After the reading sisinka's post, I don't understand why some teams are not using small jumps/hops to gain more speed? Of course almost all ice dance teams are using one or two jump in their dances for choreographic purpose but some of those teams are using those jumps for speed. They are looking very fast and actually getting more components because of that. If I were a coach and my team can't gain speed with edges, this is first solution to problem, isn't it? Why only Igor's teams are skating like that?
For example: Davis/White changed this section at worlds so their jumps reduced to 2 instead of 5 but in Skate America watch 1.32 and 1.46.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGFKqzRPdA
For example: Davis/White changed this section at worlds so their jumps reduced to 2 instead of 5 but in Skate America watch 1.32 and 1.46.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGFKqzRPdA
Zachary had around 38 forward and back cross-overs, Evan did around 48 cross-overs, both ladies had lesser number.
Re-watching those programs few times…Thanks you so much Krylova, Camerlengo and all team who helped with choreography for NON JUMPING FD, I appreciate it so much (Zachary had only one minor jump during diagonal step sequence). I start to be frightened that so many dancers are doing jumping exercises as much as possible
I had to watch C&B twice to count all those bigger jumps, small jumps, partly lifts…25 jumps and I didn’t count jumps into a real lifts – it would be about 3 jumps more. Jumps and cross-overs are making skater‘s life easier – it helps to easily increase speed and jumps protect from changing an edge – you simply jump and you can turn about 180 degree on the air and skate in another direction with better speed, while you have to change direction about 180 degree with help of edge – you put yourself into danger that you will loose some speed (and you need better knee action for making it well). Overall C&B have plenty of cross-overs and helping jumps to increase speed and they really have quite good speed. H&D were really slow at US Nationals, partly because of much more difficult choreo than C&B had but also partly to a fact that they sometimes get more on toe pick which make that noise and makes them slower