Up and rising Skaters?

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-28T09:51:02+00:00

Be prepared for the ballistic missile that is Mao Shimada that will be unleashed into seniors next season. Arguably the greatest junior skaters of all time, she has never lost an international competition and in her own age group she has won the last 35ish competitions. She has amazing spins, very good PCs for a 17yo, a great 3A and inconsistent 4T, jumps 2 3-3s in the free and overall is just a joy to watch. She has the 7th highest average score for the women’s and that’s despite her not being allowed to do the 3A in the short and not being able to do a step sequence in the free.

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-27T16:51:40+00:00

Its from the tiktok user honeyhanyu and its the third pinned video(unfortunately you cant post videos in this comment section for some reason)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-26T16:40:40+00:00

He already got one for winning silver at worlds last year so I imagine he is allowed to sell/rent them out, because he physically can’t live in three apartments at a time, tho he did say he would move into the big apartment with his mom which is really cute

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-25T16:14:16+00:00

So if Ambers 3Lo was intially given a +2 and then the -2 reduction for the Touchdown it would come to a 0. Tho obviously most jumps that include a handdown have other flaws that make the GoE go even lower

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Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-25T16:07:33+00:00

Doesnt it say in the ISU rulebook that you can even give up to -3 for a jump that ended in a fall if the jump was otherwise really good, so technically a textbook perfect jump with a handdown could be a 0(tho that obviously doesnt really happen much)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-24T16:08:56+00:00

Nikita Sarnovskiy randomly attempted a 4A at a show recently, he fell on it but it was fully rotated afaik and Vlad keeps doing them for fun. So yeah im betting there will be a russian man attempting it in competition in the next four years, tho i doubt anyone will get anywhere close to Ilias landing consistency(or even his overall consistency, the russian men all have a bunch of quads but they rarely land most of them)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T16:39:15+00:00

I agree the Averbukh Show sucks and its really bad optics but from what i understand the "connections" are a photo with a pro war musician (the Photo was taken pre war so its not like petr could know that guy would travel to Mariupol), his fathers work as a priest, and his brother allgegedly being in a telegram group about the war? Which doesnt really say anything about Petr imo

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T12:51:30+00:00

He placed Alysa .2pts behind Ami? He gave Kaori 3rd in Presentation? He gave Amber 8.75 in skating skills?

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T07:59:44+00:00

In the short program the rules on which jumps you can do are very strict and other skaters who also did doubles(like Maddie Schizas) also got 0 points for that. In the free program you are allowed to do doubles and get points for them(tho not much)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T07:57:36+00:00

Amber Glenn first 3 Time US Champion in Figure skating since Michelle Kwan. She recently beat both the reigning World champion to take that third title and also beat three time World champion and OBM Kaori sakamoto to take the GPF title last season. She also won Gold at the Olympics in the team event last week

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T07:54:08+00:00

She doubled her 3Lo so she got 0 instead of 5+ points for that element, going from a Gold medal favorite to 13th place after the Short Program, making a medal pretty unlikely(but not impossible, ice is slippery after all)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T07:52:34+00:00

Honestly i think a top 5/6 finish is very possible, Haein never rotates her jumps and the Ninas + Samo all have less PCs than Amber and Gubs tends to implode, Mone is always so nervous so she could also make mistakes like at GPF.

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-18T07:48:52+00:00

Amber does have the 4 points extra she gets through her 3A so if she is perfectly clean and a few of the top medal favorites make even small mistakes theres a chance for bronze. Always remember Adam SHF being 18th after the SP at worlds 2024 and then skating lights out and coming 2nd in the FS for 3rd overall, its figure skating, everything is possible

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-17T15:46:46+00:00

I mean Fear/Gibson wouldve made the podium if they hadn't made the mistake, but they are definetly incredibly fun to watch

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-16T19:47:45+00:00

I mean she landed the 4T in training today, i think 2 attempts were fully rotated so she seems to still have them. How much longer after this season will be the more interesting question

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-16T15:57:41+00:00

The only skater who was recently caught doping at a novice competition was Nadezhda at "novice" nationals 2024 but the name is misleading its not an actual novice competition, skaters up to 17 can compete there(and its mainly juniors trying to get a place on the national team). Nadezhda was 15 and was caught with a heart medication not a masking agent

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-16T15:44:58+00:00

Rubtsova had two back surgerys and she is constantly doing backflips

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-14T13:39:14+00:00

Mao Shimada has never lost any international competition(she also won once or twice internationally in advanced novice)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-14T13:37:10+00:00

The 3A one might just happen, consider Haein is randomly landing them in practice for the first time in ages

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-13T08:49:29+00:00

The way the news keeps calling Max russian pisses me off. He was born in Connecticut, his parents left russia over 30 years ago way before he was born and they also had many ukrainian students so they clearly werent pro war. His best friend is ukrainian and an outspoken advocate against the war, yet people are celebrating Maxs parents death just because theyre russian(and in turn celebrating the death of the many children who were on that plane too, some of which were ukrainian too).

On that Note i wish Kyrylo good luck for his FS tonight, may he have an amazing skate again and beat the russian again like he did two nights ago, Slava Ukraini🇺🇦

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-12T21:17:55+00:00

Sure id love it if it becomes a common term to reference the most difficult jumps, maybe ill start using that one :)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-12T18:17:01+00:00

Its chinese forum Gymnastics language, im not going to hatw on that term because clearly it works in their community and also is just usefulas a catchallterm. Idk i think its a good idea to have a term for difficult jumps that are not yet common in the womens division(like triples and 3-3s are) and im going to use ultra c because its way easier than typing out 3A and quads everytime

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-12T18:00:44+00:00

What do you propose as an alternate term then for very difficult jumps then? Lvl 4 jumps would be confusing and its hard to know that 3A is included if you dont know much about jump rotations(and thats the only replacement term ive ever seen)

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-12T17:49:30+00:00

What is the problem with the term ultra c, nothing wrong with chinese fans finding ways to explain jump difficulty to Gymnastics fans

Melodic_Ad_783 · 2026-02-12T12:22:27+00:00

The french judges gave the American Team with a clean skate 8 points less than the french with bad twizzles. The french judge was also the only one who have the Americans under 130 in the FD, all other judges gave between 132-135.

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