Mirai skated a beautiful program at Nationals that was athletic, artistic, had great flow, good connections, and was well coreographed She was marked down on three jumps and some say that the judges were unfair.
I created a slow motion video of her 3Lz that people claim the technical panel unfairly downgraded. I will not make a call but will say that there are two things in the rules that can cause a jump to be downgraded UR, <
1. Clear forward takeoff.
2. More than 1/4 turn under rotated landing.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
*** Vidie link updated to remove freeze frames see link below ****
I am not posting this to bash Mirai. I think she is a wonderful skater and a great hope for the US Ladies. I just think people are unfair to the technical pannel who are trained to see this. I do not think they have some hidden agenda. They called it as they saw it.
I created a slow motion video of her 3Lz that people claim the technical panel unfairly downgraded. I will not make a call but will say that there are two things in the rules that can cause a jump to be downgraded UR, <
1. Clear forward takeoff.
2. More than 1/4 turn under rotated landing.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
*** Vidie link updated to remove freeze frames see link below ****
I am not posting this to bash Mirai. I think she is a wonderful skater and a great hope for the US Ladies. I just think people are unfair to the technical pannel who are trained to see this. I do not think they have some hidden agenda. They called it as they saw it.
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