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Polina Tsurskaya

vorravorra said:
I agree about an individual approach - Pitkeev was someone who needed one for health reasons and he didn't exactly get it. But maybe Eteri has learned a lesson from it and is going to be more careful with Polina. However, the conditions in Eteri's group with so many strong girls may create a "survival of the fittest" situation and that is not good for Polina. Eteri is good at pushing her students to the maximum, not coddling them. But of course we can't know exactly what's going on there.
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Yes of course, I'm doing nothing but armchair judging, and I don't want to make it sound like anything else. I'd be perfectly fine if someone could tell me I'm just wrong and therefor needlessly worried :)
 
Li'Kitsu said:
Maybe I'm confusing it, but I think a friend of mine had the same disease - she was operated too and it never happened again. She's even pretty active in sports (albeit not to Polinas FS extent) and so far, so good. However, if I remember correctly, she was told to try and get a good/solid amount of thigh muscles, as those stabilize the knee in general and help preventing it from occurring again. And I got the same advice with my problems, basically a curable pre-form of arthritis.
Again, maybe this is different for Polinas disease, but to be honest, it reminds me of one of the comments in the Junior nationals thread (I'm sorry I can't remember who said it) - what Eteri said about 'usually only taking small, slim girls' scares me a bit. I respect Eteri and she has a lot of strengths as a coach, but I'm afraid her approach might not be the right one for Polina. Maybe gaining more muscle in her legs to help support her knees would be better... and it's not as if, with her technique and spring, a bit more weight would have her jumps come apart. Probably the opposite.
I'm sorry for being negative here, but I can't help being worried about this :dbana:
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Agreed. I think Polina grew a lot in the past months/year or so, but remained really slim, so maybe gaining a bit muscle in her legs would be a good.

(Congratulations on your 3000th comment:))
 
Li'Kitsu said:
Maybe I'm confusing it, but I think a friend of mine had the same disease - she was operated too and it never happened again. She's even pretty active in sports (albeit not to Polinas FS extent) and so far, so good. However, if I remember correctly, she was told to try and get a good/solid amount of thigh muscles, as those stabilize the knee in general and help preventing it from occurring again. And I got the same advice with my problems, basically a curable pre-form of arthritis.
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All semi-decent skaters have good/solid amount of thigh muscles. If they didn't they wouldn't be able to do those jumps. Really buffing up will have no positive effect on knee joint. For figure skaters it can actually hurt, because muscles have weight of their own, and the more you have the less efficient they become per unit of mass, and also less flexible. So the end result is that you put more effort into your jumps, have less control over your body, and put more stress on your joints, not less.

Li'Kitsu said:
Again, maybe this is different for Polinas disease, but to be honest, it reminds me of one of the comments in the Junior nationals thread (I'm sorry I can't remember who said it) - what Eteri said about 'usually only taking small, slim girls' scares me a bit. I respect Eteri and she has a lot of strengths as a coach, but I'm afraid her approach might not be the right one for Polina. Maybe gaining more muscle in her legs to help support her knees would be better... and it's not as if, with her technique and spring, a bit more weight would have her jumps come apart. Probably the opposite.
I'm sorry for being negative here, but I can't help being worried about this :dbana:
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This is very bizarre to attribute the principle that slim and small are selected for figure skating to Eteri's "approach". This is just a general rule of figure skating. Everywhere. The less there is of you to launch into air, the easier it is to do. Just check average height of skaters all around the world and then compare it to average height in general populace.
 
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Obviously, they were wandering homeless puppies. Judging by the text, these puppies have lost their mother(s). At this age, it would be difficult to survive on their own.
 
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