From Russia With Love - 2012 Off Season

[Coco]

Well Peggy Fleming once wondered aloud on TV why it wasn't more popular...

[love_skate2011]

FS of Shelepen in Minsk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSUUJaZyAg&feature=plcp

not sure what to think of this music, strange music cuts and and strange gestures and choreo at the beginning.

like her with open hair, was a performance to build on in the season

too many mistakes in her LP
I don't get out of all the coaches she went to Sokolovskaya ?
she doesn't have a good record of her students

I hate to say this but the only one that could save Shelepen now is if she
Dumps Sokolovskaya pronto and go to Morozov

[Nomad]

FS of Shelepen in Minsk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSUUJaZyAg&feature=plcp

not sure what to think of this music, strange music cuts and and strange gestures and choreo at the beginning.

like her with open hair, was a performance to build on in the season

I'd like this better if she were wearing green velvet curtains, complete with curtain-rod, à la Carol Burnett.

[Sedge]

Well Peggy Fleming once wondered aloud on TV why it wasn't more popular...

I think it may have to do with the fact that there really is only one phrasing used again and again in the same program...similar to the repetiitive phrase in most of the Evita programs we see.

[shan]

I'd like this better if she were wearing green velvet curtains, complete with curtain-rod, à la Carol Burnett.

[morqet]

Ilinykh and Katsalapov are apparently out of the test skates next week; she's still having problems with her shoulder.

[shan]

Ilinykh and Katsalapov are apparently out of the test skates next week; she's still having problems with her shoulder.

That must be disappointing for them.

[love_skate2011]

Ilinykh and Katsalapov are apparently out of the test skates next week; she's still having problems with her shoulder.

hope for the best for Elena
they still have a few months to go before GP starts

[pinky166]

Shelepen has the same weaknesses as before and if anything, they are even more pronounced now. However, this is likely due to how early it is in the season and perhaps because she is still adjusting to the new coach. The programs both have potential though and I like the costumes and overall packaging quite a bit. She has a strikingly beautiful figure out on the ice, and the jumps are still big, if she can clean up the spins, add some more speed, and make the set up for the jumps less pronounced, I think her PCS will improve and she should do fine/well at her GP events.

[lulu]

Ilinykh and Katsalapov are apparently out of the test skates next week; she's still having problems with her shoulder.

That's too bad

[martyross]

because of the lack of good results, just look at Leonova, she isn't much like here and still isn't but I did notice forumers here have taken the name Leonova more seriously not just another non factor, something Ksenia doesnt have

gee, it sounds like a bunch of internet posters are the Mighty Judges to whom the skaters owe great results! the level of self-importance (??) around here is really ridicolous!
i don't know how to insert the reputation thing, so I'll thank Cherub here for all his/her recent posts.

[Vash01]

Was the pairs test skate today (Sunday)? I hope Martiusheva-Rogonov do better this year.

[Macassar88]

I read on the Russian forums that Bobrova will be wearing a pale pink dress for the SD and Dimitri will be wearing a dark blue Hussar's outfit. Apparently TAT didn't like their programs that much.

Also, the russian fed supposedly told BS to go to Shpilband but they opposed it (probs because Dima has a family in Moscow)

[caseyedwards]

Soloviev may be young but he has been married years now and has a family. It's not you are dealing with the usual singles. I personally do not want to read so much focus on their clothes! It is the first thing that all the people see but ...seriously!! It's not their biggest problem.

[casken]

Apparently TAT didn't like their programs that much.

Nowadays, that's a good sign.

[kwanfan1818]

Nowadays, that's a good sign.

You beat me to it

[caseyedwards]

Nowadays, that's a good sign.

I think she was most influential with Riazinova and Tkachenko and they stayed at 3 (and she only deals with programs but they also had the lowest tech).

[Cherub721]

Nowadays, that's a good sign.

True. But if they're the Russian champs and Tarasova isn't supportive, that's not a great sign... or does she have some beef with Zhulin?

[caseyedwards]

There was criticism of him by her with the issues around I/K but they are just major controversy causers in Russian ice dance. But they must have such a long history so it might be something else.

[babayaga]

Soloviev may be young but he has been married years now and has a family. It's not you are dealing with the usual singles. I personally do not want to read so much focus on their clothes! It is the first thing that all the people see but ...seriously!! It's not their biggest problem.

I think these costumes sound nice though I think Bobrova will look pretty in a light-pink dress.