2012 Cup of Russia Ladies' FS

[euroskate]

What a shame with the Axel.

[sequinsgalore]

Korobeynikova
101.87, total 153.32 and into 1st

[bigsisjiejie]

Late joining the party. Missed Zhang's skate. Sounds grim and the PCS is down in novice-junior level now. She just doesn't belong on the GP anymore. Sounds harsh but there you have it.

[sequinsgalore]

Viktoria HELGESSON (SWE)

Music: Spellbound Concerto by Miklos Rozsa

Light blue dress w/ one strap.. Lots of sparkle.

3F+2T - very "round" landing
3F
3Lo+2A+SEQ - "round" on 2A
CSp
StSq
3T
2A
3Lo - turnout
CCoSp - travels a bit on mid-hop
ChSq
2S
FSSp

[mikiandorocks]

(((((Kanako)))))

[sequinsgalore]

Helgesson
97.38 (SB), total 151.48 (SB) and into 2nd

[sequinsgalore]

Kanako MURAKAMI (JPN)

Music: Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla
A fuego lento by Astor Piazzolla
Adios Nonino by Astor Piazzolla

Black dress w/sparkle. Red ruffles cascading down her left side down to underskirt.

3Lz - obvious "e", perhaps UR
3Lo
3F
StSq
LSp
3Lo+2Lo
3F - UR, no combo
3S+2Lo+2Lo - perhaps UR
3T
FSSp
ChSq
CCoSp

Very solid program, not sure how many UR's she will get.

[mikiandorocks]

I love Kanako's Free program.

[bigsisjiejie]

Yes, her jumps looked mostly rotated to my naked eye, maybe one UR? It's a good program.

[mikiandorocks]

Two triple flips without combo?

[sequinsgalore]

Murakami
109.56, total 166.34 and into 1st

[Rachmaninoff]

The Russian feed I'm watching is a being a bit choppy, but they showed both the flip and one of the triple loops in slow-motion and they both looked UR'd to me.

[let`s talk]

Kanako's expressiveness is slightly better, would be even better with gloves if not that accident at J-regional that made her refuse to use them. But her old problem with edges and UR are all still there, and no changes for good. The entrance in all jumps looks horrible imo.

[bigsisjiejie]

I think unfortunately Kanako now has the reputation of a serial UR'er (and flutzer), so the tech panels are always watching her skates with the assumption that's what she's going to do. No benefits of doubt and have to assume the panel is automatically going to fire up the replay and look at closely. Puts the burden on her to be super squeaky clean and she's not there yet. I've always noticed her problematic technique/entries on the toe jumps.

[mikiandorocks]

Adelina is messing up big time. :(