2024 Skate America FS Pairs Practice - Alisa Efimova & Misha Mitrofanov

Was that a hard position? Nah, I mean it wasn't that hard. But like, I don't like dance spins. I think that they're so boring, personally. Well, they look a little bit more like what they were trying to implement into Pairs, which was a choreo spin. Yeah. So, a little bit more creativity that you can have, or maybe freedom? Yeah, our take was just getting it done with as quick as possible, so we spun the other direction. So we did a change direction, one position one way, one position the other. And what were the features on that? Was it difficult? Like a low mid position and a high position, essentially. So like a layback, or while a sit happens, essentially. Okay. I love the way that Misha and Elyse skate. Me too. I think it's just so, like, I don't know if it's right, but it's like very old school Pairs feel, which I love to see. I like the way that we develop, but I think also seeing that is refreshing in its own way. That's what I think, too. I feel like it really sets them apart from the pack. When they artist skate really well, I think they'll be really rewarded for that, too. I love her back on elements. The way she stands, it sometimes looks like she is wearing a crown on her head. So much. Yeah. Even now, the way that she's holding herself in posture, the natural state is not like with bigger shoulders up, I should say. Yeah. And for Elyse and Misha and Katie and Danielle, they had the same mistake in the short program yesterday, which was doubling the jump. So hopefully today we can see some improvement on that, because all the other elements were so strong. That was a yee-haw, everybody. That's an axle lasso. Good job. That's it. If you guys have any questions, please send them to Ashley and I at US Figure Skating on X. We'll do our best to try to answer those throughout these warm-ups here. I'm sure Ashley has already answered the majority of mine already. It's nice to watch down here. You see so much emotion. That's the thing. I love it. Yeah. I always find, too, when you're going into long program, you're really hungry. Not physically, but you want that. You want to see what you can do. So I think that you really put yourself in that setup to try to perform the best you can for later on. Yeah. There's always so much place to improve or pull up in the ranks in the long program, because the short program always is very similar to each other. People have similar point-scoring elements, whereas the long program is quite free, and there's so many places to gain points on other teams. So do you find that there can be a lot of movement after the short program? Yeah. Oh, very cool. Because we have such high-risk elements. At any point, there can be four falls, four or five falls in a program, and then we'll just put a team back, and then there will be a team that comes up and just stands up on everything. It might not necessarily be the most perfect program, but they're up, and they can really move up because of that. See, there's the lift and the spin. Whoa. That looked really easy for him. Yeah. He's like, yeah, I'm just going to pick you up right now, whether you want to or not. You're floating. That's it. Cool.