For the first time ever in a competition (even if it wasn't an official ISU competition and basically doesn't count) Patrick Chan did a quad. He did a quad toe loop with positive GOE in his short program at the Liberty competition in Pennsylvania July 16, 2010. This is a big move for him. He wants a quad to add to his almost always level 4 spins and steps and great choreography, interpreatio-basically the PCS marks.
Chan got into fights with Joubert and non-directly with Plushenko I guess-when he said just doing the quad should not matter in winning- a skater needs EVERYTHING-well everything includes the quad and if he added that successfully to ISU competitions than everybody better look out-especially world champion Takahashi.
After he did the quad he fell on his triple axel. This is common when people do quads-they tend to fall on their next jump and that is why you don't see them much in short programs. But practice is the way to get this sorted out.
Last year he was injured and thus couldn't compete really until Skate Canada where he placed sixth. He had to skip Cup of Russia where he would have competed against Plushenko-who did two quads-one in his short and one in his long program. He would then go on to Canadian nationals and then the Olympics and then worlds-all without a quad and having trouble with his triple axel, He won Canadian Nationals, stumbled at the Olympics and then won the World silver. All of this while doing shaky triples but of course getting HUGE HUGE PCS marks.
He should definitely not go the route of doing quads while just doing double axels. When I think of the quad I think of someone who can do all the triples and then progresses to the Quad. The 1998, 2002, 2006 Olympic champions all had quads and triple axels.
He should keep going for it ALL.
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100717&content_id=12330910&vkey=ice_news
Monday, July 19, 2010
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