Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov:
Gifted levels noticed in some of previous posts.
Overall Skating Skills are quite good, the difference between partners is more visible than I would expected, but another amount of hard work will correct this. Speed is good, they are one of faster teams in today’s field.
Some choreo parts were not executed like it should be – exit of the spin, some moment at the end of program, overall the end of program looked problematic in terms of synchronization – they were looking for each other a little bit more. Probably a tax for first competition.
Lifts are problematic also like in case of I&Z – rotational lift where Nikita doesn’t rotate well, crouching position where Nikita in which is very poor yet and his legs are trembling there a lot. Straight line lift looks very well (although I am not fan of this inelegant position, I think they should make a full copy of Meryl & Charlie’s lift, it looked more elegant with Charlie looking straight and not at some certain parts of Meryl’s body).
What I am very critical to – Nikita absolutely ignores the rhythm especially in the Step Sequences. But he is the dancer! And dancer should keep the rhythm! In this moment 8.18 points for Interpretation and TIMING Component looks like a bad joke or like another compliment to Zueva.
Another critics goes to Nikita poor body posture with head forward, thanks to it he is loosing elegant look, which is a pity. I hope Zueva will correct this in future.
And third critic but maybe more a suprise from me – where are edges? The couple had better edges in Circular Step Sequence in comparison with SD, but Diagonal Step Sequence was once again on the level of SD Step Sequences. The couple is able to create some deep or quite deep edges but more than 50% of edges are light and about 25% of edges are not done or under big question.
Last year I was watching both I&Z and S&Z and they all had deep edges, that was the reason why I pointed that both new couples will fit to each other in terms of technique. But while I&Z kept those deep edges and increase speed they had with previous partners, Vika & Nikita have a little bit less speed and their edges are visibly worse than they were with previuos partners. In the beginning I thought that it is caused by short period of skating together….but watching I&Z – they were able to keep those deep edge. Why S&K were not?
The program is good. It is not easy to judge it, when this is the first time when the couple competed, so they will sure show better presentation next time. Right know the program looks to be devided into more parts, it doesn’t look like one compact dance. Looking at choreography Zueva tried to create a sexual tension between the couple and there are some parts while they are both standing on one place and doing some sexy moves towards judges or towards each other, but this sexy moves almost disappear in moments when they start to skate.
I am curious how will the dance look at Russian Nationals and I am curious to see it.
I wonder why Zueva chose this music for them. Vika is elegant and smooth skater and her Blues style is very similar to last years Finnstep. Nikita is dynamic skater who is more smooth and high class looking one. The music which is playing looks to be iron looking, wild, a little bit out of control. In my opinion both skaters are to soft to skate on this music, at least yet.
Gifted levels noticed in some of previous posts.
Overall Skating Skills are quite good, the difference between partners is more visible than I would expected, but another amount of hard work will correct this. Speed is good, they are one of faster teams in today’s field.
Some choreo parts were not executed like it should be – exit of the spin, some moment at the end of program, overall the end of program looked problematic in terms of synchronization – they were looking for each other a little bit more. Probably a tax for first competition.
Lifts are problematic also like in case of I&Z – rotational lift where Nikita doesn’t rotate well, crouching position where Nikita in which is very poor yet and his legs are trembling there a lot. Straight line lift looks very well (although I am not fan of this inelegant position, I think they should make a full copy of Meryl & Charlie’s lift, it looked more elegant with Charlie looking straight and not at some certain parts of Meryl’s body).
What I am very critical to – Nikita absolutely ignores the rhythm especially in the Step Sequences. But he is the dancer! And dancer should keep the rhythm! In this moment 8.18 points for Interpretation and TIMING Component looks like a bad joke or like another compliment to Zueva.
Another critics goes to Nikita poor body posture with head forward, thanks to it he is loosing elegant look, which is a pity. I hope Zueva will correct this in future.
And third critic but maybe more a suprise from me – where are edges? The couple had better edges in Circular Step Sequence in comparison with SD, but Diagonal Step Sequence was once again on the level of SD Step Sequences. The couple is able to create some deep or quite deep edges but more than 50% of edges are light and about 25% of edges are not done or under big question.
Last year I was watching both I&Z and S&Z and they all had deep edges, that was the reason why I pointed that both new couples will fit to each other in terms of technique. But while I&Z kept those deep edges and increase speed they had with previous partners, Vika & Nikita have a little bit less speed and their edges are visibly worse than they were with previuos partners. In the beginning I thought that it is caused by short period of skating together….but watching I&Z – they were able to keep those deep edge. Why S&K were not?
The program is good. It is not easy to judge it, when this is the first time when the couple competed, so they will sure show better presentation next time. Right know the program looks to be devided into more parts, it doesn’t look like one compact dance. Looking at choreography Zueva tried to create a sexual tension between the couple and there are some parts while they are both standing on one place and doing some sexy moves towards judges or towards each other, but this sexy moves almost disappear in moments when they start to skate.
I am curious how will the dance look at Russian Nationals and I am curious to see it.
I wonder why Zueva chose this music for them. Vika is elegant and smooth skater and her Blues style is very similar to last years Finnstep. Nikita is dynamic skater who is more smooth and high class looking one. The music which is playing looks to be iron looking, wild, a little bit out of control. In my opinion both skaters are to soft to skate on this music, at least yet.
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