beautiful lift from Raffaella Koncius & Alexey Shchepetov in their Romeo and Juliet FD
they were the team who had the horrible accident in practice at Nationals two years ago, and she hit her head. so i'm so glad to see them doing well here
that split position where he's holding her under her boot is wow like Ashley says - for a combo lift you'd be aiming for a BV of 10.9 usually. yet they've already done a combo lift in this program, so this huge element counts as a choreo lift, and they got 3.23 points for it 👀😳 it feels like a shame to give this away, even though it does make a dramatic finish
choreo elements don't make sense in the judging a lot of times - half the panel gave them only +2 - which if this was worth 10 points, ok. but when the BV is 1.1, that feels stingy. and curious what their coaches were thinking with this - that it added impact to the program in a way that was worth it?









