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BringBackThePattern
Since everyone misses the pattern dance, I wanted to make a compilation of modern versions for each pattern. Mostly picking teams recognizable by casual fans, rather than the “classics”, hopefully to make these more accessible for a younger audience.
2016 Worlds SD featuring:
- Papadakis/Cizeron
- Chock/Bates
- Hubbell/Donohue
- Shibutani/Shibutani
- Guignard/Fabbri
- Gilles/Poirier
- Stepanova/Bukin
What’s your favourite Ravensburger Waltz?
Loved the Shibs.
Me too ❤️ the neatest footwork and Maia has such nice posture.
My favourite is PapCiz. They are music on ice.
I loved P/C's Charms too, it was a great character piece but overshadowed by their FD that year.
Pattern dance compilation:
I miss the patterns so much. I will say though, as a lady currently working through my international dance tests, I always find it mildly infuriating how much easier the man's steps are for the Ravensburger specifically. Just a personal gripe, though - most of these teams make the dance look easy.
gosh, this looks like real dance.
This was one of my favorite compulsory dances when we still had that segment. Bring back the patterns.
For reference, here's what each of the teams scored on the pattern shown:
Papadakis/Cizeron: kpYYY + GOE 1.46 first half; kpYYY + GOE 1.20 second half; total 12.66
Chock/Bates: kpYYY + GOE 1.29 first half; kpYNY + GOE 1.20 second half; total 11.89
Hubbell/Donohue: kpTYN + GOE 1.03 first half; kpYYY + GOE 1.11 second half; total 10.94
Shibs: kpYYY + GOE 1.20 first half; kpYYY + GOE 1.03 second half; total 12.23
Guignard/Fabbri: kpYYN + GOE 0.86 first half; kpYYY + GOE 0.69 second half; total 10.95
Gilles/Poirier: kpYYY + GOE 1.03 first half; kpYYY + GOE 0.86 second half; total 11.89
Stepanova/Bukin: kpTYY + GOE 0.86 first half; kpYYY + GOE 0.77 second half; total 11.03
Thanks, this is a great contribution! Noted to add the scores to the next compilation.
Having Chock/Bates in between Papadakis/Cizeron and Hubbell/Donahue just drives the point across.
ISU WE WANT A WALTZ
I love Piper and Paul’s costumes.
Would've never guessed Ravensburger Waltz from looking at them, definitely a unique concept!
I never saw this program of theirs! So creative for the waltz, both the music and the friggin sgt pepper costumes for both! <3
Pap/Ciz all the way on this one, but I don’t like their music.
I appreciated P2s attempt at something unique, and I think they sped it up a little? But the beautiful edge work got watered down as a result.
My ballroom dancer heart just grew a little watching this - I wish we could have this pattern once again for the RD. Or any full pattern, for that matter.
Appreciate the vid but you missed the best waltz of that season, imo, which was Weaver and Poje’s
They did have a great waltz! I tried to keep the video under 4 min, prioritizing the currently competing teams and the most recognizable names (probably could've put them instead of S/B). Good thing everyone can recommend programs I missed, hopefully people will check them out 🙂
feel like pure shit just want her back x
I still find it crazy that some VMies would say Papadakis couldn’t skate just because Cizeron was better. This video makes it clear she can skate very well.
As a VMie and PCie (?) I have the answer for this, people also used to say Tessa couldn't skate just because Scott was better, it's the sad fate of being a female ice dancer. Bit of fun misogyny to blow the criticism of a "weaker" female partner way out of proportion.
Tessa was 2 years younger than Scott, and Gabi was a slightly late bloomer, neither of them were ever bad. Both V/M and P/C were some of the most evenly matched teams at peak. I always take criticism with a grain of salt, considering two of the best female ice dancers in recent memory got called "bad skaters". This applies to Madi Chock too, she's no Gabi or Tessa, but not terrible as they say.
There's this interesting thing in ice dance (and skating in general) where fans only watch like the top 5 teams. So when something isn't as good as the rest of those top 5, they think its bad, when it's still VERY good but not AS good, ignoring the fact that there's like at least 15 other teams in the senior circuit at that given time that are ACTUALLY struggling in that area.
Any ice dancer competing senior internationally will have good skating skills. Anyone at worlds will have great skating skills. Anyone in the top 5 will have amazing skating skills. You're searching out of those top five for the one who is the best. That doesn't mean the rest are bad.
Couldn't have said it better myself. For people calling Madi Chock and Lilah Fear "edgeless", they should see MY step sequences, I'll show them edgeless 💀
Being a female ice dancer means that everything you do will be scrutinized to oblivion whereas your male partner can do one clean mohawk and people will gush over that clean mohawk and ignore the 100 he did that sucked. This gets even worse when the guy actually is better than the girl even a little bit.
Source: I'm a female ice dancer.