2018-19 Russian Ladies' figure skating

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is it just me who loves Liza Tuktik's arms?

I can't tell but my wife says she has the best arms and hands.

 

[noraaa]

To me it looked like a slight outside which really surprised me since the lutz in her FS was definitely more inside/flat than anything even though she tried to hold the edge longer. I guess it‘s true she can do it in practice but somehow never when the program‘s really on. But I‘ll give her some time. Lutz edges aren‘t fixed in two months.

I agree, it's clearly improved even if it's perhaps not quite a clear outside edge. Obviously she has been working so we must just hope that she can continue to improve and that it will be a clear lutz in the future.

 

[Metis]

I agree, it's clearly improved even if it's perhaps not quite a clear outside edge. Obviously she has been working so we must just hope that she can continue to improve and that it will be a clear lutz in the future.

I think it’s unlikely she’ll ever have a true Lutz — probably the best will be a flat or very shallow outside edge, as with Mao. It’s extraordinarily difficult to correct a flutz at all, let alone turn one into a true Lutz. But I find Medvedeva’s jumps much improved already, and I’m not expecting her to be able to correct the Lutz edge immediately. Here’s hoping she’s able to bring more and more of her success in practice to competition!

 

[gsk8]

Hey folks,

A little late getting this up as the thread has moved on, but please do not bring up Eteri or speculate about her in this thread. I know it will be difficult, but I have the utmost confidence that the posters here can do it!

 

[moriel]

Only the arms ?

Arms the most, she got some very nice and soft arm movements <3

 

[Fluture]

Liza was skipping the second practice... Is that a normal thing to do? Maybe something interrupted her schedule so she couldn‘t attend. Shame, I wanted to see 3A again before competition tomorrow. Dasha looked okay/good, though she skipped a lot of the program. Zhenya also skipped a bit but otherwise she looked better than at ACI, more confident.

 

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Liza was skipping the second practice... Is that a normal thing to do? Maybe something interrupted her schedule so she couldn‘t attend. Shame, I wanted to see 3A again before competition tomorrow. Dasha looked okay/good, though she skipped a lot of the program. Zhenya also skipped a bit but otherwise she looked better than at ACI, more confident.

She tweeted that she had a serious jet lag. I am worried about her now.

 

[Fluture]

She tweeted that she had a serious jet lag. I am worried about her now.

Oh dear... It‘s understandable, flying all the way from Russia to Canada and then having to train must be hard. I hope she will be fine, she did so well at the beginning of the season and I want her to enter the GPF. But she still has a day to fight that jetleg since competition starts only at about 9pm local time, right?

 

[lavenderblossom]

She tweeted that she had a serious jet lag. I am worried about her now.

She did well in morning practice, if she was tired then I didn't notice. She was doing 3A and 3Lz3T successfully.

 

[LRK]

This was the tweet:

https://twitter.com/TuktikLiza/status/1055418159115759617

Hopefully her body has caught up with her since.

 

[moriel]

She did well in morning practice, if she was tired then I didn't notice. She was doing 3A and 3Lz3T successfully.

maybe she is fine, and just needs a different sleeping schedule.

 

[macy]

maybe she is fine, and just needs a different sleeping schedule.

i can imagine adjusting to different time zones several times a year can be really exhausting. i don't know how early skaters normally arrive before their first practice, but it has to be very taxing to switch your sleep schedule around and go train as usual.

 

[melgirl25]

With her imperfect lutz technique Medvedeva's team hanged on flips. It was when her margin over competition was big and safe. Not now. She needs every BV point to compete with Zagitova's 238. 2 lutzes vs. loop+flip is 11.8 vs. 10.2 BV. It may matter.

It's tricky. I heard in an interview Brian said she is doing correct tech lutzes in practice. I think they are just trying to get her to do it in competition more and more and practice makes perfect. I don't think they are necessarily trying to beat Zagitova.

 

[lavoix]

Evghenia's salcow really was high!

 

[moriel]

It's tricky. I heard in an interview Brian said she is doing correct tech lutzes in practice. I think they are just trying to get her to do it in competition more and more and practice makes perfect. I don't think they are necessarily trying to beat Zagitova.

I dont care about what skaters do in practice.
Its like all those folks who 3A or quad in harness. When she starts doing correct Lz at competition, then we talk. As far as we know, it may never happen because the number of skaters who fixed their edge issues successfully is nearly null.

 

[Orlov]

Evghenia's salcow really was high!

In accordance with this study (don't worry - here are the tables in english), she and Sakhanovich have the highest Salchow in the world. Even higher than Polina Tsurskaya or Osmond.

 

[TGee]

I dont care about what skaters do in practice.
Its like all those folks who 3A or quad in harness. When she starts doing correct Lz at competition, then we talk. As far as we know, it may never happen because the number of skaters who fixed their edge issues successfully is nearly null.

But one of those...who got it from e to ! to mostly fine trained with Brian Orser. The progress was incremental and over a couple of seasons, but it happened. (Fernandez)

 

[j00mla]

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/evgeniamedvedeva/viewtopic.php?p=4051#p4051

Look what I just got sent. Is that a slight outside edge I spot there?

If she could do it like this in competition... she should certainly get more than 0 GOE for her Lutz.

(Also off-topic but if you see this skatingfan200, I can‘t respond to your messages since your message storage is full. )

Hard to say from this point of view (camera angle), I hope you are right, but on that vid it looks like her 3Lz is 100 times worse than 4Lz of Anna Shcherbakova. Lets wait video from the competition.

 

[moriel]

But one of those...who got it from e to ! to mostly fine trained with Brian Orser. The progress was incremental and over a couple of seasons, but it happened. (Fernandez)

Fixed Lz, unfixed F (he went from good F to F!).
Well, its a fair trade actually.

 

[narcissa]

But one of those...who got it from e to ! to mostly fine trained with Brian Orser. The progress was incremental and over a couple of seasons, but it happened. (Fernandez)

Yuzu went from 3Fe to a true 3F so...edge issues can be changed.