2020-21 Russian Ladies' Figure Skating

[Scott512]

sasha’s 3A

Man Sasha must be licking her chops.
This is her chance to grab a world title at 16 setting her up for the Olympics.

This girl is healthy she would not be doing a 3A if she were not.

 

[Vemvane]

Sasha's SP run-through.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuVhDQpGH6/

Edit: sadly not the full run-through, as it is cut in the middle and at the end, but it has the 3A, the 3F, and part of the 3T from the combination, as well as a couple of spins.

 

[silveruskate]

Sasha's SP run-through.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuVhDQpGH6/

Edit: sadly not the full run-through, as it is cut in the middle and at the end, but it has the 3A, the 3F, and part of the 3T from the combination, as well as a couple of spins.

I'm a little disappointed. There was a lot of beautiful choreography at the beginning which is just gone now. One movement even before the start of the 3A preparation which I don't understand. I wish they updated the choreography around the program. It's the same situation as Valieva.

 

[readernick]

Sasha's SP run-through.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuVhDQpGH6/

Edit: sadly not the full run-through, as it is cut in the middle and at the end, but it has the 3A, the 3F, and part of the 3T from the combination, as well as a couple of spins.

Sasha has really improved so much this year! What a hardworker!

 

[Amei]

I'm a little disappointed. There was a lot of beautiful choreography at the beginning which is just gone now. One movement even before the start of the 3A preparation which I don't understand. I wish they updated the choreography around the program. It's the same situation as Valieva.

Trusova in general seems to take a lot of setup time to me on her triple axels and quads, like her lutz it seems she sets on a glide into it for a long length of the ice.

 

[Lunalovesskating]

"She looks so frail, I can't enjoy watching her, she looks sickly! [...]

I find it hard to root for her to win the title, because I want the winner to be well-rounded person, I want the winner to enjoy the experience of winning, not to feel like it was torture and to thrive off the competition energy in a good way and not by doing it because your coaches are pushing you. Trusova and Tuktamysheva look like they are driving forces of their careers individually, while there is something sad to me about Anna's demeanor."

All of this about a girl, who is super intelligent, thoughtful and loves figure skating with all her heart.

Wow. Body shaming a 16 year old in a sport where many young skaters already suffer from ED's and body image issues. And this comes from someone, who is also a coach. The absolute clownery.

 

[Skatefan15]

Sasha has really improved so much this year! What a hardworker!

It really is crazy how much she has improved, artistically and technically! Her jumps look so strong (technique is better now too) and you can also tell she is taking her time for certain arm movements and her skating skills are 1000x better than last year. Her short program is one of my favorite programs of the entire year!

 

[Vandevska]

Sasha's SP run-through.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuVhDQpGH6/

Edit: sadly not the full run-through, as it is cut in the middle and at the end, but it has the 3A, the 3F, and part of the 3T from the combination, as well as a couple of spins.

I wish to ever be as driven as Sasha is.

 

[k2summit]

I wish to ever be as driven as Sasha is.

A high pain threshold would also help.

 

[Vemvane]

Photos of our three lovely and talented young ladies from today's practice, posted by figureskating_sportsru on instagram.

Sources: [x, x, x]

 

[Scott512]

I don't see that. The rules weren't changed because it was Eteri. They were changed once someone specifically started to do it like this. It happened to be Alina, but the first skater that backloaded all 7 jumps would have had scrutiny over them.

However the SPs are even more similar than before. First two jumps as the first two elements, and then third jump as soon as you pass half-way. Every single skater does this. But at least it's genuinely more deserved because you can't just do your most difficult combos first and get the bonus, and there's the huge risk of not having another jump to add the combo to if you miss it.

Okay then the rules weren't change because of EG but they were changed because of Alina.

Funny how back loading only became an issue after your AZ shocked thevworld by winning Olympic gold backloading..

 

[Amei]

Okay then the rules weren't change because of EG but they were changed because of Alina.

Funny how back loading only became an issue after your AZ shocked thevworld by winning Olympic gold backloading..

I don't think it was because of Zagitova alone, most of Eteri's junior skaters were also backloading their programs

 

[Vemvane]

Anna's FS StSq in practice at Stockholm.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuZRzloEGm/

 

[LiamForeman]

sasha’s 3A

I am so happy to see this!!! Not just that it is beautiful, but it looks like she's not nearly as injured as I feared. She's obviously been practicing this thoroughly. How exciting. I hope for the free skate that she also adds the 3axel and leaves out the 4sal even though hers is huge and amazing. Or just go for the whole enchilada with: 3a, 4sal, 4lutz, 4toe////4toe-3toe, 3lutz-3loop, 3lutz-Eu-3sal. That would be unheard of.

 

[johanna166]

I hardly ever post on here but the TSL video shocked me. Agree with everything that’s been said on here re: body shaming and Anna. To add to it, it seems like Megan has a problem with not only Anna, but team Tut in general...earlier in the video she was strongly questioning why Aliona back to her at all instead of going to Mishin (which surprisingly the TSL guys defended...you know it’s bad when it gets there). I think she’s VERY biased in general and doesn’t actually follow skating as closely as she should have to be in the position to make any kind of informed commentary (mispronunciation of lots of names, etc.).

Anyway, what she said is completely unfair to Anna—I believe that Anna is perfect the way she is and loves skating just as much as Sasha and Liza. I hope no one takes Megan’s comments seriously. I was rooting slightly for Sasha over Anna but now I’ll be equally happy if Anna wins. Take that Megan.

 

[karina17]

Afternoon practice notes (recently edited again re: Sasha):

Neither Sasha nor Anna had good run-throughs. Sasha is going for FIVE quads, including two 4Lz. She landed 4F and 4S to open, but then fell on a 4Lz, another 4Lz after that, and then a 4T. The second 4Lz and 4T would've been backloaded. So two out of five landed. But she seems to generally be in good shape, if morning practice was any indicator, so this was probably just a bad run-through for her.

Also, it seems like the 5-quad layout negates the need for a 3Lz+3Lo and she's not doing it anymore, so that's one less thing to worry about!

Anna is going for 2, maybe 3 quads. There are clips of her falling on a 4Lz and a 4F in her run-through, but the 4F looks to be later than usual (where she would usually do a 3F3T), so...she might be going for 4Lz, 4F3T and 4F. It doesn't look like she landed any in her run-through, though.

I can't find anything about Liza yet. I'm sorry.

 

[readernick]

If it's easier, why nearly anybody was unable to do that even if nearly everybody tried that? Why the top skaters had the 2-5 layout? Because they wanted to put as many jumps into the second half as possible, but they weren't able to put all of them there. I truly don't think Ashley or any other loud critic would've hesitated to gain the advance of score if they could. But, the experience say, "if you can't do that, let's just criticize that". And some of her comments went far beyond just rules critique, she was also quite personal to Alina with her comments about "mature skating" and so.

And I disagree withe the rule change. One of the advantages was precisely the thing that the layouts differed, now all the jumps throughout the field are placed mostly in the same moment and practically every layout is 4-3.

You can disagree with the rule change as much as your want. It's your right. It was also Ashley's right to not like completely backloaded programs. You express your opinion, she expressed hers. Nothing wrong with either opinion. I don't like front loaded programs or backloaded ones. That's my opinion. As far as I remember, the only personal comment she made about Alina was to call her " very talented" The rest was directed toward choreo, stylistic choices, and backloading. All fair game imho. Comments about a skaters' physical shape aren't the same. Megan and Russian commentators should think before speaking.

 

[sashatrusova]

liza’s 3a-2t
sasha’s 4lz-3t

 

[Vemvane]

Anna is going for 2, maybe 3 quads. There are clips of her falling on a 4Lz and a 4F in her run-through, but the 4F looks to be later than usual (where she would usually do a 3F3T), so...she might be going for 4Lz, 4F3T and 4F. It doesn't look like she landed any in her run-through, though.

A clip from Anna's FP run-through, but not sure if it was morning or afternoon practice. 3F-3T and 2A, I believe.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMulz-ApIqL/

Looks like a similar layout to her Nationals skate, in this clip at least.

 

[karina17]

A clip from Anna's FP run-through, but not sure if it was morning or afternoon practice. 3F-3T and 2A, I believe.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMulz-ApIqL/

Looks like a similar layout to her Nationals skate, in this clip at least.

It's from the morning. They were in the main rink in the morning and the practice rink in the afternoon.

It's worth mentioning that her music was apparently very screwed up during the morning session and they made her start over five times, and in the end she only did her run-through with four jumps, so I don't know how reliable that layout would be. (Because she jumps a 4F in place of that 3F-3T during the afternoon session.)