That’s for the heads up. She’s currently at the public skate during glow light time doing 3S+3T in the dark! I could not imagine many people trying skating on ice that feels like gravel.
2017-18 State of U.S. Ladies Skating
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That’s for the heads up. She’s currently at the public skate during glow light time doing 3S+3T in the dark! I could not imagine many people trying skating on ice that feels like gravel.
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Mariah Bell's sister also posted some video of Mariah's triple-triple so it looks like she is in good condition. I'm hoping she'll be the breakout suprise and MAYBE in the 3 months since nationals has decided to go back to East of Eden on last time.
When you’re at the public skate and after an hour they turn off the lights and do disco lights on the ice.
Why would Mirai be at a public skate? It's for recreational skating--no way could Mirai practice her competition programs there. The rink guards wouldn't allow it, as it would pose a danger to the recreational skaters.
I guess that means Mirai isn't doing much in the way of training. Quelle surprise.
I guess that means Mirai isn't doing much in the way of training. Quelle surprise.
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What could be seen via Mirai's Instagram story:
(1) Visibility would not have been issue, IMO. There was less lighting than usual, but it was not actually dark -- even when some of the colored lights were on.
If(?) at other times there were true darkness that would have been dangerous, I trust that Mirai would have had the good sense to stop practicing until the lighting was better.
(2) The session did not looked crowded at all. Relatively empty.
(3) Mirai showed herself practicing a jump combo. I doubt that she was attempting to skate run-thrus of her programs.
If(?) at other times there were true darkness that would have been dangerous, I trust that Mirai would have had the good sense to stop practicing until the lighting was better.
(2) The session did not looked crowded at all. Relatively empty.
(3) Mirai showed herself practicing a jump combo. I doubt that she was attempting to skate run-thrus of her programs.
More of your persistent negativity re Mirai. Quelle surprise.
My guess -- which is as good as your negative guess -- is that ice time was not available to Mirai last night?
And that Mirai is so motivated for Worlds that she wanted to get in a bit of *extra* training before leaving soon for Milan. Extra training above and beyond elite sessions with her coaches per usual.
No. It means that she's challenging herself. She did the same thing before nationals. Skating on public skate is very challenging. The ice is like gravel and getting speed and a good edges is really rough.
She said she came back to do some adjustments to her program. Afterwards she decided to go to a public skate to practice her jumps. She was knocking out fully rotated triple triples. The only thing I think she would not have done was her 3A.
Of course she is. But apparently, unless some people have video evidence of this, as well as a photo of her sign in and out of her practice sessions they won't believe it.
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yeah that was a nice 3-3 of hers! Happy to see it
I think Mariah likes WSS so I doubt she's changed and I would rather she be super trained w that program than be sorta trained with EOE even though I do prefer EOE.- Joined
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I believe Mirai is training but I think the reason people were speculating was because she gave an interview after her free skate at the Olys where she stated that it was hard to feel motivated after delivering the skate of her life in the team event. I think people(myself included a little bit but not anymore) wondered how she would feel motivated for worlds if she wasn't even motivated at the second Olympic event. Clearly, from what I can tell, she is excited for worlds and is ready to go!
She never said she wasn’t motivated. That was something that people made up after the fact. What Mirai said is that she was feeling a lot of pressure after delivering that Freeskate and her sports therapist told her some techniques to distract her from the pressure.
We’ll hear something by the summer soonest. She doesn’t have any WR points to get on the GP. So she’s going to have to fight for the SA spot, and she won’t know for months if she will be able to compete for it. That injury has really been terrible.
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Thanks for the response Frida. We were talking about Polina this afternoon and my local friends think she's done. I for one, would love to see her get herself in shape and make one last run. She was so good in 2016 and then right after Nationals, it seems the bottom fell out of her career.
Is that speculation or some inside knowledge? Polina sure doesn't let out what's going on on social media. If she could get that foot injury under control and get her two toe jumps back, she'd be competitive in the U.S., no question. But, oh those jumps . . .
