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elingrace4eva
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My Problem with Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes
For some reason, I have never enjoyed watching either Michelle or Sarah. (And no, it's not just because I'm a Sasha fan). This doesn't mean that I've ever disputed their gold medals for any competition, because they've always deserved to win, I just never found them particularly enjoyable to watch. People ask me why all the time, and I can never give a conclusive answer. I've figured it out.
With both of them, it comes down to the jumps. When Michelle Kwan lands a jump, it always looks like she is tentitive. It's the reason Tara Lipinski beat her in 1998. When Tara lands a jump, and when Sasha (sorry, I had to put that in) or Irina lands a jump, it's crisp, it's clean, and there's no question that it was a perfect, beautiful jump. With Michelle, she lands her jumps cleanly, and she skates with grace, but it always seems tentitive, and her landings lack attack. I don't like watching skaters when I'm afraid she might fall, even after the jump is landed.
As for Sarah, I have a problem with the way she takes off. She takes such a long time to set up each jump, and makes them look as if each one is the most difficult thing she ever had to do. I want jumps to look easy, not as if they are a laborous task, and Sarah doesn't make her jumps look easy.
It's not as if I think that either of these women are bad skaters, quite the contrary, I think that they are both extremely talented, and, obviously, two of the best in the world. But I just wondered if anyone else sees what I do, because sometimes I'm almost sick with worry when these two are skating.
Just my opinion,
Kat
For some reason, I have never enjoyed watching either Michelle or Sarah. (And no, it's not just because I'm a Sasha fan). This doesn't mean that I've ever disputed their gold medals for any competition, because they've always deserved to win, I just never found them particularly enjoyable to watch. People ask me why all the time, and I can never give a conclusive answer. I've figured it out.
With both of them, it comes down to the jumps. When Michelle Kwan lands a jump, it always looks like she is tentitive. It's the reason Tara Lipinski beat her in 1998. When Tara lands a jump, and when Sasha (sorry, I had to put that in) or Irina lands a jump, it's crisp, it's clean, and there's no question that it was a perfect, beautiful jump. With Michelle, she lands her jumps cleanly, and she skates with grace, but it always seems tentitive, and her landings lack attack. I don't like watching skaters when I'm afraid she might fall, even after the jump is landed.
As for Sarah, I have a problem with the way she takes off. She takes such a long time to set up each jump, and makes them look as if each one is the most difficult thing she ever had to do. I want jumps to look easy, not as if they are a laborous task, and Sarah doesn't make her jumps look easy.
It's not as if I think that either of these women are bad skaters, quite the contrary, I think that they are both extremely talented, and, obviously, two of the best in the world. But I just wondered if anyone else sees what I do, because sometimes I'm almost sick with worry when these two are skating.
Just my opinion,
Kat