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[ellsey]

cpom, lajoie/baker, lopareva/brissaud 2030 olympic podium start investing now

[ellsey]

Ballroom dancing girly here quite impressed with CPom’s day off waltzing…strong lead and follow, down in the knees, Christina’s got a lovely big topline and smooth head positioning, Anthony understands heel leads in the footwork though he needs to get that elbow out further, he’s hugging Christina too far around the back with the arm and it makes his frame droop…but overall I was pleasantly surprised! That can’t have been their first time. They’ll smash DWTS after winning their 2030 OGM.

Thank you for this evaluation! I know very little about ballroom lol, so this is so interesting to me. I love that they are working the fundamentals off the ice too. I am so excited to see where they take this waltz this season.

[ellsey]

going to stars on ice soon i'm so excited to cpom out

[stardustinthesky]

Delenn investigating the competition.

Bonus:

[theskatingarchive]

Amber Glenn (USA)

2023 Skate America Short Program (71.45, SB)

[ellsey]

fun fact i'm in this audience sitting right two rows back from the tech callers lol (they blocked this section off the next year rip)

[ellsey]

new us pairs team carreira/ponomarenko

(from christina's stories)

[ellsey]

Is there actual concrete info that Lajoie/Lagha are on the verge of calling it quits, or is it just social media catastrophizing? I’ll be furious on their behalf if it’s true, the fact that Zingas/Kolesnik and Fear/Gibson who can’t ice dance have world medals and they have a bunch of 8th places…I was at Montreal worlds and they should’ve fucking won it, no joke (everyone says it should’ve been Piper and Paul but in person it was really apparent how much more ice coverage without relying on crossovers L/L were getting)

ok so I don't have any hard evidence for you about this. That being said, I have heard enough from people who know things to feel like it's a legitimate concern at this point. I'm not saying oh yeah this is set in stone, but just there is a LOT of smoke around this potential fire.

I'm with you though. Their results have rarely been representative of their skating. It has to be frustrating for them, because it is for me too. But I swear Skate Canada better be throwing everything they have at lala to keep them together. Otherwise they may have some big issues.

[theskatingarchive]

Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko (USA)

2026 Olympic Winter Games Rhythm Dance (78.15)

[ellsey]

Anthony is really kinda eating everyone for breakfast in these SOI clips. I don’t why I’m surprised but I am? Scott should give the boy his tango and let him really dance (especially as Z/K are doing…Bolero)

I AM SO PROUD OF HIM. Tbh I think he has grown so much in performance ability over the past 4 years especially, but it's truly coming out on tour. He's having a blast and also doing an axel on dance blades truly no one is doing it like him.

I've got a good feeling about this coming season for cpom. I think good things are coming.

[lindleland]

same vibe

[ellsey]

imagine having to drop stars on ice and lose that sweet sweet tour money only to have your partner meet with the completely evil secdef in dc lolol

[sunskate]

omg CPom skating to Say it Right 😮

[violetallnight]

getting slutty with it

[violetallnight]

Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko - Carmen Free Dance

[2025 Four Continents Championship // 2024 Cup of China]

[violetallnight]

Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko - Perfume: A Story of a Murder Free Dance

[2026 World Figure Skating Championships, Prague]

[violetallnight]

Christina Carreira’s Perfume Free Dance costumes

[sunskate]

so they got rid of the ChRS only not really, it’s being replaced with something very very similar that also goes barrier to barrier and is also going to be picky about separations. and has a dance stop of just 5 seconds and an acrobatic move. and oh, plays not just to the judges but to all 4 sides of the arena, or else? and somehow is supposed to fit into the same world as the Golden Waltz. good luck to the teams and coaches and choreographers 😅💀

[ellsey]

ok I have some info to add to this

the cde is supposed to be leveled (do not ask me how because I genuinely do not know). In fact all the rd elements are intended to be leveled. The golden waltz has 4 keypoints (women steps 34 & 35, man steps 34 & 35, woman step 15, man steps 15a, 15b, & 15c).

There is also a "short dance lift" (no longer than 8 seconds and cannot be repeated in the fd unless part of a combo lift), circular non-touch step sequence (must be clockwise), and twizzles (the rules are slightly different like every season and some features can't be repeated in the fd).

The cde does seem a mess, but if they really do level it that's like 2% less vibes based than before lol. Idk I'm interested to see what people come up with.