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Old 01-03-2010, 18:11
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I'd love to have seen this as one of Ray's routines
Thing is Ray would have made it look very eay and effortless. Am i the only one to miss him this year?
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Old 01-03-2010, 18:13
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In that case, watch Torvill & Dean's Ice Adventures - the Winter Games section, which is a total take off of winter sports competitions; they used the same music in the bobsleigh section of that. This was with professional skaters, so you can see the full potential of that routine.
Is this a DVD
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Old 01-03-2010, 18:28
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Um .. I actually really liked the routine - it gave Gary something different to do, he was less 'magnolia paintish'
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Old 01-03-2010, 18:34
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i wold have liked it if maybe the pros done it but it didnt suit him and as per usual didnt give a peformance-im beginning to get bored of him now i dont think hes got the potential to pull it off
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Old 01-03-2010, 18:46
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i wold have liked it if maybe the pros done it but it didnt suit him and as per usual didnt give a peformance-im beginning to get bored of him now i dont think hes got the potential to pull it off
See I disagree - I think he DID give a performance - he certainly was taking on the characters of the different sports.

That said, it was too fast and so it looked rushed and a bit unpolished. He is still the best of the male skaters - he generally does more difficult lifts than the other two - infact he managed to correct an error mid-lift last night.

We'll have to agree to disagree won't we
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Old 01-03-2010, 18:56
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Yup. I don't think it's on youtube, I'm afraid.
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Old 01-03-2010, 18:56
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Gary and Maria's routine was awful. Really cringe-worthy.
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:03
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Gary and Maria's routine was awful. Really cringe-worthy.
I didn't like it at all and I wondered whether they had given Gary and Maria the routine that Sharron Davies had ditched the week before....after all the winter Olympics were practically over by last weekend!
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:04
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I didn't like it at all and I wondered whether they had given Gary and Maria the routine that Sharron Davies had ditched the week before....after all the winter Olympics were practically over by last weekend!
No they didn't because Sharron's routine was to "I Want Candy."
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:35
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It was IMHO a good idea not executed well, perhaps because Gary seems to be quite a fluid skater naturally, whereas this routine called for a lot of stopping and starting and chopping and changing. I suspect that was why he didn't convey it with full conviction either i.e. that he was having to concentrate harder on his skating, so it did challenge him in that way but cost him something on performance.
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:38
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I haven't cringed as much since Erin Boag and Colin Jackson danced with those dolls on SCD!
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:40
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I haven't cringed as much since Erin Boag and Colin Jackson danced with those dolls on SCD!
That's going a bit overboard.
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:41
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It was bad !!! Such a strange routine, and Gary stumbled a few times. Not my favorite....by a long shot
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:42
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Its true, I just sat there with my mouth open and couldn't believe what they were doing!
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:44
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Its true, I just sat there with my mouth open and couldn't believe what they were doing!
They certainly were not 'Dancing on Ice'

See what I did there ?
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:46
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If Chris hadn't explained all the different things they were doing before they did the routine I wouldn't have had a clue what it was all about....not one of T&D's finest pieces of Choreography I think!
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:59
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Thank you all for your kind words and suport ! We get music 2morrow fingers crossed its a good 1 x x

This is what Gary tweeted yesterday.....I bet he is hoping for good music!
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Old 02-03-2010, 11:15
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They certainly were not 'Dancing on Ice'

See what I did there ?
My thoughts exctly speed skating and bob slayin love Gary Lucy to bits but the routines are not doing him any credit
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Old 02-03-2010, 17:03
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I loved the concept of the routine and I wonder if maybe the idea was to give Gary a routine he could act his way through rather than dance?
I actually thought he did it ok, but I did think that maybe the time allowed for the routine was a little bit too short for the amount they tried to pack in, as a result the changes from one theme to another were a little bit rushed.
Overall, for me, a good idea which very nearly worked very well.

I think it is fair to say Chris Fountain may have pulled it off slightly better, partly because his skating style was very much athletic rather than graceful and it would have suited that style very well. Gary is a good skater, but his performances are slightly less athletic than Chris'. I think Ray's talents may have been wasted on it, one of his strengths was that he could link skating talent to musical interpretation so well and there wasn't much need for that in this routine.
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