Eniko KOBOR / Zoard KOBOR (GER) | Junior Ice Dance Free Dance | Riga 2025

...team represents Germany, the twins, Eniko and Zohar Gobar, Kabar. Eniko and Zohar need 70 points to maintain their position, but they will be looking to move upward. They had some mistakes in their rhythm dance. Their free dance set to the music of Sky Boat Song and the dance of the Druids. Mark, you must have felt right at home, the music from Outland with the series. I love that series and I love the music. Yeah, great music, great costuming and great musicality and phrasing for the elements for the brother and sister pairing of Eniko Kabar and Zohar Gobar. They will be delighted to have successfully skated their free dance, having had the mistake on the Twizzlers. That was a tough rhythm dance that they had. This is much, much stronger and I really appreciated the musicality by Robin Tweeda, the choreographer of this performance. I wish we could hear the music again. I remember vividly being told by a coach when I was a very young skater that if you turn the music off, you should still be able to guess and assess the kind of style or the storytelling that is being played. And you could see with the kind of Celtic dance movement there, that's evident. Costume gives it away. Costume is a pretty big giver. Here you can see the one-foot dismount. A little bit close to the boards there. Interesting that this team, I thought they were really strong with their twizzling. They look confident, comfortable with twizzles and that's why perhaps they chose to make one of their choreographic elements choreographic twizzles. You often see that as the choice of the choreographic elements. They did it well. And here, you can really see the interpretation. Good use of blade to use the heels and toes. That plays into part of the skating skills as well for the judges' criteria. As we see again, heels and toes used before. Heels and toes throughout there, really. And then closing with the rotational lift. The men need to work through six rotations at least if they're going for that level four. It's coming as a level three. As we see them attempt to do the difficult exit for the further level feature. Nice, that was fun. Yeah, really enjoyable. I mentioned in the warm-up about what the judges want to see for ice dancers. And I said that skating skills ultimately shouldn't be judged differently from singles to dance. You do, though, see stylistically more refinement bodily from the ice dancers, I think, than the single skaters. And I think Eniko and Zora will continue to work on refining the way in which they hold their bodies. The way in which they engage their core muscles to create a bolder, stronger aesthetic. Well, the personal best score last season, 74.86. This is a 76.37, so there's an improvement there. And that is first in the free dance. And a 120.48 total score for the competition as they take over the lead, two groups to come. That was much better than the rhythm dance. And showed their ability and their skills for the future.