2009 Nebelhorn Trophy - Meryl Davis / Charlie White OD

[SWskatingfan]

good luck in vancouver

[SWskatingfan]

good luck in tokyo

[virgoptrex]

Indian has many folk dances (Kathak, Kathakali, bharatnatyam, Tamasha, dhindi ,etc). all dances represent characters from Indian mythology and epics - Ramayana and Mahabharata. They have facial expressions and gestures too. They also represent ancient tales through dances. Hence all movements are by themselves (forget doing it while skating) extremely difficult!

[crystalraining]

hahaha what are they doing with arms in 2nd set of twizzles??? awesome movements though, very difficult!

[MsLurker123]

When I first saw these two skating "Polovtsian Dances" in their first senior season, I thought they might suit an Eastern theme like this. I'm glad they finally came up with this style. It worked, and so naturally. I guess they have a lot of fun dancing to it as well.

[SentimentalWaltz]

The grading of levels has nothing to do with speed, just saying. Anyway, I understand what you mean, they surely need a lot of work to do with this fairly new dance. But this program is obviously better choreographed than their OD from last season.

[Michir10]

I was right. When i'm looking for judges report their step sequence was graded at level 3 also in free dance. So they need improve that.

[SentimentalWaltz]

I on the other hand think this OD is definitely better than last one.

[Michir10]

I think their first step sequence is definetely to slow. They're good but this original dance was worse than last one.

[teddyjo26]

It's only September, and it looks like they're trying to get all the movements down for now. D/W do this every year - they start out slow at the beginning of the season and add speed as the season progresses.

[krazysymphony]

I think their edges are better than last season, they go big and deep edges in those steps, that might explain why they looked slower.

Also they skate very close together.

[SentimentalWaltz]

Well since 2009 worlds we all knew that speed is not everything. They obviously have more to work on than speed itself.

[figskafan]

The whole dance looks slower than in the first video that was uploaded, but anyway, their edges are better now, and skating quality is better then at the FD.

[teddyjo26]

i agree, better edges and skating quality already bode well for this season, more so than speed.

[alince6]

Thanks you so much for uploading the video!!!!! they are the best ever!!!

[teddyjo26]

thank you so much for recording this!!

[sk8lvrnc]

thanks so much for uploading this! I think that over the upcoming season, this OD will develop into something remarkable!