Max Aaron quad Axel attempt

karne · Feb 24, 2015

I don't think this should be buried in his fan thread. Liza's 3A got a thread of its own!

Now, granted, he's in the pole harness and it's not around (at least, not that I can see - I think it might be <?). But still! What fun!

Maybe some birthday fun for Max?

I'm trying not to blow my top at the fact that the very first comment underneath it is one of those whiny blah blah blah he needs to work on... people. SERIOUSLY?

CanadianSkaterGuy · Feb 24, 2015

Awesome! Who cares if it's a harness or if he needs to work on blah blah blah... that's an awesome attempt.

dorispulaski · Feb 24, 2015

What fun!

gmyers · Feb 24, 2015

Thats a lot of height and rotations!!

BlackPack · Feb 24, 2015

That's awesome!

I believe Yagudin and Plush practiced 4a's too? (in harnesses at least)?

ice coverage · Feb 24, 2015

karne said:
... I'm trying not to blow my top at the fact that the very first comment underneath it is one of those whiny blah blah blah he needs to work on... people. SERIOUSLY?

The good news is that an upbeat reply from Tom Z led the same person to then say something positive

:

CH: Nice attempt, but he needs to back off and work on some overall skating quality.

TZ: He's doing that, too!

CH: Cool. Can't wait to see it all come together!!

And "Miki Ando" (don't know whether she's "the real" M.A.) commented: "Wow!!!!! So cool!!!"

HanDomi · Feb 24, 2015

BlackPack said:
That's awesome!

I believe Yagudin and Plush practiced 4a's too? (in harnesses at least)?

Yagudin stopped, I think I saw somewhere some info that he almost broke something practicing it. I don't remember now.

Plush I don't know.

Orser somewhere in interview mentioned that Hanyu may be able to do quad axel in future, but they are not rushing it.

Great attempt though :rock:

BlackPack · Feb 24, 2015

Poor guy. I respect their classy responses and approach.

makaihime · Feb 24, 2015

BlackPack said:
That's awesome!

I believe Yagudin and Plush practiced 4a's too? (in harnesses at least)?

Yagudin said he stopped because it was so dangerous he felt it might break his neck. Plushenko never really practiced it, but has probably attempted it. I did not like it when I heard Gachinski and Hanyu were trying it and I'm not liking it now....I don't mind it when its on harness like this since its safer but I hope none of these guys will seriously practice this jump. I want them all to have long careers. :hopelessness:

BlackPack · Feb 24, 2015

makaihime said:
I want them all to have long careers. :hopelessness:

Me too. Plush is like the bionic man due to decades of dangerous jumps. Yagudin retired too young. Dai could have had a better time.... sigh. Too many broken bones.

HanDomi · Feb 24, 2015

makaihime said:
Yagudin said he stopped because it was so dangerous he felt it might break his neck. Plushenko never really practiced it, but has probably attempted it. I did not like it when I heard Gachinski and Hanyu were trying it and I'm not liking it now....I don't mind it when its on harness like this since its safer but I hope none of these guys will seriously practice this jump. I want them all to have long careers. :hopelessness:

Actually I think for Hanyu it's not so dangerous overall. Axel is easiest for him, but Orser doesn't let him practice harder quads too often, which is good

StitchMonkey · Feb 24, 2015

I get so tired of all the people being negative about Tom Z students working on fun stuff like Mirai's 3A and now Max's 4A. You have to let skaters work on what they enjoy as well or they will get burned out. I suspect stuff like this helps them keep the love for the sport and get through the tedious stuff.

I love the attempt, and I love seeing it.

CanadianSkaterGuy · Feb 24, 2015

StitchMonkey said:
I get so tired of all the people being negative about Tom Z students working on fun stuff like Mirai's 3A and now Max's 4A. You have to let skaters work on what they enjoy as well or they will get burned out. I suspect stuff like this helps them keep the love for the sport and get through the tedious stuff.

I love the attempt, and I love seeing it.

Not to mention, there comes a confidence when you realise you can even attempt a 4A in training, so your 3A becomes that much more assured.

StitchMonkey · Feb 24, 2015

CanadianSkaterGuy said:
Not to mention, there comes a confidence when you realise you can even attempt a 4A in training, so your 3A becomes that much more assured.

And it likely helps them to feel like they have room to grow and improve and more to accomplish rather than feeling plateaued.

It gets so old seeing the comments like that, why would you assume a 30 second clip posted means that is all that is being worked on. . . it makes no sense at all to me. It's just more fun to post jumps online. While many of us would likely drool over videos of working on skating skills, I suspect the overall views and reception would be less warm than a jump.

Li'Kitsu · Feb 24, 2015

Max is just an awesome guy! :rock:

IMO, he's put a lot of work into improving his PCS, that he doesn't seem to get the credit for. Even if he decides to focus more on the jumps again instead of working on transitions, I'd say go for it. Max was the best when he was simply having fun out there.

demarinis5 · Feb 24, 2015

That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

invisiblespiral · Feb 24, 2015

.....:shocked:

karne · Feb 24, 2015

invisiblespiral said:
.....:shocked:

You okay?

It's all right. That was more or less my reaction too.

Sandpiper · Feb 25, 2015

Awesome attempt from Max. :rock:

Who cares if it's in a harness? It's a freaking quad axel.

CanadianSkaterGuy · Feb 25, 2015

StitchMonkey said:
And it likely helps them to feel like they have room to grow and improve and more to accomplish rather than feeling plateaued.

It gets so old seeing the comments like that, why would you assume a 30 second clip posted means that is all that is being worked on. . . it makes no sense at all to me. It's just more fun to post jumps online. While many of us would likely drool over videos of working on skating skills, I suspect the overall views and reception would be less warm than a jump.

It's just haters. If he improved artistically those same people would be wailing that he isn't pushing himself technically. :rolleye:

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