Davis White sd 2012. Keeping it fresh.
Virtue Moir.
Motherfucker. Seriously, Davis White? Die Fleudermaus, 2012.
Funny Face. Such an abused program by ignorant fans. Only about 100 x more brilliant skating than Die Fleudermaus.
DF was brilliant sleight-of-hand. Not the same as brilliant skating.
I have to say, just putting up these gifs - forget the sameness of DW's twizzles - look at the quality difference between their increasingly pedestrian twizzling and Virtue and Moir's. The speed! The unison! How close together they are.
DW's don't come close. This is a scam, pure and simple.
So when did Skate Canada buy this blog?
ReplyDeletePlease, you think that Skate Canada even gives half as much of a crap about Tessa and Scott as this blog does?
DeleteSeriously, your question is the DW scam all over. It's so unfair to actually talk about what DW are putting on the ice.
DeleteWhere is this off base? Have they been doing the same twizzles every program, od and free, sd and free, for five years or not, getting the highest levels for it and the highest GOE even if you can drive a truck through them and they're out of sync.
Forget agenda - how is this exercise wrong? It's true or it's not. And seriously, you think it's unfair to show DW's winning Worlds twizzles and their Olympic twizzles? Oh boy.
7:35 rates among the stupidest comments on here ever. The theory that Skate Canada is now running this blog is beyond ridiculous....but what difference would it make if it was them?? Seriously, as OC just said, MC have either been doing the exact same twizzles in both programs for years or they haven't.
DeleteBut DW are sooooooooo fast!!!111 They just don't have speed. But they're fast. Because they are.
ReplyDeleteAnd they have an amazing connection! It doesn't manifest itself in actual unison or skating close together. But they said they have a connection so they do.
I like how none of these gifs have V/M screwing up, but you managed to post the ones where D/W make a mistake.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're just finally seeing what the V/M fans see. These are MC's best twizzles that have been posted.
DeleteWhere do DW make a mistake? I've shown their freaking worlds and Olympic twizzles. One of these events, they won, and another is coming up.
ReplyDeleteThe point is not execution, but level of difficulty and the calibre of the move. Anybody can trip. Anybody can have an off performance. The reality is DW are often out of sync, Meryl often travels, and, most importantly, they do the same fucking twizzle sequence short dance and free, od and free, for five fucking years, without a single change. Their Olympic twizzles are here. Their winning world twizzles are here. And you're whining?
I'm whining about as much as you are
DeleteReally? I'm pointing out that DW are doing the same thing year after year in every program, and VM do it differently in each program and have progressed each year.
DeleteThe truth is whining to you? You think VM fans should roll over and pretend along with DW fans?
OMG, the evidence is so unfair.
Look up whining in the dictionary. I don't think it means what you think it means.
It's utterly baffling that no one out there is speaking in the interest of VM about these glaring issues. And this is only the twizzles. Forget lifts, run of blade, etc. It's completely understandable that VM themselves wouldn't want to speak up about this, it would come across arrogant and self-serving. But come on, Canada is a power in figure skating, with many knowledgeable people who can authoritatively speak on their behalf. Over and over. Declaring what is true about VM's skating.
ReplyDeleteInstead, I wouldn't be surprised you're right, that at the moment VM and their family/friends are focusing on the all-important matter of creating fluff pieces about their separate beach vacations (from a comment of yours in a previous entry). I'm tired of wondering what is wrong with these people. I had hoped they wouldn't contaminate these Worlds with this crap but they couldn't resist, sticking Scott's current fake love interest among the Moirs. She probably got free tickets to make an appearance so good on her to take advantage of the situation as much as possible. I have no respect for the Moirs for staging these things. Meanwhile, their precious gold-medal champions are being thrown under the bus. Do they have any realization that focusing on the sham, doing things like sticking a fake gf among them, contributes to this? It diminishes them. It squanders resources. And for the increasingly growing number of people who are aware they're running a scam, it seriously tarnishes VM. Probably so many more people than just the fans on this blog would be more willing to go to bat for them but why bother. Moirville is more interested in making sure Scott's "gf" was seen with them in the stands than to organize a media pushback against these lies about VM's skating and their rivals' skating. The more VM persist with this the more indefensible it is.
It's the SKATING, STUPID.
I don't think there's the connection between the sham and VM getting screwed that you believe there is. Certainly Skate Canada is no moral bastian steering clear because of it - they're worse than VM. They've created an every skater for themselves atmosphere.
DeleteA huge part of the problem is that the most self-aggrandizing PTB in Skate Canada's history are also its most selfish, self-serving, ignorant and clownish.
Another is that Virtue Moir hail from a unique community situation. To quote Dave Chappelle (or paraphrase) "I don't want my life to be about establishing boundaries". That is sort of where VM FEEL their life is, partly because they don't establish those boundaries directly. They just finesse the situation. Look at how exhausting this past week was for VM - everybody from security to custodians to fans to volunteers knew them.
But basically I don't think everything here goes back to the sham. I think the sham is symptomatic, as I think the blog has talked about for awhile now.
Oh my goodness - I just realized that the gif you have for D/W's tango is actually the one from NDP. LOL,they really are doing the same program! Even more hilarious is that no D/W uber has pointed this out yet, can even they not tell the difference?
ReplyDelete^oops, commented on wrong post, the 2010-11 one obviously
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