After these past two days that were filled with skating I was in a weird mood and decided to watch the Latch version from 2017 Worlds, something I haven’t done once since watching it live (I could hear the huge gasp from the crowd for days after Worlds so I always chose to watch either NHK or GPF versions). I forgot how good they were in it, stumble included. Their lines, their edges, their knee bend, their flow across the ice, the connection, the interpretation, paying attention to the details, creating beautiful shapes. Every moment in the slo-mo is just picture perfect. And while NHK was the rawest version of this FD, this Worlds one is the best they’ve skated it and one of their best skates in terms of pure skating (yes, stumble included).There’s this small moment that really captures how special they are, at 03:30 you can see Scott make a small error in the step sequences and almost clicks skates with Tessa, but he is so good, so quick on his toes that he saves it without anyone even noticing.
When will this level of artistic skating come back from war and make me feel like this again?
