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2018 Junior World Championships Ladies SP

Sofia is coached by Amodio! I had no idea.

Jumps shaky today, nice 3f-2trippon but 2fted 3lz and stumbled out of 2a.
 
Florent seems to really enjoy being a coach:)

ETA - and being a coach looks good on him;)
 
Ok, someone needs to explain to me why do professional skaters (like even top 5 world skaters) seem to jump so close to the walls? Like, you have the entire rink at your disposal, why push that jump so close and risk even a 1% chance to hit the wall?

Is there some kind of incentive (like extra points) for jumping close to the wall?

Many reasons :) One of the requirements for choreography is that elements should utilize the whole ice surface, that is actually 'balanced choreography'. So jumps should be placed around the ice surface, and some of them at the corners. But most of the skaters place harder jumps in one corner of the rink, the one which became the safest place for the jump, the one where jump is mostly trained and mostly landed. Its easier to jump at the corners than at the middle of the rink, because in first case you have a border and in second case you have an empty space where its harder to mentally visualize the jumps mehanic and landing of it. Also, its harder for some of the judges to see the edge and UR at specific corners of the rink, so...
 
Hongyi Chen shows us how to do colourful costumes right!

She looks fabulous!
 
Its easier to jump at the corners than at the middle of the rink, because in first case you have a border and in second case you have an empty space where its harder to mentally visualize the jumps mehanic and landing of it.

That makes a lot of sense, never thought of that. Thanks :thumbsup:
 
Designer: So what color dress do you want?
Chen: ..Every color!!

But srsly, that costume is super cool, especially the sleeves :luv17:
 
I actually found Chinese girl quite interesting - needs a lot of polish and smoothing and more sophisticated packaging, but shows a lot of promise:)
 
I wonder if cbc is planning on fixing their stream in time for the next group... The video lagging several seconds behind sound is painful.
 
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