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You haven't seen me skate!
I literally can't skate backwards, seriously I'm so inflexible I can't turn my head enough to look over my shoulder...it's a sorry sight to see.
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I literally can't skate backwards, seriously I'm so inflexible I can't turn my head enough to look over my shoulder...it's a sorry sight to see.
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That's how I want to die. By stuffed animal haha.Or their plushies!
Although some of those are pretty huge, imagine someone dropping one of those giant bears on you!
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Good comparison. Actually, the judging method they used here is pretty much what they use in Ice Age.I think you're just overthinking it a bit. She did a combo, they were all impressed, and gave it a 10 like she was in DWTS. We can join our hands and pray for a Justina Machado win, but Kaitlyn Bristowe took it anyway, because she's most popularI'd complain more if it were the Prix de Lausanne or Blackpool.
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3A does have 3.5 revolutions.
Tarasova and many other commentators said this multiple times. It is just that not all of them are in the air. The same goes for 3T - not all of them in the air.
I did not know that Anna is Rozanov's groupie.
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What made this thing today more decisive was that even if you wanted to help out the girls for tv by inflating their scores and reducing the boys‘, there is no unbiased and neutral scoring system that has the boys winning, especially in the last round. The combination of any best case girls overscoring and boys underscoring does not overcome the final margin of victory.
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How do you tell your mother you want to go back to Sergei?Veronika should return to Sergei Rozanov. Maybe next season.
A second Sotnikova.
Maybe Anna will join Adelina as 4 time national champion in December and then Olympic champion at 17 ike Adelina too!
Agree but Medvedeva has intended to compete this year, Zagitova has not and probably unlikely she ever does. Zagitova's program is a nice exhibition and if we are judging strictly on exhibition it was fine; if we are going to start making assessments on 'competitiveness' its a different story; lot of labored looking cross-over skating back and forth and posing
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I do like fan fights
I can just see it. Let's start with a fan named Skatesocs throwing a cup of vodka at a skater, said skater leaves the ice and run up the stands to fight back. Then more fans and skaters pile onto the mess, leading to referee cutting the event short, canceling the remaining of the programs. ISU then fine and suspend the athletes involved for half a season, and that sports arena ban the fans involved from entering the venue for life.
I think you know what this is in reference to.
Youtube didn't even exist then, can you imagine!Sigh, this was brought up right after Nationals when Worlds team selection was announced, that the decision to make only the national champ guaranteed to worlds instead of the top 2 was most likely because of other disciplines second place senior skater, but they certainly can't say ladies top 2 senior eligible skaters are named to Worlds and the other disciplines have to fight it out at other competitions.
And regarding 'never done that before' (while I admit I don't know the Rus Fed's concrete rules on team selection) this goes back to the "body of work" argument that comes into play now with the US skaters; up until recently it was almost never used and now we are seeing it with more frequency and people started complaining that it was never used before - well it was/is in the rules and it could have always come into play.
You haven't seen me skate!
I literally can't skate backwards, seriously I'm so inflexible I can't turn my head enough to look over my shoulder...it's a sorry sight to see.
In my adult life, my coworkers and I ended up at a mall rink for our lunch hour (our offices were damaged in a flood so temporary offices were by the mall and we weirdly ended up going on a lunch hour to the ice rink and no alcohol was not involved in the decision-making process) and 1 of the guys asked how to skate backwards, I said "you skate up to the boards, turn around and push off with your hands"
This is 1 of the problems with parents being coaches for their kids.
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It's a big problem.Sigh, this was brought up right after Worlds, that the decision to make only the national champ guaranteed to worlds instead of the top 2 was most likely because of other disciplines second place senior skater, but they certainly can't say ladies top 2 senior eligible skaters are named to Worlds and the other disciplines have to fight it out at other competitions.
And regarding 'never done that before' (while I admit I don't know the Rus Fed's concrete rules on team selection) this goes back to the "body of work" argument that comes into play now with the US skaters; up until recently it was almost never used and now we are seeing it with more frequency and people started complaining that it was never used before - well it was/is in the rules and it could have always come into play.
In my adult life, my coworkers and I ended up at a mall rink for our lunch hour (our offices were damaged in a flood so temporary offices were by the mall and we weirdly ended up going on a lunch hour to the ice rink and no alcohol was not involved in the decision-making process) and 1 of the guys asked how to skate backwards, I said "you skate up to the boards, turn around and push off with your hands"
This is 1 of the problems with parents being coaches for their kids.
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Jumping is not as much about jumping in the current atmosphere of judging, it's about pretending you are a human twizzler. Yank around on the ice with as thin of a body as possible and then slam back into the ice without trying to finish in the air and get big points. No more majestic jumps and don't even try to jump super big, because that just makes it harder for you. Don't try to get a body like Brian Joubert either, that kind of beautiful musculature will only hinder you in this sport now.
Anna joined "Khrustalnyi" in 2007, 1 year before Eteri and Evgenya, 7 years before Daniil, so it's kinda natural the long-lasting bond developed between them. Being good soul and devoted student helped as well I guess.
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I think Shcherbakova and Daniil's close relationship probably comes from her being involved in her choreography, she gave a detailed answer about the difference in emotions from her FS music at test skates vs. what she has competed, and that she has had 2 injuries (broken leg and arm) that likely put her in a position where she couldn't jump but could learn choreography.
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To be fair, this trend is becoming more apparent in both men and ladies nowadays. Some men (Uno, Aliev) have iffy technique too.
It seems more prevalent in ladies though, maybe because most ladies don't have the physical capacity to do monstrous jumps like Kolyada's 4Lz, even if they wanted to (its hugeness might be why he almost never landed it, which supports your point).
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Hi, does anyone have a link to the footage of them choosing teams? Thank you!
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I'm pretty sure I'm a worse skater than you.You haven't seen me skate!
I literally can't skate backwards, seriously I'm so inflexible I can't turn my head enough to look over my shoulder...it's a sorry sight to see.
And I'm also pretty sure Anna would be bashed in this thread even if she won the Nationals 10 times in a row.. how dare those judges overlook her mistakes in a 5 jump cascade, LOL.From what weve heard she injured her left ankle. Probably a sprain from the 3A fall at Rostelecom but its never been confirmed one way or another. They have stated that because of this injury she wasnt training 3A, 4T and 4S between rostelecom and nationals because the stress on the left ankle was to great in those jumps. Tripples seem to have been fine and 4Lz mainly uses the right foot for takeoff so that was apparently also fine.thanks... in good shape yes of course, but it's still a mystery to me if the ankle on her landing foot is not okej. Actually I thought she had a left hip injury(don't know where I got that from)
Whatever... I hope she's back on track
I saw a video of her last week (think it was on instagram, possibly AoP) doing 4S in harness which made me think that if she is back to practicing 4S the 4T is probably also on its way back.
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