Nebelhorn Mens competition quad report

Gold medalitst Tatsuki Machida of Japan performed a quad toe loop in his free skate. The base value was 10.30 and with positive GOE it was worth 10.87.

Silver medalist Konstantin Menshov of Russia performed a quad toe+single toe in his short program which had a base value of 10.70 but with negative GOE of 3 points was worth 7.70 points. I assume all that negative GOE comes from doing a single jump. In the free skate he did a quad toe loop +double toe loop that had a 11.70 base value but with positive GOE of 1.43 was worth 13.13 points.

Bronze medalist Peter Liebers of Germany and fourth place finisher Armin Mahbanoozadeh of the US tried to do quad toes in their free skates but tripled them.

Michal Brezina of the Czech Republic who was the frontrunner to win had trouble with the debut his quad salchow which was doubled in both the short and long programs. Everyone says in practice it is great but maybe nerves got to him.

Sui/Han Chinese pair at Cup of Austria (Jr GP event)

At the Cup of Austria -a part of the Junior Grand Prix season World Junior Champs Wenjing Sui and Comg Han of China coached by Luon Bo (former partner of coach Yao Bin) won silver after their free skate included a throw quad salchow and an attempted quadruple twist. They got negative GOE on the throw quad salchow (because she two footed the landing) but the twist attempt was downgraded.

The throw quad was great aside froom the landing. She obviously got in four rotation and the look of the jump was exactly how it should look in my view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvWQvuqLRA

You see Kavaguit and Smirnov of Russia try it all the time but it rarely looks as good as when Sui/Han did it today!

Sui did seem too low to get a full quad twist in.

The Gold Medal winners Stilbova and Klimov have great unison and it is not surprising at all that they won but I think if Sui and Han hadn't both fallen (I guessed Sui looked like she slipped more than fell on a jump) they would have won.

Keegan Messing tries quad toe loop at JR GP event

At the Junior Grand prix in Romania Alaska native Keegan Messing tried a quadruple toe loop in his free skate September 1oth. He fell and it was downgraded. Instead of getting a < for underrotation he got a << which means it was totally downgraded. I did not think I would see a quad attempt at a GP event because usually a triple axel is the ceiling of jump difficulty. So that Messing tried is admirable. Good for him! He won the first Gold for US skaters on the junior grand prix circuit.

The base value was 10.2 but he got only 2 points for the attempt and because of the fall deduction it was really only 1 point for this quad attempt. That hardly seems like enough to do such a big move.

http://www.adn.com/2010/09/11/1450115/messing-claims-first-at-romanian.html