I am surprised that the coaches didn't find a better partner for Zhuk. Zhuk seems to be landing all her jumps whereas Britkov never seems to manage any.
For as long as he's not throwing her into boards or dropping her off lifts he will do. They're both still learning, and pairs this young are never set in stone. On a bright side, this program of theirs is just beautiful.I have seen all their competitions from last season and I am pretty sure he never had a somewhat clean competition jump-wise and multiple times he had multiple errors or falls in one competition. He is by far the most unstable jumper among pairs who are pretty good or better. I had hoped she would have had a new partner this season but obviously that didn't happen. well, hopefully she will have a new partner next season because she has star qualities.
I never heard of K/S in fourth but they gave my favourite performance. Nice choice of music, simple but effective costumes and very good on the elements. I really liked the step sequence, they stopped at the end of the rink as if finished and then kicked off again. The 2A was the final element. I would have given them a few more marks but everyone is very close so it's all to play for.
For as long as he's not throwing her into boards or dropping her off lifts he will do. They're both still learning, and pairs this young are never set in stone. On a bright side, this program of theirs is just beautiful.
For as long as he's not throwing her into boards or dropping her off lifts he will do. They're both still learning, and pairs this young are never set in stone. On a bright side, this program of theirs is just beautiful.
She will be JGP eligible next season and I would really prefer she would do her debut with a better partner.
She may not have her debut. If there is six better junior pairs and all of them deliver at their first event, there won't be spots to give her. And at the moment I would say there is six pairs that are better.
I love your optimism, but if his jumps were bad last year and are still same bad now, I don't think that's something that will be fixed by next season. If it was that easy to fix it, it would have been fixed it by now. So even if they work hard to increase their TES, the jumps will be dragging their marks down. They would get away with it a few years ago, but now quite a few junior pairs have at least one triple.They are most definitely not among TOP 6 or even TOP 8 junior pairs at the moment but there is plenty of time until next JGP season. I am confident that she would make the JGP team with a right partner. She most likely will not make it if she will continue to skate with her current partner.
I love your optimism
I have never been optimistic about Britkov's jumps and because of that I have hoped for a long time that she would start to skate with a better partner. The problem is that they live and train in Yekaterinburg and there are no better partners. She would have to move either to Saint Petersburg or to Moscow, or maybe to Perm which would be the closest option. Anyway, her parents might feel that it would be too big of a step to take at this stage.