Isab and now the ice belongs to the 16-year-old from Mount Holly New Jersey who has been so good at such a young age the world junior champ in 2022 here she is on the ice as the reigning US champ isabo lito I Love Her Style on the ice we call her
A ballerina because it really is a ballerina on the ice The Way She Moves the small nuances but she needs to technically deliver she telegraphs her jumps a little bit as you can see this combination coming up right here but so [Applause] focused She may be a ballerina but she has an iron heart under that delicate exterior takes a lot of guts to debut a brand new program on us figure getting’s biggest Stage [Applause] all triple flip was her solo jump slightly more difficult than Amber Glenn’s solo Jump what she does so well is fully utilizes her hips into her knees into her ankles to push into the ice because her upper body is so secure through her whole performance you don’t realize how fast she’s actually going and it comes from that glorious technique of using the ice to your Advantage Oh my goodness that was a spin element that she just pulled out of you can see it on her [Applause] face shocking to herself and to us all she does have a past of missing the spins when she performs a beautiful performance we saw her at the Grand PRI
Of France this fall she lost a spin in the free skate a silly mistake especially when watching the technical score box she had it over Amber a slightly more difficult short program plus grade of execution but now the short going be a wash they’re going to be even going into the free
Take one take one I I got I got you I got you shy I got you world like that’s fine yeah completely fine 75 yeah it is it is All right so I’ll look at some of the elements from this short program for his b and here is this spin mistake watch where she’s grabbing onto her boot and you could see how she got off balance had to let it go just so shocking Amber can’t believe it either
Well as a skater you’re focused on the jump those are the things you might miss not a spin for a skater making a mistake on a spin is a silly mistake a frustrating mistake still a brilliant short program but it’s going to be Qui really close so
Close I think it’s going to be isabo Terry do you have a do you have any any skin in the game I I think so but the point is it’s going to be awfully close and that’s what matters going into that fre SC 75 it’s enough it is 7538 despite
The mistake at the end wow those component scores did do it for isabo lito and welld deserved yes she was brilliant today just those little bobles here and there definitely made it feel like Amber delivered a stronger performance but isabo had more technical difficulty and is still reigning National Champion beautiful performance
We can’t poo poo on that and that’s better than her score last year at the national champ championships in the short program still less than a point separating the top two well Terry you remember earlier isbo told us that uh she was very excited to debut this new
Short program so take us through from beginning to end your thoughts on how that went for you that first time out there weren’t many thoughts but at the same times there were a lot of thoughts I don’t really know anymore I kind of forgot already but I was really trying
To deliver a good program like all around and a lot of eye contact with even the audience along with the judges and I feel like it was very seamless for me flowed really well this program and I’m really happy you had said to us earlier in the season that you were
Feeling like you were holding back in your performances what adjustments did you make to correct that um I intentionally thought don’t hold back no like actually like in the program I was telling myself stop holding back stop thinking just do it yeah and Amber we’ve been talking about how you have been at
Practice on fire what did did you say to yourself before this short program that allowed you to carry that to the competition ice to really just enjoy it soak it all in you know this is my ninth senior Nationals and I don’t know how
Many more I have in me so I want to enjoy every minute we saw a shot of your dad in the stands and when you got your scores he had tears in his eyes as did you what was going through your mind I was just so ecstatic I mean I’ve been
Working really hard in training and it’s great to see it pay off okay well you guys have set up quite the drama for the free skate very close and we look forward to that congratulations to both of you thank you thank you
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