Oh…the Russians are so balletic…
And oops! She fell on her really nice skating butt! Pairs skating. Once one person falls, it’s like Dominoes - everybody starts falling.
The real problem is that I’ve been watching the Olympics for years and I still can’t tell the difference between a Triple Lutz and a Triple Salko, a Triple Axle and a Triple Toe Loop, but I know the lingo…
She stuck that one…
She barely managed to hold on…
He over-rotated…
Look at the height on that quad…
He needed that quad triple after failing on that triple double…
Look at the disappointment on …..’s face…..
The skaters like to pull out all the tearjerkers from the sixties and seventies to skate to. Love Story. The Way We Were, and by the way, that sailor suit kinda sucked. I’d like to see them skate to the music from Porgy and Bess or Westside Story, you know, give me a rumble between the Jets and the Sharks. Now that would move me and you could fit in lots of triple flips and the costumes wouldn’t look as if they’d been designed by Cirque du Soleil.
My favorite all time tragic skating pair? Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Goddamn, they were beautiful and their love story was one for the ages. So sad he died at the age of twenty-eight of a massive heart attack.
In other news: WATCH!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw
Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. This was all her idea to help promote their new pink gloves.
When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms for the community. Please check it out. It’s an easy and great way to donate to a wonderful cause, and who hasn’t been touched by breast cancer?
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February 20th, 2010 at 5:33 am
Actually jumps are not that difficult to tell apart if you’ve been watching FS for a while.
Axels are the easiest — the only jump that requires a forward take off. (All the others require you to skate backward as you launch yourself in the air for 1-3 rotations, unless you’re Plushenko, in which case you may do 4.) Axels always require 1/2 extra revolution. So a correct 3A jump requires 3.5 revolutions.
Salchow usually gets 3 turns before you initiate the jump. The same can be said for loops, but I usually find that skaters tend to be a lil lower (deeply bent knee) before they take off, among other differences. Most skaters learn how to jump salchow first.
Lutz & flip are almost the same except for the take-off edge. Lutz = outside edge & flip = inside edge. When you use the wrong edge, you end up with lipping (flip w/ outside edge take off) or flutz (lutz w/ inside edge take off).
Toeloop is toe-pick assisted. I find toeloops very easy to spot, though I can’t explain the jump very well.
99.9% of times skaters add a loop or toeloop at the end of their 1st jump for combo. Loops tend to get higher pts then toeloop.
IIRC ISU values the jumps in the following order (assuming the same # of revolutions):
axel
lutz
flip
loop
salchow
toeloop
Since most ladies cannot land 3A, in order to do a seven triple program, they need to be able to land 3Lz, 3F, 3Lo, 3T, 3S. And to be a medal contender, a skater (ladies at least) must be able to land at least four triples, including lutz and/or flip.
February 20th, 2010 at 7:49 am
Now this is an amazing reply. You obviously know your figure skating! I am really impressed and I actually get it. Thanks! And by the way, I like your site very much and I’m going to link to it.
February 21st, 2010 at 3:23 am
Thanks!
And I’m so sorry about the grammatical mess / typos, etc. I typed all that stuff very late last night (my time) and didn’t get a chance to proof-read before hitting “submit”.
February 21st, 2010 at 8:02 am
Are you kidding!? Great response!