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Yuka nagai is going to 4cc instead of Murakami...
Yuka nagai is going to 4cc instead of Murakami...
Congrats to the medalist and for Kanako being out on both Worlds and 4CC!! And I'm so happy that she decided to stay for another season....its good to take things one season at a time.
Why exactly is she being sent to worlds? Are the ladies ahead of her too young? Or was she chosen out of experience? Just seems like her finish is a little disappointing. I haven't watched any of the performances yet, I will later! Also, isn't it really disadvantageous for the nationals tech judge to give out URs like nothing? It builds a reputation for UR from certain skaters and will affect them in international competition too.
I have a question. I just watched the youtubes on my big screen, including the after skate slow motions of the jumps, with the printed out protocals/scores in my hand....Is a UR completely dependant on being more than 90 degrees to the direction of landing or does the takeoff boot angle have anything to do with calling compete rotations? If it is the former, then I say get the tech specialist a big screen tv with a camera angle like I had, and a seeing eye dog cause there is no way those ladies earned all those URs....
If Asada had been at the Nationals this year, all of her jumps, both triples and 2Lo would have been killed with < and <<. JSF just wants to improve the over all quality of jumps by lady skaters. They couldn't do that until Asada is gone.
Not every single time, in fact, most times, most of the Japanese ladies' jumps would not have been called underrotation in international competitions, but there have, indeed, been times when important jumps were called underrotations in international competitions for being just as (under)rotated---most notably Mao's jumps.
If all jumps are called underrotations according to the strictest criteria that Mao's jumps, in her most important competitions, have been called, then most ladies' jumps would be called underrotation, and if they are consistently called as strictly, then the caller is being fair, don't you think?
So impressed by the top two! I really like Satoko's LP, and it's so great to see it hit here. Honestly, her jumps don't look UR to me. Just very, very small. I hope she works on this--she doesn't need monster jumps, just jumps that are big enough to not detract from her performance.
I'm so impressed with Rika right now. I'm not even sure why--she has terrible posture, a terrible layback position, and not the skating skills of the other girls... but holy crap she was on fire for that LP! It always seems to take a while for her to get into it, but by the end she captured both the passion and pain of Carmen. I love how she went for both 3F-3T and the half-loop combo.
I love Wakaba's speed and big jumps. Hopefully she'll get better programs next year. Parts of her LP did look a little ragged.
Disappoint for Kanako, but she does get to go to Worlds. She did attack her program much like Rika did, even though the effort didn't create the same results.
Haruka's placement is , but she did skate both programs quite well, downgrades aside. Much better than how she was on the GP.
I love Wakaba's speed and big jumps. Hopefully she'll get better programs next year. Parts of her LP did look a little ragged.
I can understand why they would downgrade Satoko's 3-3 despite the lack of a landing cheat, on her 3T takeoff she literally rotates a 3/4 turn on the ice. Most of the others are inexplicable but as international tech panels seem to hate Kanako's guts (and again, her jumps are unjustly downgraded WAY too frequently) I guess the JSF decided to simulate the hatred for all the others in the hope that they could make coaches of future Japanese skaters rotate them... perfectly? More than perfectly? Whatever, pointless UR calls are still not the right way to go.Actually, no, I don't think the tech specialist is being fair...mostly, he/she is being wrong if the jumps are indeed rotated to the definition, what ever that is. So back to my original question: Is the definition of a UR predicated purely on the angle of the blade hitting the ice in relation to the direction of travel? IF that is indeed the case, and the tech specialist does not make a good call, it doesn't mean that person is dishonest....perhaps the tech panel needs better equipment, for instance, or better training. But if Japanese TV, who I think did an excellent job with THEIR camera angles of showing the landings in slow mo, can show the jumps were landed without URs, then this sport has a serious problem with bringing technology to the tech panel and judges. Its kinda sad actually that even I can watch the jump, played in slow motion by Japanese TV, and the jump sequence named at the bottom of the screen that is so obvious that even I can read it, watch that jump with the score sheet In my hand and see that the tech panel is wrong....do what I do...hook your laptop to your big screen with an HDMI cable and watch Rika's or ? 's jumps even at 480 dpi during the afterskate replay and see what YOU think....anything near 90 degrees is pretty obvious....like my poor Mirai...but many of these downgrades were not near that....wish I spoke Japanese to hear what the announcers were saying about this....
Chris trying to get the Japanese TV folks to do the US Nats in English with all those lovely stats appearing on the screen....
She really needs better programs.. Especially with her music choice. She's gonna be compared to Yuna Kim and that program is nowhere near close....
I can understand why they would downgrade Satoko's 3-3 despite the lack of a landing cheat, on her 3T takeoff she literally rotates a 3/4 turn on the ice. Most of the others are inexplicable but as international tech panels seem to hate Kanako's guts (and again, her jumps are unjustly downgraded WAY too frequently) I guess the JSF decided to simulate the hatred for all the others in the hope that they could make coaches of future Japanese skaters rotate them... perfectly? More than perfectly? Whatever, pointless UR calls are still not the right way to go.