#you are Sonja Hilmer

[harocat]

Oh no Ilia’s program going around means all these people are jumping in with wrong facts about figure skating.

[bisexuallsokka]

Hi Jo!! Idk if you have any interest in it but rn I'm watching the US women's figure skating championship and Sonja Hilmer performed her free skate to a compilation of instrumental pieces from ATLA and her costume was inspired by the Firr Nation and there were lots of lil references in her skate it was amazing I lost my mind !!!

oh shit this is SO cool!! thanks for sharing!!

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Early 2024-25 Program Announcements

Men

Corey Circelli (ITA) - SP:  “Mon Dieu” by Édith Piaf; choreo by Guillaume Cizeron

Matteo Rizzo (ITA) will be keeping both his programs from last season.

Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) - SP: Dune soundtrack, choreo by Ivan Righini

Jaekun Lee (KOR) - SP: "Movement"; FS: "Archangel" (Crusaders of the Light/Oratio Sanctus); choreo by Misha Ge

Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT) - SP: "La Bayadere;" choreo by Vadim Muntagirov

Sena Miyake (JPN) - SP: "LOVE"; choreo by Misha Ge

Rio Nakata (JPN) - SP: "Aroul/Uccen"

Koshiro Shimada (JPN) - SP: ""You're Just Too Good to Be True" by Shawn Mendes; FS: "Danse Macabre"

Sota Yamamoto (JPN) - SP: "Split;" "Postcards from Far Away" by Ezio Bosso; choreo by Benoit Richaud

Kyrylo Marsak (UKR) - SP: To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra; choreo by Monika Lindfors

Joseph Klein (USA) - SP: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Lorde; FS: "Scotland" by the Lumineers mixed with "Northern Attitude" by Noah Kahan & Hosier; choreo by Silvia Fontana; Joseph Klein

Women

Hetty Shi (CAN) - SP: I Will Wait For You (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg); choreo by Misha Ge

Nataly Langerbauer (EST) - SP: "13 Beaches" by Lana del Ray; FS: "No More Fight Left in Me" by Imany; choreo by Rostislav Sinicyn

Niina Petrokina (EST) - SP: “Soldier” by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt; FS: Dune soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; choreo by Mark Pillay

Yuna Aoki - FP: Popsical

Mai Mihara - SP: "Grief" by Tony Ann; choreo by Misha Ge

Rion Sumiyoshi (JPN) - SP: "Un homme qui me plaît" (from Love Is a Funny Thing)

Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) - SP: Dune: Part Two soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; FS: “Nature Boy” by AURORA/Alien: Convenant soundtrack; choreo by Shae-Lynn Bourne

Minsol Kwon (KOR) - SP: James Bond Medley; choreo by Misha Ge

Yelim Kim (KOR) will be keeping her programs from last season.

Yujae Kim (KOR) - FP: Swan Lake; choreo by Misha Ge

Yuseong Kim (KOR) - SP: "Clare de Lune" by Claude Debussy

Young You (KOR) - SP: "Mosaic" (Modern Arabic); choreo by Misha Ge

Starr Andrews (USA) - SP: "Fur Elise" by Faouzia; choreo by Adam Rippon; FS: Selections from the Euphoria soundtrack

Sonja Hilmer (USA) - FP: "You're The First, My Last, My Everything" by Barry White; "Now and Then" by The Beatles; "Electric Energy" by Ariana DeBose, Boy George, and Nile Rodgers from the Argylle soundtrack; choreo by Sonja Hillmer

Mia Kalin (USA) will be keeping her short from the 2023-24 season. FP: Romeo & Juliet

Wren Warne-Jacobson (USA) - SP: "What Was I Made For"(from Barbie) by Billie Eilish; choreo by Kate Charbonneau Shurts

Pairs

Sofiia Holichenko / Artem Darenskiy (UKR) - FP: "Сosmic Love" by Florence and the Machine

Valentina Plazas & Maximiliano Fernandez (USA)- SP: "Never Enough" by Kelly Clarkson; choreo by Jim Peterson; FP: Dune soundtrack by Hans Zimmer; choreo by Christina Carreira; Anthony Ponomarenko

Anastasia Vapian-Law / Luke Digby (GBR) - FP: "Survivor;" "Gangsta's Paradise"

Ice Dance

Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont (CAN) - RD: Lady Marmalade/Le Freak

[withbroombefore]

Caught up on some of US Classic (women’s free, whatever men’s programs I could find on YouTube) and have Thoughts!

I did catch all of the women’s free, since that was the only one left to watch after I realized no replays would be available. (Fuck you, Peacock.) Surprise favorite: Sonja Hilmer. Looking forward to seeing more from her.

I love Young You, but Yelim Kim is so goddamn good and deserves everything.

Are my feelings about Jimmy Ma gender envy? Attraction? General appreciation of the performance ability? Fondness from the competition where he was thrilled to see his dog on camera and then swore on national television because he was pleased with his score? All of the above? We’ll never know! He and his little ponytail are just very important to me. Wish I could find a recording of the free skate.

I am Looking Respectfully at Kevin Aymoz in his black tank top and gauntlet things.

I love that Ilia isn’t just a jumper. He’s certainly got work to do on the performance element, but it’s quite strong already for how young he is (especially the short program). And once he starts a routine, he’s in it until the end--didn’t break character even after landing the axel, or at the falls in the short. The non-jump elements are interesting as well as technically good, not just filling time. Super excited to watch him grow up and pull all the skills together a little more.

[sywtwfs]

Now that you mentioned it to the other anon that in order to do a lutz as a second jump on a combo you'd need to either spin in the opposite direction or land on the wrong foot, wouldn't the skater get penalised for landing on the wrong foot?

The skater will only be penalized in GOE for landing the last jump in a combination on the wrong foot, but will be penalized in GOE for landing on a wrong edge.

"In combinations/sequences all jumps with more than one revolution, except the last one may be landed on either foot. If the skater lands the last jump on the wrong foot, the call will still be the executed jump, but the judges will reduce their GOE."

"The call will not change if a jump is landed on the incorrect edge. However Judges will reflect this in their GOE."

(2022-23 Technical Panel Handbook for Singles, pg. 20)

When Artur Dmitriev first landed his 3Lz-3F at 2018 Nebelhorn Trophy, the same rules were in effect. He got a range of GOEs from the judges, from +2 to -2. The overall GOE ended up as +0.24. Presumably some judges deducted GOE for the wrong edge landing on the lutz.

In the other anon’s hypothetical axel-lutz combo, if the skater uses the “Dmitriev method”, they would need to somehow land the (counterclockwise) axel on the left back outside edge in order to avoid a GOE deduction, and take off (counterclockwise again) for the lutz from there.

If using the “Hilmer method”, they can land the counterclockwise axel on the right back outside edge (which is how it would normally land) and take off for the clockwise lutz from there. There should be no GOE deduction in this case, and not even an edge change would be necessary (as Sonja Hilmer had to do in order to add her clockwise 2S to the 3S).

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More 23-24 Program Music Announcements

Men

Dinh Tran (USA) - FP: Tron: Legacy, choreo by Misha Ge

Daniil Murzin (USA) - FP: Phantom of the Opera, choreo by Misha Ge

Yaroslav Paniot (USA) - SP: “Kiss” by Prince, choreo by Rohene Ward

Sena Miyake (JPN) - SP: Gypsy Kings Medley

Kao Miura (JPN) - FP: Attack on Titan OST, choreo by Shae-Lynn Bourne

Matteo Rizzo (ITA) - SP: Derniere Danse, choreo by Massimo Scali

Camden Pulkinen (USA) - SP: A Different Kind of Love by Son Lux, choreo by Marie-France Dubreuil

Nikolaj Memola (ITA) - SP: Adios Nonino and Inverno Porteño by Astor Piazzolla, choreo by Andrea Gilardi and Corrado Giordani; He will be keeping his FP from last season.

Kyrylo Marsak (UKR) - SP: “Pale Yellow” by Woodkid, choreo by Monica Lindors

Andrew Torgashev (USA) - FP: “Void of Madness” by Muse

Nikita Starostin (GER) - SP:  "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps; LP - "I Want It That Way” and “Larger Than Life" by the Backstreet Boys

Women

Starr Andrews (USA) - FP: Being Good Isn’t Good Enough (from Hallelujah, Baby!)

Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) - FP: “Fix You” and “Paradise” by Coldplay

Mone Chiba (JPN) - SP: Les Yeux Noirs (Dark Eyes), choreo by Misha Ge

Yujae Kim (KOR) - SP: Flamenco, classical guitar; FP: Avatar soundtrack, choreo by Yaeji Shin

Sonja Hilmer (USA) - FP: Avatar: the Last Airbender soundtrack by The Track Team and Samuel KimS; choreo by Sonja Hilmer

Pairs

Grace Hanns / Danny Neudecker (USA) - FP: Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack by Wojciech Kilar; choreo by Natalia Mishkutenok

Ice Dance

Klara Kowar / Thomas Schwappach (USA) RD: “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS; FD: No Time to Die by Billie Ellish

Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont (CAN) - RD: “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS and “Wild Boys” by Duran Duran

Hannah Lim / Ye Quan (KOR) - RD: Prince

Isabella Flores / Ivan Desyatov (USA) - FD: West Wide Story, choreo by Kaitlyn Weaver

Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (CAN) - RD: “Thriller” by Michael Jackson

Holly Harris / Jason Chan (AUS) - RD:  "Material Girl" by Madonna; "Express Yourself" by Madonna; choreo by Sam Chouinard

Sofia Val / Asaf Kazimov (ESP) - RD: Top Gun Soundtrack