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Polina Edmunds
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Polina is taking over the U.S.F.S. Snapchat this weekend at Skate Canada!! Good luck Polina!
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Where are all the Polina Fans? Hopefully she can get on the podium at SC and perform to the best of her ability. Go!!! 
Podium? I think she can win this event! Elizaveta and Ashley are not in top form and because of that Polina's chances should be very good. 
I'm really looking forward to watching her SP, it's a lovely program and I'd like to see how it has evolved.
Edit: I just looked at the prediction thread for SC and many predict Polina to be even behind Tursynbaeva and Osmond ... people seem to forget that she's the reigning 4CC champ. I think she's very underrated at the moment. So: Go! Prove them wrong!
I'm really looking forward to watching her SP, it's a lovely program and I'd like to see how it has evolved.Edit: I just looked at the prediction thread for SC and many predict Polina to be even behind Tursynbaeva and Osmond ... people seem to forget that she's the reigning 4CC champ. I think she's very underrated at the moment. So: Go! Prove them wrong!
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Totally agree psusanne. Polina is, as you say, the reigning 4CC champ plus she competed at the last Olympics so she's mega talented IMO. Been waiting to see her skate all season, especially since everyone else has been seen already once or twice. Good luck Polina !
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Anyone follow Snapchat? She took over the USfigurskating snapchat this weekend.
I think it's good that the tech panel at SC have addressed the issues with Polina's spins so early in the season. And the flip must have been good, because the tech panel wouldn't have let her get away with it if it wasn't. :sarcasm:
What's bad is that I think the changes of speed/positions in her combination spin fitted the music perfectly and they will have to change that and that's a pity.
Her dress is very pretty, she looked mature and sophisticated, I like the program very very much. Now I'm pretty curious about her FS tomorrow. Good luck!
What's bad is that I think the changes of speed/positions in her combination spin fitted the music perfectly and they will have to change that and that's a pity.
Her dress is very pretty, she looked mature and sophisticated, I like the program very very much. Now I'm pretty curious about her FS tomorrow. Good luck!
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Is it me or do the judges seem to be harsh on Polina? 
Anyone else can get away with UR and edge calls, but Polina is always punished. Like always always. And that sit spin again... 
Anyone else can get away with UR and edge calls, but Polina is always punished. Like always always. And that sit spin again...
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I still think she has an amazing SP and no matter what the judges see...I liked it and found it cohesive and very well delivered. Oh well..what the judges do is of little concern to me and doesn't harm my enjoyment one bit.
I think she looked a bit unsure in the FS (maybe because of the FS marks?). I'm not overly fond of that huge ribbon on the dress, but I like the program and I think it will grow as the season progresses. It was her first international competition of the season and it's good that some issues got addressed now. I wouldn't want her to lose a spot on the U.S. team because of an invalid spin.
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Moonlight
For Polina’s short program this season, she and her choreographer, Rudy Galindo, wanted to draw upon her many years of ballet training with a lyrical offering to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata." Galindo asked her to close her eyes, listen to Beethoven's theme, and tell him what she saw. She responded, “I see moonlight cascading on the water, with trees and branches coming down." Galindo said, 'That's it--that's your story. Use that in the program. Think of the branches as a ballet barre."
Now, it should be said that Beethoven didn’t call his Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor the “Moonlight Sonata,” though he was aware that he had created something strange and wonderful. His own title for it was "Sonata quasi una fantasia," which is to say, "sonata almost a fantasy." Years after his death, a critic wrote that its effect was like moonlight falling upon the waters of a lake. This turn of phrase caught the public’s fancy and, ever since, the sonata has been the “Moonlight Sonata.”
At Skate Canada, the short program was very much as Polina saw it with her mind’s eye, the long, beautiful lines of her arms and body suggesting the moonlight which descends upon the night sky of our world, the branches of trees glistening in it, their reflection shimmering upon the surface of still water. The elegant port de bras of her opening was sustained in an adagio which expressed the quiet, heart-rending first movement of Beethoven’s piece, what Hector Berlioz called a lamentation. When the ferocious last movement began, it was graced by a fast twizzle from which she emerged in a lovely jete. Fans of other figure skaters often describe the skating of their favorites as “balletic.” It is really a way of saying that they find their performances graceful. Here was a true ballet on ice, however, the movements of one art form complementing those of the other. Indeed, as she finished, a commentator for British EuroSport exclaimed, “That was the ballerina on pointe, on form, on the ice,” and so it had been:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=44BBB8519C64FD38493344BBB8519C64FD384933
The scoring was problematic at this competition. Her skating had been composed, elegant, and clean, aside from an off-center double axel which she fought to save. Scarcely had she left the ice, however, than the technical scorers took away credit for one element after another. Underrotation calls were made on jumps that seemed quite satisfactory and a sit spin was discounted entirely. It was almost as though the judges were saying that if she insisted on giving such emphasis to the dance, then the skating elements would be scrutinized all the more closely.
Interestingly, however, her PCS scores were rather good. It seemed that if they could be boosted still further through improvements in the TES scores, as has often been the case with other skaters in other competitions, this could well be a podium program.
Apart from its competitive aspects, however, the program was a considerable artistic achievement. In a TSL interview earlier this year, Polina spoke of her desire to give expression to the beauty of music through her skating. Here Beethoven’s strange and wonderful fantasy so liberated her that what she felt became what she did. She breathed its life, recreating it in her own self, and then allowed its truth to be revealed in gesture, turns and spins, and jumps, as the dance was made one with her skating.
Her performance was the very essence of the music and thus of light, from which all music is derived. As has been said, the light confounds the darkness. In such times as our own, the skating of Polina and others whom we celebrate is a blessing which surely finds its source elsewhere.
For Polina’s short program this season, she and her choreographer, Rudy Galindo, wanted to draw upon her many years of ballet training with a lyrical offering to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata." Galindo asked her to close her eyes, listen to Beethoven's theme, and tell him what she saw. She responded, “I see moonlight cascading on the water, with trees and branches coming down." Galindo said, 'That's it--that's your story. Use that in the program. Think of the branches as a ballet barre."
Now, it should be said that Beethoven didn’t call his Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor the “Moonlight Sonata,” though he was aware that he had created something strange and wonderful. His own title for it was "Sonata quasi una fantasia," which is to say, "sonata almost a fantasy." Years after his death, a critic wrote that its effect was like moonlight falling upon the waters of a lake. This turn of phrase caught the public’s fancy and, ever since, the sonata has been the “Moonlight Sonata.”
At Skate Canada, the short program was very much as Polina saw it with her mind’s eye, the long, beautiful lines of her arms and body suggesting the moonlight which descends upon the night sky of our world, the branches of trees glistening in it, their reflection shimmering upon the surface of still water. The elegant port de bras of her opening was sustained in an adagio which expressed the quiet, heart-rending first movement of Beethoven’s piece, what Hector Berlioz called a lamentation. When the ferocious last movement began, it was graced by a fast twizzle from which she emerged in a lovely jete. Fans of other figure skaters often describe the skating of their favorites as “balletic.” It is really a way of saying that they find their performances graceful. Here was a true ballet on ice, however, the movements of one art form complementing those of the other. Indeed, as she finished, a commentator for British EuroSport exclaimed, “That was the ballerina on pointe, on form, on the ice,” and so it had been:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=44BBB8519C64FD38493344BBB8519C64FD384933
The scoring was problematic at this competition. Her skating had been composed, elegant, and clean, aside from an off-center double axel which she fought to save. Scarcely had she left the ice, however, than the technical scorers took away credit for one element after another. Underrotation calls were made on jumps that seemed quite satisfactory and a sit spin was discounted entirely. It was almost as though the judges were saying that if she insisted on giving such emphasis to the dance, then the skating elements would be scrutinized all the more closely.
Interestingly, however, her PCS scores were rather good. It seemed that if they could be boosted still further through improvements in the TES scores, as has often been the case with other skaters in other competitions, this could well be a podium program.
Apart from its competitive aspects, however, the program was a considerable artistic achievement. In a TSL interview earlier this year, Polina spoke of her desire to give expression to the beauty of music through her skating. Here Beethoven’s strange and wonderful fantasy so liberated her that what she felt became what she did. She breathed its life, recreating it in her own self, and then allowed its truth to be revealed in gesture, turns and spins, and jumps, as the dance was made one with her skating.
Her performance was the very essence of the music and thus of light, from which all music is derived. As has been said, the light confounds the darkness. In such times as our own, the skating of Polina and others whom we celebrate is a blessing which surely finds its source elsewhere.
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Some pics from her nightoff with Alsu, Maria S & her cousin
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https://www.instagram.com/p/-iKQvPkjZn/?taken-by=polinaedmunds
@ Insta
https://www.instagram.com/alsu_kayumova/
+ TAT bonus
https://www.instagram.com/p/-iKQvPkjZn/?taken-by=polinaedmunds
Polina just got knighted!
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