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Anna Shcherbakova

Pretty sure they are 3axels. Doubles are easy on the floor (I used to practice 2a on the floor and had time to open up, so Anna with her tight rotations is doing more than 2a)
 
malya said:
/care this is a dumb rant/

Is anyone except me annoyed she still jumps the lz-lo in her SP when it failed her in ALL her last 4 competitions?

Can't they just swap to a lz-t combo in the SP? it's almost no bv difference and does not need perfect timing. Alena has the junior record with the layout. I'd like to see her safe at JWC...
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In a Japanese program covering Anna and Trusova before JGPF, it showed Anna falling on the 3 Lutz 3 Loop combination in practice. Afterwards, it showed her talking with Daniil, as he wanted her to switch it to a 3 lutz 3 toe. She said no to that, though, and wanted to keep it a loop.

It seems that she wants it for herself and is very determined ❤️[emoji122] and that is the reason there is no switch to a toe loop
 
LiamForeman said:
Pretty sure they are 3axels. Doubles are easy on the floor (I used to practice 2a on the floor and had time to open up, so Anna with her tight rotations is doing more than 2a)
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Now, you don't look at a jump and wish it to have an extra rotation. Here you go, a slow-motion of Shcherbakova's 2a on the floor. I even froze the frames to help you count.
https://i.loli.net/2018/12/13/5c124d4c9936d.gif
 
Looks like Anna is doing one quad for Russian Nationals, not two. Her layout at practice was like this:

4Lz, 3F, 2A3T, 2A / 3Lz3Lo, 3F1Eu3S, 3Lz3T

She did some 3F3Lo in practice, so it might be that she meant to do 3F3Lo and didn’t get to, because her run-through 3F had a bit of a strange landing.

GPF must’ve made the coaching team rethink doing two of the same quad in one program, because Sasha has cut down one quad as well.
 
yes. That way she won't loss many points because of possible quad+rep.
She is doing 4Lz and 1Eu instead of 2t2lo. (BV: 12.05 vs 3.00)
4Lz, 3F-3T, 2A, 2A // 3Lz-3Lo, 3F+1Eu+3S, 3Lz
1 quad
7 triples (like a regular 7-triple program with 2 Lutzes and 2 flips) and 2 double axels.
 
Arbitrary said:
And 4Lz suites much better to speed the recovery of all post-trauma skaters?
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no Im not saying that but luz and toe jumps use different leg when they jump. Toe jumps use left leg and she broke left leg. not now but she seemed struggled even her first JGP at bratislava when she did 3T
 
First of all Anna needs a good SP, without mistakes, to gain some confidence, then we can see great things in FS... but after watching her practice, it seems to me she grew a bit lately and that may be a problem... :scratch2:
 
I agree, the SP is the most important at this point. She always does well in the FS but I think she needs this confidence boost from the SP to be perfect even with the quads. To me she didn‘t look like she grew but I might be wrong of course... :scratch2:

But Anna has always skated better at National events this season, right? And she’ll be even more determined after JGPF. So, I‘ll look forward to a clean SP. It‘s my favorite SP next to Alena‘s this season so I‘m patiently waiting for it and hope that this time it will work. :)
 
In my opinion the quads make no good for Anna. I really liked her first GP performance in Bratislava, she was soo good at feeling the music. Since they put those quads, she is skating a bit different, she is concentrating so much on executing the jumps, of course she still does not miss a single beat even if she falls but overall it doesn't have the same flow as it used to have.

I think Daniil once said that he wanted Anna to concentrate only on her triples, but she wanted those quads so much... As we just have seen recently in Vancouver maybe it wouldn't be bad strategy at all.
 
disagree.
Anna ALWAYS performs her programs amazingly even if something didn't work out. She never stops to perform.

And if you want to be able to skate programs with quads. You need practice. A competition practices. Like Sasha' the last year. Before you become comfortable and confident with them.
 
As a viewer I never had a problem with Anna or Sascha falling on their quads because they are able to do the rest regardless. If you look at the mens field, often everything else falls apart as well.

That said, I hope Anna nails her SP tomorrow! Even if she still did her best in the gpf, messing up 2/3 jump passes does disrupt the performance.
 
That‘s Anna‘s main strength among the many she has, at least to my eyes. That she always performs with so much musicality even if the jumps fail her. But still, it‘s very obvious that a performance gets disrupted when there are falls. And I love Anna, I love her musicality and most of all, I love her SP this season. It’s a true masterpiece. That‘s why I hope and believe she‘ll be clean this time. And besides, despite her fragile look, she’s a strong competitor and that’s why, after JGPF and everything that went wrong there, she’ll be even more determined. I don‘t think she‘ll let this happen again. I can‘t be sure of course but... I believe that this time she‘ll land all her jumps. :agree:
 
malya said:
As a viewer I never had a problem with Anna or Sascha falling on their quads because they are able to do the rest regardless. If you look at the mens field, often everything else falls apart as well.

That said, I hope Anna nails her SP tomorrow! Even if she still did her best in the gpf, messing up 2/3 jump passes does disrupt the performance.
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I liked Sasha´s programs even with falls, it is insanely fierce and raw. On the other hand Anna´s programs are for me more delicate and even she can handle the falls very well I would enjoy them more with clean triples like Kostornayas. With a clean perfomance the psc points would be also higher. I am sure in Vancouver she could place higher with triples if they were clean. In meantime they changed her layout and she is doing only one quad. Hope she will place better.

I know, you have try these jumps even in competitions, but at least in Vancouver during the practices her success rate of those jumps was far below 50%. Does anyone now how is she doing now? I have only seen the Trusova layout, sky is not the limit anymore
 
nips said:
I liked Sasha´s programs even with falls, it is insanely fierce and raw. On the other hand Anna´s programs are for me more delicate and even she can handle the falls very well I would enjoy them more with clean triples like Kostornayas. With a clean perfomance the psc points would be also higher. I am sure in Vancouver she could place higher with triples if they were clean. In meantime they changed her layout and she is doing only one quad. Hope she will place better.

I know, you have try these jumps even in competitions, but at least in Vancouver during the practices her success rate of those jumps was far below 50%. Does anyone now how is she doing now? I have only seen the Trusova layout, sky is not the limit anymore
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Anna seemed great in today’s practice. Like Sasha, she’s cut down on one quad. She landed a clean 4Lz during her run-through, and the camera wasn’t on her much after that, but apparently she did a 4Lz-3T when the camera was panned to her (I wasn’t watching, I heard this from Instagram).

She had one fall during her run-through, on an extra 3T after her last 3Lz out of the catchfoot spiral.
 
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