Speaking of Vivian Le, what happened to her? It seems that she and Emily Chan have dropped off the map this year....
She struggled with injury this year.
Speaking of Vivian Le, what happened to her? It seems that she and Emily Chan have dropped off the map this year....
I am not a fan of all of Zagitova's backloading, I really think the programs are so unbalanced and difficult for me to watch without being annoyed. I wanted Honda to beat her just because of that but it didn't seen to matter what she did there was no catching backloading/tanos. The scoring system really bugs me sometimes.
Every time someone does something unorthodox it is bound to have criticism. Why "balanced" should be the single standard, especially figure skating is at least partly art. I will be bored to death if everyone skates to the same "balanced" layout.
Oh really?Every time someone does something unorthodox it is bound to have criticism. Why "balanced" should be the single standard, especially figure skating is at least partly art. I will be bored to death if everyone skates to the same "balanced" layout.
The major reason why I enjoy Russian girls is that they tend to have innovative choreography, and incorporate dance movements to match the music, especially on the junior level (Evgenia's robot dance for example, or Elena's sassy Latin sp). Japanese girls typically choose the safe/overused music and skate with generic movements, even though they can do it pretty (soft arms, nice wrist/finger gesture). If you look close, Marin, Yuna S., and Mai M. have very similar arm movement in their respective programs, and those movements are not specific to their individual programs. But you cannot replace Alina's LP with any other arm movements/gesture,
Every time someone does something unorthodox it is bound to have criticism. Why "balanced" should be the single standard, especially figure skating is at least partly art. I will be bored to death if everyone skates to the same "balanced" layout.
The major reason why I enjoy Russian girls is that they tend to have innovative choreography, and incorporate dance movements to match the music, especially on the junior level (Evgenia's robot dance for example, or Elena's sassy Latin sp). Japanese girls typically choose the safe/overused music and skate with generic movements, even though they can do it pretty (soft arms, nice wrist/finger gesture). If you look close, Marin, Yuna S., and Mai M. have very similar arm movement in their respective programs, and those movements are not specific to their individual programs. But you cannot replace Alina's LP with any other arm movements/gesture, and she challenged herself with two very different programs that require completely different styles. For this reason, I enjoy Eun soo a lot since her choreography is less generic. Wakaba also challenged herself with Scheherazade. Hope Marin can follow Mao's path in terms of diversity and variety. At this moment, I am not sure how she will do with a Tango, ballet, or Scheherazade program.
Every time someone does something unorthodox it is bound to have criticism. Why "balanced" should be the single standard, especially figure skating is at least partly art. I will be bored to death if everyone skates to the same "balanced" layout.
The major reason why I enjoy Russian girls is that they tend to have innovative choreography, and incorporate dance movements to match the music, especially on the junior level (Evgenia's robot dance for example, or Elena's sassy Latin sp). Japanese girls typically choose the safe/overused music and skate with generic movements, even though they can do it pretty (soft arms, nice wrist/finger gesture). If you look close, Marin, Yuna S., and Mai M. have very similar arm movement in their respective programs, and those movements are not specific to their individual programs. But you cannot replace Alina's LP with any other arm movements/gesture, and she challenged herself with two very different programs that require completely different styles. For this reason, I enjoy Eun soo a lot since her choreography is less generic. Wakaba also challenged herself with Scheherazade. Hope Marin can follow Mao's path in terms of diversity and variety. At this moment, I am not sure how she will do with a Tango, ballet, or Scheherazade program.
Russian and Japanese skaters have dominated in Ladies at Junior Worlds since 2009 and even have won all the medals since 2013 in this discipline. 2017 was no different as Russia’s Alina Zagitova topped the podium while Japanese skaters Marin Honda and Kaori Sakamoto earned the silver and bronze medals.
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The top three were just amazing and gave clean performances, packed with the maximum degree of difficulty: They all hit seven triples in the long and three triples in the short, obviously, they showed triple-triple combos and had level fours for the spins and footwork (only Sakamoto’s step sequence in the free was a level three).
What are your thoughts on the placements and performances?
Do you think that Marin didn't backload all her jumps (because she is also doing that partially) because she wanted to please you?
Noo, but because it's damn difficult both mentally and physically.
In my opinion, Alina's program is very cleverly built and the backload is in line with the music, so I'm not at all disturbed by that, on the contrary.
Agree with every word. People also should stop put down Alina to praise Marin. She deserved her gold in this competition.And I don't really understand trying to put down Japanese girls to praise Alina, you can do that without it. :agree:
Every time someone does something unorthodox it is bound to have criticism. Why "balanced" should be the single standard, especially figure skating is at least partly art. I will be bored to death if everyone skates to the same "balanced" layout.
The major reason why I enjoy Russian girls is that they tend to have innovative choreography, and incorporate dance movements to match the music, especially on the junior level (Evgenia's robot dance for example, or Elena's sassy Latin sp). Japanese girls typically choose the safe/overused music and skate with generic movements, even though they can do it pretty (soft arms, nice wrist/finger gesture). If you look close, Marin, Yuna S., and Mai M. have very similar arm movement in their respective programs, and those movements are not specific to their individual programs. But you cannot replace Alina's LP with any other arm movements/gesture, and she challenged herself with two very different programs that require completely different styles. For this reason, I enjoy Eun soo a lot since her choreography is less generic. Wakaba also challenged herself with Scheherazade. Hope Marin can follow Mao's path in terms of diversity and variety. At this moment, I am not sure how she will do with a Tango, ballet, or Scheherazade program.
Alina and Marin actually seem very friendly together. So happy for them both
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0mZ7lF29s/
What do you expect them to do? Mean-girling each other?
When was the last time a US lady won Junior Worlds? Was it Rachael Flatt? It seems like there should have been a winner since then.....I thought Gracie Won but, I just checked and I guess not.