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Evgenia Medvedeva

Jeanie19 said:
I don't think her SS are mediocre. I love her moves and interpretation to the music. And I am from the United States.
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Her SS are great. People have exaggerated to the contrary for years.

Hello from the US :)
 
pandatours said:
I was browsing Twitter and saw a picture of Evgenia with her two silver medals and her hair was in a high ponytail and I was SHOOK because she looked so effortlessly beautiful. I know many on here love her battle warrior hairstyle but I’ve never been the biggest fan.

I understand that hair is not a skater’s biggest priority but I hope she shakes it up in that department this season
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I love the hairstyle she used the last few times (like in her Windmills of your Mind or Experience). It looks very beautiful, elegant and mature and gives her a different style. I think it suits her perfectly!
 
TGee said:
I'd be surprised to see a ponytail in competition unless the role really would benefit from it.

But she's likely to be experimenting with new approaches to her hair, including new updos.

I'm certainly curious to see how her hair will work with the costumes she lands on.
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I could see her with a spunky ponytail in her jazz program though it would depend obviously on the costumes but I think it could suit the music and add that element of fun that could work really well but I’d like for her to keep her war hair style for her long because I really like it and she will need all of the familiarity and I can see how the routine of doing her hair could be quite good for preparing herself to perform due to the routine and I think it could work very well for a tango.
 
TGee said:
I agree...

Just because Eteri training approach did not bring out skating skills, big jumps and spins tightly in the box, does not mean Zhenya was limited by relative deficiencies in talent.

Learning styles are not all the same, and Eteri's repetition approach builds consistency but not necessarily perfection. (Julia's mother made a comment in an interview just before Sochi that shocked me at the time...when anyone does something ten thousand times they will learn to do it.)

Brian Orser seems to be at the other end of the spectrum... fewer repetitions, but an emphasis on getting each try correct and clean. (This where he and Lilbet did not see eye to eye.)

We've heard that Stephen Gogolev was only allowed to do a very few quad attempts per day in order to protect his young body....but he is a 13 year old with ALL the quads...

So, we need to see if Brian's approach is a good fit for Zhenya...

I'm very hopeful.

I was very frustrated by what I view as basic issues and errors not getting addressed in someone like Zhenya who I could see as a very talented skater.

From a Canadian training approach, Zhenya's lack of speed, mediocre SS, travelling spins with a very angled skating leg, and prerotation call out to be fixed.

Just as an example of the Canadian idea of what is the standard on spins, this is how Alaine Chartrand trains her spins...see how the spiral is in the box...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMWw6o9D1FC/?hl=en

And critiquing these issues in Zhenya's skating wasn't falseness or 'hate' ...just things that make no sense in an obviously accomplished and talented skater to those of us coming from a different country that stresses different things.

I'm not saying she didn't deserve her scores...Eteri plays both the strategic and tactical game well, and those deficiencies were not strongly penalized under IJS in the last quadrennial. And we see that Eteri is already working to address them in her younger skaters as she knew they would eventually be penalized in the scoring as edge calls started after Sochi.

But please don't buy into the idea that Zhenya is "a beaver but not a talent" ...
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Thank you, TGee, for another insightful post.
I'm very hopeful, too :)
 
Zhenya is very surprised with the squirrels. I would also be surprised because in my life I have never seen a wild squirrel, much less a raccoon, and in North America that is so common. The only squirrels I have seen are those that sell in pet stores, but they have almost no tails, they are tiny, they look like hamsters.
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Well, my favorite programs are:
-W.E, FS Worlds 2015/2016: I was really surprised at how different and unusual the choreography was, Zhenya looked so sweet, it was all very suitable for her age and she interpreted the Concept very well, I like this avant-garde program.
-Anna Karenina, Olympic performance, 2018 :We know that AK went through many corrections due to Zhenya's injury, but she showed us a beautiful Anna Karenina, a free skating; sincere, emotional, she undressed her soul completely that day, and everyone realized that. Finishing it she was empty; she gives a tired smile after crying, and that is a sign of total dedication, that she gave her entire being on the ice rink, fighting to the end.(and it is for that reason that I do not believe in gossip).

-Rivers Flow in You , WTT 2017 :I've become a fan of avant-garde programs. I am a person who really detests the boring and predictable choreographies of the "warhorses". This performance in particular, I think it shows the peak of Zhenya in terms of her abilities, and I don't say it for the WR, but because she looks so free when skating, much faster, a stsq so complex and neat, her landings stable , her firm ankles, and the history behind this strange and controversial program being told and understood (at least I, for my part, I think I understand the story, I was all the outstanding performance of the movements).Maybe it was because she had already won the 2017 championship, and that's why she did not have that much pressure in this particular event ; she looks much faster, secure of herself, lighter and freer than in Worlds.
And well, I also really like her Sp that year, I think 2017 was the best year of zheya.


EX's: Sailor Moon and Kukusha.

:luv17:
 
KiraraChin said:
She rewrote the script several times. When she won her first season people said she was a one hit wonder. After her injury, they said there was no chance for her, and yet she came incredibly close to the gold and delivered one of the most memorable performances of the Olympics. After the Olympics, they said she would never leave Eteri and/or she would retire.

Now they're saying she has no chance of winning again...
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I'm rooting for her to make all her doubters eat their words!
 
yoloaxel said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmBTnZehIy1/?taken-by=jmedvedevaj Zhenya with her rose gold John Wilson blades designed by Misha Ge :)
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Sorry for the slight thread invasion, but I've been curious for a while about what exactly Misha Ge's role is in the design of these? The blade shape seems to be just like the other Gold Seals in the range, and presumably Misha doesn't have the engineering or metallurgy experience to advise on the actual production of the blades, so it does leave slightly confused as to what he actually does?

(I realise this might come across as Misha-bashing, and that's really not my intention. I'm aware he consults for a number of blade companies, so he clearly brings something to the table, but it isn't clear what!)
 
emipeters said:
Sorry for the slight thread invasion, but I've been curious for a while about what exactly Misha Ge's role is in the design of these? The blade shape seems to be just like the other Gold Seals in the range, and presumably Misha doesn't have the engineering or metallurgy experience to advise on the actual production of the blades, so it does leave slightly confused as to what he actually does?
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https://twitter.com/echotpe/status/1006421183439331328
Interview from him what he does.
 
What is Jason saying to Zhenya exactly (or the other way around)? I can't copy and paste photographs into Google Translate, lol.
 
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