- Joined
- Jul 3, 2018
The technique of Eteri's students has evolved with each "generation" of students. Yulia's technique did not hold up long at all. Zhenya's lasted longer. Alina had better technique at 15 than Zhenya did at the same age, and her jumps appear to be more stable long-term as well. Trusova and Kostornaia have bigger jumps than Alina did, which is a good sign for their longevity, IMO (Shcherbakova's seem smaller, other than her 4Lz, but I'm not sure.)
It was clear that Zhenya's jumps were pretty weak during the 2018 Olympics - they were landed with a thud and very little flow. She really had to grit them out to make them happen.
I think this will be less of an issue for Eteri's girls going forward, because the girls younger than Zhenya have better technique. But individual ladies might still have problems depending on if they have any particularly dramatic growth spurts. But I do think it means that the "Tutberidze Effect" IS adapting with every new generation of ladies.
Kostornaya, Zagitova and Trusova learned their technique from different coaches. Kostornaya came to Tutberdize in 2017 I believe. Trusova in 2016. As a skater one usally (but not always) keeps the jumping technique one learned from ones first coach, because it is difficult to change it, if you look at old videos from Kostornaya or Trusova you can see that they always had pretty powerful jumps even before Eteri. Shcherbakova and Evgenia are one of the few who have been with Eteri since they were little children, around 4-6 years old. Evgenia only had one coach before Eteri but switched to Eteri when she was around 6 AFAIK. Shcherbakova has been with Eteri the longest from all skaters, I think 11-12 years now