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So true! UR calls can make that TES plummet :// Yeh the risk and reward weighting for 3A isn't really worth it - there are other, less risky ways to up your score, like maximising GOEs and PCs, or backloading and stuff... [although you could say backloading is quite risky if the skater doesn't have the stamina to pull it off consistently]

Lol it's nice when he wears T-shirt and jeans There was one hideous tank top moment tho... white singlet over something else grey? I'm not going to try and find it because my eyes :nono:

It's not just a matter of quads vs triples, tho. Toe and Salchow are jumps where your hips are "open" to rotation at take off, as such it's just the movement you are doing that "cause" some rotation on ice before the actual take off. When you do Loop, Flip and Lutz your hips are "closed" to rotation, but: with loop some degree of pre-rotation is again natural since it's an edge jump (so you don't have a "snap" picking up moment). Flip is not counter-rotated like lutz so it's normal if you have a tiny bit of prerotation more. It's not by chance, imo, that ISU speaks about "cheated jump" when the prerotation goes to 180° and over, because a bit of PR is considered normal and just in the way you are supposed to take off. The only jump where you should have next to nothing PR is lutz, since pre-rotating it would mean doing everything but a lutz :wink: sorry, i should edit my post to say most jumps have PR instead of quads The thing about when prerotations >180 is that the skater probably does it too fast for it to be picked by up eye and they can't slow-mo it so what's the point....

bc they've rotated ~0.5-0.75 on the ground -> looks like 4 rotations therefore "quad" ETA : I think most jumps will have some degree of prerotation though...

Wait Lettuce = Hope and Legacy?? What's Strawberry? I like the Final time traveler colour but the way the material is arranged.................... :wtf:

what? zorro? LOL :rofl2: I am actually excited hope he can bring a great spanish LP for this season! thinking don juan or don quixote, he will be a sexy womanizer :goe: he should totally do zorro. he can even wear the mask and everything. and then he can do an ex version which involves a rapier. :devil:

I hadn't, but then I saw your post and went and watched them both! They're both amazing :love: But the year Machida used that music was the year he r****d right? :(

ABSOLUTELY!! i don't care that I've stated this many times before but Hana Ni Nare is my favourite program of all time and it makes me cry every time. i don't know why. Especially when he skated it again in 2014. Its just so emotional and th music is brilliant too! i read the translation of the lyrics and now i can't not cry when watching it. Its so beautiful and i definitely feel that this type of music suits him. I would also very much love it if he skated to Yiruma. This piece is perfect i feel. Or maybe something piano, but olden classical. Like Liebestraum No.3, La Campanella are just a couple off the top of my head.Or actually, maybe it would be suitable to use korean music since olympics is in pyeongchang, so music like this would be amazing (i also love this korean drama like mad even though its very old.) Hana Ni Nare is sooo beautiful... everything about that program is exquisite :love: and the way his sleeves flutter when he skates is like :love: Lol same, I kinda wish he / or another skate would skate to La Campanella...

Doesn't the skater sometimes have a say? Like Yuzu with Seimei. Although I heard Shoma usually leaves his music decisions up to his coach... Why did she think it was a good idea though :( Like I get the whole familiarity part and Nessun Dorma for Olympics but WHY??

He is doing different choreo for that though right? Will there be a different music cut and costume? I am quite looking forward to his short as well. I think violin pieces suit him really well... even though a lot of people said that his short this year felt a bit "generic" in comparison to his free, I quite liked it... Maybe he wants to copy yuzu and do R+J1.0 and R+J2.0. after all, it won him the Olympics :coffee: lol then perhaps yuzu should one up him and do R&J 3.0 ... :s_devil I wonder who made the decision to go with Turnadot? Was it Shoma or his coach/team? Does anyone know...

He is doing different choreo for that though right? Will there be a different music cut and costume? I am quite looking forward to his short as well. I think violin pieces suit him really well... even though a lot of people said that his short this year felt a bit "generic" in comparison to his free, I quite liked it...

>:( lets not go there :(