And that's the thing, I think Alysa and her team have to come to terms with the reality that her attaining an individual medal at Olympics or Worlds is out of her hands, 3A or not. It could happen, but it's not likely and is entirely contingent on the performance of the field.
I hope Team Liu recognizes that an Olympic Team medal is a success story for them. The only hope for Alysa now should be to winning the highest team medal. And that's an amazing achievement.
she will have competition soon with Isabeu Levito and Mia Kalin
Kalin is no competition at this point. She barely made an impression on the JGP this season. Levito... Maybe? But she has technique issues also.
I agree. I was shocked to see how basic and sub-junior her skating skills are. Spins, movement, everything. She does have a beautiful 4toe though. She's going to need years of "AlysaLiu SkatingSkills Training" to get her up to snuff.
I see some merit in Alysa having the 3A in both long and short.
I was able to find Alysa's detailed scores at Silicon Valley skate.
Absolutely not Kalin, sorry. At least not at this stage.
I agree. Her base value was 10 pts above Kaori but Alyssa gets no GOE. Can you improve this within the season? Does her team know she will clean up the jumps without prodding? They're keeping all the difficulty in transitions expecting her to be be able to do both - deliver the jumps and the difficult in-between bits - by Olys. Well, it's a theory.
If Mariah retires this year, i would get her to Rafael Arutunian.
No - there was a lot of valid criticism about her jump technique when she was with Lipetsky. It's sort of what's gotten her in this place right now.
That was my thought as well. I'd love to see what Rafe can do with her.
I think leave her with her current coaches and have Arutunian just work as a jump coach.
Exactly right i doubt if Alysa had stayed with Lipetsky we would have seen the huge improvements in Alysa's overall basic skating since she was woefully slow when she was with Laura. It almost seemed like she had never took stroking lessons when she was with her.
I agree, look how far Alysa has come, it's magical!
Fortunately she skates in the US and not Russia. So she has the time to grow and improve, and be the #1 American lady for a long while. I wonder how she’s going to juggle college. Although if she goes somewhere like Berkeley she could probably juggle 3 courses at a time with skating. Might take her 6 years but so what? She’s so young for college anyway. Even if she took 8 years for college it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Many people have commented on Alysa's unsustainable jump technique with Laura which relied on her incredibly fast rotation. However, that's difficult to keep with puberty. For Laura to have succeeded with Alysa after Alysa went through puberty, she would have had to teach Alysa a whole new jump technique. I don't think Laura would have been able to do that considering she didn't teach Alysa sustainable jump technique in the first place. Jeremy and Massimo have reworked Alysa's jump technique so that she can still do triples and she's attempting the triple axel again. Laura also has no experience with working with skaters competing at the international level, and it showed with Alysa appearing more 'juniorish' than the other ladies she was competing against who were the same age as her in the 2019-20 season.
