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I wonder if he will be able to make a successful comeback this year as planned now
I wonder if he will be able to make a successful comeback this year as planned now
Not everybody agrees with Plushenko's record, but apparently he has the most technically superb jumps in the world. I was at a coaching seminar recently, where we studied various skaters jumps and techiques -- We studied Plushenko's jumps, especially his quad combo's - and biomechanically he was perfection.
Not everybody agrees with Plushenko's record, but apparently he has the most technically superb jumps in the world. I was at a coaching seminar recently, where we studied various skaters jumps and techiques -- We studied Plushenko's jumps, especially his quad combo's - and biomechanically he was perfection.
But other than those six, what did you think of his jumps?He can have really bad take-offs in his axel jumps, toe-loop, flip, salchow, loop, and lutz,...
Todd Eldredge was like that, too. As Dick Button commented, you can throw a cat out ugly, but it always lands on its feet....never achieve the desired perpendicular position (to the ice) and yet still land the jump(s). Many of his jumps go up crooked or wrong, but he has an uncanny knack of correcting the jumps mid-air, so that he can land them.
^ You would be happy if Plushenko is so crippled up from the surgery that he can't skate anymore, in order to increase your pleasure in watching competitions?
I see you have mastered the art of waiting for the 16th post so that your missive sits atop the page as a very Gorgoneion against schadenfreude -- for all time (or until the third page). :agree:Have you heard of Delores Umbridge?
He has a wonderful cat-like ability to be able to land technically flawed jumps (60% of his jumps to my eyes). He can have really bad take-offs in his axel jumps, toe-loop, flip, salchow, loop, and lutz, never achieve the desired perpendicular position (to the ice) and yet still land the jump(s). Many of his jumps go up crooked or wrong, but he has an uncanny knack of correcting the jumps mid-air, so that he can land them. I think that's the key to his success rather than technical perfection (which he has never shown).
When I think of technical (jump) perfection, I think of Ilya Kulik, Brian Boitano and Johnny Weir but I don't think of Plushenko.