Skate Canada - Quads-Reynolds does 4 Chan does 1

Whoa Kevin Reynolds. Good for him with his short program with a quad salchow and quad toe. Then his free skate with another quad sal and quad toe.

Patrick Chan who liked to fight with Joubert and Plushenko about quads being unnecessary joined the "quad club" when he did one in his free skate at Skate Canada. Oda the silver medalist also did a quad after not doing one all last season in a possible attempt to skate cleanly to make him look better for the Olympics.

I want to get right to the numbers themselves!

Short Program
Kevin Reynolds
4S+3T BV 14.60 GOE was plus .71 total was 15.31

4T BV 10.30 GOE + .71 again! total 11.01- was worth more than that!!

Patrick Chan

Ratified attempt 4T with fall -3.00 GOE total value 7.30. I don't have any problems with four revolutions in the air being worth 7.30 points. That is a skill that many can't even do. Like the 2010 Olympic champion.

Artur Gachinski coached by Alexei Mishin did a quad but landed poorly so couldn't do a combo. So his 10.30 got reduced by 3.00 in GOE so down to 7.30. Unfortunate mistake.

FREE SKATE

Patrick Chan 4t worth 12.30 to judges. Just base value to me.

Nobunari Oda got base value. no GOE. one judge went -1 another went +1 10.30

Javier Fernandez did the best one no doubt! He deserved the GOE he got. 12.01 - should have gotten Chan's GOE

Kevin Reynolds- 4s + 3t then 4T

Artur Gachinski 4t worth 9.30 because of negative GOE

Rippon won bronze without trying any quads-quads not part of his strategy which is backloading triples "quadless backloading" I call it.

No doubt the rule changes after 2010 caused this quad comeback. Buttle and Lysacek with their world championships and Lysacek's gold medal without a quad was severe jump regression that would no doubt damage the sport of figure skating as ultraconservatism is not good for sports!