Did something just happen with Gracie? I just saw a video on YouTube that was posted today. It was written in Japanese I think, so I couldn't read it.
Can you post a link, Bluediamonds09?
Did something just happen with Gracie? I just saw a video on YouTube that was posted today. It was written in Japanese I think, so I couldn't read it.
Gracie just posted a video on Instagram. I think she's in Colorado Springs for a few days.
Gracie just posted a video on Instagram. I think she's in Colorado Springs for a few days.
It looks like she's the guest judge at the Luge Team's Cookoff Challenge at the OTC. You can see her introduction in Team USA's Instagram stories right now.
Here is Gracie's rippon 3Lz! Amazing!!
https://www.facebook.com/iceskatiingworld/videos/1978298755732884/
Is this a recent video?
I've never really thought that her jumps completely left her--she landed I think two 3Lz3T's at US Nationals this year.
Is this a recent video?
I've never really thought that her jumps completely left her--she landed I think two 3Lz3T's at US Nationals this year.
The video was from 2014 (looking at the video, I figured it was the Toyota sports center, I googled "Gracie Gold Rippon Lutz", and the video came up as being posted to her instagram in 2014).
I do wonder if her under-rotations happen due to pressure/competition nerves, or if they are a recurring problem in practice due to weak technique or not being in shape enough. Are they more mental or physical?
I thought it would be pretty crazy to go from her double toe at SOI to this.
I disagree. Ashley is as inconsistent as the next us lady but rather than falling she underroates. If she fell every time she underrotated(instead of cheating) nobody would consider her consistent. Heck when she won silver at worlds she underrotated 4 jumps, only 2 were called. Underrotating is supposedly worse than falling in this system but the judges give her the benefit of the doubt most of the time(ahem 2a nationals) and so it goes unnoticed in her scores and placements (when they help her out..not quiet the case for coc). Anways I like Ashley I hope it doesn't sound like I am bashing her and I think she could make a run for bronze at the Olympics (with Alina and Evgenia healthy and able I just don't see how any us lady or any other lady for that matter will have a chance at anything other than bronze....... unfortunately ) I just don't think we should be calling her consistent. Consistent is Evgenia Med. Consistent is Satoko Miahara. Consistent is Yuna kim. I dont really count Ashley in that group.
I've never heard Ashley address this, but Mirai gave an answer to the same question that makes eminent sense to me. She said that in competition, it's very easy to slip back into the old habit of making sure that she rescues the jump and stands up on it, rather than fully rotating and possibly falling. Even though she's trained and practiced the new way.
It's worth remembering that Ashley and Mirai both started competing Seniors in the era before URs were penalized so badly, and rescuing a beautiful jump was more important.
Karen and Nathan are taking part tonight in a Facebook Live for the USFS Jump On It! Camp.
hackworm reported in the Broadmoor practice thread that Karen also will be giving demos for the camp on Friday and Saturday.
I did notice Gold was doing some recent appearances/shoots - seems to me that's the last thing you'd want to do when down & out (seems like a lot of pressure), but then again, I'm only on the outside looking in here. For all I know it could be doing the opposite
I wanted to clarify.
Karen was a keynote speaker on Thursday night. She was not a demonstrator.
Angela Wang was a team leader. She did occasionally skate with some of the attendees.
Mariah Nagusi and Marin Honda were demonstrators.
Gracie Gold was spotted at the USOC gift shop on Wednesday but she was not involved with the camp.
I did notice Gold was doing some recent appearances/shoots - seems to me that's the last thing you'd want to do when down & out (seems like a lot of pressure), but then again, I'm only on the outside looking in here. For all I know it could be doing the opposite