#favorite programs

@puniyo

I thought since the new season is right upon us that I would list my favorite programs from the last one. So let’s start with the SP. 

Also before I start, take the rankings I made with a grain of salt. Last one on the list means I absolutely adore them. First one, I love them but wouldn’t call them masterpieces. Between that, the order’s a bit random, so yeah...

Ladies

8 - Alysa Liu - Don’t Rain On My Parade (vid from US Nats)

I won’t go in a debate on whether Alysa’s win at Nationals was ridiculous, and yeah I’m aware that the amount of hype around this girl is stupid and unhealthy. And sure her jumping technique is far from ideal and her skating skills, albeit good for her age, not that good. And yes she has her entire career ahead of her so let’s not count the chickens before they’s hatched...

But her charisma, her performance and the sheer joy on her face when she was on the ice!...The song was well chosen, wonderfully tongue-in-cheek. And maybe she’ll turn out to be a fluke but what the hell. She won Nationals at 13! She already made history and whatever happens, that skate was one of the highlights of the season. When watching I was just smiling and smiling the whole time and no one had any right to rain on her parade.

7 - Alexandra Trusova - Kill Bill OST (vid from RusNats )

Thank God she ditched to black and yellow pantsuit with that horrid skirt. Sasha’s the only Eteri girl who had a good packaging that season. Both programs played to her strength and did a marvelous job of hiding her weaknesses. Performance and interpretation have never been Trusova’s strong point. But she was delightfull in that SP. She had fun and it showed. Also that 3Lz-3L right on the beat is just wonderful.

 6 - Anastasia Gubanova - Take Five (vid from the Cup of Russia Final)

Okay so I have a soft spot for jazzy programs. Plus I love Nastya’s posture and carriage on the ice. I love her sassy spirit. I especially love the choreo for the arms. Nastya knows how to dance on the ice and the SP showcases that. Shame about the telegraphed jumps tho

5 - Marin Honda - Seven Nation’s Army (vid from Skate America)

First of all, Marin had the second best dress for the short of the season. Secondly that final spin alone makes the program a good one to my eyes. And finally the step sequence is just fire. And that final pose. It’s elegant, it’s sophisticated, it’s lovely. Marin Honda was never on my radar, but after her SP at Skate America I was hooked. She’s that good a performer. 

4 - Alena Kostornaia - Departure Lullaby/November (vid from JGPF)

From a fairly ordinary Daniil G program, Alena was able to make a work of art. She’s that strong. (So let’s hope the same will happen with the Twilight FS). Each gesture is refined, detailed, carries a meaning. She skates through a gazillion transitions and is still able to keep the program’s flow. She can be elegiac, she can be intense. She feels the music and expressed it through her moves. She’s one of a kind. 

3 - Satoko Miyahara - Song for the little sparrow (vid from Skate America because that was my favorite dress of her)

To date, my fave program from her. Okay Satoko is not one of my faves. I admire her skating bu I just can’t get into. I usually really like her SP but most of the time her FS fail to make an impression on me. I didn’t like her tango last season. But this program is exquisite. First of all the music choice is original, the spins and the steps are to die for

2 - Evgenia Medvedeva - Orange Colored Sky (to see what could’ve been we have to do a mesh up of Skate Canada and ACI)

Okay I’m cheating a bit here. We never saw it skated to its full potential, and she ditched it fairly early in the season, so... I’m left sobbing thinking about what could have been, because that program was a choreographic jewel. So inventive and fun (and I wish she’d skated it in a tuxedo, as Sandra Bezic proposed). Let’s hope she skates it some time in the future as an EX or even as a competitive program, and that she continues to work with Bezic. 

1 - Wakaba Higuchi - Energia (Skate Canada is my favorite version. Some transitions were gone by the time of Japan Nats)

Okay Wakaba wins the Most Original Music Choice as well as Best Dress award. That dress is gorgeousn, and the illusion fabric so well done that I had to watch her SP half a dozen times to spot it. Also I want to say that Wakaba as impeccable tastes and I’ve never seen a bad program from her. They all range from “lovely” to “masterpiece”. That SP is fun, brilliant, out of the box. It’s a BOP. 

I meant to link the program that Jason skated at IdF, but as with many videos, it seems that one was taken down. So this one from a few weeks later at Golden Spin will have to be the one I use, and I guess they both get the same point across. 

Anyway, this is one of those programs that grew on me. It’s different to the things he’s done before, so it was a bit hard to get used to. Jason’s difficulty performing the program earlier in the season contributed to how hard it was to connect to it as an audience member, and probably reflected his own troubles adjusting to the differences. 

The thing that I love most about this program isn’t really the program itself, although I think it does showcase a lot of what I love about Jason, like his musicality and how well his skating flows. What I love the most is how he grew into it. Having changed coaches since last season, it was expected that Jason would have difficulties with the changes, which was the most clear during Skate Canada. But then, several weeks later at IdF, he gave an amazing performance. 

That performance helped get him the silver medal ahead of Alexander Samarin, who was one of the favorites to make the Grand Prix Final. It was a great moment to see how happy Jason was upon finishing the performance, and the confidence carried over into the free skate. 

On to Mens’ SP

8 - Petr Gummenik - Czardas (vid from JGPF)

First of all, that costume is wonderful and I wish more male skaters would skate in such colorful and detailed shirts. Secondly Czardas is a bit of a warhorse but I love it. Thirdly I just love how the choreographer transposed moves from character dances, in this case Czardas and Mazurka, and I wish there were more programs inspired by traditional dances. And finally outstanding spins and a loop combo.

7 - Junhwan Cha - Cinderella (vid from 4CC)

I love Prokofiev so half my enjoyment of the program lies on the music. Also that axel right after the music cut is great. And the clock Junhwan does with his arms is wickedly cool

6 - Boyang Jin - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (vid from Chinese Nats)

Boyang - Air Guitar - Jin, the crowd pleaser. And wow has he tremendously improved in the PCS department. This SP is fast, intense and all-around lovely

5 - Stephen Gogolev - Run Boy, Run (vid from Canadian Nats)

Run, Boy Run is a great song, well suited for figure skating. Also it fits Gogolev like a glove. That’s what I call intelligent packaging. Gogolev basically doesn’t have to perform that much because he’s the embodiment of the lyrics anyway. So he can focus on the technical side. The choreo uses fast, straight brutal moves. It’s well rythmed. It’s inventive, and dare I say it, it’s iconic. 

4 - Koshiro Shimada - Adios (vid from Japanese Nats)

That program is beautiful. It’s intricate. I love the step sequence. It requires a great musicality from the skater and a lot of maturity... And I love Benjamin Clementine (another thing I enjoy about figure skating is that I’ve discovered so many singers thanks to it. Benjamin Clementine is one of my new faves thanks to Nathan Chen’s Nemesis). Actually it’s one of the programs I wish Yuzuru, or someone like him could skate, and I mean no disrespect to Koshiro who has a difficult job and does it really well. I hope he’ll revisit it later in his career.

3 - Kevin Aymoz - Horns (vid from Worlds)

Original and iconic. The horns. The sommersault on the ice. The final pose. The triple axel from a back counter. The step sequence. The moment where he strikes the ice with his hand. it doesn’t get any better. 

2 - Jason Brown - Love Is A Bitch (vid from Worlds)

Well maybe it does get better, but only with the very few, and among them Brown’s SP which is smooth and classy. And of course that split jump. It’s art on ice. 

1 - Yuzuru Hanyu - Otonal (vid from Cup of Russia of course)

Wow. Just wow. And still not Yuzu’s best SP. (Let’s Go Crazy is the GOAT and I won’t hear otherwise)

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