2021-22 Russian Women's Figure Skating

[Dawn825]

You guys are lucky, true story I woke up this morning with Bolero playing in my head

 

[Skatesocs]

Really? No one dreams about pie or something? Y'all are way into skating.

 

[karina17]

I want skating dreams like you guys. For some reason I was dreaming about someone throwing me off a balcony.

 

[flanker]

This weekend:

 

[Jontor]

You guys are lucky, true story I woke up this morning with Bolero playing in my head

Me too!! It was just horrible. The song is like glue that annoyingly sticks to you for weeks like a Sound Of Music song.

It's this forums fault with all it's Bol talk.

 

[bostonskaterguy86]

I feel that it is important to remember that Ravel didn't like Bolero much more than many of us. And he wrote it!

"After the first performance Ravel's brother Eduoard told the composer that he had seen an old lady in the audience, shouting above the applause, 'Rubbish! Rubbish!' To which Ravel replied, 'that old lady got the message.'"

The Infamous Bolero

www.wpr.org

 

[alexocfp]

You guys are lucky, true story I woke up this morning with Bolero playing in my head

Kamila’s program is so great that I play Bolero on my way to work. Willingly. Haha

 

[alexocfp]

Dying from laugher that Kamila and Sasha are in people‘s dreams.

But it’s appropriate, since they are in the competitor‘s nightmares already.

See what I did there? Bad comedy in all its glory! Haha

 

[beepboop]

Really? No one dreams about pie or something? Y'all are way into skating.

I know right. It was my first skating dream and I told myself I had to take a break from figure skating content, but of course the next thing I did was go on Golden Skate

 

[Supernovaimplosion]

I know right. It was my first skating dream and I told myself I had to take a break from figure skating content, but of course the next thing I did was go on Golden Skate

Once I had a dream that Evgenia announced she was pregnant and all the fans were like "How will this effect her chances of getting on the Olympic team?" It was such a weird dream to have about someone I don't like actually know and it honestly kind of scared me. I woke up and thought "I need a break!"

 

[Novalis]

Dying from laugher that Kamila and Sasha are in people‘s dreams.

But it’s appropriate, since they are in the competitor‘s nightmares already.

See what I did there? Bad comedy in all it’s glory! Haha

You are a treasure

 

[macy]

Once I had a dream that Evgenia announced she was pregnant and all the fans were like "How will this effect her chances of getting on the Olympic team?" It was such a weird dream to have about someone I don't like actually know and it honestly kind of scared me. I woke up and thought "I need a break!"

Good Lord

 

[Amei]

The ladies arrived this morning in Budapest, some practice videos are starting to show up

 

[Dawn825]

Thank you Amei

So Maiia is swapping out the Salchow for a second Toe for now. Probably a smart move...

 

[alexocfp]

Anna skates 14th tomorrow,
Maia right after, at 15. Sofia early, at 3.

 

[Dawn825]

Someone on youtube has more footage from the practice, including 2 landed 4Ts from Maiia and a bunch of strong 3-3s from Anna.

 

[spicymacaron]

Has Anna landed any quads?

 

[Amei]

Has Anna landed any quads?

The video that I posted earlier is the only video that I've seen and she didn't land it in that attempt. Daniil has said the flip is restored so that tells me she's got to be landing in practice. Shcherbakova has a nerve-wracking habit (at least for viewers) of not exactly having the most promising looking practices/warm-ups and then doing well in the actual competition.

 

[alexocfp]

The video that I posted earlier is the only video that I've seen and she didn't land it in that attempt. Daniil has said the flip is restored so that tells me she's got to be landing in practice. Shcherbakova has a nerve-wracking habit (at least for viewers) of not exactly having the most promising looking practices/warm-ups and then doing well in the actual competition.

That’s because Anna uses practice to fine tune her jumps.
Which is the reason you have practice.

You get further being a big game player rather than a practice player.

And people continue to get burned. Getting all excited about practice, leaving Anna for dead, and then watching her become Lazarus right before their very eyes in the skates that count. It’s clockwork at this point.

 

[spicymacaron]

That’s because Anna uses practice to fine tune her jumps.
Which is the reason you have practice.

You get further being a big game player rather than a practice player.

And people continue to get burned. Getting all excited about practice, leaving Anna for dead, and then watching her become Lazarus right before their very eyes in the skates that count. It’s clockwork at this point.

What does this even mean? No one is happy about bad practices and plenty of people want Anna to do well. We're just starved for information after the pre-olympic offseason.