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Anyone heard about this and if true, can we expect Kirra to blossom into a top contender in Ladies this season? Beautiful, great legs, and talented from my observation.
Joe
Joe
Korpi and Mischin
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here it is...it was posted on FSU, it's part of the Finnish test skate held a week ago. It's a tango IIRC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Te57QpwmOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Te57QpwmOE
I don't love that SP. She could improve her line and stretch and there's a lot of flailing about that doesn't add up to much. Plus, as a music choice it is a perfect example of "huh?" Meaning when you hear it you wonder how anyone could think "boy, that's what I've been looking for--- I'll skate to that all year!"
However, her costume is great (although it has nothing to do with you music--- which in this case is a good thing) and there's no denying she is very beautiful. I would love to see her really pull it all together and have a good season.
However, her costume is great (although it has nothing to do with you music--- which in this case is a good thing) and there's no denying she is very beautiful. I would love to see her really pull it all together and have a good season.
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waxel is right. there are a lot of great tangos out there, where did she find this one? the skating dosen't really look like a tango kind of feel. the outift is terrbile, it makes her legs look to short... it looks homemade. It looks like somthing you would wear for a jazzy number. I feel that she made a poor choice.
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Thanks RD. - I can't get audio on many youfubes and when I do it is very low so I can not judge completely without the music. I agree with the posts above, her arms get on my nerves. Surelty, her choreographer, could give something better. If it is a Tango, they should be sensuous not tossed around randomly.
Some of the elements looked ok, but Mischin should be able to do better than that.
Joe
Some of the elements looked ok, but Mischin should be able to do better than that.
Joe
Although the programme is still a work in progress, I don´t get the feeling that this or any tango music would suit her so well.... Maybe Mishin has gotten her jumping work more successfully this season, but on the other hand, did he do so well with earlier lady skaters? Anyway, I think that Kiira only participated in a Mishin skating camp and is not coached by him regularly?
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In an IFS interview last year, Mishin said that Elena Berezhnaia still uses the exercises he taught her to make her jumps solid. She had gorgeous jump techniqiue, even if the number of jumps she did was limited as a pairs skater.
I would think that Mishin's role in a training camp would be to teach technique and repeatable skills. I don't think he can be judged as a technical coach by his record with a very lmited number of women he coached full-time. A full-time coach is responsible for so much more, and as a full-time coach, he had a limited sample population of Ladies' skaters.
I would think that Mishin's role in a training camp would be to teach technique and repeatable skills. I don't think he can be judged as a technical coach by his record with a very lmited number of women he coached full-time. A full-time coach is responsible for so much more, and as a full-time coach, he had a limited sample population of Ladies' skaters.
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He failed to do much for either Volchkova or Basova.
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I don't know much about Basova, but who did much with Volchkova? By the time Mishin got her -- and Sokolova, for that matter -- she had been through several coaches.
Volchkova seemed like her head got in the way, and Sokolova is notorious for bad training habits and for last year's weight gain. (I saw her in the hotel lobby after Euros, and she looked like a thin, normal person, not like a figure skater. She dwarfed the ice dancer who was next to her in every dimension. And that's not the case with Slutskaya, for example, who looks very muscular on TV, but is a tiny thing in person.)
Mishin doesn't have much to give skaters who aren't motivated.
Volchkova seemed like her head got in the way, and Sokolova is notorious for bad training habits and for last year's weight gain. (I saw her in the hotel lobby after Euros, and she looked like a thin, normal person, not like a figure skater. She dwarfed the ice dancer who was next to her in every dimension. And that's not the case with Slutskaya, for example, who looks very muscular on TV, but is a tiny thing in person.)
Mishin doesn't have much to give skaters who aren't motivated.
There is an absolutely adorable photo of Korpi and Mishin together, outdoors, sitting in the grass together in the latest issue of IFS magazine - the new one with Brian Joubert on the cover. Just a darling picture, along with an interview regarding their work together.
