IAlso, multiple experts have said that you can regain something you lost, but you can't really get something you never had (omg I'm quoting TAT).
TAT speaking with the voice of Professor Umbridge: "Progress for the sake of progress should be discouraged"? Even Tat'yana Anatolevna will have to face this new reality, reluctantly probably, since 'that woman's Zagitova' proved she is still a force to be reckoned with
NOT, #TeamTutberidzeForProgress is all about progress, elevating the sport to a new level, breaking with certain conventions that have ruled figure skating. Bring on athleticism, but to keep it beautiful and artistic, no flopping, plodding, labouring, it should look effortless.
The application of the Tutberidze Effect to children, novices and juniors is already starting to bear fruit. And other Moscow rinks are in the race to catch up.
If you have two simultaneous events going on, one with Khrustalniy skaters, the other without, where do you think the audience will stand in line to get admitted?
We still have to wait and see how the quads will spread, only a very select few skaters are capable of them, and this isn't going to change anytime soon for the non-power federations. Will Kostornaya, Khromykh or Usachyova ever compete quads? Even Kanysheva's is uncertain at this point. Only Akat'yeva's has been proven.
Will another Japanese women besides Kihira compete quads, or a Korean? Who besides Alysa Liu in the US?
Then there is the Triksel, a even more difficult skill to learn and compete successfully. I for one think those skills will remain rare and very exclusive to certain programs, perhaps certain skaters even and fade out when those skaters retire. Only their memories remain for us to cherish, only their records will stand the test of time in the books.
). Two powerful strokes and Irina was all the away around the end and headed back uprink. :yes:
Once competition starts , we will see a lot of things going on , especially about consistency of these quads. But even if Sasha will be clear in every event and i wish her so , that is the way sport is going forward. Same goes with Nathan Chen. You cannot accuse him for putting 6 quads in one programm. If you want to be on the top, you follow the one in the top. Thats what Yuzuru did and now wants to put 4A in his programms ( as he has said in interviews last year ). If quads and 3A is the future of the ladies figure skating, thats not war, but simple development of Figure Skating. Someone had to push the boundaries and we can only give congratulations to this 13 year old girl back then to have the guts to actually land a quad in an actual competition and now everybody is working on a quad while last decade was just an exception.
