Polina Edmunds shows promise
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I agree with you that her music is just blah----all the way through, no definitive highs and lows to make it interesting. In fact, it brings her excellent performance down. I wonder what attracted her and her team to this music.
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Wow, good for Polina!! I'm not a huge fan of the FS music, but I'm sure I'll warm up to it. If she stays consistent, who knows how far she can go?
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Seriously? Please correct me if I'm wrong, this would be incredible for Polina, but how could she possibly have the hardest technical content? I mean Mao does 3A constantly and I think she technically had the hardest skate of the Olympics with Sotnikova right behind her and Yulia and so on also ahead of Polina...
Or did I miss smth, if so please tell me
!Seriously? Please correct me if I'm wrong, this would be incredible for Polina, but how could she possibly have the hardest technical content? I mean Mao does 3A constantly and I think she technically had the hardest skate of the Olympics with Sotnikova right behind her and Yulia and so on also ahead of Polina...
Or did I miss smth, if so please tell me
Mao is not competing this season, so Polina has the hardest technical content. She does both the 3Lz and 3F in her SP. She has two 3-3 combinations and repeat the hardest two triples (3Lz and 3F) in her FS.
She combines that technical difficulty with incredible consistency. That's what will make her the US #1 soon, IMO. Ashley can't do the hard combos. Gracie is too focused on becoming a boring ice princess and is losing her jumps in the process. Polina is the US girl that can compete with the Russians.
Didn't she fall twice at the Olympics? Or was it just in her long program? She fell at Nationals, too, as I recall. I don't call that incredible consistency.
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Yes out of the US girls I can see that too.
But aren't the exact choreographies of Sotnikova, Lipnitskaya, Radionova and so on still secret? Or do we know which jumps they are gonna do yet?
Not trying to pick Polina apart like I said this would be huge for her I'm just trying to understand why she placed (relatively of course !) low in Sochi and world's then... could her components really drag her down that much?
Or did she make this season's skates way more demanding than the ones of last season
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??? Kaetlyn Osmond skated senior in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons --- she was 8th at 2013 Worlds, 13th at Sochi Olympics, and 11th at 2014 Worlds. This will be her THIRD senior season.
BTW, Polina landed seven clean triples at 2014 Worlds. Lipnitskaia landed 6 triples, but two were flutzes; Pogorilaya landed seven triples, but one was a lip.
The fact that Polina doesn't lip or flutz gives her an advantage, as both faults will be penalized more heavily this season.
The fact that Polina doesn't lip or flutz gives her an advantage, as both faults will be penalized more heavily this season.
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I think s/he meant all at the same time.
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But Polina doesn't have good choreography as Yulia. :think: I hope USA fed will pay more attention to her. She has huge potential. She's balletic and fresh.
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She and Pogo are more of the same thing - good skaters and jumpers but nothing special still there is time or she could be another good americanskater ala Holly Cook, Caryn Kadavy, Rachel Flatt - not everyone can be special but who knows maybe she will be. We've had a lot of promising stars from the US Mirai (maybe she will redeem herself??), Sasha, Gracie, Ashley, Caroline Z., Katie (competed I think against Ashley), Tiffany Chin skaters with great promise but who never reached what was expected of them.
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Polina has really clean edges when she skates. I just love that. Excellent. I hope she keeps it up.
I'm also hoping for an American sweep this season (any event). Hey, let me daydream, ok!
I'm also hoping for an American sweep this season (any event). Hey, let me daydream, ok!
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Yes I think that's also a factor. Her LP music last season was just -without being rude- dead boring, no highs and lows in there no tension, choreo wasn't that interesting either I agree... and that can really make a difference combined with her age and lack of 'having a name' (which I really think can be an influence-sadly)... so I hoped she would get sth with more character this season.. but sadly her music is just as plain as the last one :/
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Maybe they'll get feedback about the music and tweak the cut of the music? It's a summer competition so there's still time to make some changes? Plus as someone else pointed out, fan cam videos aren't the highest quality. I'm waiting to see what she does come GP time.
