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  1. yuzuangel
    Ladies: Gold: Evgenia Medvedeva Silver: Mai Mihara. I can see her having two dream skates at the Olympics. Bronze: Gabby Daleman or Karen Chen. Either way, a North American "upstart" with big jumps and some federation push. Men: Gold: Yuzuru Hanyu, duh Silver: Boyang Jin Bronze: Javier Fernandez Japanese ladies' team: Satoko Miyahara and Mai Mihara. They're pushing Satoko a bit this year, and Mai is consistent and does well at nationals, although not as well as Wakaba, but I don't think Wakaba will have a consistent season, and Mai has a 4CC title and will probably get some GP/maybe GPF medals. And at this point I feel she may win Nationals. US ladies' team: Ashley, Karen, and Mirai. I guess Mirai may be a bit of a blind hope, given her music this year and her 3A are both uninspiring to me. But there really isn't much of a 3rd choice. I think Mariah has great packaging but the beginning of her season last year was a bit of a one-hit wonder. Karen does well at Nationals, and if she places in the top 3 she will go. Russian ladies' team: Evgenia, Elena, and one of Alina or Anna. Alina has an edge over Anna because she's a lot more consistent and has fewer meltdowns. But there's a big IF as to whether she'll have a good season. A lot of skaters who have one good season seem to fizzle out the next. Not saying I want that to happen, I do prefer Alina to Evgenia. Elena because I'm optimistic about her coaching change. I don't watch the other disciplines.
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    So is it just me or he really reminds me of yuzu lol the hair, the clothes, that starting pose... and not just this program.
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    Haha that's a bit of an overstatement. I literally just tried spinning while looking at the ceiling
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    Same, I would be devastated for him if he didn't. I sorta wish he would spend more time training, but alas...
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    Do you have an example?
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    It helps that Yuzuru is capable of a lot Even a 4A is not outside of his capabilities. I'm not sure if Gracie was ever capable of landing a true inside-edge flip, even in practice. The ones I've seen in practice look really scary, sometimes underrotated, and definitely not an inside edge. The fact that Tara can say "she can land a triple flip in her sleep" bothered me because...first it's not true, and second I yawn at their continuous comments on her talent, and how her mistakes are all mental, it's like they're not giving enough credit to the other skaters who worked way harder than her that season to stay in shape. But once again, I digress... I say this as a big Gracie fan who went to Skate America last year just for her (it was a bit of a disappointment, honestly). I would love to see her go back to her pre-Worlds 2016 form or better.
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    Doing a new spin position is super fun, and not as hard as you'd think (as long as it's not a layback...I tried spinning while looking at the ceiling and oh my god it's disorienting). I thought it would be like learning an upright spin all over again, which took what, a year? But my left thigh and calf muscles are KILLING me OMG I feel they're about to split. Keeping my free leg straight and turned out is still the main challenge, but I'm getting low enough in my sit that it's easy to hit a center now. And it looks like a sit spin. Can still go 2-3 inches lower though And gotta arch that back.
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    Gracie never did get the hang of that flip, did she... ...I still have no idea why she was trying to do that given how reliable her loop was and the fact that Evgenia was doing a loop in the short and look how she scores. Darn it.
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    Wow thank you. The slowmos really helped, I understand it now. I was always told to do the toe/edge (Yuzu's) entry into a waltz jump/axel (although I haven't gotten there yet) and so I didn't really know you could do it the other way too. TBH the toe/edge version looks more elegant
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    yass
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    I remember Brian saying that Yuzu uses an edge-based Axel entry and Javi uses a skid-based entry. Do you know what this means? I don't have any idea how you would do an axel off a skid.
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    So I like that Gracie dug her old Phantom dress out of the closet because (unpopular opinion) I've always loved that dress. I know Carly also borrowed it for nationals last-last year.
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    I like Nathan's pose. lol
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    Right, so it's not 0 points. But if someone does a 2-rev "half" loop, I imagine they would amend it so that they would get points for a 2Lo. Even if it's not in the rules yet. They had to amend the rules to even allow euler combinations to count as combinations and not sequences a couple of years back. Of course, this all depends on if someone even wants to do a 2-revolution/3-revolution "half" loop.
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    Lol yeah totally...
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    But a half loop is counted as a single loop, points-wise.
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    Yeah, they would still do that. I don't know if it's ever been done, but technically it's possible
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    But the 1/2 lo could be 2 or 3 revolutions.
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    Like a 3A-3Lo-3S instead of a 3A-Lo-3S.
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    Speaking of ladies' skating, given how much harder it seems 3As and quads are for ladies than men, I don't think it makes sense to keep the same base values across disciplines. Like, how many ladies have landed 3Lz-3T's in competition vs. 3As? and yet the base values are quite similar. I think the ISU should analyze the base values they have for jumps to see if they want to encourage 3As or quads, or else backloading will still be the least risky way to win.
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    Or just -3Lo combinations at all. The BV is higher but even so it's not worth it. Although there is the benefit of being able to repeat harder jumps instead of the -3T if you also have a -3Lo, a la Alina Zagitova (who repeats both the lutz and the flip so her BV is huge). I know Mao had such trouble rotating the -3Lo that the negative GOE and URs took away any BV advantage. Speaking of which, I feel like I almost never see 3Lo3T combinations. I wonder if rotating a 3Lo as the first jump of a combination is hard too? I just recall Marin having a nice one. And I wonder if we're gonna see some "half" loop combinations with a 2Lo or even a 3Lo. Could look beautiful.
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    I think the lady is Joanne Conway, former british ice dancer. I could be wrong though.
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    Great gif~
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    LOOL what an evil sound Pooh makes!!!!
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    That's a complete shame. I wish she didn't put herself through all of that just for Sochi. But who knows if she would've survived puberty even if she hadn't.
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