Wish we could move on from what someone did or didn't say about Oksana Baiul. Or what Oksana Baiul dreamt up about quad jumps.
That would be hilarious.
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Sorry but her drinking is completely besides the point. She didn't delete the posts, and posted multiple times. Her abilities as a skater are absolutely relevant to her insight on the topic.
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Well, they'll just claim she's not REALLY doing quads.
And use some youtube video at 0.0000025 speed as proof.
Do we know if Anna will be adding another quad to this program at some point?
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Maybe two 4Fs as she jumps her 3F-3T straight after. But it's all complete speculation at the moment. From the warmup and training performance yesterday I don't think her 4F is completely ready at this stage.
She has a month till her next competition so it wouldn't surprise me if she adds another quad or switches her solo for a combo.
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As was pointed here, she just chose one bad example and based whole "this is all so wrong" argumentation on it. As for me, I hardly see any relevant points in her talks, she just uses capital letters and her past for her defence.
let me say that if she wanted to make a relevant point and not look like a "drama queen", she chose the worst way how to do that.
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The second part of Anna’s program is Secrets by OneRepublic and the piano guys. It’s one of my favourite pieces of music. I wished so much for someone to skate to it. I’m now so very disappointed. I know some people think she skates so well to music but she’s not nearly powerful enough to do that music justice.
Well give her a bit of credit they just changed the music this week. I thought she did pretty lovely with it.
No we do not. It will probably depend on how the rest of the skaters fare during the season. I am guessing she will do two by the end of Russia Cup.
Love Anna S, but don't like the music changes. While the original sounded a bit repetitive, it was more cohesive. Hoping her team can make further improvements to the ending music in her FS as the year goes on. Clearly they were able to respond quickly to whatever feedback the Fed gave them... Having said that, Anna is lovely and I hope she has an amazing season.
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Can't believe they gave Maiia 64 PCS for the performance when it looked like she wasn't even there mentally half the time and they gave Talalaykina a 61 for her really nice perf. A joke.
Overscored Anna again but at this point, it's a running joke. Congrats to her for winning. Evgenia should've def been here, an easy 2nd for her.
Overscored Anna again but at this point, it's a running joke. Congrats to her for winning. Evgenia should've def been here, an easy 2nd for her.
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What a beauty....
What a beauty....
Last year at Nationals Trusova got 69 PCS for her FS and Tuktamysheva got 68. Their skates were far more disastrous than Maiia's.
I think all 3 medalists here got the advantage of being ready to compete early because the stages going forward are going to be really stacked
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Anna’s scores do seem ridiculously inflated. Anyone that claims the Russian federation isn’t throwing support behind her is insane.
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Appeal to authority. That's not a toe axel no matter who's saying it.
I wasn't a fan of the music change for the FS, why? The original FS was much much better to me. Like 100 times better. Now the program's meh. So sad.
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Not appealing to anyone, just not dismissing her views. To me it looks almost identical to the toe-axel video posted recently. Doesn't mean I think Valieva generally has a toe-axel but something to look out for IMO. If you look at the 3T after the 3F in Anna's performance today, it looks like a completely different jump to what Kamila was doing in the example discussed.
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thank you for sharing this. Kamila 1000000% does not toe axel. everyone who likes to talk technique but may or may not know what they are talking about needs to watch that last one to see the difference
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