One of my few complaints with Gubanova's skating is her ugly jump technique on her toe jumps. Not just the hammer toe pick into the ice, but how she starts her rotation with her upper body and shoulders. It's a shame she never improved her technique in that regard.
Same.
I think they both suck, honestly. I want to like Kamila’s so bad but I just can’t. Bolero is only suitable for ice dance and very emotionally mature skaters, and even they shouldn’t do it, in my opinion. The whole concept is mature, the original choreographed movements to it in classical dance are much more isolated. The style of Bolero dance from Spain is very slow and this melody is made to progress slowly. Adding jumps and spins at the beginning completely ruins the point of progressiveness. I don’t understand why anyone would think that it translates well to ice.
I had this same issue until I saw it as representative of the modern ballet. It makes much more sense that way to me to where I think it's a brilliant program when Valieva performs it. Try to view it as a higher tier interpretation of modern ballet and not what you are accustomed to see with Bolero.
Maybe shes planning to change countries after all?Frolova has withdrawn from Denis Ten Memorial. Hopefully she's not injured or anything, I was really excited to see her there!
That was the beauty of it. It absolutely fitted the music, Carolina slowed down her movements to match it, that was an artistic choice and looked glorious in my opinion. Carolina was a very fast skater actually. There's no doubt that Kamila's interpretation is a lot more athletically demanding, but I just don't like it, everytime I see it, I have no idea what's going on. I don't even get the snake theme.
AKA, distract the audience from the fact that you have athletic shortcomings. Haha
Look up Asada.
DaniG has put lady's figure skating PTSD on me already with that damn Bolero...I was literally shaking when I heard that music...
Exactly. Exactly.
I wouldn’t really call them short comings. When the first triple jump was landed, it was revolutionary. Now skaters do triple jumps all the time. That doesn’t make triple jumps any harder or easier to do.
Not so. In the early 1990s, starting in 1988 with Midori Ito, there were two women single skaters at the top of the field doing 3A, to the point that for several years, some of the other top female skaters were actively working on a 3A, including Kristi Yamaguchi. Ultimately, Kristi won 1992 Olympics over Ito and Harding, not just in that event, but other times too. She won by developing her athleticism *and* her artistry.
Definitely one from the old guard that could be competitive today.
Exactly, that’s why I welcome the new wave that are pioneers and innovators.
Yay! Maybe she realised that if she competes she can't change country for another two years! This way she has the alternative to change country already this season.Frolova has withdrawn from Denis Ten Memorial. Hopefully she's not injured or anything, I was really excited to see her there!
Yeah... I dislike Kostner's Bolero too. During Sochi, compared to Worlds 2013, she was significantly slower going into her jumps in order to land them. Always laugh when it's brought up as "artistry" (including specifically changing the layout to make it easier to land and removing all transitions lol).
