#Dance twizzle free#
Then in February, the siblings earned their first major international title at the Four Continents Championships and posted personal-best scores for an international competition with their short dance and their “Fix You” free dance. In January, they took home their first national title, defeating defending ice dance champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates. It also helps that they have been on a winning streak. That confidence is one reason the Shibutanis will be strong contenders for the ice dance title at the Figure Skating World Championships this week at TD Garden. In both their programs, the Shibutanis go beyond the minimum twizzle requirements and pile on the rotations because, Alex says, “It shows a confidence level you have with the element, and we like doing twizzles, so we’ll do more.” This season, the guidelines for the short dance require skaters to perform one set of sequential twizzles, which means they must incorporate two separate spins across the ice with one step in between.Įach free dance needs to include at least one set of sequential twizzles with two or three separate spins that move across the ice with up to three steps in between. “You have to try and make sure that you’re precise for the unison to be right on.” “In order to have really strong twizzles, you need strong individual skating skills because you’re not holding on to each other,” says Maia. Meanwhile, Maia adds that skating ability, music cues, and choreography all play a role, too, helping the Shibutanis stay in sync with each other. “It goes to show just how detailed and how down to the nitty-gritty the synchronization on twizzles gets.” “We could often times hear the placement of each other’s feet based the sound that our blades were making on the ice,” says Davis. Davis and White have been partners for nearly two decades. Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who won gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and at World Championships in Moscow in 2011 and London in 2013, agree that practice time and experience skating together are the keys to successful twizzle sequences. It was everything.“I’d also like to think that there’s natural twizzling ability.” That’s the moment you live for, right there. All our silver linings are coming together. And then we dreamt that we’d have the skate of our lives, and we did. “First we dreamt that we’d make it here, and we did.
I didn’t want to think of the alternative,” said Weaver. “It was probably 90 per cent I wouldn’t be able to be here, but I clung onto that 10 per cent like nobody’s business. They stand sixth, 2.5 points off the podium. Weaver, who broke her leg in December and has a plate and five screws reinforcing her left fibula under her skate boot, broke down in tears - some joy, some pain - when they finished.
2 Canadian team, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, who were cheered right to the end of their Sound of Music medley.
It was a much happier evening for the No. “Obviously, Carmen is a little bit of a different beast, but I think you will see a pretty excellent performance on Saturday.” While Davis and White, winners over Virtue and Moir at the Four Continents in Osaka last month, skated a clean and energetic combination of march, waltz and polka and earned their career-best score, the Canadians were also marked down a level for their side-by-side footwork.Īnd then the moment didn’t turn out the way they hoped. “We’re going to see what Carmen has, that’s for sure,” said Moir. We have nothing to lose, and we’re confident in Carmen (their free dance), so we look forward to skating it.” But I don’t think it changes our job on Saturday. “We’re further behind than we’d like to be. “But I think it’s very easy this week - I think this is probably my favourite competition of my career, because I can care less about what the 11 (Judges) think, I care more about the 10,000 sitting behind them.” “You can’t tell?” said Moir, asked if he was annoyed by the judges’ marks. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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