Detroit Skating Club "Champions Ice Revue"

[Pupiczech]

Last night was the Detroit Skating Club "Champions Ice Revue". The skating was awsome, I'm sure AaronW can add tons more here. But the most impressive skate was by Fedor Andreev with 9 very fine triples. He was awsome.

Other favorites of the night were Luke Capizzo, Katie Stewart, Marcy and Steve and of course William Brewster who is always fabulous. (Jr. National Intermediate Champion). Watch for him in the future. What a cutie.

[¤Sweetie¤]

Were Megan Wing & Aaron Lowe there?

[Aaron W]

I wasn't planning on typing up anything, but I'll mention a few impressions.

As Pupiczech mentioned, Fedor Andreev had quite a performance last night. He skated his Firebird long program and opened with a 3toe that I'm guessing will be a 4toe attempt at Canadians. After that he did a 3axel (slightly under-rotated it appeared), another 3axel with a 2toe on the end, 3flip, 3lutz/3toe, 3loop, 3salchow, and another 3toe right near the end. Not sure if the order of jumps I wrote down is correct (the 3axel/2toe, 3flip, and 3lutz/3toe might have been in a different order). In any case, he certainly was on fire as far as the jumps were concerned.

Television does not do justice to Belbin & Agosto's circular footwork sequence from their Elvis free dance. I was blown away watching it last night. I can't recall seeing any dance team do sooooo much in the way of turns and hand holds and still maintain control and balance throughout. I really am impressed with the difficulty and their ability to do it all so cleanly. All of the top dance teams in the world would have trouble delivering the same circular footwork sequence with the control that Tanith & Ben have. I still think the middle section of their free dance seems a bit slow and not quite together, but everything else was great. Oh, and did I mention about their circular footwork sequence. ;) :D

Kalesavich & Parchem skated their free skate. They attempted both sbs 3salchows and sbs 3toes, both of which Aaron landed cleanly while Stephanie under-rotated/2footed/and turned out of her 3salchow and popped her 3toe into a single. She landed the throw 3salchow but it was a quick edge on the landing and she either stumbled or actually fell on the throw 3loop (I wasn't taking any notes so I can't quite remember).

Roth & McPherson skated their free skate as well. They did the sbs 3toes and she landed on 2feet (at least it wasn't a fall) and also landed the sbs 2axels (she really seems to have the 2axel extremely consistent). She fell out of the throw 3loop and turned out of the throw 3salchow.

Hinzmann & Hartsell skated their short program and skated everything well except Marcy fell on the 3toe at the beginning (they landed them cleanly in the warm-up). Everything else looked spot on including their sbs spins, the throw 3salchow, and the lift looked reasonably controlled. Marcy is selling the program nicely.

William Brewster had a surprise fall on the 3salchow in his short program to "Take Me Out To the Ball Game." His double axel was nicely done and he gets nice lift on it. In fact, he has nice lift on most of his jumps. I really like this kid and am looking forward to seeing him progress in the years to come. :)

Wing & Lowe skated their free dance very well with reasonably good speed and a nice crispness. There was one edit in the music, I think with about 1 minute left in the dance, that seemed a bit abrupt and I'm not completely sold on the program yet, but I do like their skating and enjoyed seeing them. Glad they'll be able to go back to Worlds again this season (assuming they place top 3 at Canadians which would seem to be a given).

[Annes]

Thanks for the lovely revue.

[jriskind]

I am surprised Fedor was in the show.....I thought he no longer trains at DSC, but is at the Onyx with Richard Callahan?

[Pupiczech]

Not sure but since his mom (Marina Zoueva) is at DSC it didn't surprise me that he was there.

[Aaron W]

Just wanted to note that pictures are up on the DSC's website: http://www.dscclub.com/photos/gallery/album03

[Blade1]

Hey thanks so much for the review and the links to the photos. I am glad to hear that Wing & Lowe were in attendence (as well as Fedor) and I am very much looking forward in seeing their programs for this season at Nationals.

[legjumper]

Aaron, thanks for the report! :)

[Skatingsarah]

Thanks alot for the forward to the photo site! They were very nice pictures!
-Sarah

[JD]

names of the first pic of the young dance team? they are very cute-and she is just beautiful...

[Aaron W]

Their names are Anastasia Olson & Greg Zuerlein. She's 10 and he's 14. They won the bronze medal at the 2003 Regional Championships in Juvenile Dance and competed at Junior Nationals in Lake Placid last month. :)