Samantha Leyla MASCARINAS (PHI) | JJunior Women Free Skating | Riga 2024

And that's the third competitor, 16-year-old Samantha Leila Mascarinas. And she will skate to the wonderful music by Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso. Samantha Leila Mascarinas from the Philippines, opened with a really solid double axel double toe, which was from Redemption. In the short, with both the triple sat on the double axel. Unfortunately, the south will confuse her and her feet skate here in Riga. Yeah, Mark, I found her quite elegant with the arms throughout the program. You know, I mean, it's a softer music selection, of course, but she interpreted really, really, really nicely. And such a stark contrast to the short program, demonstrating her ability to express in different ways as we see that double toe. Here's a look at the triple salchow attempt. She's off lean, outside the circle, right off the top in the takeoff and resulted in the fall. There's the double flip Euler patience. Double salchow gets that done. Want to carry more speed and flow throughout that sequence, of course. Here's the double flip. Good speed going in. Good speed on the landing. Nice extension. Some nice quality on that double flip. Let's take a look at triple salchow a little bit later. One of the hardest falls to take is if you don't get all the way around, you only get two and a half times, you go off the heel of the blade. That's a hard fall to take. It's horrible. If you're forward and you hit the toe picks, yes, you may still fall, but the toe picks slow it down. And I actually thought, watching Samantha, the technique of the flip and the loops look really solid. And I imagine that will be the next port of call for Samantha in regards to the next triple jump. She would not include triple salchow as we see this forward feature to the difficult position. She wouldn't include triple salchow if she couldn't do it. I can see that she can do it just snatched here. I suspect triple flip would be the next most comfortable triple for Samantha. And for those fans out there listening, when my colleague here says point of call, it doesn't mean a cruise. Port of call, yeah. It's hilarious. That's a good note. But it actually works quite well when you say the next port of call, the next stage of improvement, the next stage of work. But that was funny. That was good. Just proving how subconscious my vocabulary is with that. No, I love that English, if it is English. But I love that. Just having fun here. Referencing what the skaters may or may not do. Of course, all of these athletes will be working on the harder jumping passes. The evolution of all the skaters is to tackle the next jump with a higher base value. And so that's a continual and constant. And of course, Samantha will know she's including the salchow here. She's going to want to return. You said this yesterday. It's so, so true. If these skaters, a skater like Samantha or Hannah, were skating at a rink that had a lot of the top skaters, they would just see it and start to do it better. Anyways, 47.56. That is first and three-quarter of the 75.20 for Samantha. And that'll put her, at least for the moment, in the first place.