#jgp krasnoyarsk

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PURPLE RULES

So how did you like the girls’ performances in Krasnoyarsk?

Frankly speaking, Sofia Akatieva’s Mulan always makes me cry. Actually I’d like to comment more on this program, so I’ll probably do that in a specially dedicated post bit later.

As to Sofia Samodelkina, in her interview after the free skate she admitted she was inspired by Alexandra Trusova storming five quads at Chelyabinsk Test Skates. Therefore she landed three quads which brought her to the third place. It is also quite peculiar that both Sofia S. and her idol Sasha sadly failed to land their 3As in SP (Sasha competed in the U.S. International in Boston).

Let’s also congratulate Anastasia Zinina with her debut together with Evgeny Plushenko. Her quad toeloop as well as artistic skills (look at her arms in motion!) are amazing.

Photos from www.figurist.ru

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Sofia Akateva won the gold at the JGP Russia, dominating to win by over 20 points and led Russian sweep of the top 5. Anastasia Zinina came up from third to win the silver. Sofia Samodelkina had the second-best free skate of the day and came up from sixth to win the bronze.

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Angela Ling / Caleb Wein (USA) - "April" by the Lumineers / "Can't Pretend" by Tom Odell

ISU Junior Grand Prix 2021, Krasnoyarsk - Free Dance

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Love the energy of the Italian dance team in Krasnoyarsk...not a huge fan of their FD but they’re fun to watch and I’m intrigued to see them develop

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2021 CS Autumn Classic International, US International Skating Classic, & JGP Russia: Info & Streaming

It's another busy week with three competitions - subscribe to our calendar to get event times in your own time zone!

AUTUMN CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL

Results | Schedule | Entries | Website | ISU

Type: Challenger Series When: Sept. 16-18 Where: Pierrefonds, QC, Canada Level & disciplines: senior women, ice dance, pairs, men (non-Challenger)

Schedule (UTC-4)

9/16: Pairs’ SP 14:10; Women’s SP 16:20

9/17: Men’s SP 13:00; Rhythm Dance 14:00; Pairs’ FS 15:45; Women’s FS 18:15

9/18: Men’s FS 11:00; Free Dance 12:30

Notable entries: Emily Bausback, Gabrielle Daleman, Alison Schumacher, Seoyeon Ji, Young You, Starr Andrews, Karen Chen, Vanessa James/Eric Radford, Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara, Ashley Cain-Gribble/Timothy Leduc, Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha, Carolane Soucisse/Shane Firus, Olivia Smart/Adrian Diaz, Caroline Green/Michael Parsons, Nam Nguyen, Conrad Orzel

How to watch: Free livestreams on Skate Canada’s Dailymotion channel

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US INTERNATIONAL SKATING CLASSIC

Results | Schedule | Website & entries | ISU

Type: International B competition When: Sept. 16-18 Where: Norwood, MA, USA Level & disciplines: senior women, men, ice dance

Schedule (UTC-4)

9/16: Men’s SP 8:20PM

9/17: Rhythm Dance 4:00PM; Women’s SP 6:00PM; Men’s FS 7:40PM

9/18: Free Dance 6:00PM; Women’s FS 7:55PM

Notable entries: Michal Brezina, Daniel Samohin, Donovan Carrillo, Jimmy Ma, Maxim Naumov, Camden Pulkinen, Yeonjeong Park, Alexandra Trusova, Paige Rydberg, Yura Min/Daniel Eaton, Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin, Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue, Lorraine McNamara/Anton Spiridonov, Eva Pate/Logan Bye

How to watch: Paid livestreaming on Peacock Premium ($4.99 USD/month, available only in the USA)

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JGP KRASNOYARSK

Results | Schedule | Entries | ISU

Type: Junior Grand Prix When: Sept. 16-18 Where: Krasnoyarsk, Russia Level & disciplines: junior women, men, ice dance, pairs

Schedule (UTC+7)

9/16: Rhythm Dance 14:15; Pairs’ SP 16:55; Men’s SP 19:00

9/17: Women’s SP 12:15; Pairs’ FS 16:30; Men’s FS 18:00

9/18: Free Dance 11:30; Women’s FS 14:30

Notable entries: Wesley Chiu, Artem Kovalev, Gleb Lutfullin, Egor Rukhin, Lucas Broussard, Sofia Akateva, Elizaveta Berestovskaia, Elizaveta Kulikova, Sofia Samodelkina, Anastasia Zinina, Maryn Pierce, Kate Wang, Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvei Ianchenkov, Natalia Khabibullina/Ilya Knyazhuk, Ekaterina Petushkova/Evgenii Malikov, Ekaterina Storublevtceva/Artem Gritsaenko, Hannah Lim/Ye Quan, Irina Khavronina/Dario Cirisano, Sofia Leonteva/Daniil Gorelkin, Olga Mamchenkova/Mark Volkov, Angela Ling/Caleb Wein

How to watch: Free livestreams on the ISU JGP Youtube channel

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Elizaveta Berestovskaia || 2021 JGP Krasnoyarsk, SP: Firebird.

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Hope you don’t mind me adding my faves! I created a giant YouTube playlist of programs when I got into figure skating as an observer and hopefully this will help create a great experience!

Kim Yuna - The queen, the legend. Amazing technical jumps and the top of her field in the 6.0 era.

Free Program, Les Miserables (2013 Four Continents): Only time I saw any competitive level skating live, and I loved it so much!! As much as I love her Bond girl short at the Olympics, this is my favourite program of hers.

Short Program, James Bond Medley (2012 Olympics): This is such a fun short with iconic details; I promise you every little Korean girl ran around doing the final gun pose (it was me.)

Cha Junhwan - Current fave that got me back into FS! Questionable jumps but really beautiful skating style.

Free Program, The Fire Within (2020 Four Continents): This is The Program for him and I will never digress. It marked a huge change from his junior level skating, and it’s packed full of fun details.

Short Program, Fate of the Clockmaker (2021 NHK Trophy): This short is insane. Chock filled with unique choreography and he nails each music point. He’s gaining a lot of new fans this season because of how epic this SP is.

Bonus: Free Program, Romeo and Juliet (2018 Grand Prix Final): Can’t list Junhwan’s best programs without forgetting Junliet. It’s an insane program with intense narration, club music, and Leo Dicaprio screaming.

Yuzuru Hanyu - The king, the legend. Honestly, all his programs are great, and just watching all of them is enough figure skating to absorb you into the sport.

Short Program, Parisienne Walkways (2014 Olympics): This is peak early Yuzu. Dramatic and charming, easy skating, flawless jumps. Still my favourite program of his actually!

Free Program, Origin (2019 Skate Canada): I love the drama and how gaudy this program is. He’s great with the soft music but I’ve a penchant for drama.

Bonus: Masquerade, Gala. It’s such an epic program with the most gorgeous delayed single axel, you’d think he broke gravity. (He probably did.)

Assorted other programs I love:

Shibutani/Shibutani, Paradise (2018 Olympics): I love the ShibSibs, their skating style is so refreshing to see in a field stuffed with romance. The sound editing (done by Alex himself, I believe) is also epic!

Yelim Kim, Black Swan (2020 “Nationals”): Yelim is so unnaturally graceful it’s eerie, and it works well with the Black Swan feeling. This is my personal favourite program of hers, but her beautiful short in the 2021 Four Continents is probably her best performance.

Vincent Zhou, Slow Dancing in the Dark (Some Gala Idk): Vincent’s polarizing, but I really love his skating. He’s a bit stiff, but when he’s on, he can really deliver. This one went viral because he delivers the fuck out of it.

Javier Fernandez, Yuna Kim, Charlie Chaplin (Javier’s ice show): This one’s unique, since it’s for a show and not for an actual performance! Ice shows are great, and Javier’s was honestly the one I was most impressed with after Yuna’s All That Skate shows.

Evgenia Medvedeva, Memoirs of a Geisha (2019 Autumn Classic): I mean, the costume. The music. The performance. What isn’t there to love, aside from muscled jumps??

Jason Brown, Schindler’s List (2020 Four Continents): This is an epic ass program by an epic ass skater. One of the most memorable programs the 2019-20 season!

And finally, a new find for me: Lim/Quan, Gangnam Style (2021 JGP Krasnoyarsk): No, you read that right. This insane new Korean ice dance team is skating to Gangnam Style (with an awkward cut to Don’t by Loco and Hwasa, but I get it—can’t skate blues to Gangnam Style).

Hey! I followed you for your Terror stuff but I noticed you also post a lot of figure skating. Do you figure skate yourself or just enjoy watching it? You seem pretty knowledgeable about it and it's something I've wanted to get into (watching not doing (I mean doing seems fun but not really feasible for me lol)) and I was wondering if you had any advice on where to start? Any recommendations for really great skaters or choreographers or routines and stuff? It just seems kind of overwhelming not knowing anything about it going in but I enjoy watching the routines that I've seen in my youtube recommendeds and all. Thanks!

hi there! i'm so glad at least one person is enjoying my fs posts. like any performance sport, figure skating is rife with joy, heartbreak, and nepotism; but don't let that deter you from enjoying it!

thankfully, your question has been answered by someone more well-versed than me. this post gives solid advice on how to start getting into figure skating. it's from 2018 so the technical talk is a bit dated (fs rules change often, usually after every olympics), so here's another guide that's more updated and quite thorough.

i started getting into fs bc of tessa virtue and scott moir back in 2018, so my advice getting into fs is to choose your homie :D start by selecting the field (men, ladies, pairs, ice dance), then select a few skaters from that field. watch their performances across the years and gradually expand your knowledge.

i'd suggest also looking at the current world rankings per field (x, x, x, x) so you can get up to speed on the leading skaters at the moment.

as for recommendations, i go back to these performances often, for sentimental reasons ofc, but i do think they exemplify the best of this sport:

virtue/moir, olympics 2010 free skate

virtue/moir, worlds 2008 free skate

yuzuru hanyu, worlds 2017 free skate

mikhail kolyada, worlds 2021 free skate

sui/han, worlds 2019 free skate

savchenko/massot, olympics 2018 free skate

satoko miyahara, japanese nationals 2020 short program

wakaba higuchi, japan open 2021 free skate

happy learning and enjoy!

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Irina Khavronina and Dario Cirisano of Russia lead after the Rhythm Dance at the JGP Russia. Sofia Leonteva and Daill Gorelkin of Russia are in second, and Angelina Ling and Caleb Wein of the US are in third.

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Irina Khavronina and Dario Cirisano of Russia led a 1-2 finish for the Russians at the JGP Russia, winning the gold. Sofia Leonteva and Daniil Gorelkin won the silver. Angela Ling and Caleb Erin of the US won the bronze.

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Ekaterina Chikmareva and Matvei Ianchenkov lead a Russian sweep of the podium at the JGP Russia, winning the gold. Natalia Khabibullina and Ilya Knyazuk won the silver, and Ekaterina Petsukova and Evgenii Malikov won the bronze.

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Sofia Akateva leads a Russian sweep after the short program of the JGP Russia. Elizaveta Kulikova is in second and Anastasia Zinina is in third.

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Here are the starting orders for the first day of the JGP Russia:

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2021 JGP Russia Preview

The Junior Grand Prix continues this week with the JGP Russia in Krasnoyarsk.

Entries & Results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season2122/jgprus2021/ Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbv3gsBXzIwotCt2JGySfJA

As a reminder, no Japanese skaters will be competing on the JGP.

Schedule (Local Time):

9/16: Rhythm Dance 14:15; Pairs Short 16:55; Men’s Short 19:00 9/17: Women’s Short 12:15; Pairs Free 16:30; Men’s Free 18:00 9/18:  Free Dance 11:30; Women’s Free 14:30

The Russians skaters dominated last week, and with even more skaters (and at home), will anyone be able to break through? It might be a complete Russian sweep in all four disciplines.

Skaters to Watch

As a reminder, these are not necessarily podium contenders, but just skaters to keep an eye on and are in no particular order.

Men - Lucas Broussard (USA), Andrei Anisimov (RUS), Artem Kovalev (RUS), Gleb Lutfullin (RUS), Egor Rukhin (RUS), Fedor Zonov (RUS), Alexander Lebedev (BLR), Wesley Chiu (CAN), Mikhail Selevko (EST)

Ladies - Sofia Akateva (RUS), Elizaveta Beretovskaia (RUS), Elizaveta Kulikova (RUS), Sofia Samodelkina (RUS), Anastasia Zinina (RUS), Kate Wang (USA), Varvara Kiesel (BLR)

I am not listing Pairs here, because... there’s only six teams. Watch all of them. (Four are Russian.)

Ice Dance - Hannah Lim / Ye Quan (KOR), Irina Kavronina / Dario Cirisano (RUS), Sofia Leonteva / Daniil Gorelkin (RUS), Olga Mamchenkova / Mark Volkov (RUS), Alisa Ovsiankina / Matvei Samokhin (RUS), Elizveta Shichina / Gordey Khublov (RUS), Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beamont (CAN)

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Gleb Lutfullin of Russia won the Men’s event at the JGP Russia, coming up from second and winning the free skate to win the gold. Egor Rukhin made it 1-2 for Russia with the second-best free of the day, coming up from third to win the silver. Wesley Chiu of Canada stopped a Russian sweep of the podium. He had the third-best free of the day, and came up from fourth to win the bronze.

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Artem Kovalev of Russia lead after the Men’s Short Program at the JGP Russia. Gleb Lutfullin of Russia is in second, adn Egor Rukhin of Russia is in third.

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Ekaterina Chikmareva and Matvei Ianchenkov of Russia lead after the Pairs Short Program at the JGP Russia. Natalia Khabibullina and Ilya Knyazhuk of Russia are in second, and Ekaterina Petushkova and Evgenii Malikov of Russia are in third.