Wie immer werde ich meinen Bericht über diesen Wettbewerb im Eiskunstlaufen auf Englisch verfassen. Einfach damit ich mehr Menschen erreiche.
I started into my 2017 Nebelhorn adventure with the Short Dance on Thursday morning. Not sure where this motivation was coming from as I had been super bored by ice dancing at Worlds in Helsinki. Turned out to be the right decision as I found this Latin SD quite entertaining.
![Adam Lukacs](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/01_Adam-Lukacs_Yanovskaya-Lukacs-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance.jpg)
Adam Lukacs
First to skate where Yanovskaya & Lukacs from Hungary. She’s a former Junior World Champion for Russia and I think she’s gorgeous.
![Malmberg Nordahl](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/02_Malmberg-Nordahl_Malmberg-Nordahl-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance.jpg)
Malmberg & Nordahl
Anyone who remembers Vernekohl & Kurakin’s Shakira FD from Bofrost Cup in Gelsenkirchen ages ago? Malmberg & Nordahl made me think of it because they were just as slooooow…
![Jakushina Nevskiy](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/03_Jakushina-Nevskiy_Jakushina-Nevskiy-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance.jpg)
Jakushina & Nevskiy
I liked Jakushina & Nevskiy from Latvia. They were fast and energetic.
Manta & Johnson from the US were a bit too classical/conservative for my taste.
![Min Gamelin](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/04_Min-Gamelin_Min-Gamelin-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance.jpg)
Min & Gamelin
Min & Gamelin from South Korea had a small wobble but I liked them, anyway.
I didn’t have high expectations for Hew-Low & McKernan from Australia but they had me positively surprised.
![Coomes Buckland](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/05_Coomes-Buckland_Coomes-Buckland-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance.jpg)
Coomes & Buckland
![Coomes Buckland](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/06_Coomes-Buckland_Coomes-Buckland-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
What an emotional moment!
Time for the invasion of the Brits (=huge – for Nebelhorn standards – British fan colony in the stands): Coomes & Buckland made their comeback after her severe knee injury. They were sooo smooth and just a class above the rest of the field. It was a very emotional skate and and especially Penny looked so happy at the end. There were some people connected to them (family? friends? super fans?) sitting behind me and I would have almost cried along with them.
![Marina Zueva & Maurizio Margaglio](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/08_Margaglio-Zueva-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Marina Zueva & Maurizio Margaglio standing behind the boards.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Lucie Mysliveckova and I can remember enjoying Lukas Csolley’s FDs with his ex-partner here at Nebelhorn (one to „The Adams’s Family“, if I’m not mistaken). The two of them as a team are also totally my taste when it comes to ice dance teams. I hope they’ll keep on skating together.
![Semenjuk Gruzdev](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/07_Semenjuk-Gruzdev_Semenjuk-Gruzdev-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Semenjuk & Gruzdev
Semenjuk & Gruzdev from Estonia looked very concentrated and were not really selling their program to the audience.
![Muramato Reed](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/09_Muramato-Reed_Muramato-Reed-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Muramato & Reed
I loved Kana Muramato’s braid and Chris Reed’s over the top facial expression made me smile and think of that one Japanese ice dancer from more than a decade ago who used to have an even more expressive face. Can’t remember his name, though.
![Sales Wamsteeker](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/10_Sales-Wamsteeker_Sales-Wamsteeker-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Sales & Wamsteeker
Sales & Wamsteeker from Canada left the same conservative impression on me like the team from the US.
![Galyeta Brown](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/11_Galyeta-Brown_Galyeta-Brown-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Galyeta & Brown
Galyeta & Brown were one of the weaker teams and definitely too slow for the last fast part of their program.
![Garabedian Proulx-Senecal](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/12_Garabedian-Proulx-Senecal_Garabedian-Proulx-Senecal-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Garabedian & Proulx-Senecal
![Tina Garabedian's hair <3](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/13_Tina-Garabedian_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance.jpg)
Tina Garabedian’s hair <3
I liked Garabedian & Proulx-Senecal from Armenia/Canada. And doesn’t she have the most gorgeous hair ever?!
![Törn Partanen](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/14_Törn-Partanen_Törn-Partanen-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Törn & Partanen
Törn & Partanen look totally un-Finnish with their dark hair. I found them a bit slow for the last part of their music but they received a good placement after the SD, anyway.
Mansour & Ceska have a very quick style and I loved them. She’s tiny which makes their lifts spectacular. I also really liked their expressiveness.
I somehow ended up without any notes for Reed & Ambrulevicius. But I think I can remember enjoying their SD.
![Lorenz Polizoakis](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/16_Lorenz-Polizoakis_Lorenz-Polizoakis-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Lorenz & Polizoakis
![Lorenz Polizoakis](https://glimrende.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/17_Lorenz-Polizoakis_Lorenz-Polizoakis-Nebelhorn-Trophy_Nebelhorn-Trophy_Short-Dance-Nebelhorn.jpg)
Lorenz & Polizoakis
Lorenz & Polizoakis were not just greeted by the inevitable German drummer but also by some cow bells. I liked the fast part of their SD better than the slow one. It looked to me like they spent a lot of concentration on the twizzles. Overall, they looked much more determined and also polished than during last year’s Nebelhorn Trophy.
Yuri Bieliaiev is super tall and I had this picture of a former, super tall pairs skater from Russia in front of my inner eye. I admit it, I had to google his name (my ability to save random skating trivia isn’t as good as it used to be): it’s Andrei Chuvilaev. Kavaliova & Bieliaiev gave it all expression-wise but had a labored technique.
I would put this SD in the „positive surprise category“ as I had much more fun than expected. It even motivated me to watch the FD…
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