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Alina Zagitova

bewitched said:
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Dear bewitched, thanks a lot for sharing this experience with us :thank:
Also I am very grateful for these videos and for all your hard work (that height measuring photo is very interesting:eeking:). I can see that your friend is very involved now in FS, and he also has lots of technique skills, so I can definitely see him in the future as a skilled connoisseur of FS technique, knowing things like measuring air-time, jump height, proper jumping technique and things like that :biggrin:
 
zenskate said:
Welcome to the doggy side, my Masaru avatar friend. :biggrin: Fruitpie has adorable Masaru who looks harmless, I have adorable Masaru who is trying to look scary, and you have scary Masaru who is striking fear into the hearts of Alina's enemies.
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You are now The Three Musketeers from the Masaru Order, "All for one and one for all". :biggrin:
 
lesnar001 said:
Once again thank you for all that you've done. :)

Not only is Alina extremely lucky to have you as her fan, but we feel the same.
Twice now you have shared your experiences with us and it brings the competitions much closer to us than just watching on TV or youtube.

The slo-mo videos that your friend did were excellent.
I think its great that not only is he a fan now, but he is actively participating, so to speak.

I would ask how he did the height measurement/comparison in the photo, but I probably wouldn't understand it anyway :laugh:

And thank you for the seating info.
I have never been to a competition. I went to a "Champions On Ice" show that came to Boston in 1993 (1992 Olympics stars), but that is it.
Seat location certainly does matter, because it is not like watching a broadcast where the camera is constantly following the skater.
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Thank you! Seats are important indeed! I could barely buy mine but I understood why - at the arena there were something like tour guides with posters, gathering big groups of Japanese fans, like at a tourist tour. I guess there is big business with tickets for Yuzu competitions in Japan and the tour offices buy a huge amount of tickets in the first seconds of the ticket sale... so I definitely feel lucky that I got to attend this competition with good seats!

By the way, the whole city had billboards of Alina as ad for the competition and it was so nice seeing her everywhere - warmed by heart in the cold Baltic weather :D I even took a picture with one of them, they were just too beautiful!

About the measurement of Alina's jump height - my friend explained it and I am translating to you now, hopefully you will get the idea - so, it's the same principle like measuring a distance when having a scale of a map (like 1:100 000). Same with Alina's picture. The difference is that he didn't know the scale of the photo but he knew Alina's height (158 cm). He considered the distance from the uppermost point of her head to the middle part of her skate. 158 cm correspond to 320 pixels. 320/158 are about 2.02 pixels for each centimeter on the picture. Now he can measure the size of objects as long as they're roughly within the same distance from the camera, like the distance from her blade to the ice, in this case around 94 pixels which corresponds to 47 cm. The hard part is only determining where the ice starts but the shadow helps. I hope you understood?

And now, after so much maths, my friend greets you with a meme he came up with:
https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=bf146f22eef42f0368b570cbda6b9aca&oe=5C7DB2B6

https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=8559e7268254713d9009c0f4e64320f3&oe=5C4539A3

:rofl:
 
bewitched said:
And now, after so much maths
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Not so hard math to understand, thanks to the graphics in the picture, but I have a question about the religion. Could that cult become known as Flying Skating - well, not Monster, some nicer word - maybe Croftster? Yes, we bow before you, our Flying Skating Crosftster! :bow: What do you think about that?
 
bewitched said:
Thank you! Seats are important indeed! I could barely buy mine but I understood why - at the arena there were something like tour guides with posters, gathering big groups of Japanese fans, like at a tourist tour. I guess there is big business with tickets for Yuzu competitions in Japan and the tour offices buy a huge amount of tickets in the first seconds of the ticket sale... so I definitely feel lucky that I got to attend this competition with good seats!

By the way, the whole city had billboards of Alina as ad for the competition and it was so nice seeing her everywhere - warmed by heart in the cold Baltic weather :D I even took a picture with one of them, they were just too beautiful!

About the measurement of Alina's jump height - my friend explained it and I am translating to you now, hopefully you will get the idea - so, it's the same principle like measuring a distance when having a scale of a map (like 1:100 000). Same with Alina's picture. The difference is that he didn't know the scale of the photo but he knew Alina's height (158 cm). He considered the distance from the uppermost point of her head to the middle part of her skate. 158 cm correspond to 320 pixels. 320/158 are about 2.02 pixels for each centimeter on the picture. Now he can measure the size of objects as long as they're roughly within the same distance from the camera, like the distance from her blade to the ice, in this case around 94 pixels which corresponds to 47 cm. The hard part is only determining where the ice starts but the shadow helps. I hope you understood?

And now, after so much maths, my friend greets you with a meme he came up with:
https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=bf146f22eef42f0368b570cbda6b9aca&oe=5C7DB2B6

https://scontent-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=8559e7268254713d9009c0f4e64320f3&oe=5C4539A3

:rofl:
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Dear Bewitched, your friend is now a treasured member of our Holy Church of Alina Zagitova and the Amazing Figure Skate, thank him a million times for me for his awesome slow motion videos. He's got great filming skills and that angle was just perfect.

We are so lucky to have you both in our group.

I loved his math explanation too, makes perfect sense and it is awesome!!!

:ghug::thank::cool2:
 
Awwww the new manner hands are so cute. Wonder who taught her? Last time she grabbed Yuzu's waist.
 
zenskate said:
Welcome to the doggy side, my Masaru avatar friend. :biggrin: Fruitpie has adorable Masaru who looks harmless, I have adorable Masaru who is trying to look scary, and you have scary Masaru who is striking fear into the hearts of Alina's enemies. Masaru power!
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Masaru power! :yahoo:

TheBallerina said:
You are now The Three Musketeers from the Masaru Order, "All for one and one for all". :biggrin:
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I am proud to be part of the Masaru, the most adorable scary protector of Alina, order! :thank:
 
Amef said:
Awwww the new manner hands are so cute. Wonder who taught her? Last time she grabbed Yuzu's waist.
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My guess is that its all the interactions she has had with Japanese culture this past year. At the Olympics, she and Evgenia trained at some location in Japan between the team event and the Ladies event. In April she was on a Japanese talk show and also a Japanese game show. Then in May, the Japanese Prime minister presented her with Masaru. But even before then she had dealings with the Akita Society. In August, she was on another Japanese TV show. Then she got involved with the Shinseido (sp?) cosmetics people. A real "cultural immersion".
 
lesnar001 said:
My guess is that its all the interactions she has had with Japanese culture this past year. At the Olympics, she and Evgenia trained at some location in Japan between the team event and the Ladies event. In April she was on a Japanese talk show and also a Japanese game show. Then in May, the Japanese Prime minister presented her with Masaru. But even before then she had dealings with the Akita Society. In August, she was on another Japanese TV show. Then she got involved with the Shinseido (sp?) cosmetics people. A real "cultural immersion".
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Maybe she's learning from Masaru, now she's got a Japanese national right at her home 24/7. Or maybe not, since, as all our lovely friends' avatars can attest to, manner hands (or manner anything) is not a natural skill Masaru was born with. Just ask Ownlina, right? And then, right after it, ask Iriska.

Japanese personal space customs are lost on our valued Alina protector.

Also Alina had all that time in Japan during "The Ice", with road trips and all that, as observant as she is I bet she took a bunch of cues from how the locals behaved.
 
lusk8 said:
Maybe she's learning from Masaru, now she's got a Japanese national right at her home 24/7. Or maybe not, since, as all our lovely friends' avatars can attest to, manner hands (or manner anything) is not a natural skill Masaru was born with. Just ask Ownlina, right? And then, right after it, ask Iriska.

Japanese personal space customs are lost on our valued Alina protector.

Also Alina had all that time in Japan during "The Ice", with road trips and all that, as observant as she is I bet she took a bunch of cues from how the locals behaved.
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Lets go to the videotape (I mean picture)....

https://instagram.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn...735_338872676661571_3183120957611145199_n.jpg

All I can say is that Masaru is trying.
As we can clearly see here, Masaru's hands are kept a respectful distance from Owlina.
However, Masaru's teeth are another story. :laugh:
 
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