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A new family member with the Trusovas.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_cDjyko8_t/?igshid=2haf65dsr3cq
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Alexandra Trusova
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THe new pup is adorable, I remember in an Olympic channel clip she mentioned that her brother Egor had always wanted a husky but gave it up and convinced their dad to let them keep an abandoned kitten they found. Well now it seems like he has both! So now Sasha has 3 dogs, 1 cat, and 2 brothers.
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The Quadster Girl commanding the Fifth Element: https://vk.com/photo557313342_457239296?rev=1
I like how the artist brings out Aleksandra's pale blue eyes in black and white pencil.
I like how the artist brings out Aleksandra's pale blue eyes in black and white pencil.
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More of Sasha’s training with her dog 
https://twitter.com/teamtrusova/status/1255064216706273284?s=21
https://twitter.com/teamtrusova/status/1255064216706273284?s=21
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No matter how many dogs are added. Tina has deserved to remain number 1 over the years.she doesn't look too sure in that picture
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" She is pure sport. What drives the best figure skater from Russia, Aleksandra Trusova? "
Why has Trusova failed to win Gold in key tournaments this season?
Match TV is completing the series of articles on the best skaters from Russia according to the results of the 2019/2020 season. We have already talked about the rebellious nature of Alyona Kostornaya and the superpowers of Anna Shcherbakova, today the time has come to analyse the individual qualities of Aleksandra Trusova.
Sasha Trusova became a rock star long before she became a senior. Figure skating fans remember her with as the tiny warrior who came to conquer Australia at her first Junior Grand Prix. The kind of girl that can be easily imagined both as the menace of the neighbourhood and the saviour of stray dogs, but Sasha was in a black dress with pearl thread, and this was unusual. By the way, the playful girlish image of “Big Spender” fitted her no worse than the strange Lily from “Fifth Element”, Daenerys from “Game of Thrones” and the tamer of trolls from “Cave of the Mountain King”, but for some reason was not used anymore.
If you know a skeptic who is convinced that figure skating has nothing to do with real sports, silently show him a few performances by Aleksandra. She is like sport in its distilled form. Using her, it’s just right to rewrite the Olympic motto from “faster, higher, stronger” to “more stubborn, more content, more difficulty.”
Let’s try to statistically describe all of Sasha’s achievements in three sentences :
- Inscribed herself in the history for the first performance of the quadruple Toeloop, Lutz and Flip in competitions
- The first woman ever to compete three clean quadruple jumps in competition.
- She holds the world record in the free program, set at Skate Canada 2019 and equal to 166.62 points - the score for the technique then exceeded 100 points, which is among the highest results even for men.
In her first junior season, Trusova won all the competitions in which she participated. In her second season, Shcherbakova and Kostornaya also joined the fight, and Aleksandra's further progress took place under the conditions of a fierce jumping competition within the group. She took part in this competitive fray, without even actually competing. In the case of Trusova, it will not be false to say that she de facto competed with herself.
The season 2019/2020 commenced with Aleksandra in the rank of the unconditional favourite. Firstly, on the break of it, she became the two-time World Champion among juniors, and secondly, she announced her intention to perform three or more quadruple jumps in her free program. Nobody could interrupt this conquest - Kihira seemed to have learned the quadruple Salchow, but due to an injury she couldn’t jump not only this jump, but she also hardly managed the triple Lutz. Shcherbakova jumped only one quadruple Lutz up to the first stage of the Grand Prix, Tuktamysheva - two triple Axels, and Kostornaya still skated in the Open Test Skates without ultra-si and increased difficulty.
How did it happen that with her breathtaking content and after a swift start, Trusova did not win any of the key tournaments of the season? Summed up: stability. With this huge number of quadruple attempts in a single program there is an equal chance to make a large number of errors, and according to the current rules errors in jumping are expensive for the skater.
It is logical to ask where these errors came from, and several reasons can be mentioned here. Firstly, the structure of Aleksandra’s free program changed every start, and the execution of new content each time was a lottery with a low chance of buying the happy ticket. Of course, like a proper warrior she risked trying to insert the just-learned jumps into her already complicated programs. In the case of the quadruple Flip, the risk paid off; in the case of the triple Axel, not.
In fact, we should get used to the idea that falling from quads is normal. Male skaters have been training triple jumps for more than a decade, and only the last couple of Olympic cycles began to demonstrate absolute mastery, and chasing after quadruples is happening right before our eyes. Failures and falls are inevitable for the women catching up.
In addition, there is the problem of growth for skaters from 13 to 19 years or age. A physical change in body parameters always gives a temporary uncoordination. It takes time before the athlete gets used to her new height, the longer leverage, to get the feeling how strong she needs to push off and when to open from the screwed up flight position to get a clean exit.
Sasha has significantly grown in height this season. Journalists working in every competition can see with their own eyes by the example of young skaters how “other people's children” are growing rapidly. In addition to a purely visual impression of having “gained a foot” at the European Championships compared to Open Test Skates, there is a fact - for the World Championships, Sasha Trusova was preparing a new costume for her free program, because the blue jumpsuit simply became too tight. But fate decreed that Montreal did not see the new outfit of Daenerys. Just like it never saw the clean five quadruple jumps that were shown in training.
Sometimes it seems that if you connect an energy-transforming installation to the rink where Trusova is skating, the energy crisis on the planet will be resolved. There is one “but” - a strong emphasis on jumping makes the other components of skating and choreography vulnerable. And in this direction, Aleksandra still has to develop.
Postludum
We all love to talk about the aspiration of athletes to brightness and excellence, implying a complete absence of flaws and only solid advantages. But if we ignore the idea that the skaters must have something to strive for, observing each of them will become even more interesting.
Trusova’s individuality lies in her unbridled desire to jump difficult jumps. She is determined in breaking through the ceiling head first and expanding the boundaries of the possible, and not for writing out monograms using the blades of her skates to weightless contemporary.
Shcherbakova’s individuality lies in her ability to draw the viewer into her story and her exceptional ease in everything she does on ice. She does not have and will not have this powerful take off into jumps - Anna is gaining favour with other qualities.
Kostornaya's specialty is in the balance of skating and jumping, in her particular spirituality of sliding skills, but she still does not have quadruples, and she is unlikely to behave in such a way as to get the universal approval of everyone surrounding her.
In modern upbringing by stimulating personal growth, there is an interesting technique - emphasising priority on the development of virtues, rather than correcting flaws. It is clear that this is only partially applicable to sports, because nobody wants to lose valuable points to the judges. And yet, in the search for perfection, do not forget about individuality, since each of the Trinity of Trusova, Shcherbakova and Kostornaya has plenty of it.
(c) Анастасия Панина
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From: https://matchtv.ru/figure-skating/m...uchshej_figuristki_Rossii_Aleksandry_Trusovoj
Why has Trusova failed to win Gold in key tournaments this season?
Match TV is completing the series of articles on the best skaters from Russia according to the results of the 2019/2020 season. We have already talked about the rebellious nature of Alyona Kostornaya and the superpowers of Anna Shcherbakova, today the time has come to analyse the individual qualities of Aleksandra Trusova.
Sasha Trusova became a rock star long before she became a senior. Figure skating fans remember her with as the tiny warrior who came to conquer Australia at her first Junior Grand Prix. The kind of girl that can be easily imagined both as the menace of the neighbourhood and the saviour of stray dogs, but Sasha was in a black dress with pearl thread, and this was unusual. By the way, the playful girlish image of “Big Spender” fitted her no worse than the strange Lily from “Fifth Element”, Daenerys from “Game of Thrones” and the tamer of trolls from “Cave of the Mountain King”, but for some reason was not used anymore.
If you know a skeptic who is convinced that figure skating has nothing to do with real sports, silently show him a few performances by Aleksandra. She is like sport in its distilled form. Using her, it’s just right to rewrite the Olympic motto from “faster, higher, stronger” to “more stubborn, more content, more difficulty.”
Let’s try to statistically describe all of Sasha’s achievements in three sentences :
- Inscribed herself in the history for the first performance of the quadruple Toeloop, Lutz and Flip in competitions
- The first woman ever to compete three clean quadruple jumps in competition.
- She holds the world record in the free program, set at Skate Canada 2019 and equal to 166.62 points - the score for the technique then exceeded 100 points, which is among the highest results even for men.
In her first junior season, Trusova won all the competitions in which she participated. In her second season, Shcherbakova and Kostornaya also joined the fight, and Aleksandra's further progress took place under the conditions of a fierce jumping competition within the group. She took part in this competitive fray, without even actually competing. In the case of Trusova, it will not be false to say that she de facto competed with herself.
The season 2019/2020 commenced with Aleksandra in the rank of the unconditional favourite. Firstly, on the break of it, she became the two-time World Champion among juniors, and secondly, she announced her intention to perform three or more quadruple jumps in her free program. Nobody could interrupt this conquest - Kihira seemed to have learned the quadruple Salchow, but due to an injury she couldn’t jump not only this jump, but she also hardly managed the triple Lutz. Shcherbakova jumped only one quadruple Lutz up to the first stage of the Grand Prix, Tuktamysheva - two triple Axels, and Kostornaya still skated in the Open Test Skates without ultra-si and increased difficulty.
How did it happen that with her breathtaking content and after a swift start, Trusova did not win any of the key tournaments of the season? Summed up: stability. With this huge number of quadruple attempts in a single program there is an equal chance to make a large number of errors, and according to the current rules errors in jumping are expensive for the skater.
It is logical to ask where these errors came from, and several reasons can be mentioned here. Firstly, the structure of Aleksandra’s free program changed every start, and the execution of new content each time was a lottery with a low chance of buying the happy ticket. Of course, like a proper warrior she risked trying to insert the just-learned jumps into her already complicated programs. In the case of the quadruple Flip, the risk paid off; in the case of the triple Axel, not.
In fact, we should get used to the idea that falling from quads is normal. Male skaters have been training triple jumps for more than a decade, and only the last couple of Olympic cycles began to demonstrate absolute mastery, and chasing after quadruples is happening right before our eyes. Failures and falls are inevitable for the women catching up.
In addition, there is the problem of growth for skaters from 13 to 19 years or age. A physical change in body parameters always gives a temporary uncoordination. It takes time before the athlete gets used to her new height, the longer leverage, to get the feeling how strong she needs to push off and when to open from the screwed up flight position to get a clean exit.
Sasha has significantly grown in height this season. Journalists working in every competition can see with their own eyes by the example of young skaters how “other people's children” are growing rapidly. In addition to a purely visual impression of having “gained a foot” at the European Championships compared to Open Test Skates, there is a fact - for the World Championships, Sasha Trusova was preparing a new costume for her free program, because the blue jumpsuit simply became too tight. But fate decreed that Montreal did not see the new outfit of Daenerys. Just like it never saw the clean five quadruple jumps that were shown in training.
Sometimes it seems that if you connect an energy-transforming installation to the rink where Trusova is skating, the energy crisis on the planet will be resolved. There is one “but” - a strong emphasis on jumping makes the other components of skating and choreography vulnerable. And in this direction, Aleksandra still has to develop.
Postludum
We all love to talk about the aspiration of athletes to brightness and excellence, implying a complete absence of flaws and only solid advantages. But if we ignore the idea that the skaters must have something to strive for, observing each of them will become even more interesting.
Trusova’s individuality lies in her unbridled desire to jump difficult jumps. She is determined in breaking through the ceiling head first and expanding the boundaries of the possible, and not for writing out monograms using the blades of her skates to weightless contemporary.
Shcherbakova’s individuality lies in her ability to draw the viewer into her story and her exceptional ease in everything she does on ice. She does not have and will not have this powerful take off into jumps - Anna is gaining favour with other qualities.
Kostornaya's specialty is in the balance of skating and jumping, in her particular spirituality of sliding skills, but she still does not have quadruples, and she is unlikely to behave in such a way as to get the universal approval of everyone surrounding her.
In modern upbringing by stimulating personal growth, there is an interesting technique - emphasising priority on the development of virtues, rather than correcting flaws. It is clear that this is only partially applicable to sports, because nobody wants to lose valuable points to the judges. And yet, in the search for perfection, do not forget about individuality, since each of the Trinity of Trusova, Shcherbakova and Kostornaya has plenty of it.
(c) Анастасия Панина
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From: https://matchtv.ru/figure-skating/m...uchshej_figuristki_Rossii_Aleksandry_Trusovoj
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We'd better get used to the fact that landing a quad is Ok for a female skater.
Failing is natural. Landing is a result of the mastering.
Four quads were landed. One more will be done in the first year of post-Corona. It may happen after few years or in 2020, but it will be done.
Not sure how long will take to land a Quaxel....
Failing is natural. Landing is a result of the mastering.
Four quads were landed. One more will be done in the first year of post-Corona. It may happen after few years or in 2020, but it will be done.
Not sure how long will take to land a Quaxel....
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Really nice watercolour or Ecoline ink (?) with Sasha, Tina, Lana and Jack: https://sun6-19.userapi.com/c857036/v857036280/11af1b/AfJcQrtMaLw.jpg
It seems that Sasha left Tutberidze's team.
https://russian.rt.com/sport/news/695119-trusova-zayavlenie-uhod-tutberidze - this says she sent in a notification that she is leaving Tutberidze and this will become official when she says where she switches to.
https://amp.sport24.ru/news/other/2020-05-06-trusova-ushla-ot-tutberidze-k-plyushchenko - this says she switched to Pluschenko's school (that would probably mean Volkov, her old coach)
Pluschenko said he will comment in a couple of days.
https://russian.rt.com/sport/news/695119-trusova-zayavlenie-uhod-tutberidze - this says she sent in a notification that she is leaving Tutberidze and this will become official when she says where she switches to.
https://amp.sport24.ru/news/other/2020-05-06-trusova-ushla-ot-tutberidze-k-plyushchenko - this says she switched to Pluschenko's school (that would probably mean Volkov, her old coach)
Pluschenko said he will comment in a couple of days.
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Come on. Plushenko? She's breaking up 4A for Plushenko? He is only good at coaching his six-year-old son.
And she works with Volkov again it could work or might not work. There is no question Sasha's game exploded under Eteri and only did not dominate this season because her two teammates aliona and Anna were so brilliant and more consistent than Sasha. I hope it's not true that she's leaving Eteri. But if it is true I hope she finds the right coach and his happy again because Sasha lost some of her joy this season. Seeing her cry so hard at Nationals was heartbreaking. But that's sports. I think Sasha was just trying to do too much too soon. She has done things no other female skater ever has should be very proud of that. But leaving EG is a very risky move because every skater that has left this great coach never skates at that level again and their scores plummet. Sasha could very well be the exception to that rule because she is so young and can score so big with all her quads.
Yes, Plushenko is a very strange choice, no doubt, considering his "success" with Serafima and Nastya and I'm not talking about skating primarily. Nastya's programs looked well when she was with Angels. But personally there seemed to be something rotten.
Nevertheless, nothing can be done about it. The decision was done (probably by Sasha's parents). Let's wait where this will lead Sasha.
Nevertheless, nothing can be done about it. The decision was done (probably by Sasha's parents). Let's wait where this will lead Sasha.
Luck... the only thing she lacks...
I hoped this day cannot be worse. Yet close to the evening I opened my comp and those shocking news...
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