#grimm/savitskiy

[violinfantasy]

grimsav still first thank god

[raininyourblackeyes]

I'm so proud of them

[austerlitzborodinoleipzig]

Grimmsky have the IT factor. Best performance hands down... Now imagine their scores if they had a good program

[fsupdates]

Ice Dance Podium for JGP Riga 2024!

🥇 Noemi Maria TALI / Noah LAFORNARA 🇮🇹 🥈 Caroline MULLEN / Brendan MULLEN 🇺🇲 🥉 Darya GRIMM / Michail SAVITSKIY 🇩🇪

Congrats to all the skaters 🎉 This marks the first Italian dance team to win on the JGP event since 2007!

[sunskate]

Darya Grimm & Michail Savitskiy RD at 2025 German National Figure Skating Championships

[laneai]

miniki watching grimmskiy is so cute

[figureskatingfanblog]

Grand Prix Updates

Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy (GER) have withdrawn from Skate Canada, as they were staying on the Junior circuit. They have been replaced by Holly Harris / Jason Chan (AUS).

[justnotkrikkit]

grimm/savitskiy winners in my heart winners forever

[figurelifeflirt]

2022 JGP Poland stage 2 entry #38

Junior free dance

Grimm/Savitskiy(GER)

Thoughts: I didn’t enjoy this program as much as I enjoyed their short program. The outfits for the short program were better.

Kudryavtseva/Karankevich(CYP)

Thoughts: the energy. The adorable outfits. I loved this program so much.

Lewis/McMillian(CAN)

Thoughts: Every time I see this dress on Jordyn, I fall in love all over again.

Straub/Straub(AUT)

Thoughts: I love love love Grease programs. But I have seen this program before and I still don’t think that Andreas makes a very good Danny Zuko. The overconfidence is missing.

Ben Khelifa/Zhu(CAN)

Thoughts: my heart jackhammered a little when their lift fell apart.

Junior short dance

Kudryavtseva/Karankevich(CYP)

Thoughts: Angelina, did you know it took me less than a minute to forgive you for that early fall?!

Lewis/McMillian(CAN)

Thoughts: Noah’s outfit was boring

Straub/Straub(AUT)

Thoughts: Anita’s dress was lovely. But numbers-wise, these two still have a long way to go.

Ben Khelifa/Zhu(CAN)

Thoughts: When I first noticed these two, it was only because Everest is sexy as hell. But I have come to love everything about this team.

[engarde-unlp]

Final Junior Grand Prix: Se dan a conocer las duplas clasificadas

Con el Junior Grand Prix en Armenia ya finalizado, se puede hablar de que todas las categorías ya tienen a sus clasificados, en especial, la de danza sobre hielo.

El último Junior Grand Prix finalizó en la capital de Armenia concluyó con el evento de danza sobre hielo. Elizabeth Tkachenko y Alexei Kiliakov se quedaron con el primer lugar, además de obtener un puesto en la final, también se convirtieron en la primera pareja israelí en ganar un evento junior desde 2003.

Posterior a la entrega de medallas, y teniendo en cuenta los puntos que se sumaron gracias a los rankings, ISU hizo oficial el listado de participantes para el evento final que se dará en la mitad de la temporada. Las duplas que participarán son:

Celina Fradji / Jean-Hans Fourneaux (FRA)

Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy (GER)

Elizabeth Tkachenko/ Alexei Kiliakov (ISR)

Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov (UKR)

Leah Neset / Artem Markelov (USA)

Yahli Pedersen / Jeffrey Chen (USA)

El Final Junior Grand Prix se llevará a cabo entre el 06 de diciembre y el 10 del mismo mes en Beijing junto con la división mayor de patinadores.

Publicado por Florencia Arce

[ravensburgerwaltz]

it's the way i would watch ANY one of the junior ice dance finalists over all the seniors...

i love darya and michail so so much🫶🏻 and they're also such lovely people it was such a delight to cheer them on in torino!!

Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy The Nutcracker • Junior Grand Prix Final 2022

[violinfantasy]

noooo grimsav no

[figure-skating-watch-party]

JGP Courchevel I

I think that being late in watching a figure skating event, let alone writing about it, is a constant with me so let’s get back to August! 

I watched some men, some ladies and of course ice dance. It should be noted that - probably because of high altitude - it was a challenging event for some skaters, mainly in the free program. 

Men

In men, I was the most impressed by Corey Circelli. He’s skating to Io ci saro by Andrea Bocelli in the SP and to the Nutcracker in the FP and I don’t know if there’s an even more dreamy combination of programs for me. He’s soft, elegant, great spinner, the spread eagle 3A, rippon jumps, such soothing skating. In the free it wasn’t his day, unfortunately, but he fought until the end of the program. 

I saw Ilia Malinin (Billie Jean / Nobody knows) properly for the first time here. He’s also a mature skater, completely different from Corey. His jumps in the SP were great. In the free he planned to do quads but wasn’t that successful. I liked his skating in the free program more, though. 

I liked Lucas Broussard with such a fun SP to Gin Tonic and then showing his more lyrical side with Yellow Moon in the FP. I’ll keep an eye on him. 

And now two French boys I’m especially happy for them that this JGP went well. The thing is I saw Francois Pitot first at senior French nationals in 2020 and Ian Vauclin (Fly me to the moon / ? ) maybe even a year before and the nationals ... didn’t go well for them. They were very young, competing with much stronger skaters so it’s understandable. But I’m very happy French public saw better performances now. 

Francois is so committed to the performance and I think he has a good relationship with his coach, Florent Amodio. I can even see Flo’s influence on Francois’ costumes ;) I love it that he’s skating to Rocketman in the free. He’s so into it that he almost fell in the step sequence ;)

Ladies

This time, I’ll talk very briefly about ladies because I focused on them more in my Courchevel II  post. I liked Kaiya Ruiter (Opportunity / Mulan), I hope she, Emily and Madelein will bring Canadian ladies back into the spotlight! 

Lindsay Thorngren has great jumps and I loved her Queen’s Gambit FP, with a 2A from an Ina Bauer and with a great spin at the end. 

Then there were two Korean ladies and one lady who switched from Korea to the USA fighting for the podium. Seoyeon Ji (Danse macabre / Piano concerto No 2), Ashun Yun (Smells like teen spirit / Mummy return) and Clare Seo (Rain in your black eyes / Cirque du soleil). They all had beautiful costumes and such nice skating skills. 

 Ice dance

There were twelve teams and yes, I’ll talk about all of them! At least one thing I liked about one of their dances.

Hailey Yu/Brendan Giang (River / Magical thinker)  Their complete stylization into the fairy tale ballet FP. 

Maya Benkiewicz/Nicolas Henault (No diggity / Russian sailors dance) The way they incorporated real Russian Kozachok dance into their choreography.

Daria Grimm/Michail Savitskiy (Going crazy with the blues / Sarabande) Nice, calm RD. Jazzy all the way. And their twizzles in the FP. The way they are smooth and quick at the same time. 

Miku Makita/Tayler Gunara (Leave the door open / Attack) They go full out, party on the ice!

Celina Fradji/Jean-Hannes Fourneaux (Ain’t no sunshine / Matrix) Just generally how they are getting better and mature I’ve been following them for some time. 

Hannah Lim/Ye Quan (Gangnam style/Cats) Are those my fave programs ever? No. But their choreographers are geniuses because now everybody would remember them. Also the acrobatic lift in the RD! And the paws in the FD ;)

Katarina Wolfkostin/Jeffrey Chan (MJ medley / Rain in your black eyes) They are awesome in general, especially the FD is breath-taking.

Tatjana Bunina/Ivan Kuznetsov (Imma Be/Writing on the wall) Amazing FP! The choreography is great. It matches the James Bond theme so well, there is always something going on, some action. 

Louise Bordet/Thomas Ghipoulou (California soul/Taranta) The character steps in the FD! The lifts and combo spins!

Kateřina Mrázková/Daniel Mrázek (Danny Cool/Poeta en el mar) The fire that is the FD! The power, the character steps. And a fun RD, that’s always a plus.

Vasilisa Akhramenka/Alessio Surenkov-Gultchev (Summertime / Tango) Nice sliding move and a lift while Alessio is skating backwards. 

Lika Bodnar/Artem Koval (Virtual insanity, Uptown Funk / Bedroom hymns) Great twizzles and the fact that they really enjoy their RD.

[austerlitzborodinoleipzig]

Grimmsky with the coming-from-behind win and the qualification for JGPF!!!!!!

[macaroni-rascal]

Have you seen the top 2 RDs from the Riga JGP? Ted said Gauthier/Thieren's looked polished but easier or basic? And the US judge gave them really low PCS compared to the other judges. The German team had more consistent marks but had a lift deduction and a small error-- do you see what Ted's talking about regarding G/T?

So I just went and watched these programs.

My thoughts after one single watch, and just off the cuff my general impressions. (Also, I didn't listen to the actual commentary because Ted's voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard to me.)

I think the German team had a really solid and and interesting beginning, and then the program sort of faded and fizzled. The music isn't enough to carry them, and there were moments where they were waiting for one another. It wasn't as cohesive as the Canadian's program, that's for sure. G/T also had better sustained speed, I felt their pattern was strong as well, though still not the best. Grimm and Savitskiy really lost momentum in their pattern. The ending was far stronger for the Canadians as well, and they sold it better, you could see the German team really thinking through things, especially in the pattern.

I think with more training, a different music cut, and a better pattern, the German team could have over taken the Canadians, but it didn't shake out that way.

I think Ted saw a lot of flash and intricacy in the first part of G/S's program and based it off that, but G/T had some lovely transition all in close hold, and were far more together, matching, and in sync. In juniors that is what I would rather see. I'd rather really well done basics than flashy yet messy complex stuff. Because the well done basics are actually far more difficult to do. It's easy to kick your leg out, it's not easy to lift and hold your leg and keep your toes pointed, you know?

[sunskate]

love this loooong spread eagle on the music change - they have a few really good transitions in this- their difficult entry into the twizzles also 🔥 happy to see them in a good place after a slightly bumpy start to the season - i love the combination of unselfconscious confidence in performance with the sensitivity to the music. there's a slight daring mixed with some refinement which is appealing. plus everything they do feels like it comes from them, they own what they're doing, which is something that's usually developing in junior teams. they're more balanced as a team than they used to be. still think it's his personality that comes through more than hers (he has 3 yrs on her, they're 18/21 yo), and that when they grow to feel equal, they'll really come into their own