Miho's favorites

People’s views are always different especially when it comes to artistry. I really think we all are biased for our favorites based on our taste, our views, our personalities, and it also might be coming from which side of the brain is more developed , right brain or left brain. And whatever art or other things that we learn, there are always levels, whether it’s judges scoring by whatever the rules happen to be, which BTW the rules were made by people who also have their own bias and favorite type of figure skating, or it comes from laws of nature.   We can feel which pianists are playing from the heart or not, besides being able to appreciate the technical ability.  In figure skating, Genuine artistic skaters to me are Johnny Weir Emanuel Sandhu Tatiana Navka Oksana Baiul These skaters come to my mind first. The following are also genuine artistic skaters,  Stephane Lambiel Daisuke Takahashi Staviski (of Denkova/Staviski) Shen( of Shen & Zhao )

This season, I was unable to post my reviews for each GPS event because of many other things I needed to do even though I watched all the GPS events for singles except for Skate America and wanted to post about it. Figure skating Grand Prix Final competitions was held in December 3 to 6, 09. The qualified skaters for singles were below, Men  Nobunari Oda (JPN) Evan Lysacek (USA) Brian Joubert (FRA) ( withdrew for injury ) Jeremy Abbott (USA) Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) Johnny Weir (USA) Tomas Verner (CZE)( was replaced for Joubert ) Before the event, I was guessing this competition will be really heat up especially between Takahashi vs. Oda in Team Japan, and Lysacek , Weir and Abbott in the team USA. Felt sorry to hear about Brian Joubert ’s injury during the practice. Sounded extremely pain when he got the injury.  He also had to withdraw from GPF last season after SP , because he got injury during practice before LP.  Hope he will get better soon and will get full