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- Dec 30, 2010
Number 1: Going through the all-event live is very exhausting. I'm glad to experience the World finally, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. Great experience and I love to see skaters that I never saw/noticed before, but it's physically and emotionally draining. You just feel so much more for the skaters than watching videos. I guess I will go to Grand Prix Final instead next time.
Number 2: The color of some costumes change a lot on TV, usually not as good as seeing it live, this is something I didn't notice before when I went to GP events.
Number 3: Seeing the skaters on the same ice do give one a better perspective. Yuna Kim had the strongest impact with her skating, Carolina's skating skills shows better live. Mao's skating is a bit small live, but her step sequence looked just as fabulous as on TV. Her SP and Ex looked better live than on TV. Thrilled to see Zijun Li shone in the LP, absolutely stunning. She got the first standing ovation of the night well before her program was finished. Seeing Yuna's clean LP was just a great feeling. So worried for Carolina. We could see blood spots from 300 level. Mao Asada is on ascending, and I admire her will power to challenge the limit of women's skating. I'm very positive for her to complete 8-triple LP in the 2014 Olympics.
V/M's Carmen looked better live, maybe because I couldn't see their expression that clear. I'm glad to see D/W win but the fight between D/W and V/M will go on, which is great for the sport. German team was very impressive with their dramatic and comic programs! Don't know if I saw them before but this time they definitely had very memorable programs.
V/T's LP was definitely the highlight of the pair events. D/R of Canada had a great SP. Good to see S/S did a 3Ath at the very end of their program. It's nice to see some less famous pairs did some interesting programs/elements. I was scared to death with K/S's lift. Going into the olympics, V/T is for sure the favorite, S/S is right there to fight for it, but they need better programs. The bronze is wide open.
For men, I found that I'm not impressed with Hanyu's skating at all, even his SP was not as good as on TV. His LP confirmed that he had bad posture and sloppy in his movement, but he put up a great fight to save all his jumps. Javier delighted me with that hilarious Ex, and his LP was just as good as on TV. Patrick's skating was great to see live even with the falls, but the falls were distracting even with the quick recovery. I hope he will find a technical coach next season. I'm surprised that I really enjoy Takahashi's skating this time. I saw him live several times before but this time somehow he was more impressive even with poor skates. Denis Ten did great and I'm really glad he won a silver. Great to see javier got a medal too. I predicted Javier to win before the competition but it doesn't matter.
So that's pretty much my impression of the World. I think I basically agree with the medal ranking for all disciplines.
Number 2: The color of some costumes change a lot on TV, usually not as good as seeing it live, this is something I didn't notice before when I went to GP events.
Number 3: Seeing the skaters on the same ice do give one a better perspective. Yuna Kim had the strongest impact with her skating, Carolina's skating skills shows better live. Mao's skating is a bit small live, but her step sequence looked just as fabulous as on TV. Her SP and Ex looked better live than on TV. Thrilled to see Zijun Li shone in the LP, absolutely stunning. She got the first standing ovation of the night well before her program was finished. Seeing Yuna's clean LP was just a great feeling. So worried for Carolina. We could see blood spots from 300 level. Mao Asada is on ascending, and I admire her will power to challenge the limit of women's skating. I'm very positive for her to complete 8-triple LP in the 2014 Olympics.
V/M's Carmen looked better live, maybe because I couldn't see their expression that clear. I'm glad to see D/W win but the fight between D/W and V/M will go on, which is great for the sport. German team was very impressive with their dramatic and comic programs! Don't know if I saw them before but this time they definitely had very memorable programs.
V/T's LP was definitely the highlight of the pair events. D/R of Canada had a great SP. Good to see S/S did a 3Ath at the very end of their program. It's nice to see some less famous pairs did some interesting programs/elements. I was scared to death with K/S's lift. Going into the olympics, V/T is for sure the favorite, S/S is right there to fight for it, but they need better programs. The bronze is wide open.
For men, I found that I'm not impressed with Hanyu's skating at all, even his SP was not as good as on TV. His LP confirmed that he had bad posture and sloppy in his movement, but he put up a great fight to save all his jumps. Javier delighted me with that hilarious Ex, and his LP was just as good as on TV. Patrick's skating was great to see live even with the falls, but the falls were distracting even with the quick recovery. I hope he will find a technical coach next season. I'm surprised that I really enjoy Takahashi's skating this time. I saw him live several times before but this time somehow he was more impressive even with poor skates. Denis Ten did great and I'm really glad he won a silver. Great to see javier got a medal too. I predicted Javier to win before the competition but it doesn't matter.
So that's pretty much my impression of the World. I think I basically agree with the medal ranking for all disciplines.