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I'm really late to post this review, but it was so exciting to watch US Nationals championships !! Competition is about finding the right mental balance and mind toughness, and I think people who get the right mind-set always win and did successful job. It's so inspiring to watch all the skaters passion and watching whether they will achieve their goal or not. For myself as a viewer , great performances are always the ones which make me remember, as unforgettable memories, more than any scores. Especially, in Olympics seasons, all the countries put big scores for their best skaters to show how impressive their own country's skaters are.  All the countries want to win or get medals at Olympics. and it looks like scores are getting higher and higher every olympics since   the COP system. Maybe 10 years from now, the world record for short program score will be over 150 ?? , for  Long program will be over 200 ??  lol Actually, when we recently watched around 19

We've been enjoying watching Grand Prix Figure skating competitions every weekend !  Most of the time, my husband and I have same taste and often agree with each other while watching all the performances.  Here are my top favorite performances so far after watching all the grand prix competition.  Men  Jason Brown  Congratulations for winning a first senior grand prix medal in TEB competition !  I'm a huge fan of his skating now !  His short program and long program are my top favorite programs this season.    Jason Brown Short Program at TEB 2013 Jason Brown Free Program at TEB Both of them are awesome , fun, artistic, beautiful, exciting, wonderful musicality with excellent body moves and choreography.  At the age of only 18, he already has his original style, Jason skating style.  Skating which is full of personality is always interesting to watch.  The music is growing on me every time I watch his performance.   His Irish dance is fantasti

Figure skating 2013 -2014 season has already come up since last month !  Nebelhorn Trophy 2013 was just about a week ago.  In that competition, I was interested in Jason Brown and Nobunari Oda for men, and Miki Ando for ladies events. Here is the result of the medalists for men & ladies.  Congratulations to all the medalists !  Result   Men  1. Nobunari Oda   262.98  2. Jason Brown     228.43  3. Jeremy Ten      205.56  Ladies 1. Elena Radionova  188.21  2. Miki Ando            162.86  3. Ashley Cain         162.39   http://www.isuresults.com/results/nt2013/  Nobunari Oda  Congratulations on winning the gold medal with perfect clean performances !  Wow, it was really awesome.  He was quiet and didn't tweet since last season, so I was wondering what happened, but quietly he must have been working hard.  His quad triple combination looked effortless, smooth and light with soft landing. I enjoyed both of hi

My impression of the US Nationals figure skating competitions is that they are for selecting the strongest international competitors for world championships. And whoever the judges think are the potentially strongest international competitors are then selected, mostly from the results of GPS of the season and the result of last season’s worlds. If no one was successful making the Grand Prix Finale, then they may choose from  the performance of the Nationals competition.    And the scores are usually influenced by other country’s top winners’ scores.  I won’t say this is the fact, but it’s my personal impression. Ladies   Ashley Wagner  I was pretty sure Ashley Wagner will get her second National title, because she won two gold medals at GPS competitions and won silver at GPF, she was very successful. I love her skating and I thought her FP was the most interesting to watch. Even with two falls, all the other parts she skated perfectly. IMO.