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All three (and others eg. Gracie) received very lenient calls for various parts of their programs, yes, Yuna got away too. To me, Yuna's stsq really missed many features compared to Caro's and even Adelina's. Attacking my understanding wouldn't help your case, her stsq was too slow, lacking energy and vigorous torso movements, feet kept close to the ice. She didn't do much to challenge the balance of her blade. I usually enjoy stsq because most skaters use that as a crescendo in their program to show off their SS and some dramatic moves to win over the audience, Caro's is a prime example.
Adelina's Carmen was also outstanding, she hit every piano note with inventive, original moves, gorgeous footwork, when she skated on one foot, the other was visibly kicking, lifted above the ice, it was beautiful, strong and spectacular, the crescendo before her final so-called "ugly" spin. Shame that she is hounded like this for winning over the "wrong" veteran, and has been shown little appreciation for her merits. From all accounts, she is a very decent person, as seen in this documentary, where Elena praised her at 8:30(also watch for the part when Tarasova smacked Kovtun really hard! 7:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LqZtubZos
I don't have particular preferences for "elegance", "graceful", "flirty", "coy" skating, I also enjoy modern, athletic, bold, original performances. Adelina is like Midori but with more artistry and musicality.
Let's just agree to disagree, leave it at this, there's no purpose to take this forward and I leave for the record my agreement with Tech Panel call.
I am also really tired of posters who know very little of the features or bullet points that confer stsq levels, insisting how Yuna's body is so still, so smooth,...etc...therefore she should receive Level 4 (!!!) so please, folks, if you are too *lazy* to look up the links despite me posting 100 times, don't expect your persistent ignorance be dignified with an answer.
All three (and others eg. Gracie) received very lenient calls for various parts of their programs, yes, Yuna got away too. To me, Yuna's stsq really missed many features compared to Caro's and even Adelina's. Attacking my understanding wouldn't help your case, her stsq was too slow, lacking energy and vigorous torso movements, feet kept close to the ice. She didn't do much to challenge the balance of her blade. I usually enjoy stsq because most skaters use that as a crescendo in their program to show off their SS and some dramatic moves to win over the audience, Caro's is a prime example.
Adelina's Carmen was also outstanding, she hit every piano note with inventive, original moves, gorgeous footwork, when she skated on one foot, the other was visibly kicking, lifted above the ice, it was beautiful, strong and spectacular, the crescendo before her final so-called "ugly" spin. Shame that she is hounded like this for winning over the "wrong" veteran, and has been shown little appreciation for her merits. From all accounts, she is a very decent person, as seen in this documentary, where Elena praised her at 8:30(also watch for the part when Tarasova smacked Kovtun really hard! 7:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LqZtubZos
I don't have particular preferences for "elegance", "graceful", "flirty", "coy" skating, I also enjoy modern, athletic, bold, original performances. Adelina is like Midori but with more artistry and musicality.
Let's just agree to disagree, leave it at this, there's no purpose to take this forward and I leave for the record my agreement with Tech Panel call.
I am also really tired of posters who know very little of the features or bullet points that confer stsq levels, insisting how Yuna's body is so still, so smooth,...etc...therefore she should receive Level 4 (!!!) so please, folks, if you are too *lazy* to look up the links despite me posting 100 times, don't expect your persistent ignorance be dignified with an answer.
From what I saw, Adelina was the one who was visibly just kicking her way around her step sequence. And no, she definitely did not hit EVERY note.
Adelina = Midori Ito + artistry?
I was clearly being sarcastic in the other thread when I talked about Adelina's thousand transitions and her clean 3Lutz-3Toe. I never thought I'd see the day where someone gave her that sort of praise without a hint of irony.hahahahahahahahahhhahahahahhahahahahaha...
Moving "vigorously" does not equate difficulty. Yes we can all tell Adelina was very excited during her free skate. No she did not shift her core body weight very much during any of the steps. No her edges were not particularly deep, or held for more than an instant. Her moves are not as difficult as Yuna's. She kicked her free leg up a lot? Ok. But again, her core body weight was fully upright. It is skating not the Rockettes. She doesn't twizzle at all like Yuna did. Yuna's step sequence really went on longer afterwards. Once again, while Adelina had fairly good power in her jumps (despite the opening combination which was not properly called), she didn't have the skating skills which make up all the component scores. The only area where you can give Adelina the nod is in spirals. Yuna and Caro do not have her flexibility.Are you looking at the same stsq?
A few seconds are missing from this video, you might want to compare for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVc5-0HPe3U
Besides #3 Upper Body, and Adelina moved very vigorously here, dipping more often, there's also a certain rhythm and speed in #4 that has to be met. This is why skaters usually pick the faster more dynamic portion of the music for their step sequence.
Seriously, why hasn't the KSU launched an official demand for investigation? I enjoy it as anyone else.
