This time I got even more difficult. If for Shoma Uno, Yuma Kagiyama and Nathan Chen there were the analyzes made by Roseline Winter and Elisa to help me identify what I had doubts about, and there are several steps or turns in which I have some doubts, or that perhaps escaped me, for Donovan Carrillo I did it all by myself. I hope not to make too many mistakes.
Okay, let’s go. Screenshot of Carrillo’s short program, watched at 25% speed to try to catch all the movements. The explanations of what I did can be found in the post dedicated to Uno’s short program.
0:33 start. After three seconds of standing still, Carrillo turns his head, then starts with a pivot. After half lap, in screenshot 6, he crosses his legs to push well.
In the first two screenshots we see that he lifts his left leg a lot, bending it behind him. This is a gesture that characterizes the entire program, he will repeat it several times. We are in the field of performance and interpretation.
0:40 besti squat. I did a new screenshot, immediately after screenshot 6, because the pose is better. After he start a curve on two feet and push.
Run.
0:46 choreographic glide on two feet.
I have decided to look at the movement (screenshot 4-7) more closely. Even though he is on two feet, Carrillo puts his sense of balance to the test more than Uno or Chen did. Kagiyama did a nice outside spread eagle, and given the length of that spread eagle, Kagiyama did a little more than Carrillo.
0:48 (screenshot 1 and 2) euler. He lands, change foot and glide backwards, in a better position (screenshot 6) than Uno’s and Chen’s. I really need to put all the screenshots side to side.
Several mohawk, another little run that I ignore.
Carrillo continues to run (crossover, mohawk, glide) until 1:02, when he prepares his 4T.
1:07 backward glide on one foot, counter hopped (screenshot 1-3.).
1:12 besti squat (screenshot 5-8).
Instead of getting up at the end of the besti, Carrillo continues to slide and leans to the left. True, he is on two feet, but his center of gravity is very shifted (screenshot 1-2).
At the end of the curve, with a nice outside edge (screenshot 6), he makes a little hop (screenshot 8). It is not a difficult movement, but it comes immediately after he gets up, and the succession of gestures makes the whole a little more difficult.
A crossover, and then, a 1:17… a bracket? The shot changes at that moment, and the exit curve is not very nice.
Carrillo does several push, and at 1:24 begins a glide. The position is not particularly difficult, but he keeps it for a long time, makes a nice curve, changes edges, makes a three, and only at 1:31 he puts his foot on the ice for the take off of the 3A.
I am not so sure that that triple axel was fully correctly, but I am not interested in checking Carrillo’s landing, so I will go ahead.
A push, a cross roll, and a rocker at 1:35 (screenshot 7-8).
After a three there is the spin. Although the first time I looked at the program to write this post I took all the screenshots of Carrillo’s spin, I decided not to upload them. Right now I am interested in the PCS, not the spins, so I go further. So Carrillo start the spin…
…and end the spin.
At the end of the spin, Carrillo makes a mohawk, lowers himself in a lunge, begins to curve and transforms the move into an original choreographic movement. The way he gets up is simple, but he is in the part.
Then he pushes and during a jump the shot changes and prevents us from seeing his feet. Too often I would have something to say to the video directors of the skating competitions.
Mohawk, three, mohawk… nothing difficult, and his back in screenshot 4 and 5 isn’t so elegant.
Carrillo does some crossover, then…
I had forgotten the details of the program from the first time I watched it, I had written that Carrillo starts running, because the two crossover and the pushes made me think that he would not do anything more, and instead I came across an outside spread eagle. Not very elegant, but Carrillo remembers not to limit himself to running.
A three, screenshot 1-2.
a 5-seconds run (with, in between, something that I struggle to identify because I have some problems with the edge, screenshot 4-7), and then there is the combination.
Carrillo struggles a bit on the landing, the toe loop is underrotated, then push and does a spin, that I’ll ignore.
After there is the step sequence. He start with a counter, then does a choreo move. Carrillo does not do particularly difficult things, but he skates with energy and it shows that he enjoys interpreting the program.
Hop, half turn, deliberately slightly oblique.
End of a sequence of clusters.
Another choreo move.
How much is difficult what Carrillo is doing? Surely more than a a little hop or a knee slide.
Last spin and end of the program.
Carrillo’s scores: SS 7.32, TR 7.11, PE 7.43, CO 7.32, IN 7.43, PCS 36.61.
I do not look at the TES, the elements presented are very different and I do not discuss it. Let’s look at the PCS. Are we really sure that Nathan Chen’s program is much better than Carrillo’s?
