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Whatever happened to Kiri. She was like dynamite last season? I still think she is the wave of the future. Don't know Agnes. Was she really better than Kiri, if Kiri was at her best?
Whatever happened to Kiri. She was like dynamite last season? I still think she is the wave of the future. Don't know Agnes. Was she really better than Kiri, if Kiri was at her best?
Whatever happened to Kiri. She was like dynamite last season? I still think she is the wave of the future. Don't know Agnes. Was she really better than Kiri, if Kiri was at her best?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aptGHXzTCk
Here's a video of Kanako's LP. Although Kanako is called "mini-Mao" in Japan, I have noticed she is quite different from Mao as a skater. Kanako isn't as light as Mao at 15 but she seems more powerful on ice. Maybe because Kanako is not as waiflike as Mao was at that age. She does seem more mature and elegant for a 15 year old. Also she does have better spins than Mao at that age.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MaDDaMforum#p/u/1/Ic2HkdjiGVM
Polina Agafonova FS. She was wonderful! Love the spins and she has a nice presence, even if puberty messes up her jumps, it shouldn't mess up her gorgeous spins and great presentation
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MaDDaMforum#p/u/0/dG4-txBUiUc
Anna Ovcharova FS. Not as bad as I thought it would be, she fought through it and good for her for landing those two sequences at the end after falling twice.
Polina is so adorable Her spins are fantastic. I hope she endures through puberty, because she is just great.
Polina is so adorable Her spins are fantastic. I hope she endures through puberty, because she is just great.
Yeah, she is my favorite ))) So tiny and so cute! I like her very much and hope to see on the Senior Grand Prix next year, Russia has lots of talented girls who will go to the JGP next year, so I think Polina could go to Seniors.
As for Gerboldt, she decided to try in pairs
Noticed from the FS protocols that of the top 5 skaters--all of whom tried both 3Z and 3F, only Ovcharova got clean edges with no calls for flutz or lip. Hope the rest of ladies work on technique and clean these up by time they start seniors, they will be forces to be reckoned with.
She is 13 now (will turn 14 in 2nd April), isn't she too young for SGP? (I don't know the age rules for senior GP)
I understand the desire to go to the seniors but eg. Polina is soooo child, I couldn'd see any expression at all, the music (Romeo & Juliet) was way too heavy and powerful to her. She is a gorgeus skater but she is very junior. IMHO skaters shouldn't rush too fast to the seniors. I'm tired of junior-looking and junior-leveled skaters in seniors, when it should be LADIES skating, not GIRLS skating.
I also wonder the thoughts of eg Alissa's retirement. How old is she, 22? I think she is in the best age of skating, mature and ready to express. Well, I don't know if she has said something of retiring, it's different then. I also wonder the thoughts of Rachael's studying. Why is it too difficult to combine sports and studying? In Finland it's very possible, eg. Kiira studies in university and can practise a huge amount of hours in a week.
I don't know what Korpi is studying, but I have noticed her skating is not as good as it was a year or so ago.
Anna O: I also thought the messiness was due mostly to nerves. But maybe chuckm is right and there are some underlying technique issues there. Will have to watch some more.
Rachael, college + skating: If Rachael is going into the bio-sciences, it will be a relatively rigid schedule with labs and other stuff. Much less room for flexibility than if one is studying one of the humanities or social sciences. Stanford is no cakewalk either. No aspersions to Alissa and her educational achievements, but while continuing to skate, she went to a much less demanding type of university, in a much more flexible curriculum. I have my doubts that Rachael can simultaneously do both and not have either education or skating (or both) suffer. Michelle Kwan started down that path at UCLA but had to cut down on classes, then finally concentrate only on skating and defer continuing her higher education until a later time.
Agafonova has come a long way in just a year. This time last year, she only had a consistent toe and salchow and was just adding the 3Lz to her programs. And now she's a Junior World medalist with a consistent 3Lz+3T! I'm so glad it's getting ratified after she had so many downgrades on her first event this year. And her spins are as lovely as always.
I don't think staying junior is a terrible idea. She's tiny, so it takes her a long time to get across the ice even though she's not slow. She also needs to work on expression. But her jump technique is not bad, aside from her 2A.