I don’t think she’s a bad skater I just think she has awful jump technique, bad combos, and no real connection with the audience and that her scores are unfairly inflated to the extent she is never punished for her weaknesses but instead hailed as the all perfect skater with nothing to improve and it makes competitions on ice worthless because they’re all politically predetermined before anyone’s boots are even laced.
Thank you for the clarification. Now I want to go find the source for this, to get the timeline for the creative development of the programme straight in my head. If it was at the Skate Canada gala, I wonder if that motivated some of the choreographic changes, to allow for the programme to follow the composer's intent, because I did feel that her performance today was more emotionally charged than previous performances of this SP. A happy chance, then, that there was a butterfly storyline already! But also, how interesting to get a sense of how a programme may develop creatively over the course of a season, and how its meaning may shift.
Sorry! It’s a typo, I’ll edit it!
Totally agree. And I also worry a bit that she has peaked too early. It's The GPF, Nationals, Europeans to go before Olympics, so a lot can still happen.
What about her sensational spins?
I also wonder if the dress change was motivated by this developed interpretation (lavander being the color of mourning in Victorian England, purple being the color of priests' vestments at Catholic funerals).
It's a make it or break it skate for Maya. But we have to realize she's only 15 and very tall for a lady figure skater. It will take her time and she has a bright future whether she makes the grand prix final or not.
I was thinking the same thing. Meanwhile sasha is there laying in the weeds ready to come back healthy soon and nail 3 or 4 quads in the free.
Exactly, in a way Sasha has the upper hand right now not having to exhaust herself with a GPF. She can concentrate on Nationals.
Why would I compare KV to a man when a man has testosterone?
but she would have won all these events she won even with you as a judge! That's how good Kamila is.
The question I have will they let KV skip Europeans? How close is it to the Olympics you don't want an injury or a bad skate or anything like that.
No, if Maiia finishes 4th, she enters into tie breakers based on placements. 2+4 is higher than 3+3 of Young You, so she’ll win it without getting into total score tie breaker.
She certainly is trending that way and slowly getting into the conversation, BUT as things keep moving forward and she keeps doing this, the pressure and expectation by the time the Olympics come will be as immense as her talent. She now carries not just expectations, but win or it’s a loss expectations. Those can get real heavy in a hurry.
Yes of course. My bad. I forgot placings goes before total score. Thank you.
There is a lot of theories out there, of someone skipping Euros or having a skate off at Euros. I don't think the Russians will do that.
I agree with you and there's nothing we can do about that unfortunately because the because the season is so long and I do wonder if KV will get burned out by Europeans but by Europeans and we will have seen her peak by then or nationals like we saw from Anna last year. She was incredible at nationals to hold off KV ansasha but not the same skater at worlds even though she won the gold. I can see that happening to KV but I hope not. Even though I call her the KaMissile she is only human after all.
It also looks very tight so I think it is her most vulnerable jump. She had some troubles with it at times. But when she nails it, it is just amazing.
