Raul GARCIA SHIBINSKIY (AND) | Junior Men Short Program | Gdansk 2025

Our next skater, who represents Andorra, Raul Garcia-Szybinski. Raul, very glad to be back in Gdansk, in Poland. This is the location where he did his first ever Junior Grand Prix. He explained that he's been training hard since his participation in Ankara. It's an honor to represent Andorra on this stage as he skates to Hope. Sounds like a nightmare if you ask me. Went from my bedroom to the big leagues. You know how many times that I was told that I couldn't work, but worked out a feat. Didn't keep me from success, but delayed it some. Raul Garcia-Szybinski representing Andorra. Such a cool concept, and brave to take such music. And he delivers it with an appropriateness that suggests he's perhaps done dance classes that are akin to this. He delivers it with an authenticity. And yet, there's much more detail to come, I'm sure, and much more crisp movements. But I love it, because I can see he loves it. And interesting for Raul, he elected to change the planned program content. He previously attempted triple lutz when he competed in Ankara. Elected to go simpler, but with more success, with a triple toe-double toe, which we see here. Nice triple toe loop, nice coverage up in the double toe. Keep that structure to that, it'll be easy to get the second triple toe done. There's the triple loop, that's too far back, and he takes a fall, but gets up really fast. There's the double lutz a little bit later in the program. Soft landing knees, good. Stretched arms, nice. Here's some of the steps here, Mark. Yeah, and I think for me, with Raul, he obviously invested in the concept and the creativity of his movement, right down to the uniqueness of the costume. I would be saying to Raul, come on, we've got three level twos and a level one here on the four-level assigned elements. He's obviously very capable. That camel spin is beautiful, but he lost the camel spin at the last event. It's a level two here. I believe he's capable of level fours. I want to suggest to him, let's see three level fours in the next event. So Staff Sergeant Andrade is going to... Scrutinize the level four. He's going to be checking everything. But you're right, we haven't commented much on costume. I think costume is perfect for what he was doing in this program. And interestingly, from the judges' perspective, they've gone with the composition above the skating skills, so they're respecting that whilst it might not be their music of choice, the way in which Raul has interpreted that within his composition is appropriate. I feel like I was quite harsh there, but I think he's capable of four spins. Come on, Raul, I'm counting on you, man. Next time, three level fours. Sorry, it was a bit harsh on you. We know you can do it. That's why we're saying it. That's for sure. Let's take a look at the short program score. Season's best, 43.12 for Raul Garcia-Shepetsky. And that'll put him currently in the sixth place.