Thursday, July 29, 2010

Practice Makes Perfect

If you've ever watched Kwan, Yamaguchi, Lipinski, Lysacek, etc train at an event, you know that their run throughs are skated full out (or nearly full out) with seriousness and effort.

When Nancy and Tonya were floundering in '92 and '93, it is interesting to look at the official practice sessions preceding their events.

And then they competed...


And then they competed...

Such stamina.

8 comments:

  1. Nancy probably started to do full runthroughs later when she got that silver medal. Not a Nancy fan at all but she deserved gold. Anyhoo I don't get how people don't like at someone who does full runthroughs and not get what it takes to be consistently successful. They should especially look at a Lipinski and Lysacek who aren't the most naturally talented skaters that were mentioned and see how consistent they were.

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  2. I just wanted to let you know that I can't see any of the videos you posted recently. Only blank white spaces show up.

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  3. not much has changed. Plushenko, Johnny and Sasha probably never did a full-run through ever at an event.

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  4. I still think that, when she could land it, Tonya Harding had the purest, highest, most beautiful triple axel ever. Ever.

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  5. Tonya didn't do too bad, Nancy did much worse and she's the one with the medal ...

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  6. Nancy does something weird with her hands throughout that program. I'd never noticed it before, but I just watched her 1993 program and it wasn't as visible. Was that a bad habit she worked on, or was that actually choreographed into the program?

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  7. I noticed Nancy's hands too! All her fingers out stretched out and it doesn't look good. It makes her arms look more like branches than ever.

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  8. I think Kristi performed more of Tonya's program in that practice than Tonya did. ;)

    I never noticed anything odd about Nancy's hands, but I always thought Tonya's attempts to make her hand positions "artistic" made them look like claws.

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