and another triple jump and a
double/double combo. She did a change edge Bielman spiral held for a
long time. She did a triple lutz/double toe/hop sequence. She did a
double axel into a single axel.
- Yea-Ji Shen - Korea
- Music is Cirque Du Soleil - She landed a
riple toe/ double toe , another triple toe, a triple sal/double toe and
a doule axel. She did some beautiful spins with lovely sretched
positions. She has long arms and she moves them beautifully. She did a
very lovely change edge Bielman spiral. She had a big grin on her face
throughout her footwork sequence. She landed another double axel and a
double sal, but fell on an axel. She has beautiful flow lovely moves.
- Lesley Hawker - Canada
- She landed a triple lutz/double toe/double loop sequence. She landed
a double axel a triple flip and a triple lutz. She did a wobbly
triple/double combo and a triple sal/double toe. Final jump is a
scribble.
- Yoshie Onda - Japan
- Music is Red Violin - She started out
with a triple lutz/double toe/double toe, then landed a triple/double
combo. She landed a triple sal and stepped out of a triple loop. She put
her hand down on a triple lutz and landed another triple jump and a
double axel. She has a high flying sit spin. Very fast ending combo
spin. She had a lot of energy and speed throughout the program.
- Binshu Xu - China
- Music is Mulan - She landed a triple
lutz/double toe and then another triple lutx. She landed a triple loop,
a triple sal, and a double axel into another double axel. She did a very
fast layback/Bielman spin. She started out really strong and then slowed
down, a common ailment in this event, I assume it was the altitude. She
fell out of another triple jump.
- Dan Fang - China
- The Legend of 1900 - She landed a douuble
axel/double toe, she landed a triple lutz with good height. She did a
triple/double combo and popped something. She landed a triple sal/double
toe combo. Popped a sal and some other jump. She has very pretty
spirals.
- Anastasia Gimazetdinova - Uzbekistan
- Music is soundtrack medley - She is so fast she zooms around the
rink like a speedskater. She fell out of a lutz jump. She landed a
triple/double combo and a triple sal. Landed a double axel and fell on
another lutz.
- Chae-Hwa Kim - Korea
- Music is selections from Prokfiev - She landed a triple/double combo
and a triple jump. She has a pretty camel spin. She fell out of a triple
sal and landed a double axel/double toe. She fell out of another triple
and had some problem with a triple sal that I can't read. She two footed
the double axel. She is a light and airy skater, but just didn't have
the jumps tonight.
- Alissa Czisny - USA
- Music is Sabrina - She has really deep
edges. She starte out so strong a triple lutz/double toe and a triple
flip/double toe. Then she landed a triple loop and I was thinking oh she
is going to win and I jinxed her and she fell on the next jump. It is
all my fault. She landed a doule axel, then she landed a triple/double
and I thought oh she will get a medal and wham she fell again, see I
never learn I just keep jinxing the lovely skaters. Someone should ban
me from skating fandom. Beautiful program, beautifully skated. I hope
you have the skate of your life at Worlds Alissa, you could really
surprise people there. I will not think anymore good thoughts about you
so as not to jinx you..
- Joannie Rochette - Canada
- Joannie didn't skate with her usual passsion, and she missed both
her lutzes. But her skating is far more beatufiul and her skating skills
are much better than Emily or even Kimmie. What kills me is that Emily
won the silver on PCS and that is absurd. Joannie was robbed.
- Emily Hughes - USA
- So is there still a Zayak rule or is there not? Emily landed two
triple lutzes and two triple flips, but neither was in combination. She
got 10 points for jumps that aren't supposed to count. What is the point
of having the Zayak rule if you can rack up points with jumps that are
against the rules. Yep Emily landed more jumps than Joannie, but Joannie
landed her jumps within the Zayak rule which is a lot harder to do.
Either repeal the Zayak rule or don't give points for jumps that violate
it.
- Yan Liu - China
- Music was Soong Sisters - Fell on a
lutz, fell again, popped a loop. Then she did land a triple loop and put
her hand down on another triple, landed a double axel. And I am sorry
that is all I have for her.
- Kimmie Meissner - USA
- I was on the opposite side of the rink from her triple lutz/triple
toe but it looked great to me, really high and fully rotated. She popped
the flip but the rest of the program was solid. I was impressed by her
speed, she was fast and maintained throughout the program. She also
showed great stretch and lovely positions in her spins. I think Kimmie
has really worked hard on that second mark and I saw definite
improvement. I think she truly deserved this win. Good luck at Worlds
Kimmie.
- Aki Sawada - Japan
- I have no notes for Aki. I know she landed a bunch of jumps and she
has great personality and expression. She is a lot of fun to watch and I
thouroughly enjoyed both her programs. When her scores came up she was
thrilled, what a sweetie!
Marshall had a chance to meet Kimmie and Joannie after the event and
they were both very sweet to him. He enjoyed their attentions very much
and has added them to the short list of skaters he likes.
Copyright © 2007, Antoinette M. Aubert & Richard M. Hartman
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