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Max Aron. I just feel ill when I watch him, too chunky?
Max Aron. I just feel ill when I watch him, too chunky?
Max too chunky??? I guess you mean too muscular? :think: Sorry that he is not your cup of tea, but he is as fit as they come -- certainly not overweight.
He is built 100% of muscle, no doubt, otherwise I'd describe it as "flabbiness". I try not to be biased, but his muscular built affected his moves, it looks more stiff and less fluid. Great jumper, but lacks lyricism. I tried to picture him softening his movement but the "chunkiness" (like Optimus Prime of the Transformers) gets in the way. I'll change my mind when he does develop the grace to go with his jumps.
I have to say, after re-watching some 2002 Olympic stuff, Timothy Goebel. There's very few skaters that I think are really that artistically bad. They usually have some personality on the ice or their programs are tailored to them, but jfc, a 5.2 on the second mark would be generous to him. He's literally moving as fast as a snail on the ice.
Lol. I just watched his SP and I do not think there was one artistic gesture the entire skate. I also think its possible the sound was off of the video by two seconds but I'm not entirely sure about that to be honest. Not my cup of tea.
Back in the day:
Laetetia Hubert
There was a kind of hostility in her skating.
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i like torvill and dean a lot but goddamn bolero is the most overrated program i've ever seen. i just don't GET it, on like any level. he literally does not get up off his knees for like a full FIFTY SECONDS. and it's unfair for me to damn skaters from another generation for not having the technical difficulty of this generation, but the fact that juniors today have harder lifts and footwork sequences just really does not make the program age well in my eyes.
When did you first see Bolero? Because *when* is important. I first saw it in the 90s. At the time, it was still extraordinary. Of course, if you're used to today's complexity in ice dancing, Bolero is no longer impressive. But without Bolero, there's no foundation for the skaters today to build on. When I first saw it, I was fascinated by how meaningfully each movement expressed the subtleties and crescendos of the music. The way they acted, it was truly theater on ice. Many of the programs today don't have the same emotional impact of when I first saw Bolero.