Tomoki Hiwatashi it's such a cool combination.
Love Tomoki's. Shoma does a good one too.
Tomoki Hiwatashi it's such a cool combination.
Honestly speaking, I don't think all mentioned examples of euler combos here look effortless or natural. It still has a pause and some labor, so I just accept that's the feature of the jump.
A big solo version used as a transition
Yes! I was just about to mention that whilst Kaetlyn hasn’t competed this it’s on her Instagram and probably actually my favourite from a lady (mostly because it doesn’t look like an accident!). Really nice flow too.I was hoping to see Kaetlyn Osmond's gorgeous 3F-1Eu-3S in competition this year:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXlyKPRhiqd/?hl=af
one of the few females with a 1Eu that doesn't look rushed. so amazing, powerful, great ice coverage and control. +5 GOE!
Yes! I was just about to mention that whilst Kaetlyn hasn’t competed this it’s on her Instagram and probably actually my favourite from a lady (mostly because it doesn’t look like an accident!). Really nice flow too.
Here's Alexandra Trusova in the junior grand prix event just completed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3GvpMh_cE&t=2m38s
Here's Alexandra Trusova in the junior grand prix event just completed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3GvpMh_cE&t=2m38s
Anastasia Tarakanova : Half Loop
Talk about syncing your half loop combo up perfectly to the music. It’s unbelievable how precise and effective this half loop is and how the piano takes on the character of this jump pass. Whoever choreographed this is brilliant or just plain lucky.
She really does them well. It doesn’t look like an error or a bird with a broken wing flopping about. She has nice spring and the half loop itself seems to enhance the jump. Not true for everyone IMO.
Any jump that has a moment where both knees are bent at 90 degrees and legs are not crossed looks to me like a terribly executed save.
Nothing aesthetically pleasing about your lower half looking like a swastika if you ask me.
Crossing the legs in a jump was optional for most of double jump history and into the early triple jump era.
For example, check out Donald Jackson's 1962 free program, which contains not only a couple of triple jumps (first-ever triple lutz in competition) and several doubles with the legs straight and tight but parallel, not crossed, in the air, as well as various jumps of 1 and 1.5 revolutions, and an occasional double, with more open air positions.
For jumps like inside axel (at 2:42) and one-foot axel (at 3:27), an open air position is more natural than crossing the legs.
Rotating in the air and landing on the back inside edge of the "other" foot on purpose in order to jump a salchow afterward is going to require a different air position to set up the salchow than a regular back outside edge landing. We see this in the one-foot axel into salchow as well with the half loop/Euler.
I think you're bringing in outside associations that are not at all inherent in the jump and are not what most people see or think of in relation to this jump.
Nazism and genocide are ugly, and the swastika has become inextricably associated with Nazism so that it has become difficult to appreciate the geometrical shape on its own terms.
But a double stag air position can be quite visually pleasing and is not associated with swastikas let alone Nazism in anybody's mind but your own.
Try changing your associations so you can appreciate such moves better.
I wish all half loop were as elegant. But they are not. My main thought when starting this topic was: this jump can look beautiful and not like a saved step out. ...
Until a few decades ago, the non-landing leg was not wrapped the way it is today in jumps. It was higher up, crossed over the knee. But the sport changed and so did its aesthetics.
The double stag example you linked is beautiful and I wish all half loop were as elegant.
I'm sorry but what's nice about these examples? They both look messy and (to me) plain ugly. If that's what we've decided a half loop should be then fine, but they can be nice and tight and look like real jumps.