Practice reports, news, photos, clips, etc. - SkAm 2023

[Sylvia]

Starting this thread now that the practice groups & music rotation document for Thursday is published (Oct. 17): https://results.isu.org/schedules/gpusa2023_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Colo(u)red Time & Practice schedule: https://results.isu.org/schedules/gpusa2023_ColouredTimeSchedule.pdf

The “Practice Cam” livestream of the practices for Peacock Premium subscribers in the U.S. is scheduled to start on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 10 am local/11 am Eastern time (order is Pairs, Men, Ice Dance, Women).

Looking forward to reading all the first-hand observations/impressions/notes from the arena!

 

[Carolla5501]

Wrong thread

 

[Wyliefan]

Peacock practice cam is live.

 

[Frau Muller]

The Cam is live!

 

[Frau Muller]

Ah, the “tipsy announcer” is speaking!
Pereira/Michaud first. Sounds like their SP to Gladiator.

 

[honey]

Ah, the “tipsy announcer” is speaking!
Pereira/Michaud first. Sounds like their SP to Gladiator.

That’s the long then.

 

[Sylvia]

Pereira/Michaud FS
Vaipan-Law/Digby FS
Hocke/Kunkel SP - Hotarek is with them
Caldara/Maglio - their Batman FS, I think?

Peacock is adding the skaters’ Instagram handles in the screen graphics - think this is new?

 

[Frau Muller]

Liu/Nagy first of the three US pairs - I think it’s Liu…very light blonde hair (?)
Very sharp elements.

 

[Sylvia]

Liu/Nagy ran through their R&J (Korzeniowski) FS with a floaty 3twist & very strong lifts!

 

[mtnskater]

I could endlessly watch Balaz Nagy. What a gorgeous, strong skater. Love their music too. One of my favorite movies.

 

[Sylvia]

Martins/Bedard - 2016 U.S. Juvenile Pairs champs to their GP debut at Skate America 7+ years later!

“Hallelujah” (KD Lang) FS - landed both throws 3S & 3Lo.

Jenni Meno is there with both Great Park Ice pairs.

 

[Wyliefan]

Jackie Wong is doing practice notes for those who'd like to see them.

https://twitter.com/rockerskating

 

[Frau Muller]

Liu/Nagy my faves among the three US teams (the lines! She’s perfectly petite & he is strong). Pereira/Michaud my faves among all competitors…beautiful!

 

[Sylvia]

Plazas/Fernandez ran through their Top Gun: Maverick FS (Lady Gaga song in 2nd half) - saw a throw 3Lo with good speed on landing; lifts looked solid.

Jim Peterson & Amanda Evora are both with them.

 

[Sylvia]

This fan (michlmint on X) is taking practice pics - here's Chelsea Liu way up in the air in the twist: https://twitter.com/michlmint/status/1715033440116973673

 

[Frau Muller]

Men coming up…but we’ll have to wait until the second group to see The Famous Blonde Coach with Egadze…if she’s here.

 

[sk9tingfan]

Thank goodness for Peacock! I could not have made it to Allen. At least I got to go to Norwood and see Malinin's 4A.

 

[Sylvia]

Starting this thread now that the practice groups & music rotation document for Thursday is published (Oct. 17): https://results.isu.org/schedules/gpusa2023_MusicRotationAll.pdf

Men Group 1 11:35 - 12:15 (Central) - order of music to be played:
Stephen GOGOLEV CAN http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101086.htm
Kevin AYMOZ FRA http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014227.htm
Shun SATO JPN http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054884.htm
Tatsuya TSUBOI JPN http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054883.htm
Nozomu YOSHIOKA JPN http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00104490.htm
Andreas NORDEBACK SWE http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00103008.htm

 

[once_upon]

I wish Aymoz would do jumps. I do like this Bolero though.

 

[Debrah]

Rocker Skating posted about Shun Sato sp RT...

 

[Rukia]

6 year old very impressed by Aymoz

 

[Sylvia]

Rocker Skating posted about Shun Sato sp RT...

Jackie's comments:

Shun Sato SP runthrough just now: 4T3T, 4F, 3A(ftdwn)
Shun Sato switching from 4Lz as his primary second quad to 4F seems to be really good for him - that 4F is just more consistent in the snap than the lutz has been

His jump notes are being compiled/updated here: https://www.rockerskating.com/news/2023/10/19/2023-skate-america-practice-notes

Gogo has been massively impressive in this practice
Gogolev: marked runthru, 3S, 3F3A, 4S, 4S3T, 4S, 4T, 4T, 3A1Eu3S, 3F3A

I saw Vera Arutunian by the boards for him.

 

[Debrah]

Rocker Skating posted about Gogolev who seems to be rediscovering his competitive jump mojo go there for details.

 

[Rukia]

Y'all torgy even warms up like a dream

 

[Sylvia]

Group 2 music order:
Vladimir LITVINTSEV AZE http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00106448.htm
Nika EGADZE GEO http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101375.htm
Deniss VASILJEVS LAT http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00011354.htm
Ilia MALININ USA http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00108049.htm
Maxim NAUMOV USA http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00103185.htm
Andrew TORGASHEV USA http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00014939.htm

ETA - @Debrah I've copied out what Jackie tweeted about Gogolev in my post above.

 

[Frau Muller]

Group 2 of men practicing. Oddly, the surnames remind me of an all-USSR team (going by ethnicities/backgrounds):

Litvintsev
Egadze
Vasiljevs
Malinin
Naumov
Torgashev

 

[Rukia]

Lol ilia was in no rush to get out of litvintsev's way, but to be fair he wasn't going that fast. Also this music combo is something else.

 

[Sylvia]

All 6 in this group can speak Russian (according to Latvian-born Deniss’ wiki, Russian is one of the languages he’s learned).

 

[Rukia]

Mr is even worse at full volume

 

[Rukia]

Eteri does not look amused by him tripping himself in his spin

Deniss is laughing at how his name was pronounced