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She reminds me of Caroline Zhang, I think she is really special!
She reminds me of Caroline Zhang, I think she is really special!
I like what I see with this girl, but I'm not sold on her yet. She didn't have great results on the junior ranks and I have to wonder if she possibly just had the SOHL at CoC and received a boost in her scores due to skating in her own country. Ming-Zhu Li seems to have helped her improve a lot, but she doesn't look fully pubertized yet and you never know what that will do to a skater. Bingwa has some lovely qualities but still seems a bit juniorish to me. She smashed her former PB scores at CoC so it will be interesting to see if she can keep it up and put up similar scores at her other competitions this season or if her scores will go back down closer to what they used to be. This girl definitely has potential, but I'm going to be cautiously optimistic at this point. The buzz about Bingwa sort of reminds me of the buzz Min-Jung Kwak received last season at 4CC and the Olympics, where she smashed her former PB scores and was skating really well and showed lots of promise. Now though, she seems to be scoring closer to what she was scoring before she had her big break, and likely it's just due to injury, but at the moment, though I think she is very promising and has lots of potential, she is a bit of a question mark.
Definitely she's improved a lot since last season, and I assume we will be seeing her at 4CC and Worlds in a few months, so depending on how she does there we might have a better idea of where she's at, if she's made further improvements, and what to expect in the future, etc. We also don't know if she will have a dramatic body transformation like Bebe Liang or Caroline Zhang did, looking at Bingwa now, she could stay about the same size but also could change a lot in the coming months.
I really enjoyed her skating. I love her body line and her wonderful flexibility in her back. I havent enjoyed too many ladies thus far, so this is a real treat and a surprize. As far as puberty, how old is she? many girls start by 13 unless they train like dogs or gymnasts. I wonder what her parents look like. Thats always a good prediction of what is to come.