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Yulia Lipnitskaya

Finlandia trophy entries have been announced and Julia is on the list...

So I will see her in person twice this year - Finlandia, then TEB... and maybe a third time if she makes it to the Grand Prix final...

Such great luck! *HAPPY DANCE*
 
Marina was there during the test skates. I'm praying she can stay a bit longer in Russia to help Julia.
 
YesWay said:
Finlandia trophy entries have been announced and Julia is on the list...

So I will see her in person twice this year - Finlandia, then TEB... and maybe a third time if she makes it to the Grand Prix final...

Such great luck! *HAPPY DANCE*
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I'm jealous! I'm going to the world championship so let's all pray that she makes it there!
 
Her VK fanpage linked a video of her warmup before her FS, where she was landing all her jumps.
http://vk.com/video734160_171363315
I honestly think her jumps have improved from before, it's just making them happen during the program to the music that's giving her a headache at the moment. But nothing a little fine tuning and extra time can't fix. Go YULIA! :cheer2:
 
moviebuff said:
Her VK fanpage linked a video of her warmup before her FS, where she was landing all her jumps.
http://vk.com/video734160_171363315
I honestly think her jumps have improved from before, it's just making them happen during the program to the music that's giving her a headache at the moment. But nothing a little fine tuning and extra time can't fix. Go YULIA! :cheer2:
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She did the same thing last season. All jumps were there in the warm-ups but she couldn't hold it together when she had to skate the whole program in competition. Actually she said that about now also, after the short.
 
Alba said:
She did the same thing last season. All jumps were there in the warm-ups but she couldn't hold it together when she had to skate the whole program in competition. Actually she said that about now also, after the short.
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I think once she is comfortable with the program, and how her jumps sit within the program she should be fine. Right now (based on the test skates), it seems she's a lot more comfortable with her Elvis SP than her Leningrad LP, which is amusingly iconic when you think about how Yulia often gets pigeonholed into the 'serious' category.

Loving the Elvis program so much that I am embarrassed. That flirtatious step sequence, werking those poses, and that Comaneci-1976-floor-routine choreo sequence...so silly, so fun, SO GOOD! :biggrin::cheer:
 
moviebuff said:
I think once she is comfortable with the program, and how her jumps sit within the program she should be fine. Right now (based on the test skates), it seems she's a lot more comfortable with her Elvis SP than her Leningrad LP, which is amusingly iconic when you think about how Yulia often gets pigeonholed into the 'serious' category.
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Well, the SP lasts 2:50 minutes and with less jumps. Much easier. Her body has changed drastically this season, compared with last one, but she hasn't lost her jumps and I'm glad about it. She needs more time though. She might be having another difficult season (most probably she will) but she should be patient and not put too much pressure on herself. It takes a lot of time to fix the technique on the lutz, improve the skating skills and get used to your new body. You can't do that in 6 months.
 
About her current shape: "Great jumps without music. With music everything starts falling apart. We are now working on it. We plan one more trip to America — will visit Marina before the Grand Prix. That's the plan for now — to get back in shape and to skate."
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Translated courtesy of Quiqie at FSU.
 
Sam-Skwantch said:
Translated courtesy of Quiqie at FSU.
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Yep. That's it. She also said she gives herself like 50-52% chances.
I remember when I read that I LOL'ed, because it was after the SP when everything was good, and I said to myself: Yulia, you are too harsh with yourself. :biggrin:
 
moviebuff said:
I think once she is comfortable with the program, and how her jumps sit within the program she should be fine. Right now (based on the test skates), it seems she's a lot more comfortable with her Elvis SP than her Leningrad LP, which is amusingly iconic when you think about how Yulia often gets pigeonholed into the 'serious' category.

Loving the Elvis program so much that I am embarrassed. That flirtatious step sequence, werking those poses, and that Comaneci-1976-floor-routine choreo sequence...so silly, so fun, SO GOOD! :biggrin::cheer:
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OH, that's what seemed slightly familiar to me. Thank you. It drives me crazy when something rings a bell but you just can't remember from when or when.

I really like the program even with the doubled jumps. Whether it was intentional or not, oh well. I hope that she will attack them in her competition skates. But no matter the jumps I just love watching her skating. It always drove me crazy when people kept saying technical, technical, but no artistry because her skating always seems so seamlessly woven together although its grown by leaps and bounds the last couple of years. Both of her programs look very promising.
 
The Elvis is in part a parody on American popular dance and culture. She is clever, funny, and complimentary at once. This is an reply to those who criticize her introversion. There is a danger of being trite and even silly, but with characteristic taste she presents pop culture at a level worthy of her style.

Leningrad is very sentimental music, a river fed by two tributaries, pain and tenderness. It is music from the heart. She portrays this with consummate eloquence to the first statement of the main theme, in just 15 seconds she casts a spell. Later she raises us to a new plateau of expressiveness. She is spectacular from about 2:50. We see the butterfly that was a mere chrysalis in SL. Her body (!!) expresses the music, arms and legs sweep across its broad outline like ornamentations of feeling. The music swells with sentimentality, she rides every crest of emotion. She becomes a virtuoso of feeling. She seems to leave the ice, it is a ballet somewhere high on clouds. Closer to God.

As for the jumps, there is probably a connection with the foot injuries. Remember she was advised by surgeons not to skate. Jumps only get in the way.

There is a musical connection between Megapolis and Leningrad. Listen to the 4 notes that follow the melody. These are the almost the same 4 notes that began Megapolis with an important slight difference. In both cases, four notes are the core of meaning. In Megapolis, they were ambiguous, they could be interpreted as major or minor key, and that ambiguity was its message. Here it is unambiguously minor by changing the lowest note a half-step, and that relentless sadness is the musical basis for Leningrad's message. Yulia translates that message with heart-rending poetry.

EDIT: the 2:50 timing refers to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFsnYAOjJ0
 
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sjid said:
As for the jumps, there is probably a connection with the foot injuries. Remember she was advised by surgeons not to skate. Jumps only get in the way.
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This was a long time ago and she said everything is fine now. This was in February. You can't say Jumps only get in the way because in that case she would've quitted by now. The jumps in training, warm ups and SP are there. The problem is in the LP where you have to skate a longer and busy program and under the stress of competition.
 
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