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- Apr 22, 2014
Like many of us, I just today watched both Evgenia Medvedeva's LP and SP skates at the Jr. GP Courchevel... and, whoa, excessive use of the 'tano' hand over the head position?! I get that it garners extra GOE, but at a certain point it comes across as gimmicky/tacky, and distracts from the jumps themselves.
Though this may be reflected in lower interpretation/presentation scores, who bets that programs like these will end up being banned by the ISU, and we'll have a limit to how often you can use this position in jumps? (Similar to how the Bielmann position was eventually limited in frequency of use in programs)
Here's her short program, where she uses it on
and here's her long program, where she uses it on
By the way, her coaches are clearly doing whatever they can to garner her points, with her reserving almost all of her jumps to second half to get the bonus. She's clearly an amazing jumper (though with flutzing), but at some point the use of the arm lacks a little class and screams "I'm trying to get all the GOE points you can give me, ever!!!" rather than showing a balanced and classy program.
Thoughts?
Though this may be reflected in lower interpretation/presentation scores, who bets that programs like these will end up being banned by the ISU, and we'll have a limit to how often you can use this position in jumps? (Similar to how the Bielmann position was eventually limited in frequency of use in programs)
Here's her short program, where she uses it on
- 2A
- 3F in the 3F-3T combo
- 3Lz
and here's her long program, where she uses it on
- 3F in the 3F-3T combo
- 3Lz
- 3F
- both 2Ts in her 3Lo-2T-2T combo
- 2A
- 2A
By the way, her coaches are clearly doing whatever they can to garner her points, with her reserving almost all of her jumps to second half to get the bonus. She's clearly an amazing jumper (though with flutzing), but at some point the use of the arm lacks a little class and screams "I'm trying to get all the GOE points you can give me, ever!!!" rather than showing a balanced and classy program.
Thoughts?