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She has worked with the best coaches out there. You think a few sessions with Mishin is going to turn her career around when she worked with Frank for years?
Again, what harm is it going to do?
We don't all have to agree that taking lessons from Mishin for a week is going to make her come out next season with a 3A and fully-rotated triples. As far as harm, she is putting potentially irreversible wear-and-tear on her aging body and missing out on things like the college experience by continuing on a career that isn't going to match what she accomplished as a teenager.
I don't see why people keep criticizing Mirai. If she wants to continue competing, that's her business. We all know the USFS does not do her any favors, but even with her URs and edge issues, she continues to score well enough to earn international assignments. And she is making improvements. Even if the URs continue to be an issue and she never makes another World or Olympic team, does it really matter? 2 or 3 girls in the US make the World/Olympics team each year, does that mean everyone else should just give up and quit? Mirai isn't embarrassing herself or anyone else by continuing to compete, she is still competitive at the National level and capable of winning medals at GP and international B events. Even with that awful fall at Nationals that clearly affected her, she was still 10th overall, and in the SP with the 2nd half of her combo URed, she was 4th! I know she was better and a world medal threat 5 years ago but that was her prime and that's sometimes how the sport works. She's still a good skater and clearly likes to skate so maybe she's doing it for herself.
And she is making improvements.
We don't all have to agree that taking lessons from Mishin for a week is going to make her come out next season with a 3A and fully-rotated triples. As far as harm, she is putting potentially irreversible wear-and-tear on her aging body and missing out on things like the college experience by continuing on a career that isn't going to match what she accomplished as a teenager.
No one is saying she should quit. People are just saying they don't think this will change her results--which I agree with. She should keep skating for herself as I don't see her position in US Skating changing.
No one is saying she should quit. People are just saying they don't think this will change her results--which I agree with. She should keep skating for herself as I don't see her position in US Skating changing.
But you never know. It's just a guess to say her results won't change. She was in a good position to be on the podium at Nationals last year if she hadn't hurt herself on that fall. And the year before, she was the bronze medalist. She certainly still has the potential to move up and make the World team.
No, we don't - has anyone actually said this? And all this gloom & doom - because of said week of training with Mishin? All that wear & tear on her poor "aging body" (honestly, you'd think she had suffered as many injuries or was as old as Plushy himself!) in one week? I don't understand the excessive and energetic negativity, to be honest. If she hadn't trained with Mishin - she would have quitted skating? (shrug)
Personally, I'll go on thinking tha this might do her some good - and that, at worst, it won't make any difference. So, in other words, no harm.
But you can say that about everyone. Literally everyone. Every skater has the potential to improve. The whole point of a message board is to share your thoughts on the sport which includes your opinions about athletes. And my opinion is that as great as Mirai is, her best days are behind her.
Actually, I do think Drivingmissdaisy is saying exactly that, or how else to interprete: "she is putting potentially irreversible wear-and-tear on her aging body and missing out on things like the college experience by continuing on a career that isn't going to match what she accomplished as a teenager."?
Note: Correction welcome, of course, if I have misunderstood.
If I were her I'd find something else to do, but that particular statement was in response to the comment was that continuing on is harmless. From the perspective of finance, health, and opportunity cost, continuing a career in Mirai's position does require acknowledging those things. Skating at this level isn't simply a hobby, but something that requires commitment which prevents a person from pursuing anything else. I've read on these boards that she's improving, that she's clearly the 3rd best American, etc. and if she were to read these boards she should know that not everyone agrees.
Why should she care what some random stranger on a skating forum thinks about what she wants to do with her life?