After the test skates my thought are the same:
ALENA KOSTORNAIA
Beautiful skater with amazing skating skills. Her short program is meh at best but I’m hoping it will get better as the season goes on.
Her free is better and I can see some elements from her previous choreo but I think she said she forgot a part of it? That would explain why it looked kinda rushed and empty in some parts. Just like her short I think she will grow into the program and perform it much better than today
HER 3A is back!!!
(use other dresses, the ones she used the past season were much more beautiful)
ANNA Sherbakova
I’ve never really liked Anna much but she’s a fighter and I respect that. Her jumps are not very solid (but they’ve never been) still I liked the music for the season
KAMILA VALIEVA
Gorgeous spins, shaky landings, not much expression. I really hope she’s not going to be sent to the Olympic Games cause her career would consist of 5 months and I would hate that, she should get the time to mature and strengthen her jumps instead of burning her out for so short a time. But it’s Eteri and this is just wishful thinking
ALEXANDRA TRUSOVA
What an outing for Sasha! She looks stronger than before which is a sight for sore eyes. However her choreography consists of crossovers and jumps= no choreography at all. She should absolutely get rewarded for her jumps but please don’t give her strong PCS cause just nope
KSENIA
Probably the skater with the most interesting choreo and lovely musicality. Hope her jumps get stronger. Love the girl
LIZA NUGUMANOVA
Those lines! Those skating skills! Uffff love her! Sadge her jumps rarely work but I wish her the absolute best!
LIZA TUKTIK
My sentimental fav. She just keeps fighting, such fortitude. Love that she chose an uplifting beat to finish off her routine, it enhances her showmanship and I love it
PAIRS
Surprise surprise V/M are a mess still, something has been going on with them that doesn’t seem to be solved. Going through so many coaches doesn’t seem to work either
Boikova/Koslovski looked nervous and made some rare mistakes, we’ll see how the pressure gets to them but I’m sad cause they were my unlikely pair that I liked yet they behave so rude sometimes
Mishina/Galiamov another pair that I loved as my underdogs, I’m so surprised by how much they’ve grown in all senses. Working with Tamara certainly brings magic. If they finished behind Sui/Han at the Olympics I wouldn’t complain
MEN
A mess as usual but I liked the music for most of them. Misha chose Schindler’s List which I’ll forever link with Yulia 🙁 but it’s choreographed nicely and he certainly is a nice Schindler for Yulia’s girl in the red dress. Dima my love you need to work on those spins, you need every point you can get your hands on and right now they will be losing you points
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RUSSIAN CUP 2020
My thoughts on today’s ladies FS
Ksenia Tisbinova:I really enjoyed her FS I could tell she really enjoyed it!
Many coaches not wearing their masks correctly 😬
I think Sofia has made improvements but the music is horrendous 😬 I thought Elizaveta performed very well, Stanislava not so much but it could have been a bad day
Maia started rough but she had a smile on her face the whole time💕 She is a fighter
Sasha’s first quad was SO big. I couple of falls but wow it was amazing
Alenas new FS did not disappoint, I found it very lovely☺️. Her jumps look ok and maybe some more edge work and she will be good. I think her main problem is she gets very nervous before she perform. I can understand that:)
Also my apologies for not catching some of their names I cannot read Russian that well 💕
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Liza Nugumanova is such an underrated skater. She’s such a graceful skater and has beautiful spins. Her 3Lo-3Lo combo also has so much spring to it!
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Elizaveta Nugumanova skating her short program at the 2020 Russian Cup Stage 4.
(Source: veravalenta)
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