- Joined
- Mar 5, 2014
My first take away is that Alysa Liu's freeskate was excellent technically because she landed a triple axel and quad lutz. In addition, she displayed lovely fluidity and grace through her triple loop with a graceful rocker transition on exit and she displayed a beautiful variety of body and arm extensions and expression attuned to the music through out the performance. Admittedly, there is still room for improvement as the downgrade and fall on the triple axel showed and the need for a bit more speed on entrance to the triple axel, though Elizaveta who has an excellent triple axel also doesn't enter it with much speed. Alysa's performance was impressive enough to induce some to go way overboard in cutting it down, for example, observations on rotations that go against visible evidence and generally underestimating the quality of her skating and expression. In reference to the criticism of Alysa's PCS in the freeskate, Kamila last week received a full 3 points higher in PCS with over 3 points less in tech. While I was impressed with Kamila's performance, I preferred Alysa's performance, so I have a very different view of the scoring. In terms of the criticism of Alysa's jumps, Ted Barton is conscientious about making observations on under-rotations and other than Alysa's triple axel downgrade which he mentioned in instant replay before the call was made, he stated that her jumps were rotated while watching instant replay like the quad lutz which he said was "all the way around, nice and clean."
The next thing I noticed is the consistent improvement in the Korean team with grace under pressure in landing their jumps and in the quality of their expression with Sojeoung Wi skating really well last week and Yeojung Park dong well this week with both winning silver. Yeojung's expression of surprise at her delightful result was another highlight.
The next thing I noticed is the consistent improvement in the Korean team with grace under pressure in landing their jumps and in the quality of their expression with Sojeoung Wi skating really well last week and Yeojung Park dong well this week with both winning silver. Yeojung's expression of surprise at her delightful result was another highlight.