Asada: 2010 v.s. 2013/14 Personal Growth Going to Sochi

CanadianSkaterGuy said:

Her second mark has actually increased (and deservedly so). Even with the errors at 2013 Worlds, her PCS in the FS was 68.41, a personal best.

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I was referring to Mirai since the poster above drew a comparison between her and Mao.

Truth be told people can open what ever thread they want and limit the discussion to the topics they want to discuss. And people who do not find any topics in that thread that they agree or want to discuss could stay out of it. I am sorry, to deny there blind Mao hate in this forum is to not read it.

Colanboy said:

She changed her technique because her old technique was getting close to 0 GOE. It had great pop, but no distance.

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Now it is -2 GOE.

Mao's artistry has definitely grown! Not only in comparison to 2010, but do you remember her from 2006, when she was a jumping bean!

prettykeys said:

Do you not realize the stupidity and childishness contained in the Original Post: coming to a general figure skating forum, creating a thread and banning various skating-related topics, such as jumps?

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All threads are limited to certain topics. We have a few threads talking about Mao's jumps, so I don't get what's soppusedly so bad in creating a thread that's to aim at the other aspects of her skating, instead of talking about her jumps again. (With the topic being 2010 vs. 2013/14, I wouldn't have excluded her jumps, but whatever. It's not as if you wouldn't be free to talk about the jumps anyway).

You want positivity and cheerleading without the critiques, then a Fan Fest thread or an uber fan forum is far more appropriate and less inflammatory than whining about OMG haterZ!!!1!!11 If u don't keep it all nice and and praise-y, then ur a hater!!

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Nope. I'm fine with people criticizing Mao or prefering other skaters, and you're exaggerated speech won't change that. The problem is that lately Mao has been getting an extra dose of over-scrutinization, and that is getting very tiresome. Do other 'underrotators' get threads opened up for their jumps? Constantly reduced their performances to '3 triples'-program or something, not including wrong edge jumps? And it's not too many skaters who supposedly are getting spoonfed by their federation.
In this thread, we had someone saying she didn't grow as an artist from 2010 to now too, and did anyone start to cry hater? Nope. Because it's a valid opinion and a very different thing from being disrespectful.

Whatever is going on with the poster obsessed with Mao's jumps/underrotations and making threads about them, it's clear that he/she is not the only one who thinks they are occurring with some lenient/lucky calls from the tech specialists and not every one of them = "hater".

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Oh, you won't believe it - but I know that. Because I think some of those calls were too generous too, and I already said after SA that Mao's FS score was a tad too high. And I'm pretty sure i'm not a hater.