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i think i do toe waltz jumps too. it's way easier to do a toe waltz than a toe loop lmao. but i can't do a toe waltz on pic skates (it's really hard to prerotate your jumps on rubber/cement) so...i feel like if i learn how to do them on pic skates, it'll help on the ice

I think Alena being expelled for Eteri's pettiness makes sense. And now she has no choice but to go to Plushenko, when before she might have only gone to him for advice. Wow. Tbh I've always been surprised she hasn't gotten sponsors. Both Anya and Sasha have them and she is just as if not more marketable than them. Alena seems headstrong which is great but when you negotiate you have to expect the other party might walk away.

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A not-so-concise summary would be to start here and check out these quoted posts in the News and Updates thread (maybe someone else can come give a truly quick summary haha)

Imagine training somewhere where you could have no say in your choreography, just gotta smile and pretend you love it, because your choreographer might throw a fit

to super mario party music

Medvedeva made a program about 9/11. She even gasped for breathe at the end. I'm sure they could repurpose that choreography for a corona-themed program. ETA: nvm the gasping for breathe was her program about souls or something. Same difference

it was certainly coronavirus themed LOL

i'll try it when they've worn down enough and film lol...but i think that you can put the pics on in 2 different orientations i've never tried quads quad skates will i fall on my face? i just want to be able to skate up and down the road. like put in some music and go around the neighborhood. pic skates seem really scary on a bumpy surface especially if there are twigs/pebbles/holes even small ones make you feel unstable i guess they do try to mimic ice where a small hairclip can make you fall on your face. or maybe it's just me.

I can't see why not, they are plastic. Although scratches a re probably another story. Would be like getting your car keyed...lol

Alena has never been as "sweet" as Anna or Alina, but she is an athlete, not a housewife, so there's zero reason for her to keep sweet all the time. Children have different personalities; elite athletes are intense, who knew? Wonder where the rumors are from.

Anyway, Eteri still has many skaters. Shcherbakova and Valieva are highly likely to make it to the Olympic team (if there even is one), or as good of a chance as anyone. Some diversity of ideas and programs will be very welcome.

I heard Daniil complained that he wasted time doing bad choreo for Kostornaya when he could have been doing bad choreo for some other skater

Suddenly an Alina comeback seems quite possible.... Med, too

I heard this to but have yet to figure it out... the pics have a groove, you can't just rotate them.... nvm i figured it out LOL BTW I really want to get these they are so shiny . . . . ... .. ..

I'm half-impressed that we still don't know what caused the Brian-Yuna breakup. And we never will... now THAT was drama at the time! I'm sure it's not that hard if you're careful. They do hold together in the wind until a strong gust comes along.

Really, someone should give Eteri a HUUUGEEEE bouquet of dandelions...a bigger bouquet than her heart desires

why would anyone be against a teenager making a coaching change?? like, what is there to be against?!

It is!! eta:

Lol, Eteri's rant for each subsequent student leaving her is gonna get longer and longer as she lists out every transgression from every student who left her all the way back to Yulia...

Anyway, Eteri's instagram caption isn't as damning of her students as she thinks it is, lol. If literally all of your students (whom you taught since their impressionable early teenage years if not even younger) are "difficult" in the exact same way, then maybe the problem is with the common denominator here, lol.

Didn't Plushenko promise Trusova that he would focus on her? Now he's taking her ex-teammates. Trusova must have wanted to leave behind the competition for coaching attention / crowded training sessions at Sambo, not...recreate it at a different rink. Lol, so our "best coach" isn't so irreplaceable after all. And it was all teachings of the behind-the-scenes coaches that got the girls their 3A/quads. I wouldn't be surprised if Eteri was unwilling to share the credit of the coaching, leading Rozanov to leave in the first place (well that was the first I've heard of him). And now that he's left will we see a mass exodus? Anyway, your explanation makes the most sense to me. Well, I guess there's Anna left, the favorite lol. (And Alina.)

Seriously!!!