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- Oct 23, 2011
This is sincere-so please no nasties from love is blind ubers. I like both these skaters, and when Pat is clean, and doesn't fall, hes a joy to watch, His edges are beautiful, the seamless turns, changes of direction etc. One can concentrate on the lovely programs when he is upright and he gets better thru the season. However, he should not have won the WC last year. Huge PCS is expected at Sochi. Also YuNa who generally does not splat. She is fast, great ice coverage, has the big 3/3 at beginning. Very consistent jumper. Still, As beautiful and sexy as she is, I do not get the huge 20 point spreads-I was amazed at Vancouver, having not been able to see much skating in that quad. I felt Mao was awesome, despite being hampered by the package Tarasova settled her with. I was not part of the scene, so no favorites going in to Vancouver. I actually liked Joannie's elegance. I can see by protocols how YuNa won, and I would have been satisfied with either her or Mao. It should have been closer I thought, admittedly not good at CoP. To see her resoundingly beat someone who threw 3 triple axels. I guess they were accepted. Not given enough credit I thought.
Everyone who sees Yuna in person in comp. says she really is that good. I guess the speed is amazing, and we hear that about Pat too. This does not translate well online or on TV. I wondered if people have seen years of them on TV and then saw the live comp. where they skated very well, and said "ok, now I get it-it is obvious."
I think Pat is a judges fave as is YuNa each for different reasons. I just do not get the huge PCS. YuNa fell in both programs in Zagreb, was slowish by her standards, and the programs were not special. She is mad beautiful, and a champion, but it must be hard for other skaters to skate when both these skaters score massive PCS even when they fall.
Is there this amazing quality each has that does not translate to TV? I don't want to see crazy scoring in Sochi, and I hope those who skate well who are younger, and newbies get fairly scored, but this never seems to happen-well rarely. In GP events the scoring seems more fair and Osmond and Liza were breakthrough stars. But WC and Oly seems to hold up the past champions. After seeing what YuNa did and what she scored in a senior B, it seems she will be canonized, never mind the 2010 coronation. Tired of FS scoring, I guess. And not a fan of IJS in its current form. I wonder if I'd "get it" if I saw these two in particular live. To be fair, Mao is always overscored in Japan, sadly for Akiko.
Everyone who sees Yuna in person in comp. says she really is that good. I guess the speed is amazing, and we hear that about Pat too. This does not translate well online or on TV. I wondered if people have seen years of them on TV and then saw the live comp. where they skated very well, and said "ok, now I get it-it is obvious."
I think Pat is a judges fave as is YuNa each for different reasons. I just do not get the huge PCS. YuNa fell in both programs in Zagreb, was slowish by her standards, and the programs were not special. She is mad beautiful, and a champion, but it must be hard for other skaters to skate when both these skaters score massive PCS even when they fall.
Is there this amazing quality each has that does not translate to TV? I don't want to see crazy scoring in Sochi, and I hope those who skate well who are younger, and newbies get fairly scored, but this never seems to happen-well rarely. In GP events the scoring seems more fair and Osmond and Liza were breakthrough stars. But WC and Oly seems to hold up the past champions. After seeing what YuNa did and what she scored in a senior B, it seems she will be canonized, never mind the 2010 coronation. Tired of FS scoring, I guess. And not a fan of IJS in its current form. I wonder if I'd "get it" if I saw these two in particular live. To be fair, Mao is always overscored in Japan, sadly for Akiko.