That's the hallmark of true mastery, making the most difficult jumps look effortless
And she seems to be working hard on stabilising her triksel.
I am sure we'll see a triksel of the same quality soon.
That's the hallmark of true mastery, making the most difficult jumps look effortless
And she seems to be working hard on stabilising her triksel.
I know, but Trusova, Shcherbakova and Valieva have that speed and focus before the quads, that add some "oomph" to them, makes them spectacular.That's the hallmark of true mastery, making the most difficult jumps look effortless
And she seems to be working hard on stabilising her triksel.
I am sure we'll see a triksel of the same quality soon.
I know, but Trusova, Shcherbakova and Valieva have that speed and focus before the quads, that add some "oomph" to them, makes them spectacular.
Akatieva has such insane rotation speed (best of all Russian skaters) that she probably doesn't even need to prepare and accentuate her quad, which in result, make them less spectacular. Sounds ridiculous, but I feel like that watching her. Her quads look TOO EASY!
She finished second in "Children on ice. Stars" in 2017.BTW in this event there was Anna Sherbakova's namesake competing in the ice dance (7th place)
http://ffkm.ru/images/files/019-20/2020-02-24_PMStV/online/CAT004RS.HTM
Wow, they even link to individual skate videos! :gclap:With the demise of fskate.ru , a new resource has opened: allskaters.info , with a language selection button even. Though the automatic machine translations are often less than accurate.
Wow, they even link to individual skate videos! :gclap:
And the base looks like copied from fskate, everything is in place! :hap57:
This topic makes little sense. Understood pretty well that being messy or totally messy ruins any chances for podium. When and if major competitors are clean.
Say if Trusova lands zero quads and no trixel, her overall result may be 10th or 20th.
But all the same correct for others exactly. No chance the Board will give all 10 PCS for messy jumps.
Of course if Trusova lands zero quads and no triple axel she won't podium, but a mostly clean Rika with her full arsenal of jumps easily threatens the podium lock that Trusova has had where she could risk more because she had such a high BV that as long as she landed a quad or 2 that third place was still pretty much a lock. If Rika's mostly clean (as long as the error isn't in the SP on the triple axel where she pops it and gets buried like last year) and Trusova skates like she did at any of her last 3 competitions - I would put money on Rika being on the podium over Trusova.
We mustn't forget that both Sasha and Anna besides their quads have very difficult programs. They have Euler-Salchow and Loop combinations.
So Rika must be super clean, while Anna and Sasha can afford mistakes on their quads.