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I can see their technique in a 4 minute YT video on the jumps they perform.
But seriously, jumps in general aren't something I even would try to predict, personally. In my opinion, just about any seriously promising Russian ladies skater in this day and age can perform all the triples necessary. Jumps are there or aren't - Of course, special talented expectations like Akatieva are one thing. But I'm not going to count out ladies who don't have triples yet at the age of 9, for instance. Shcherbakova herself wasn't exactly strong technically just 3 years ago and now she has a quad. Maybe Panenkova was someone who you could consider talented but personally I couldn't care less about skaters like her. Dime a dozen. And jumping like her isn't all that special to me, either.
Artistry, musical sense, skating are far rarer and far more difficult to gain.
Girls get hit by puberty in different ways. Medvedeva? It's like nothing ever happened to her. Lipnitskaya? Hit really hard. Both were stick figures as pre-juniors.
Speaking of Wakaba and Daleman, you do realize what their body type is, right?
Of course, being a stick figure is useful if the aim is to hang onto jumps with unsustainable technique for that fleeting moment until puberty hits(Lipnitskaya being the recent prime example). But every girl needs to be able to deal with puberty, and being a strong jumper and having solid technique helps with that. I don't think it's accurate to entirely base your analysis around what sort of a puberty and with what timing a girl might hit(especially as everyone's an individual and people change their bodies in different manners).
I still logically think that not being a stick figure is useful in preventing yourself from getting hit by puberty as hard because the required adaptation isn't as massive.
I guess this point still is actually pretty important to make clear: I don't think that jumps are that important at this point in time nor the amount of triples or 3-3s the skaters can do. I concentrate mostly on the things other than jumps. But I don't think having jumps at this age can ever be considered anything but an advantage.
