Did anyone else watch juv girls? 68 is an insane score!!! The girl’s name was Kanon, kind of reminded me of Hanna Harrell when she was that level, Hope she follows a similar path as I see some potential in her. Also believe her coach is Tammy, but I might be wrong, very impressive for a juvenile skater.
I have to wonder if they're shading the senior ladies by predicting that. Like they think Bradie, Mariah, or Ting are THAT inconsistent/terrible that they'd be beaten by a novice skater with a wonky 3a? Maybe they just didn't think it through.
Did anyone else watch juv girls? 68 is an insane score!!! The girl’s name was Kanon, kind of reminded me of Hanna Harrell when she was that level, Hope she follows a similar path as I see some potential in her. Also believe her coach is Tammy, but I might be wrong, very impressive for a juvenile skater.
Alysa hasn't skated against really good seniors before, so I'm very interested to see how she is judged when compared to skaters like Bradie and Mariah. Her jumps don't have a lot of height and she isn't especially fast across the ice, which is understandable since she's 13. However, she also has a lot of great performance qualities, and her SP is especially cute, so she could still get solid marks.
That is a monsterous score for a juvenile lady. Looks like she did a triple toe and two double axels. I didn't watch, does she have potential in the artisic/musicality department? Hows her ss? (bearing in mind she's a juvenile lady ofc)
Did anyone else watch juv girls? 68 is an insane score!!! The girl’s name was Kanon, kind of reminded me of Hanna Harrell when she was that level, Hope she follows a similar path as I see some potential in her. Also believe her coach is Tammy, but I might be wrong, very impressive for a juvenile skater.
Do you happen to know her age? My understanding is that juvenile competitors can be of a pretty wide range of ages. So a 12 year old with that score would be a lot less impressive than a 9 year old.
Yeah her technical content was impressive, idk how I feel about the juvs doing triples/ 2+2+2, I feel like it gives less separation through the levels.
Has Alysa (or anyone on her team) said she definitely won't do a 4Lz (or any other quad) at Nationals?
This is the first year since around the turn of the century that triples (only one) have been allowed at Juvenile level in the US.
My understanding was that at the time, almost 20 years ago, the thinking was that the rare young skater who had a competition-ready triple (or more) should test up to Intermediate.
In the meantime the level of jump content at higher levels has risen around the world and USFS is trying to catch up by offering bonuses for higher level jumps at developmental competition levels. Which means that now the top intermediates might be attempting multiple triples. Which puts talented younger skaters who are just starting to land triples in a dilemma: better to test up and try the triple(s) but be less likely to qualify for Nationals (or, in some regions, even for Sectionals)? Or stay juvenile and rely on non-jump skills to try to stand out from the rest of the double axel kids, and then get thrown in the triple deep end next year?
Allowing one triple in juvenile allows them to split the difference.
Competing at Nationals will no longer be an option after this year, but medaling at Sectionals and getting invited to the national training camp would be the next best thing for young competitors aiming to get noticed at this point in their careers.
The jump content in the Intermediate Ladies SP at Nationals was impressive and a notable step-up from previous years.
10/12 skaters attempted at least two triples with the current top two, Lindsay Thorngren and Isabeau Levito, attempting triple-triple combinations. Still waiting to see protocols for the rotation calls, but such an ambitious effort for these young skaters.