That’s exciting news! Do you have a link? I do love Tarakanova’s skating and imagine a bond program would be well suited to her powerful presence on the ice! It’s just a bit of a shame that she won’t be going senior this season. But it might do her some good to hold out and come in at the right moment to make her big senior entrance. Less over shadowing from other big names perhaps in years to come.
Here is the link to Nastya and the clip from her short program which due to the finger guns looks to be Bond. I think this really fierce character could really suit her and in her
Kill Bill program I think she has got that fierceness required to really sell a program like this
Tarakanova has all the basics to become amazing. She just needs to understand music and choreography and restraint. She doesn't have to move her arms every five seconds for 'choreography', especially when it has nothing to do with the music or program. Hopefully Panova can help her with that.
I'm really excited to see her under Panova especially in regard to her arms as she was much calmer and was developing in a more refined way before she moved to Eteri who really pushed her in the opposite direction using her being slightly messy as part of the program for example in her
Strange Birds SP I think her arms are the best they've ever been. Hopefully returning to Panova means they will work on this more and develoe in this respect which keeping the power and presence she does have on the ice.
However, I would argue that she does hear the music and respond to it--if you watch even in her disaster free skate last year where she fell and hit her head she still is able to be mostly on the music and get on it properly.
That's exciting news! Nastya is definitely a girl I could imagine skating to a bond program. She has amazing presence and power on the ice. I'm also happy for Sinitsyna. I really loved Kanysheva's programs last season and thought they were well choreographed and very detailed. This might explain why! Sinitsyna is a talented skater and her jumps, spins and skating skills are all so beautiful so I hope she gets some programs that really fit her. I don't know much about Frolova, I think I saw her at Junior Nationals but she didn't really stand out to me. Hopefully that will change once she gets a JGP event this season (is she likely to get one?) and gets the chance to compete internationally. Also, could you maybe share the clips of their programs? Or tell us the name of the choreographer because I'm interested to see them. That would be nice.
Here is the choreographers
Instagram and in the work insta story folder I think she has the clips of the choreo she has done for the Panova girls though I can't seem to find the clip of Frolova so I'll look for that.
Frolova (and Shabotova but that's beside the point) in my opinion are severely underrated for what they can do. They have really good skating skills spins and close to immaculate tech on their jumps one of them used to have a flutz from when they were under Bulchyeva (Anna Shcherbakova, Sofia Akatieva, Alena Kanysheva and even I think Daria Usacheva's original coach) but Panova has pretty much fixed it. Also Anna's axel is a bit dodgy but the Panova camps axels have improved significantly in the last year and I expect this to improve (compare Shabotova's axels at the beginning and end of the season to see the difference)
Anna Frolova particularly has a relatively understated performance style her
SP this year isn't my favourite though if you watch from 1.30 ish her step sequence is by far the highlight due to her amazing skating though her performance isn't completely consistent throughout the skate. Her
Esmeralda free skate was a highlight for me this year out of the new juniors and in my top three programs in that regard because I love her lightness and how easy she makes it look especially in the first half where she flies across the ice especially with her running edge which beats any leg kick in my opinion. However, all of the Panova girls were under lots of pressure at Russian Nats especially because of the doping scandal and none of them competed as well there as they did in the smaller domestic competitions. I really hope she gets a JGP and I think she has a very good shot of getting at least one though it will depend on girls like Gubanova and Tarusina
In regards to Sinitsyna I agree to an extent though I loved her latin program from last season when she would really perform (though not in Ted's opinion apparently she was another 'blank Russian' not that I'm salty) and come alive and I think that ability to sell us that she is having fun as she competes is really impressive. I'm so excited to see what she does as she has all the talent to be crazy successful--which other skater successfully backloaded all three combos, got all of their spins at level four and step sequence (and here's the
scores to prove that she's the fourth girl listed)
Anyways if you can't tell I'm really excited to see the Panova girls next season and to see what they do next.
