I found some individual performances on YT from these two posters. Between them I found most of the top skates except for Ah Sun Yun's short program...
Cha’s in a position to tell KFed that their idiocy is none of his business. This cockroach of a pandemic aside, he trains in Canada, not Korea. He’s also the only internationally competitive dude the country has. Call em bluff and say the hell with the ranking malarkey. Seriously . That’s what I would do if I were him. What are they even going to do about it? Not name him to the National team? Not give him international assignments? No, because they have no one else. Their idiocy has limits.
Never underestimate the idiocy of KSU, that's all I can say
Wow i didn't know it would be this casual. Sweden covid cases must be relatively low then.
No news on Young so far, I'll post if I see news about changes to her training situation. And if you had asked me about 3 spots for ladies this time last year I'd have been quite hopeful, but now everything's changed thanks to the pandemic and I honestly don't know. But if you ask me our ladies do deserve 3 spots.
I think earlier in the thread it was revealed that she's been alone, and not working with a coach except on video calls.
As Skatesocs said she's been basically training alone except for the help of coach Jung Bokyung(Korean assistant coach with relations to Hamada Mie). She officially left Tom Z last season to the Hamada-Gambil teamup, and I'm not Young but I'd suspect that getting that 3A was a big reason in changing coaches.
Meaning she went only for the triple axel and felt secure enough with it to leave? That's a little weird, why couldn't he teach her a quad too? Hamada wouldn't be able to, and I bet she could do one. Anyway, I don't know anything about Korean coaches or rinks, but is there a reason she can't train with Yelim's coach or Eunsoo's or someone, just for the interim?
Sorry, let me clarify: Tom Z wasn't getting her 3A rotated so she went to Hamada Mie, who indeed did get her 3A rotated. Tom Z once uploaded a video of Young trying a 4Lz so he was teaching her quads, but they weren't getting rotated either as far as I know. And Young was training quads before the pandemic hit so I don't know about Hamada Mie not being able to teach quads. Besides, there must've been other reasons, I'm not Young and I don't pretend to know her thought process. And she does have coach Jung for the moment, to train with other coaches you'd have to do paperwork and make it a transfer. It's the same situation as my darling Junhwan.
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So this is speculation on my part but I don't think Young's coaching situation is like my darling Junhwan's, as in she doesn't belong fully in the Hamada Mie team like my darling does in TCC. She still lists Tammy Gambil along with Hamada Mie as her primary coaches, and most importantly her living situation is based in Korea. She flew between Colorado, Japan, and Korea throughout last season but she still lived with her family. Now I don't know the reason for that, it could be financial reasons, school reasons, or something completely different, but as far as I know she doesn't have a residence in Japan. Combine all this and it makes her living and training in Japan full-time quite unlikely, and that's not even taking the pandemic into account. NHK was a special case scenario, and besides before it was moved to the current idiotic date of now thanks to the pandemic fans were so worried that she might not have enough time to train for the Ranking Competition after she returned from NHK. As in, she had to come back to Korea anyway. And I think Hamada Mie is still coaching, but you'd be better off asking the Japanese ladies' thread to get better info on her situation. I do have to deal with real life so I'm not up-to-date on that issue.Ok now I understand, thanks. I know it would be very difficult, but seeing as the pandemic has no clear end in sight, can she go to Japan and just stay there? She was able to fly for NHK. Obviously she couldn't go back and forth to see her family, but is there a reason she couldn't go back to living where she was and training with Hamada? Is Hamada even still coaching, between the pandemic and the allegations and whatnot? (Sorry for all the questions, I appreciate you lchatdelune
Never underestimate the effects of quarantine and covid season! Could go a million ways. Yelim has a chance, but she has to be squeaky clean.
I think even KSU wanted to send her, I mean YY waited quite a long time for her FS score. But then again, there is no predecessor of YY situation in Korea skating history (correct me if I m wrong though). To do that, they have to change the regulation first (meaning paperwork and all ), so it can not be done by this year World event. Even Junhwan, the only competitive International senior male skater they have, had to compete in so many domestic competitions to collect points for his Pyeongchang entry despite still recovering from injuries and had his training base in the other part of the world. This regulation was probably given because they don't want to give any privilege for any of their skater, but still it needs to be revised and study more as Korean skaters continue to grow. It s time for KSU to use their brain smh.
It looks like the KSU grabbed one reserve spot from men in favour of ladies because of a deeper field there. So they are not as much stupid as Ichatdelune believes and have some sense.
While it's true that our ladies' field is deeper than the men's, you do have to take into account that we don't have much male skaters to begin with. Currently we only have two men in the reserve team because Sunghoon gave up skating to be an idol, that should tell you something. So no, KSU's stupidity knows no bounds and I'll have to die on that hill. Like, I desperately want to be wrong every time I proclaim the empty-headedness of KSU, but I've been let down so many times that I'll soon be going through the earth's mantleIt looks like the KSU grabbed one reserve spot from men in favour of ladies because of a deeper field there. So they are not as much stupid as Ichatdelune believes and have some sense.
