Which ladies could do all of their jumps after the 2 minute mark?

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

Well, apart from the girls of Team Eteri, can you think of any ladies skating on the international circuit, who could maximise their their jump bonus points in the short & free?

Is anyone capable of matching the Russians at their own game?

 

[Marco]

Let's see if there are any rule changes or judging guidance over the summer.

Medvedeva accumulated massive GOEs with all the tanos and rose to domination in 2016, and now Zagitova catches up with another legitimate way (of backloading) to boost TES. Perhaps in a year or two, there will be another way to boost TES that will allow another girl / lady to surpass both of them.

I will admit that Zagitova's way of backloading works best because her jumps are huge and they match the music. Next year will be telling when she has new programs.

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

Let's see if there are any rule changes or judging guidance over the summer.

Medvedeva accumulated massive GOEs with all the tanos and rose to domination in 2016, and now Zagitova catches up with another legitimate way (of backloading) to boost TES. Perhaps in a year or two, there will be another way to boost TES that will allow another girl / lady to surpass both of them.

I will admit that Zagitova's way of backloading works best because her jumps are huge and they match the music. Next year will be telling when she has new programs.

Zagitova is potentially Russia's answer to Elvis Stojko. She and her Team know her brand better than anyone, and of course, there are countless ballets other than Swan Lake & Don Quixote to choose from between now and Beijing.

 

[piglet]

Kaori Sakamoto's SP was backloaded. In the free she also went for 5 jumping passes in second half, same as Medvedeva.

 

[Areski]

Miyahara.

 

[Spun Silver]

If Bradie stays strong maybe she could work toward that. She doesn't have much going for her artistically and I think it might be smarter for her to up the technical ante. But then, I also can't imagine her delivering a program with Zagitova's panache so it might backfire.

 

[liv]

Mai Mihara, probably could.

 

[Vash01]

The top junior Russian ladies are doing it, except Trusova, i think. She does quads in the first half- sort of makes up for it, if she lands the quads.

 

[MR-FAN]

Higuchi

 

[bardtoob]

Do they have to be triples and quads?

 

[mag]

The top junior Russian ladies are doing it, except Trusova, i think. She does quads in the first half- sort of makes up for it, if she lands the quads.

This post is just so crazy. Not you, @Vash01, just the idea that we are talking about a 13 year old girl who is not completely back loading her programs because she has two quads planned. Seriously, if you had told me this 10 years ago I would have thought you lost your mind!

 

[Spun Silver]

Do they have to be triples and quads?

No, quintuples are fine too, as long as they are in the last 20 seconds.

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