Which ladies could land a 3A?

[OS]

Whoohooo go Mirai! Work it work it!

https://instagram.com/mirainagasu/

 

[adelia]

Whoohooo go Mirai! Work it work it!

https://instagram.com/mirainagasu/

Waaay under-rotated.

 

[mirai4life]

everyone (the american girls....) is posting vids of them trying 3A. LOOOOOOLLLLL.

Courtney can rotate but can't land
Mirai can land but can't rotate
Gracie can rotate and land with a harness

 

[russianbratz]

I wonder if any of these ladies do drills to just develop their power and speed? Like are they timing themselves doing "laps" around the rink?

 

[ice coverage]

I wonder if any of these ladies do drills to just develop their power and speed? Like are they timing themselves doing "laps" around the rink?

Video of Mirai taking her turn in a Tom Z power/speed drill -- getting timed as she skates with a "power chute." TZ calls it "suicide fun." (So happens that the timer is none other than Paul Wylie.)

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=606031052828953 (1:06)​

Video of Max Aaron finishing his laps as he wears a power chute. (Mirai is not in this mini-vid. Just reinforcing the idea that this kind of training seems to be standard operating procedure for TZ skaters.)

https://instagram.com/p/q4zRV6DY6_/​

 

[jenaj]

I don't know how one could go about quantifying something like this as a 'proven fact'. Has it been dis-proven? What does history tell us?

Only 6 ladies is a very small sample size to form a hypothesis, other than to say the 3A is a very rare & difficult element, and we will be very fortunate to have two ladies competing with it next season, and very likely will not see any newcomers in this area for a number of years. 3A's do not come out of nowhere.

I'm not the one who formed the hypothesis. You are right- the sample is too small to conclude that a female skater can't learn a 3A post-puberty.

 

[russianbratz]

You could argue that because so many women are trained to do triple triples now, they simply have a higher skill acquisition overall.

 

[Jammers]

I wonder if any of these ladies do drills to just develop their power and speed? Like are they timing themselves doing "laps" around the rink?

Someone like Gracie doesn't need to improve her speed and power those two things have been her calling card for the last 4 years. Whatever one thinks of her programs or her performing ability all you have to do is take a few seconds to watch her skate from one end of the rink to the other to see her power compared to most of the other Ladies.

 

[russianbratz]

Someone like Gracie doesn't need to improve her speed and power those two things have been her calling card for the last 4 years. Whatever one thinks of her programs or her performing ability all you have to do is take a few seconds to watch her skate from one end of the rink to the other to see her power compared to most of the other Ladies.

Don't disagree, but skating skills are more than that. The ability to pick up speed without stroking and the ability to ride an edge smoothly etc. On one hand you have the skater's power, but on the other hand you have their skill with a blade on the ice. It seems like you need both to have great technique/effortless triples.

 

[StitchMonkey]

Waaay under-rotated.

But it is landed on one foot now and she stood up. Maybe that was the process, land it two footed, then move on to landing on one foot, then move on to landing it fully rotated on one foot.

 

[Interspectator]

But it is landed on one foot now and she stood up. Maybe that was the process, land it two footed, then move on to landing on one foot, then move on to landing it fully rotated on one foot.

Mirai gets stuck on that last step to a perfect jump. --But it's still good to see her try.

 

[MK's Winter]

Mirai gets stuck on that last step to a perfect jump. --But it's still good to see her try.

I will say Mirai seems to have cleaned up her feet in her air position. Her feet look much tighter together, especially in her 3T3T and that was perfectly rotated.

 

[whatif]

One of the junior Japanese girls and one of the Russian juniors (many candidates there).

 

[sabinfire]

Here's Laurine Lecavelier doing a 3A (in a harness):

https://www.facebook.com/franckkat/videos/10153470179235489/

 

[Interspectator]

Wakaba is visiting the Cricket Club...maybe to polish her skating or her jumps?

 

[Layback11]

Here's Laurine Lecavelier doing a 3A (in a harness):

https://www.facebook.com/franckkat/videos/10153470179235489/

That looked pretty good...

 

[cohkaix]

How about this one from Rin Nitaya (already assigned to JGP Bratislava 2015):

http://instagram.com/p/5bDY9vFyUY/

 

[sunnystars]

How about this one from Rin Nitaya (already assigned to JGP Bratislava 2015):

http://instagram.com/p/5bDY9vFyUY/

Is that fully rotated? It looks good though! :shocked:

 

[Interspectator]

Is that fully rotated? It looks good though! :shocked:

I love her caption: "How do you do Mr. Axel? Come and see me any time if you're so inclined. May I meet a even more perfect Mr. Axel sometime."

 

[matmuh]

bringing this video from Elizabet Tursynbaeva's thread (thank you mikaboo!), she is doing off-ice 3A :dance: i think its pretty good attempt