2024 Skate America Pairs SP Practice Session - Alisa Efimova & Misha Mitrofanov

Ice That's true Up next we have a Lisa and Misha I'm really excited about this team. I think they've got really great Like packaging this year They really look like they've jelled as a team and their package overall is something that I think will do really well on the international And see their programs before they went out So it's nice to see like a skeleton of what was to come for these performances and they were already so strong at that point What I noticed yesterday in their practice what I really enjoyed is it it looked like a Paris program They skate like a Paris team in a very positive way not like Anything other than the power that they're omitting and the unison I find is is quite quite impressive Yeah, they have a lot of really intricate in-betweens You'll see into their entrances on the jumps in the throat. They've got some really intricate entrances, which I think is great This program builds so much too It's got almost like a quiet confidence to it at the beginning and then as it starts to go They also do a forward outside death spiral, which is extremely difficult. Yeah for Paris Yeah, you don't see a lot of them, but it's really really difficult and they've got a really nice one I remember Brandon Frazier tried to do that spirals with me once Yo, my shoulder. No, not for me. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't know how you ladies do this Yeah, I don't know. It's kind of wild sometimes like doing this stuff like you're just so used I mean, I'm sure you feel the same way like you just get so used to it your body's just like So used to that feeling and your muscles are trained to do it And then when you haven't done it for a while recently, I was like spinning and I got so dizzy I hadn't spent like just a couple weeks and then all of a sudden I got back on it I was like seeing stars and I was like that was wild. Oh never felt. Oh, she's having a little bit of a hard time right now Those two or two falls in the footwork almost back-to-back I'm It's interesting Could be just nerves getting ready for the day could be I Don't know many different things. I'm not gonna speculate on what the cookie could be but Can't say I haven't been there myself Yeah, yeah what I appreciate is he didn't go and look at the ice