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She even did a combo!
Top Prospects of Russian ladies
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From 0:53 to 0:59 is such an insane display of skating skills. How often do you see that done so fast at the junior 3 level, while not even losing speed? Without even taking into account she's ... 2 years under the age of when she'd be expected to start skating there. All the steps might not be perfectly clean but if her skating skill PCS mark isn't close to 4.00 I'll be angry.She even did a combo!
Now, I'm not an expert so I can't get into superb detail, but she at least does perform a LFI choctaw and RFI choctaw here in this sequence, and both are considered some of the most difficult steps. LFI choctaw is common in ice dance for instance. But I'm not good enough to specify which specific variation of that she does - But I know it's a difficult step and very rare to see at these lower junior tiers. Both are used as parts of difficult entries for jumps at the senior level and as a part of step sequences for example and that she doesn't really lose any momentum - Very impressive.
Obviously, very childish still but, say, in 2 years... I'm expecting to see something incredible.
Ksenia Melkumova is really an incredible talent. Pure pleasure to watch her skating.
Also here a few girls:
Alina Mikheyenkova (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8F_1omtb4
Emilia Nakhaeva (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqAVJxMj-68
Not bad overall.
Also here a few girls:
Alina Mikheyenkova (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8F_1omtb4
Emilia Nakhaeva (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqAVJxMj-68
Not bad overall.
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On her, I looked into her school and their students. Of notables, there of course are Viktoria Vasilieva and Kamila Valieva. But something I noticed about this coach specifically is that all his skaters seem to get really high PCS and especially skating skill marks and have absolutely tiny jumps. Khabibulina is a pretty extreme example of tiny jumps but this was something recurring for many skaters at almost all the junior levels when I went through the different skaters' protocols - tons of UR/downgrade calls but very high PCS marks.
I wonder if it's an intentional choice and that they really have far less focus on jumps than most might? It might also mean that Melkumova has potential for stronger jumps if she in the future were to get a coach that would help her focus on that. Though, it's not like Viktoria Vasilieva is a terrible jumper.
Melkumova 35.26 points and finishes 4th in the SP while being the only 2009 participating. Actually, she's only 0.55 points off the "legitimate" first place finisher because the person who actually came first is a 2005 birthdate...
Now please just please have a slightly less disastrous FS this time.
Maya Koryakova (04.01.2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSUY-EKj3jM
Polina Shcheglova (20.02.2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdSHnsHF3iA
Anastasia Zinina (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmdSRjNHCys
Polina Shcheglova (20.02.2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdSHnsHF3iA
Anastasia Zinina (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmdSRjNHCys
I can't understand where is a mistake. Alina Mikheyenkova skated twice?
Alina Mikheyenkova (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htWiP-8pIao
Beautiful deep edges.
Alina Mikheyenkova (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htWiP-8pIao
Beautiful deep edges.
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Some of these girls' competition schedules are insane. I noticed some of them skated in 3 competitions(including the upcoming 21-24 one) within a week at the junior sport 2 level, which is going to mean 6 programs in 7 days. But unfortunately sportvokrug is dead for me right now so I can't check who they were, exactly.
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That's funny, because not knowing the school or anything, considering your awe, I thought: 'in the best case, this girl might become next Vasilieva'.
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"This girl might end up having as good jumps as Vasilieva" would be more accurate
hwell:In most other aspects I expect her to be far better and in some like interpretation she already is. Keep in mind this girl won't be junior eligible until the 2022-2023 season.
Something else I found out before sportvokrug died is that she a year ago, in late 2016, she was a lower mid tier junior 2 skater whose PCS was in line with that standing and really didn't stand out at all. So what on earth happened during this past year?
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Nice girls. Zinina has nice axel, little bit messy, but with potential.
Watching her and judging her shortcomings, one may always wonder: "was Zagitova better at this age?". She reminds me her a bit.
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Small tip for the scouts. :2thumbs:
YT searches sorted from newest to oldest:
- "figurnoye katanye" (figure skating)
- "figurnomu katanyu" ([to,in,of] figure skating)
- "figurist" (figure skater, masculine)
- "figuristka" (figure skater, feminine)
- "figuristy" (figure skaters)
- "katok" (ice rink)
YT searches sorted from newest to oldest:
- "figurnoye katanye" (figure skating)
- "figurnomu katanyu" ([to,in,of] figure skating)
- "figurist" (figure skater, masculine)
- "figuristka" (figure skater, feminine)
- "figuristy" (figure skaters)
- "katok" (ice rink)
Varvara NAVARENKO (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-4tk-3FcM
Very nice!
Also, another victim of typos: Polina Abolymova (2008), she is written as 2001 year.
She is slow, but I guess it's matter of time when she will gain speed.
Very nice!
Also, another victim of typos: Polina Abolymova (2008), she is written as 2001 year.
She is slow, but I guess it's matter of time when she will gain speed.
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Truly. A little, hmm... meticulous in a way. Like she needs to think about things and it's not entirely natural. But some very nice skills. About the same age as Dzepka.
The 2009 age group is looking really insane to me at this point in time.
Natalia LAGUTOVA (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pj2gvsgoHI
Nice and powerful skating. Very good stepsq.
Nice and powerful skating. Very good stepsq.
Elizaveta Smirnova (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvuwKgcbJo
Maria Karpanova (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHGBv_xB5DQ
Sofia Kolbasenko (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGSbEFRvt6k
Alisa SHASHKOVA (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7a45LQLSmA
Eva Doroshenko (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm4fVqHJ6qE
Maria KHOROSHLOVA (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTcwB7-39y4
