2020-21 Russian Ladies' Figure Skating

[renebaebae]

Every time I see Daria Sadkova's giant 2A, I feel like I'm levitating out of my body myself to join her in the clouds. It's such a nice jump. I would really be surprised and disappointed if she wasn't already training a triple axel. Another thing I really like about her is her twizzles. For almost everyone, when they do twizzles, it seems like they fall? out it, like they ran out of momentum and speed and they had to stop but hers look so pretty and like she made a conscious decision to stop them. Like she could go on forever but decided to grace us with only a few.

She also REALLY reminds me of Kamlia in almost every way. The same strange hop in their combos, the body build with the long limbs. The height they get on some of their jumps and sometimes even their carriage on the ice.

 

[Kittosuni]

Every time I see Daria Sadkova's giant 2A, I feel like I'm levitating out of my body myself to join her in the clouds. It's such a nice jump. I would really be surprised and disappointed if she wasn't already training a triple axel. Another thing I really like about her is her twizzles. For almost everyone, when they do twizzles, it seems like they fall? out it, like they ran out of momentum and speed and they had to stop but hers look so pretty and like she made a conscious decision to stop them. Like she could go on forever but decided to grace us with only a few.

She also REALLY reminds me of Kamlia in almost every way. The same strange hop in their combos, the body build with the long limbs. The height they get on some of their jumps and sometimes even their carriage on the ice.

You would think because of their similarities that Sadkova's techniques are all Eteri taught when in fact she learned them from her previous coach. Crazy how they are so similar in strengths.

 

[Novalis]

Every time I see Daria Sadkova's giant 2A, I feel like I'm levitating out of my body myself to join her in the clouds. It's such a nice jump. I would really be surprised and disappointed if she wasn't already training a triple axel.

She is training. Dasha Sadkova held an Instagram stories questions session in late February. one of the questions (not mine, but I did ask one thing) asked if she's practising quads or a triksel now. Dasha said that she is more focused on 3A at the moment. Giving it a few goes at each practise. Haven't heard anything about it after that

 

[chasingneverland]

Super cute picture of a little Anna and Sasha at 10 in their first (of many) competitions against each other.

https://www.another site.com/r/Figu...hoto_of_little_sasha_10_years_old_coached_by/

 

[silveruskate]

I guess you propose to switch quads with combos in the program

What do you mean?

 

[silveruskate]

Backloading the combination gives almost 2 points of an advantage, and its not like Trusova habitually misses that combination, she and Shcherbakova have both been backloading it for years and have rarely missed that badly on it. And if you look at my post from yesterday about Shcherbakova and Tuktamysheva's SP BV comparison, having that backloaded combination eats away at the BV advantage of the triple axel. And while yes Trusova does have the ability to throw a lot of quads, she's rarely shown the ability to be completely clean on it, so she still needs to perform the SP to set herself up to not need to do all those quads to win/podium. If she starts routinely missing the combination in the SP then yes they should move it. Given how competitive Russian ladies is, if someone wants to win I don't think they can really afford to sacrifice any points on the table - if she can reliably backload the combination in the SP and get 2 extra points then she needs to be doing that - I would say the same thing for any other skater as well.

How did you calculate that? Backloading the 3Lz-3T gives 0.42 points advantage if she otherwise would do 3F-3T first and backload a solo 3Lz. Or 0.48 advantage if she would otherwise do 3Lz-3T first and backload a solo 3F.

 

[JazzUp]

Department of construction of the Moscow govt has started works on TWO additional rinks for Khrustal'nyi in Yasenevo (south-west Moscow).

 

[flanker]

 

[chasingneverland]

Might have already been posted but from their St Petersburg show!

 

[chasingneverland]

Also playing a word guessing game..

 

[flanker]

And, this is it. Part 1.



Part 2.

 

[chasingneverland]

Translated part of it, for those of us who don't know Russian haha

 

[LiamForeman]

Daria Usacheva looks much bigger than I expected! I thought she was tiny, but standing next to everyone she almost dwarfs some of them!

 

[chasingneverland]

Daria Usacheva looks much bigger than I expected! I thought she was tiny, but standing next to everyone she almost dwarfs some of them!

She's closer to the camera..

 

[colormyworld240]

Kamila has gotten so tall, so quickly. She was tiny just last season and now it looks like she's taller than Anna and Alina.

 

[Azikin]

Kamila has gotten so tall, so quickly. She was tiny just last season and now it looks like she's taller than Anna and Alina.

She's always been quite tall, I wouldn't certainly call her tiny.. At least I never noticed any sudden growth spurt..

 

[silveruskate]

Yes it was always such a contrast the way Anna, Aliona and Sasha as juniors were so small. And then behind them comes Daria, Kamila and Maiia who are all so tall.

Comparatively

 

[brakes]

Love me some Eteri Gogievna, but 80yo Moskvina is ten times the entertainer she is.
Also, those 'products' phrases are getting old and ugly.

 

[LiamForeman]

She's closer to the camera..

I know that, but she's not THAT much closer to the camera than say Maiia and Sofia.

 

[mrrice]

This is waaay off topic but, I was just watching Alena Leonova's 2012 SP and it makes me wonder what she is up to these days. Does anyone know?