I wasn't proposing Polina as a great idea; I merely mentioned that she is still age-eligible.Polina? Never in a million years. Karen being picked over Vivian is what scares me, and I actually love her.
I wasn't proposing Polina as a great idea; I merely mentioned that she is still age-eligible.Polina? Never in a million years. Karen being picked over Vivian is what scares me, and I actually love her.
I am not impressed with this group of juniors. Although I see some good jumping technique and nice artistry, NOT ONE skater did a triple-triple. I saw several in the novice ladies. What's going on?! Is this normal in the juniors?
Did you miss Emily Chan's 3T-3T in the SP? Vivian Le can do a 3Z-3T but was MIA in this competition...
Emily is pretty good artistically compared to the rest of the junior girls...
As for Junior Worlds, just a thought -- Angela Wang should still be age-eligible although she's at the very top of the age group, and she had great form in the Senior B's -- so in the event that Gracie, Ashley and Courtney Hicks get selected to Worlds, perhaps another way out could be to send Karen Chen and Angela Wang to JW?
And for Vivian -- looking at last year's precedent, the 2 JW competitors were selected from Senior Nats, hopefully next season she will compete in seniors nationally (am in fact surprised that she did not do so this year). She will also be age-eligible for senior international competition, wonder if she has done well enough from JGP to qualify for senior GP berths?
I saw the short, but not one in the FS. I'm sure many are capable of a 3-3, but under pressure, in competition is the only place that it counts.
I think you need to get the TES minimums at a junior competition. Angela did not compete at any junior events this season so I don't think she is eligible, same goes for Tyler Pierce and Hannah Miller, and Polina Edmunds, they are young enough for JW age wise, but I don't think they can go because they don't have the TES from a junior competition. So I think Bradie Tennell is the only senior lady at US Nationals who is eligible for JW, Amber Glenn would be too, but she withdrew from Nationals. Chen might be eligible but I'm not sure. Her last junior competition was JW last season, so that might be too long ago...
Did you miss Emily Chan's 3T-3T in the SP? Megan Wessenberg also did a 3T-3T in the SP. Paige Rydberg did a 3T-3T in the FS (though missed a lot of the rest ). Vivian Le can do a 3Z-3T but was MIA in this competition...
OTOH, USFSA also broke away from previous practice in the JGP by giving up-and-coming juniors, JGP spots and had the older juniors/national seniors do senior Bs....maybe they'll go that direction again.
USFSA should do something to lift up the jumping ability among Junior ladies,
and it should be immediately.
Many of Russian and Japanese junior ladies got much harder combos
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So the lack of the big female star skater in US in last ten years or so caused this decline???
What they've done starting this year is to give bonuses to non-downgraded triples at novice and intermediate levels, and double axels at intermediate and juvenile.
That gives the girls incentive to work on these jumps and to get experience competing them in the programs sooner in their development, as soon as they are consistently able to come close to rotating them, even if they're not quite consistent at landing them cleanly.
So you should be seeing more jump content in juniors in a year or two as the girls who benefitted from these bonuses move up to juniors.
Did you see how many people were watching the junior ladies in these last days? Not to talk about the other levels. I'm sure this plays a big impact on these kids willing to train and compete.
Keep in mind that the IJS rules guarantee a penalty for underrotated and wrong-edge jumps. So there's no point rushing them into competition if you expect those penalties and the score would be higher with easier jumps instead.