Fluture, my post wasn't in any way directed at you. It was about "posture" becoming the new band wagon for Alina's critics. It's annoying, but every skater gets it. Whether it's miming or backloading or whatever.
I assume if she can fix it, she will fix it. And if not, it is what it is, and her fans will just have to hear about it from the critics who need to point it out.
Thank you. I just got a bit confused and decided to clear it up that I didn’t mean it in a bad way and would never ever hate on Alina. No harm done.
I always considered this to be annoying as well. For me, it‘s fine if someone says “Oh, I think skater xy could improve on this (e.g. backloading, miming, posture)“ but then moves on and talks about other things again. But there are people who think that Alina Zagitova = backloading and bad posture or Evgenia Medvedeva = miming and flutz or Satoko Miyahara = tiny jumps and underrotation and nothing else and they never see anything positive and always repeat these things like a broken record. It‘s a shame but it‘s what it is. Even though I‘d prefer it to be different obviously. If you‘re successful it automatically means you‘re getting envy, jealousy, excessive criticism and hate. If you don‘t, you‘re doing something wrong apparently.
And that was exactly why I wanted to move on from this topic. Because I didn‘t want hate to be even discussed in Alina‘s fanfest.
Now that you pointed that last bit out I’ll share a secret with you: I once went to work wearing two different shoes. In my defense I have this habit of buying the exact same shoe in different colors when I find I model I really like.
So there I was at a client board meeting when I felt one shoe way tighter than the other and decided to look down to see why my right foot felt so much tighter than my left one. When I did I found out that I had one black shoe on my left foot and one red shoe on my right foot. Trendsetting is my middle name, but hey it was the 90s so maybe that was in fashion somewhere.
Moral to the story: never get dressed in the dark in a hurry.
Oh dear! And nobody pointed it out?

Did you see your other coworkers go to work with two differently coloured shows the next days? Then you would have had the proof: They didn‘t see it as a mistake at all, they thought you were just setting a new trend.
But something like this actually happened to me, too, once. I wore two different ankle boots and only noticed it when I noticed that walking felt... strange that day... as if one leg was longer than the other... Then I looked down and saw why: The two boots had different heels! Both weren‘t really high but still a bit different. But the colours were pretty similar, dark brown and black and it was nighttime so I guess people didn‘t see it at all. I told my friend:
“I‘m wearing two different shoes.“
She was like: “You... what?“
Then she looked at them more closely and had to laugh.
And to bring it back to figure skating... my talents are so enormous I once skated with two left boots on both feet and didn‘t notice it for three years until the manager in a shop pointed it out to me when I wanted to get them sharpened.
