WOW. This is a big improvement for you sisinka. Small criticism for Bobrova.
Now you can write pages and pages about Elena Iliynkh's poor posture and I'm not going to say anything about it
Not precise as always Elif, I wrote pages and pages to explain people who have your way of thinking why I criticise Ilinykh or anybody else. From all fans on the whole world - only few of I&K fans are those who attack me. I wrote some criticism about other couples as well, but their fans let it free and let everybody (me including) to have their opinions. But not you and you similar. Pages and pages are for explaining why I am not hater but somebody who wants to see dancers DANCE and HAVE GREAT EXECUTION!!! Will you forgive me these wishes?
Do you want it, really?
What should I criticise on Bobrova except posture? Any idea? Costuming? But girl is not doing her costumes on her own like Swan costumes were not made by Lena. What else do you want to criticise?
Comparison: Ilinykh, Bobrova, Domnina, Virtue
Keeping the rhythm:
…Ilinykh - not good, sometimes completely missing
…Bobrova – very good
…Domnina and Virtue – excellent
Deep edges:
…all four excellent
Knee‘s action:
…Bobrova – very good, but not always
…Ilinykh, Domnina, Virtue – excellent
Speed:
…Bobrova, Ilinykh – great
…Virtue – very good
…Domina – last two seasons not so fast
Extended free leg:
…Domina, Virtue, Bobrova – excellent
….Ilinykh – poor
Finished movements:
…Ilinykh – not good
…Domnina, Virtue, Bobrova – great
Expressing changements in music:
…Domnina – perfect
…Virtue, Bobrova – great
…Ilinykh – lack of dynamic moves
Twizzles:
…Ilinykh, Virtue – perfect
…Domnina – very good
…Bobrova – often in troubles last two seasons
Lifts:
…Virtue – great
…Domnina – very good
…Bobrova – very good
…Ilinykh – poor
Variations in style:
…Domnina, Virtue, Bobrova – great
…Ilinykh – poor
Explaining the music/story in programs:
…Domnina, Virtue, Bobrova – great
…Ilinykh – not good
Dancing with whole bod:
…Domnina – perfect
…Virtue – great
…Bobrova – very well
…Ilinykh – quite good
Difficult and demanding choreography:
…Domnina – until Maxim’s injury one of the most difficult
…Virtue – very difficult
…Bobrova – very difficult
…Ilinykh – so easy with almost no transitions
Can you simply understand that Ilinykh has some skills (especially skating skills, twizzles) where she is gorgeous but lacks some other skills, which are necessary for GREAT DANCER ON THE TOP? Can you catch it? I am not trying to shoot the girl from the planet like you try to shoot me,
I am waiting (quite impatiently) that a girl who has European medals and two Olympic medals will simply learn it…if not with Nikita, than with somebody else. What is your problem to attack me? If you and your friends would allow everybody to write his note, my posts would be much shorter, because I wouldn’t be irritated with your approach. I once again repeat – love Lena or Nikita as much as you want, and love Bukin if you want to…but don’t try to persuade everybody that the couple is/was perfect…they were not, they were great in some things and they had lack of some other things….unfortunately for them they lacked things which I found essential for dancers. If Chan, Takahashi, Ten and many other men are able to keep the rhythm and have great postures and they are able to express even dynamic music and different sort of music, how the hell you explain me that the DANCERS called Ilinykh and Katsalapov are not able to do that??? Top 6 in men cathegory can overdance dancers who are in top 4?...and I should be satisfied that Lena has deep edges, great costumes and they are so beautiful on the ice and thanks God this time they didn’t fall?
I am not a fan of splitting those couples, but it will have some positives (some was already mentioned by Bramweld). Both Lena and Nikita will have a chance to improve in dancing and we will see if they will be able to reach another level in ice dance working with somebody else who doesn’t have such issues mentioned above. Like Bramweld mentioned many times, Lena (and other ones also) are very young, so they have many years for improvements, no?
. I think there was a problem before the 2012-13 season as well. If you see Elena in person, you realise that she is absolutely tiny. Look at the pictures from the banquet at Worlds, you can even see her ribs.
