00:09This young man has not only just improved
00:11obviously technically and from program components
00:14but also in his personality outside the rink
00:19Fascinating young man
00:235th at the Olympics and 4th at the World Championships last year
00:33I'm so excited that his costume fits him well this year
00:37Yeah, but still wearing a jacket, just not a suit jacket
00:39Yeah, just a little more casual
00:41Really large pinstripe suit
00:50Yeah, he has not warmed up the jumps yet
00:52It's interesting, none of them are really going for it
00:57which is fine
01:00because they have to compete tonight
01:02Yeah
01:05Regulation of energy
01:06Yeah
01:17And you know, perhaps in Stephen's case here
01:20that he's wanting to show to the judges
01:21his new program, his connection with the music
01:23his steps perhaps
01:24because the jumps come in less than a second
01:27and you go, so if you make a mistake in practice
01:30you're not showing the program
01:31and maybe the strategy
01:33or let's show the program
01:34or parts of it
01:35Yeah
01:38But we're just making that up
01:40what, the outfit?
01:42No, no, no
01:43I was talking about the choreography
01:44Oh
01:45Just show the judges the outfit
01:47Yeah, there you go
01:48But I, we also talked about how more comfortable and confident
01:54Stephen's continuing to grow from last year
01:57like, it started and it started
01:59and the momentum is, just keeps going
02:01Yeah
02:02Adding all the, the quads and the skating and the freeness
02:05and his, it's like old Stephen
02:07Yeah
02:08And I think, I think him, I think that the fact that he's comfortable technically
02:14and he's confident
02:16and he's, well, look at that
02:19I mean, he's moving differently too
02:21Yeah
02:21In this program
02:22Yeah
02:23You know, ooh
02:24Moving very differently
02:25Yeah
02:26Yeah, yeah, yeah
02:26I mean, that's a, that is a, that is a very tough move
02:30I mean, we were talking about this in the, in Ice Dance
02:32where there were, there was a team that was doing, um, forward twizzles
02:36forward outside twizzles
02:37that went, that dismounted or, you know, ended that twizzle
02:41in a forward outside edge, that's what he was just doing there
02:44Really hard
02:45And that's really hard to do
02:46and you, you don't want to be overly forward on your weight
02:50because otherwise you're gonna
02:52And you don't see it very often for a reason
02:53Yeah
02:54It's so hard
02:56But I, you know, last year Benoit's choreography for him
03:00I think unlocked something
03:02Yeah
03:02Different
03:03And I think this season
03:05they're giving him something even more challenging to do, right?
03:09And it's, it's just a continuation of growth
03:12I, you know, we, we saw like half of that program
03:15because he was marking a lot of it
03:16but I like that direction
03:18Yeah, yeah
03:18I do too
03:19Yeah, me too
