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- Feb 5, 2004
I have finally gotten round to watching my recording of the Ladies SP at Europeans and was pretty surprised to see the majority of the ladies not even bothering to try to put steps before their solo jumps. Even more surprised to see that the judges are not seemingly not using the GOE to penalise for this.
Some of the ladies attempted triple loops from a series of three turns (Lepisto, Korpii). Some of the ladies used the mohawk, cross step entrance to their Lutzes (McCorkell) which i presume counts as a steps preceding the jump but a whole bunch of them simply did triple flips with no steps leading into the jump (Poykio immediately came to mind, and a few skaters doing triple sals too). Before Kostner's error on the Lutz she had absolutely no steps she came down the rink and round the corner on a long BO edge but no steps.
Has anyone else noticed this, and can anyone comment on how the ladies did at 4CC, whether it seems to be more a european phenomenon or is it worldwide?
Ant
Some of the ladies attempted triple loops from a series of three turns (Lepisto, Korpii). Some of the ladies used the mohawk, cross step entrance to their Lutzes (McCorkell) which i presume counts as a steps preceding the jump but a whole bunch of them simply did triple flips with no steps leading into the jump (Poykio immediately came to mind, and a few skaters doing triple sals too). Before Kostner's error on the Lutz she had absolutely no steps she came down the rink and round the corner on a long BO edge but no steps.
Has anyone else noticed this, and can anyone comment on how the ladies did at 4CC, whether it seems to be more a european phenomenon or is it worldwide?
Ant