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Yulia Lipnitskaya

Snow63 said:
I wonder what's Yulia's problem with 3S. My friend was on her practice today (with my ticket :cry:), and she's fallen really hard. Again. I wonder if there's any videos?
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I suggest you read post 3284, which goes into great detail.
 
It looks like Yulia's planning 3Lz3T in her SP. We still don't have any videos from practice?
 
Snow63 said:
It looks like Yulia's planning 3Lz3T in her SP. We still don't have any videos from practice?
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She's going to be the death of me. I'm going to go find some sleeping pills. I can't look :hopelessness:
 
Snow63 said:
It looks like Yulia's planning 3Lz3T in her SP. We still don't have any videos from practice?
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Oh, it's for both SP and LP.
Her LP planned content: 3Lz3T, 2A3T2T, 3Lo, 3S, 3F2T, 2A, 3F. She still can change that if she's not sure.
 
sjid said:
That explains a lot to me. So did she fall on those two similar jumps (similar in take offs) mostly because of weak take offs? I recall that she looked pretty wobbly in the take off when she fell in TEB. So you put the blame mostly on the boots. That makes sense given her history of few falls. Is there nothing they can do about the boots? Do you think she will eventually overcome the adjustment problems by practicing in those boots day after day? Or is it going to be year after year--in other words, is there any way of predicting how long she will need to adjust? It's hard for me to believe that she is stuck with boots that impair her performance, that there is so little choice in skating boots. ... If I read you correctly, as a rule we shouldn't get worried because of jumps missed in practice. I feel better already. Thanks so much for your detailed answer.
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Her shoulders and hips were not square (I don't mean in an exact vertical square compared to the ice what I mean is they have to be on the same plane) on the take-off of the flip, since they were in the wrong position (she was broken at the waist) there was no way she could land it because it couldn't rotate. With the salchow her shoulders were in the right place and more importantly her head was looking into the circle the way it's supposed to so the jump was high for her, fully rotated and the wasn't even a spray of snow the way there is sometimes if it's close to taking off properly but isn't 100% right. At Worlds last year her head was looking outside the circle and as it went her left shoulder went with it because when you're on the ice the way your head is and where it's looking controls where you're upper body is. As the shoulder moves your core is no longer square and the way it works is even if you manage to rotate the jump on the landing your left shoulder is still outside the circle and you'll fall to the ice because all you momentum is carrying in that same direction so that it's impossible to use your arms to check the rotation and hold the landing edge.

Every jump is such a delicate and yet complicated set of forces. Certain people have enough spatial awareness that even when the jump take-offs are wonky or the air position is off they are able to manipulate where their limbs are and still land them. For most people, though when you learn these jumps you figure out the perfect set up for each one and when you take-off properly it's like the jump jumps itself because of muscle memory. Basically since Yulia was using a certain set of boots she relied on how they felt in order to jump. Now with a new set of boots (that she said felt like slippers) and the blades must also feel different in relation to the boots, even if they are the same as before, one of those factors is irrevocably changed and it takes time to get used to it. Especially in a competitive setting where there is so many other things causing pressure. We have seen her do all the the jumps perfectly in practice and in competition except for the 3Lz being under-rotated at the TEB LP. She did land it in practice at COC. So there's no problem with the technique it's just all the factors combined such as changing the boots, changing the LP, not getting to do a run-through of them in a competitive atmosphere at the test skates and at an early season competition the way she normally would have is all. I'm relatively sure she'll come back strong during this GPF and be even better at Russian Nats.
 
thanks for the clear explanation and for taking so much time, Isabel. You have filled in a big gap in my understanding. I hope you'll find time to comment on her performances in the future. She said that she used the previous boots for her entire career, something like 11 years.


I found the quote: I used the same brand of skates for 11 years, but there were problems all the time. The boots were always broken on the second day, they needed to be reinforced, to be tied tighter. The change should be a big improvement in the longer term. Why are they skating on boots held together with strings? This sounds like something from Old McDonald's farm, not an Olympic champion.
 
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Fayruza said:
Whoa, I survived watching her skate! Did that last spin look different?
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The last spin. She started moving her arm into it during the summer shows. Last year at GPF she actually held the blade with both hands. I think that was the only time she ever did that.
 
volk said:
Julia was robbed
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Absolutely! Judges "saw" the wrong edge on Flip, having stolen from it nearly 5 points, but it wasn't there - pushing away was from an internal edge, the real robbery, it was necessary to give a protest.
 
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