Artur Gachinski wins again in Coupe Internationale de Nice

After winning Finlandia with a program that had a quad in the free skate Gachinski went to Nice and did a quad in his short program and a quad in the long program. His coach is Alexei Mishin and it is beginning to look like Gachinski will have a very good first year in Seniors.

In the short program it was a quad toe triple toe with a base value of 14.40 -because of a three turn in between the quad and triple he got negative goe totaling 1.50 points. The total was 12.90. He placed first with 77.91 points.

Konstantin Menshov did a quad toe double toe combo 11.70 BV plus .75 GOE for a total 12.45. He placed second with 73.23 points in the short.

Free Skate

Gachinski 4T - BV 10.30 +1.25 GOE total 11.55.

Menshov did a quad toe double toe combo and a solo quad.

4t+2t BV 11.70 Final Value 13.70 GOE 2.00

4t 10.30 -1.00 final value 9.30

He finished in second place with his second silver of the season. In previous seasons Menshov would do badly in short programs and have to recover in the long but this season he is having his best short programs ever and after Nebelhorn and now Nice with solid short programs he has won two medals. Whatever changed in his training has basically worked!

Alban Preaubert opened with a 3t-assume quad attempt.

Javier Fernandez fell after doing a fully rotated quad-worth 7.30

Liebers tried -did a 3T as opening jump

Chafik Besseghier 4t+2t bv 11.70 final value with GOE 12.70. His jumps are very impressive.

http://www.nice-baie-des-anges.fr/images/stories/docs-coupe/resultats2010/html/index.htm

Keegan Messing Junior Grand Prix Czech republic

Messing attempted a quad toe loop at his final junior grand prix event of the season. He fell and it was underrotated but that was an improvement from his downgraded fall at his first JGP event. I think that at the JGP Final which he qualified for he may land it. He will have November and December to train and I think because he is getting closer he may land it there.

First attempt at the Junior Grand Prix of Romanian in Brasov:

4T<< BV 4.10 GOE -2.08 Score 2.00 (factor in -1.00 deduction for falling and it was 1.00)

Second attempt at the JGP Ostrava Czech Rep

4T< BV 7.20 GOE -3.00 Score 4.20 (factor in -1.00 ded for falling and it was 3.20

He finished off the podium in Ostrava but won Romania

This is the path to learning any jump. Doing it in competitions over and over.

http://www.isuresults.com/results/jgpcze2010/

Finlandia Trophhy

Artur Gachinski of Russia - Gold Medal winner succeeded in doing a quad toe loop. Gachinski is a student of Alexei Mishin.

http://www.figureskatingresults.fi/results/1011/FT2010/FT2010_Men_FS_Scores.pdf

4T Base value 10.30 GOE .80 total value 11.10. Out of seven judges 5 gave him +1 GOE.

Nebelhorn Silver medalist Konstantin Menshov of Russia was also at Finlandia and he planned to a quad in the short but did a triple. In the LP he did a quad triple. 14.40 base value with GOE a negative 2 - final value 12.40. He finished in 7th place because of a weak short and the landings of other jumps in the LP were weak.

Japan Open ratified quads and official quad attempts

It was only the Japan open so I am not sure what to make of it but it was scored like an ISU compeition so I might as well include it here. I am sure people will refer to it during the upcoming season.

Quadruple toe loop Base value 10.30. Add to that his positive GOE of 2.14 (so generous!!! - it is the Japan Open after all) and you get 12.44.

After that he was said he was so excited he would pop his planned triple axel to a single axel and "lost" the "men's competition" to Adam Rippon. Rippon was totally flawless with his 8 triple program.

Michal Brezine. Quad Salchow 10.50. Negative GOE 1.57. Final value 8.93

Takahiko Kozuka - quad toe loop, base value 10.30 with fall so negative GOE a 3 and final value 7.30.

http://www.skatingjapan.jp/InterNational/2010-2011/jo/data0105.pdf

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