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Mao should train with Brian Orser
not while her main rival is also skating with him
Mao should train with Brian Orser
I also doubt that Orser is the ultimate answer. Especially as far as technique goes. Kim had exceptional jumps, long before she worked with Orser. Rippon had all the Triples clean and secure, except for the Triple Axel - and that one is still a bit shaky, even after nearly one year with Orser. And not every coach works for every skater.Right no way. His loyalty is to Kim right now. However, if Kim retires, he may agree to take on Mao then.
Mao should train with Brian Orser
how about Doug Lee? Honda's old coach and Lori Nichols?
I really don't like Mao's mom's involvements. Why is she coaching her daughter anyway?
It would be extremely unlikely for either Kostner or Asada to make the GPF. Kostner has 5 points and skates next week in China vs. Rochette and Flatt. Even if a miracle happened and Kostner won, she would still have only 20 points, the same as Asada.
So this means we may get to see Rachael Flatt at GPF instead of Carolina or Mao.:disapp::no:
Miki ANDO JPN
tes=58.23
pcs=57.52
ded.=1
lp=114.75
total comp.=171.93
place=1st
But why didn't Mao get a full-time coach in the first place? I understand that Folle does the day-to-day work, but she has no proven track record as a coach...even less as a jumping expert. Why didn't Mao (or the JSF for that matter) take TAT as choreographer, for mental support at competitions, politiking etc. and get a technical coach in Japan specifically for her jumps? One doesn't exclude the other. Especially since she wanted to overhaul most of her jumps in the summer of 2008: Add the salchow, fix the lutz, add a triple axel combination etc.
As I understand it Arutunian held her jumps together, but he grew frustrated because she spent more time in Japan than with him and she grew frustrated because he wouldn't come to Japan more often. Fair enough, but someone in Asada's environment should have seen that Arutunian is a jump specialist and they would need another jump specialist to replace him. Yagudin and Kulik were fine with TAT, sure, but they basically continued training jumps the way Mishin and Kudriatsev taught them to. At least that's what I always read...
Yeah, I don't know, this is an awful lot of pressure and expectations to handle for such a young girl and I don't think that she has been advised all that well. Not that my useless rambling here is any different.
Because Mao won the world championships without a coach and probably thought she was good enough to coach herself with her mom's help.. what a bad idea it turned out to be. She should just go back to Arutunian.
Because Mao won the world championships without a coach and probably thought she was good enough to coach herself with her mom's help.. what a bad idea it turned out to be. She should just go back to Arutunian.
Mao ASADA JPN
tes=40.06
pcs=59.28
ded.=1
lp=98.34
total comp.=150.28
I just watched Mao's performance, and it was absolutely the worst performance of the season, not just hers, but all other's included. I cannot believe that she was the 2008 world champion, she doesn't even seem like the same person. Also, what I don't understand is how could her PCS be 59.28, when she basically messed up the ENTIRE program? Looking at Miki's protocols, Miki's tes is 18 points higher than Mao's (40.06), but somehow Mao's pcs is higher than Miki's??? This is absolutely suspicious to me, and I cannot accept it. It is true that 98.34 is a low score for Mao, but honestly, her score should have been somewhere around 80s, not 90s. Even in the short program, her tes was the 8th highest (I think?), but her pcs was the 1st highest. Mao definitely is a talented skater, but this kind of favoring really upsets me. I want all the skaters to be treated fairly, and Mao shouldn't be a special exception.
Mao ASADA JPN
tes=40.06
pcs=59.28
ded.=1
lp=98.34
total comp.=150.28
I just watched Mao's performance, and it was absolutely the worst performance of the season, not just hers, but all other's included. I cannot believe that she was the 2008 world champion, she doesn't even seem like the same person. Also, what I don't understand is how could her PCS be 59.28, when she basically messed up the ENTIRE program? Looking at Miki's protocols, Miki's tes is 18 points higher than Mao's (40.06), but somehow Mao's pcs is higher than Miki's??? This is absolutely suspicious to me, and I cannot accept it. It is true that 98.34 is a low score for Mao, but honestly, her score should have been somewhere around 80s, not 90s. Even in the short program, her tes was the 8th highest (I think?), but her pcs was the 1st highest. Mao definitely is a talented skater, but this kind of favoring really upsets me. I want all the skaters to be treated fairly, and Mao shouldn't be a special exception.
Mao ASADA JPN
tes=40.06
pcs=59.28
ded.=1
lp=98.34
total comp.=150.28
I just watched Mao's performance, and it was absolutely the worst performance of the season, not just hers, but all other's included. I cannot believe that she was the 2008 world champion, she doesn't even seem like the same person. Also, what I don't understand is how could her PCS be 59.28, when she basically messed up the ENTIRE program? Looking at Miki's protocols, Miki's tes is 18 points higher than Mao's (40.06), but somehow Mao's pcs is higher than Miki's??? This is absolutely suspicious to me, and I cannot accept it. It is true that 98.34 is a low score for Mao, but honestly, her score should have been somewhere around 80s, not 90s. Even in the short program, her tes was the 8th highest (I think?), but her pcs was the 1st highest. Mao definitely is a talented skater, but this kind of favoring really upsets me. I want all the skaters to be treated fairly, and Mao shouldn't be a special exception.
Maybe go to Brian Boinito. It will be battle of the Brains all over again.
Seriously, maybe she could learn to be relax and more artistic from skating with A.Cizney.
Alissa Czisny! I hope she defends her U.S. title again, out of all the most uninteresting US girls right now, sure she's inconsistent and is all over the place but I cannot simply imagine Rachael Flatt or Caroline Zhang win US Nats, as well as all the other non thrilling US ladies today. Go Alissa!