Yess! Very pleased Mai won, but I totally disagree with Elizabet getting 147 for that skate and Mai getting only 144. W/e. Happy for Soyoun too, sad for Hina.
Such a big gap between the podium winners and the rest of the field. It is well deserved, though. The free program scores look correct to me. I liked Lizbet's skating better than Mai's especially the jumps. The judging was very adequate today and yesterday.
Stasya and Mai skated to their potential. Glad that Stasya broke 200 internationally. Will it count for SB to get GP spots?
The only untapped yet potential stays with Elizabeth. The fall on 3Lz is -5 points, the fall on 4S is -7 points. Add a couple of pcs points for clean performances and we are talking about 220+ total score which is worlds podium contention. Can she do it? Eteri and Dudakov have some time to work on her consistency. The first task is a clean SP with a "planned" fall on 4S in the free program. This will get her no less than 215.
All in all, after Rika Elizabeth is the second senior skater in terms of the progress this season vs. the previous one. It will be very interesting to watch her vs. Evgeniya in Japan.
Dang, this crowd could clap a little louder for the non-Russian skaters...
Hate Eteri as much as you want but that woman knows how to maximise points. The Lil' Bet strategy is just genius.
I don't know what Brian Orser must think watching this...
Eteri's method only works with girls with very small bodies. Orser's method seems to work better theoretically at least with women with mature bodies, but most girls have had difficulties trying to control the speed including Gabby and Elene.
This is just wrong. Tsurskaya for a while beat everyone in juniors. But even this is not important. Eteri is a coach of Moris who is definitely not a girl with a very small body. Yet, he got some podiums already and may be in top-10 in the worlds.
The point is that Eteri coaches the best. And it's not her problem that more often than not those best are not big girls. Yes, and luckily there is no forced quota on the number of the girls with not "very small bodies" that a coach must train.
We shall see what Orser with his method can achieve quite soon.
Hate Eteri as much as you want but that woman knows how to maximise points. The Lil' Bet strategy is just genius.
I don't know what Brian Orser must think watching this...
So, Eteri has a method for girls with very small bodies. She has another method for almost 6 foot tall Moris. She just does not know how to teach girls past 18? This is news to me. But what I know is that Yulia and Zhenya did not have to leave. Their cases are different. AI was only talking about female skaters and I don't see your point of comparing a male skater to them. Eteri's method on him can not be used on senior ladies either because they don't have powerful muscles of a man. Eteri herself has mentioned a particular age, 18 yr, and Julia and Evgenia needed to leave as they grew older. Many of her current young pupils will too.
Hate Eteri as much as you want but that woman knows how to maximise points. The Lil' Bet strategy is just genius.
I don't know what Brian Orser must think watching this...
I thought that Tursynbaeva was a 19yo skater (so past 18) who can fully rotate a quad and is trained by Tutberidze.