@macy already did explain why it doesn't make sense. Kostornaia uses a loose air position (*not* a leg wrap) because she jumps big. If she had a tighter air position than that, it would lead her to over rotate and fall over. Her air position is much tighter in her 3A for good reason. The alternative would be to jump smaller. Or use some other way to slow down her rotation like tano/rippon, which I'd rather not see.
The thing I don't get with the "leg wrap aesthetic" discussion is that people ignore it's actually making the jump harder (since people always cite Midori Ito, or now Kostornaia gets it), because it allows them to jump bigger, and big jumps are harder to control
why are your subjective preferences more important than something objectively harder?Wow, this is so interesting! I myself like how her 2A looks, there's something very aesthetic about it. My very first post here was about jumps I find beautiful despite the technique behind it, and her axel was right there in my list. However, I had no idea that what I call "leg wrap" is actually a loose air position. Thanks for your explanation! With the way she jumps her flips (the same loose position/leg wrap), is there a possibility for a 4F for her?
I don’t know if anything will surprise me at this point. Yuzuru Hanyu is on the waiting list as well, I heard.Oh..you will have many bad days in the future because of different reasons.. You will be surprised how many skaters want to train on the PA.
Not really.
Rozanov will reject him because he does not tolerate a more handsome man than himself on the ice rink.
"Delaying the rotation" and "opening up early" are learning two different timings on the jump.
It's not easy for me to say, but comparing the rotation position on her 2A vs 3A, I'm sure she'll learn a more efficient way to rotate a 4F if she learns it and needs to do so.
It seems you don't understand or you don't want to understand..Evgeni Plushenko is everything in Japan. He is the Emperor of the figure skating, not among the skaters only but the japanese media use this signaling word continously. So, you beleive me he is attractive for the foreign skaters at this point, too.
Every time I read your posts, I'm tearing up.
As a skater, but he's not a skater anymore.
To who?And great luring skills..
They know him as an athlete. It tells everything. As I said the Japaneses and Chineses wanted him after Sochi. The Chineses didn't wait for the games to end.
