Like I said, this thread is about technique, not consistency.
Ito, for example, has poor technique with her leg wrap, but good consistency. Lipnitskaia gets minimal height, but has solid consistency.
i.e. just because a skater is consistently landing their jumps doesn't mean they have ideal technique. Just like somebody with excellent technique doesn't necessarily always land their jumps.
My point is Carolina must have good technique in her but has not mastered it. If anyone has masted poor technique, she/he will consistently jump in poor quality. That's why I cannot see Carolina being an exemplary skater with correct technique b/c it is still half-filled potential.
Should Hanyu's 4S take him out of the convo since his 4S is unreliable? And with his lip, does that take him out of it as well?
Yuna Kim has perfect technique on her Lutz, Flip, Toeloop, and Axel. They are all the best in the world. Her salchow is actually pretty consistent too but not amazing.
I remember feeling much power from him whenever he landed a jump. A true king.Yagudin probably had the best jump technique overall. All of his jumps were big/huge, fully rotated in the air, on correct edges, not tilted, and flowed out on the landing.
She was injured and had to sit out of Sochi. She is healed, or so I've heard and will soon back to practice under Mishin's wing.All the other top skaters have problems on edge (not Tuktamisheva but what happened to her?)
Puberty surely went hard on her. I hope she regain her jumps. She is so talented.It is too bad that Tuktamiseva was totally out of form in the couple of last time I've seen her.
Her body has been changed ála Gedevanishvili with the same (sad) consequences....
She's been getting a bunch of << and < calls as of late. I'm aware that she can skate without < calls, but she's not devoid of them. A skater like Kim, however, usually rotates her jumps fully. The probably with Julia is she doesn't vault herself in her jumps... she relies on rotation, and that's poor technique, even if the jump is fully rotated. It's like saying Miyahara has good technique so her minimal height on her jumps is okay.
Overlay of Kim Yu-Na's SP and FS triple flips at the 2013 World's.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/46f497ca080d72c37678254e80e03125/tumblr_mxfp7wS1xR1sddjojo1_400.gif