From Russia with love [#29]: Spring 2018 and beyond

[Tinami Amori]

Are there any videos of the Russian jr pairs?
And omg Trusova...

I am checking for pairs, if i find any, will post it.

Tarakanova
FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3wGNNMFPo
SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L068Pim884c

Trusova SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UctBXrYHiY

 

[barbarafan]

Her biggest issue is her poor posture.

and lack of extension in arms a legs...Her face is acting out the story now but her body position is tight...It is sort of like a jump by numbers.Zheyna was also lacking a bit earlier but she has worked very hard to turn into an artist in the last 2 yrs.

 

[Marco]

Kostornaia's skating is so beautiful. Why couldn't there have been a classic layback position?

 

[oleada]

I think Trusova being able to do 3 different quads is amazing, and a great athletic achievement but the two I really enjoy watching are Kostornaia and Scherbakova. They move so beautifully on the ice.

Kanysheva has a lot of potential. But she seemed to have less ice coverage than the top juniors here.

 

[alexikeguchi]

I've mainly been a Scherbakova fan, but Trusova has really grown on me. I found her skating very jerky when she first started with Tutberidze's group, but she has really improved her skating skills while developing a bit of an avant-garde vibe. Her tech content is so insane that her FS doesn't seem like more than one long jump setup, but her SP totally rocks.

 

[caseyedwards]

Trusova is totally

 

[aftershocks]

As already mentioned above with Trusova, from Uncle Phil.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmLqRf5FC3G/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=195w57r06x5sm

Interview with Trusova after her test skate, with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwsBZ48ntpI

I'd like to see a better quality video of the actual test skate. It looks like a great program for Trusova, but the fan cam/ heads-in-the-way views, I personally find distracting!

 

[aftershocks]

Nathan Chen must be relieved that he won't ever have to face her in anything other than team competitions.

Nathan never has to face Trusova head-to-head, unless the ISU decides to create something like a mixed-gender 'match-race' quad battle. And doesn't Trusova remain in Juniors anyway until she's age-eligible.

 

[Ka3sha]

Looks like senior test skates will be held in Novogorsk (SP, probably closed for public) and at Megasport Arena (LP, tickets are on sale now).
I’m not sure about Novogorsk, but am planning go to Megasport on Sunday.

Upd. Test skates are on September, 8-9

 

[Ka3sha]

Pics from junior test skates
http://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/3796-kontrolnye-prokaty-yuniory-odinochniki-fotoreportazh.html

This one is my favorite

 

[Jeschke]

Do we have videos of the junior guys too? Murashov anyone?
#askingforafriend

 

[DobrinFan]

Do we have videos of the junior guys too? Murashov anyone?
#askingforafriend

You know very few people care about the junior boys He didn't do all that well.

LP:
Murashov again more falls: 3A (fall), 3Lo (stepout), 2A, (stumble on step sequence), 3A (fall), 2Lz-eu-(nothing), 3Lz (hand on the ice), (he fell on another jump but not sure what it was)

 

[mjb52]

This one is my favorite

Thank you! This really brought joy into my heart, I love them!

 

[Tinami Amori]

more fotos
https://pp.userapi.com/c850020/v850020449/47708/L9xJ_JSjyXU.jpg
https://pp.userapi.com/c850020/v850020449/477a8/05rnzO0jCuo.jpg
https://pp.userapi.com/c850020/v850020449/476d6/fU075hPRMyI.jpg

 

[aftershocks]

^^ the one with Trusova and her chihuahua! A perfect match.

You know very few people care about the junior boys He didn't do all that well.

Why? Not even Makar Ignatov? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb0_JIaFh8w&feature=youtu.be What about Erokhov, Savosin, and Skirda? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13pmxtCt66g Have they all moved up to seniors?

LP:
Murashov again more falls: 3A (fall), 3Lo (stepout), 2A, (stumble on step sequence), 3A (fall), 2Lz-eu-(nothing), 3Lz (hand on the ice), (he fell on another jump but not sure what it was)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIvXj4urVac I wish I could understand what TAT is saying in Russian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBT7uPAVC2g Raw & very creative; lots of on-ice personality

Get Egor some ballet training. Send him to Raf immediately! Get new programs choreographed by TAT. I know Egor needs to apply himself too, but he's still young enough to learn and to develop better basic skills and good training habits. His potential is too dynamic to see it go to waste for lack of expert guidance.

ETA:
Or maybe Urmanov or Kulik could help him.

 

[Tinami Amori]

^^ the one with Trusova and her chihuahua! A perfect match.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmEOz_RjN0i/?hl=en&taken-by=avtrusova
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkjtekGDTRY/?hl=en&taken-by=avtrusova
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlClaedDJ6f/?hl=en&taken-by=avtrusova
that dog goes with her everywhere.....

Re boys. There are only few written reports, no vids yet.

 

[Tinami Amori]

Sin/Katz's "pose" in a new LP.....
(2nd foto): https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOQlL3AZVp/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2q3yexxmlw5s
What the heck is that pose...... "Expulsion from Eden", "Last days of Pompeii", "King Kong"?

 

[Ananas Astra]

Sin/Katz's "pose" in a new LP.....
(2nd foto): https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOQlL3AZVp/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2q3yexxmlw5s
What the heck is that pose...... "Expulsion from Eden", "Last days of Pompeii", "King Kong"?

The last picture looks like "Meddl, Loide!"...maybe a tribute program to the most hated Youtuber of Germany, the Drachenlord?
Just kidding.

 

[Bigbird]

Sin/Katz's "pose" in a new LP.....
(2nd foto): https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOQlL3AZVp/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2q3yexxmlw5s
What the heck is that pose...... "Expulsion from Eden", "Last days of Pompeii", "King Kong"?

That isn't really the choreography, is it? Maybe Kats was just trolling for the cameras.

 

[VGThuy]

Sin/Katz's "pose" in a new LP.....
(2nd foto): https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOQlL3AZVp/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2q3yexxmlw5s
What the heck is that pose...... "Expulsion from Eden", "Last days of Pompeii", "King Kong"?

You know...an Adam and Eve with an "Expulsion from Eden" would be a very interesting program concept.

 

[Bigbird]

You know...an Adam and Eve with an "Expulsion from Eden" would be a very interesting program concept.

Looks rather quintessential Zhulin, TBH. It will be broad, sweeping and elegant. Can't wait to see Z/G and S/B and P/M.

 

[Tinami Amori]

You know...an Adam and Eve with an "Expulsion from Eden" would be a very interesting program concept.

Oh, yeah.... just imagine the costumes....

 

[Dobre]

I think we definitely need a King Kong ice dance program.

 

[VGThuy]

Oh, yeah.... just imagine the costumes....

I know what you're thinking! But there is another "classier" way. There's a Broadway show called The Apple Tree made by the same people who made Fiddler on the Roof. It's a musical consisting of three stories, and the first story is an adaptation of Mark Twain's The Diary of Eve. The way the last Broadway production costumed Eve and Adam was basically in simple white outfits with simple silhouettes (her in a strapped white dress with a short skirt and him in a white collared polo shirt with white pants). So they could do it that way. Or...they could do what Krylova/Ponomarenko did in 1988.

 

[Tinami Amori]

I know what you're thinking! But there is another "classier" way.

...i was thinking Valentino 2014 Spring Collection....

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P7byzsPqG0o/Vrjd31Zg5EI/AAAAAAAAAoc/GvotU63ZErM/s1600/valentino2.jpg

 

[VGThuy]

...i was thinking Valentino 2014 Spring Collection....

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P7byzsPqG0o/Vrjd31Zg5EI/AAAAAAAAAoc/GvotU63ZErM/s1600/valentino2.jpg

Oh! That's not what I thought you were thinking.

 

[Tinami Amori]

Oh! That's not what I thought you were thinking.

I did also think of Julia Yanina's 2014 collection, a russian designer who i wish would try skating dresses and theatre costumes.. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/2a/9e/f92a9e82938ec6bc08a31cc1a2b7b291.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/48/af/a3/...3--short-bridesmaid-dresses-dresses-short.jpg
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Yanina+Couture+Runway+Paris+Fashion+Week+Haute+PQgxQMoAoWil.jpg

 

[Tinami Amori]

Some junior Boys videos from the Test Skate are coming out. I can't tell who is who (looking at a small screen now).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH32VL_AleI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmEGT7EEbQ

 

[Sylvia]

Re=posting the list of junior men at the test skates:

Men:
Kovalev, Gumennik, Polyansky, Rukhin, Vetlugin, Yakovlev, Mozalev, Murashov, Savosin, Yablokov, Semenenko.

According to the records, only Mozalev, Rukhin and Gumennik were clean. Most of the boys tried 3 axels.
There were rumors that Arthur Danielyan is injured, no information about Makar Ignatov

ETA that these are the 9 men listed for JGP #1 in SVK:

Egor RUKHIN - 2018-19 season music is updated: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00102768.htm
Roman SAVOSIN
Subs:
Petr GUMENNIK - 2018-19 season music is updated: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054617.htm
Makar IGNATOV
Artem KOVALEV - 2018-19 season music is updated: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00101050.htm
Egor MURASHOV
Mikhail POLIANSKII
Evgeni SEMENENKO
Matvei VETLUGIN

 

[Tinami Amori]

Kostornaya's SP: https://www.youtube.com/user/super72152/videos