my top 6 stepsequences of the season - a thread

Some issues in the step sequence because the width of the rink is too small. In yesterday’s run-thru, he botched that RFI-Bracket (at the beginning of this clip), fell and hit the board (coz the rink is too narrow and he was too close to the board). Therefore he’s a bit tentative here psychologically, making sure he didn’t get too close to the board in that Bracket. But as a result of that, he was too close to the center of the ice when he did the “open-the-door-and-run” part, leaving him insufficient room to perform his right-foot cluster. Therefore he was a little unsure entering that cluster, and did not hit his knee actions weight transfer well enough, leading to a very shallow exit edge of the RBO-Counter and a meh RFO-Twizzle. Then he was still (expectedly) too close to the board, so he botched the following LBO-Choctaw (not affecting levels coz he already did a double-Choctaws before, but still…) I hate small rinks, they do not fit Yumachi.🙇‍♀️ He still got high GOE? For sure. And I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t feel relieved. But sometimes judges just fail to reward the right things while crediting some mediocre stuff, of which we are ofc unsurprised.