Well I did ask the same question about Yuzuru even though he never said anything bad at all. (I like PChiddy but I can get why he gets hate sometimes.) the answer is simple: because these kids have won too many competitions.Comparing Nam and Julia seems silly!
I just keep wondering why so many people are negative about Julia...
Anyone who makes such a comment is to be pitied, it is a reflection of their insensitivity. More than anyone Yulia becomes the music, her body is the visual instrument of the music. So are these detractors saying the music has no emotional content? I could go on and on about her upcoming short program (incomplete at the open skate--more to come!), but nobody would read it all and for good reason. So here is just one outstanding example of her artistry in Megapolis. In the middle of the footwork section (at about one minute into the program) she comes to a full stop with her arms crossed above her head, matching the full stop of the music's harmony. The next note of music jumps an octave, it's like a brutal slap that stings the face of one who is already beaten. Notice how she throws her body back on this note as if she has been struck violently, emphasizing both the thrusting character of the notes and its context within the general violence of this section of Megapolis. https://8chan.co/yulia/src/1414687670790-0.webm (link courtesy of papa). This is a brilliant example of her style, which always integrates the music's shape, structure and meaning into performances accessible to everyone in their own way. Just open eyes, ears and heart. And let's not be distracted by irrelevancies such as falls.
Keeping up with papa, thanks for telling about skate america. I watched the two Russians on youtube and was mightily impressed. There seems to be a Russian school of skaters emerging, something like the Russian school of pianists.
Mah in those months I have become lunatic at some point.
If it happens, you better not wear white...Papa, so if it happens (I do hope nothing so terrible does, ever!), you know who to kill.
Haters have to hate something, I guess. Such a waste of time and energy...
Mah in those months I have become lunatic at some point.
The good news is that Eurosport is showing CoC all live. :yay:
I especially love this sequence: elegant, delicate and perfectly synchronized with music. That last hand gesture just melts me!
https://8chan.co/yulia/src/1414689311052-0.webm
Yes, artistry is subjective, but if Yulia was American, this whole forum would have been buzzing around "new inward school in figure skating"...
Alba, if you have recorded it, could you please share Yulia's programs here? Thanks.The good news is that Eurosport is showing CoC all live. :yay:
I hope my media center is ok so I can record it.
Alba, if you have recorded it, could you please share Yulia's programs here? Thanks.
If Yulia was American she wouldn't be a kite, she'd be a drone.