Well, protocols are out. Looks like Melkumova managed to underrotate every single thing in her FS with 3 falls. She also clearly has a planned zayak - I really hope her team knows what they are doing. In reality, she should just be jumping 1As and doubles and get those in good order first.
However, that step sequence in the SP that actually was aired(Stream died and didn't show the FS, thankfully it seems) was lvl 3. So a 8-year-old performing lvl 3 step sequence with positive GOE across the board.
To think that she only was getting Basic level step sequences with 0 GOE just 3 months ago.... But please fix the jumps ... Both programs combined there were a total of zero jumping passes that weren't underrotated :noshake:
edit:
Well, actually managed to get
some kind of a version.
It's actually much better than the other FS. And I guess it's her personal best for the FS too as well as total. Over 80 points in total, actually. Her previous PB was 71.52. So I guess that's what we call progress. 4th in the SP and 25th for the FS for 11th overall... Sigh.
I also get the feeling that her issue isn't a lack of power, entirely. She seems to put a lot of power into the salchow, for instance. It just seems to go in the completely wrong directions.
She completely recycles the step sequence and the FS choreo isn't nowhere near her SP choreo. I get a feeling the FS is almost a throwaway. Is she only in sports 2 category instead of junior 1 so that she can actually perform step sequences? And test triples too, I guess. As she'd be good enough to win almost every junior 1 competition right now, at least placing top 3. But I just don't understand why she feels the need to attempt these ridiculously cheated jumps that are way beyond her current abilities, especially with such transitions...
She's a big risk to ever become relevant at all with these jumps but the skating skills and transitions just are so good, I really hope she can pull through.
