From the twitter account of "Skating Scores"
Thus far this season, Alina has all level 4's in spins and step sequences.
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That's is truly amazing. I have to say that's the Tutberidze Team working it's magic right there. I've heard it from one of the announcers over Alina's FS (the Eurosport duo - a man and a woman - British Eurosport I think, I'm bad with names) where the man commented "level 4 step sequence" or something like it, and the woman answered "that's her team, they don't loose out on levels easily".
They really train their skaters well, and Alina is a specially gifted skater in this particular area, where the skaters do the choreo, spins and steps just as they were planned, intricate move, by impossibly difficult transition, day in and day out with perfect consistency and breathtaking execution. Alina is amazing in handling this outstanding level of difficulty and keeping it consistent and perfectly executed time and time again.
This season several skaters, top skaters, wonderful skaters, are losing levels left and right and Alina is like a giant steady ship in the middle of a storm. She comes through every single time.
Yes the stuff is busy and they have a ton of little moves, not one single second is left for "winging it", or for taking longer to hold a pose, she has stuff to do all the time and she does it. Beautifully. I think this is what gives her great PCS, her ability to do all that and do it over and over again on the same beat. For me this is a big reputation builder. Either way it is a hell of an impressive feat to watch. There are other ways to build a reputation, as other skaters have shown us, with projection and lingering beautiful moves, but this second road takes time, a skater needs to mature into it a bit (even those with great natural abilities for this particular task).
By now I think it's pretty much a consensus that Alina has the great abilities needed to build into a skater with beautiful moves (in both suave performances and strong charged ones), but I can see the wisdom behind the way her team chooses to develop (and package her), it showcases a lot her technical mastery of skating, outstanding body control as well as her formidable stamina. I'm sure she'll be able to, in the future, show us all the rest in its full glory, just as we've already seen on the wonderful performances she turns out on ice shows.
[emoji960][emoji471][emoji253]thematic ones for our queen Alina
incident will never be forgotten, one of the best moments on TV
I believe she is ready and up for it. It will be fascinating to see it all unfold.I love how the cameras can always read my mind and show me the quality content I came to see
