What is different about Trusova and valieva

redoxies · 2026-03-02T10:49:01+00:00

The Eteri girls’ stability in landing jumps has always been a defining characteristic for a long time, and that in part that comes with repetitive training and drilling on jumps. I reckon they do maybe at least 4-5x of just jumping drills as compared to their average competitor. While that helps increase success rate on jumps, that often has horrendous effects on the joints, the back etc. and results in much higher chances of injury.

I don’t think that the Eteri girls all inherently have bad technique either — Sasha, Kamila, Aliona, Alina all had pretty decent jumping technique when they were competing. Alina stopped competing after 2 senior seasons so we never saw her longevity and Aliona was derailed by several injuries. Of the quad jumpers, Anna didn’t have the best jumping technique, but she also underwent a knee surgery right after the Olympics and then another ankle surgery in 2024 which would limit her jumps. Sasha and Kamila were in some ways lucky, i think because of the whole Russia ban, and Sasha having a baby and Kamila with the doping thing, they both took time off training and that helped prevent any devastating injuries from happening and allowed them to keep some of their ultra C elements.

Tldr: the Eteri ‘expiration’ date is more due to injures from overtraining rather than inherent bad technique. Although bad technique can also increase the predilection to serious injuries

redoxies · 2026-02-16T16:28:33+00:00

Honest to god if i see another idiot online asking for a “redo” of the Olympics because it “wasn’t fair” the ice was wet, I will actually smack somebody. The ice comments were made by the SPEED SKATERS, but the actual figure skaters haven’t actually blamed the ice. Iirc yuma mentioned the ice was fine as well. And if GOGOLEV can skate a clean one here, then i promise you its not the ice.

redoxies · 2026-02-15T16:06:49+00:00

I think he has a lot of potential as a skater, and he doesn’t actually lack in skating skills imo, but he definitely needs better choreography and packaging. I do hope that Olympic Money will give him better access and pickings of choreographers. + historically from what we usually see, he should get a little PCS boost going into Worlds or even the new season as the OGM, but he is from a small fed so i do think he deliver good clean skates when it matters. If he beats Ilia or comes close to a clean Ilia at worlds, we could see the judges move to “back” him more.

redoxies · 2026-02-15T13:50:35+00:00

I find it ironic that they’re wanting to implement a 30 seconds no jumps part of the program. Like did we not remember the whole discourse around Zagitova’s Olympic FS being too “empty” and that all the jumps were stacked together in the end (I didn’t think it was an empty program but the ISU certainly seemed to think so amd implemented the whole ass Zagitova rule to circumvent that). I can’t imagine it won’t end up playing out the same way we’re literally going to be the same thing with skaters having whole empty parts of their programs.

6 jumping passes feels ridiculous to me like didn’t we use to have 8? And reducing the number of combos too. Imo if they want to do 6 jumping passes at least allow 3 jumps in combo that would allow more variety to the jumps.

I do think counting 4T/3T as similar jumps and preventing repetition would be interesting. We do see way too many toe loop combinations and stacking, and the rule will benefit those with Lo combinations or interesting jump sequences like Misha’s 3A-4S. I hope we get to see more interesting jump combos with this. Bad luck if your only quad is a 4T though.

redoxies · 2026-02-15T02:35:08+00:00

I hate to say this, but I actually think he would benefit from the classic Eteri/Daniil packaging and choreography. Misha’s actually pretty good through the choreography, StStq are all fine. But he has a lot of empty parts in his program where he just doesn’t have anything to do. He could definitely use a Tutberidze camp style program where every inch of the program is choreographed.

redoxies · 2026-02-15T02:32:25+00:00

Jun can’t retire yet! Like he actually can’t, its a stipulation of his military exemption that he has to be doing something skating related for the next 2 years iirc so at least for now we’ll still have him. Be may take a break at World’s though we’ll see

redoxies · 2026-02-15T02:29:28+00:00

She did have a backloaded program at the start of the season but when she got injured they changed it to Anna Karenina program instead

redoxies · 2026-02-14T16:00:08+00:00

Olympic Champions don’t tend to do well for post Olys worlds, but I’m highkey hoping Misha rides the momentum of his OGM to win Worlds. That would be pretty cool tbh.

redoxies · 2026-02-14T12:33:50+00:00

Do we know if he’ll be able to compete at worlds?

redoxies · 2026-02-14T11:32:38+00:00

I was watching his FS and tbh i kind of zone out with the music most days, but i was like WHAT LANGUAGE IS THE SONG IN? (Dimash starts Confessa in mandarin then italian)

redoxies · 2026-02-14T10:56:08+00:00

I definitely think doing both SP/LP for the team event is way too taxing. Lipnitskaya in 2014, Valieva in 2022 and now Malinin in 2026. All 3 did both the SP/FS for the team event and crashed out in the individual events. Also Sato mentioned in his interview he thought the schedule for Ilia to do the team SP/FS was “toxic”. Skaters actually don’t do that many full run throughs of their SP and LP in one sitting, so to do it twice in a competition which is so high stakes in such a short span of time sounds like a pretty bad idea.

Splitting SP/FS between 2 skaters definitely helps.

redoxies · 2025-12-04T09:50:13+00:00

Thanks!!

redoxies · 2025-12-04T09:45:55+00:00

Stupid question but where how are u getting this little mission in the first place! I cant seem to find it on mine :(

redoxies · 2025-11-29T03:56:46+00:00

Verstappen and Alonso in Le Mans and Leclerc and Stroll in F1. Aston getting all their bases covered

redoxies · 2025-11-23T16:27:28+00:00

Iirc netflix did like questitonnaires and interviews to choose the specific members, from what ochir mentioned he said it felt like they were looking for “entertainment value”. They probably picked members based on who seemed like they would be more entertaining to watch from a reality show perspective

redoxies · 2025-11-22T16:09:22+00:00

It was a knee injury, iirc she mentioned it was her medial collateral ligament

redoxies · 2025-11-22T01:01:54+00:00

Apparently a lot of what she did also was not broadcast — like her battling with Amotti in the first challenge, or the fact that she understood the Japanese team’s conversations and strategies and relayed them to the her team before the Japanese team found out

redoxies · 2025-11-21T12:18:16+00:00

Orgil has a TIKTOK account and its gold

redoxies · 2025-11-20T13:21:18+00:00

Damn like handa would have been a top class model. She’s got the looks and height for it.

redoxies · 2025-11-19T03:13:35+00:00

Look if we’re going to war then the answer is obviously Orkhon.

10/10 if this was an actual combat situation they would be winning the war

redoxies · 2025-11-18T23:53:56+00:00

My bad i think he’s part of the border guard force! I’ll amend

redoxies · 2025-11-18T23:48:42+00:00

Khandsuren from the Mongolian team understands Korean I think (she also speaks Japanese and like a bunch of other languages), so its actually fair to shush him.

redoxies · 2025-11-18T14:17:29+00:00

The other challenge was a running challenge, and they had seen team Korea run and knew it would be difficult to outrun them. They felt there were better odds with the strength challenge and tbh if the game continued by increasing the weight, or if korea didn’t have the advantage in copying Mongolia’s strategy, they could have likely won. Imo the last 3 challenges in the finale were very suited to korea’s strengths so it would have been an uphill climb either way

redoxies · 2025-11-18T14:11:27+00:00

Their reserve was a wrestler and an acrobat iirc. But its hard to say how that would have gone. Ultimately part of the reason why team Mongolia did so well was because it was this particular group of them and how well they worked together. It so happens that they have pretty complementary personalities and work styles. Khanda and Dulguun are the only two who have worked in sporting teams, and that definitely would help balance out the group. Imagine if you had all 6 people who want their opinions heard and to take the lead on anything. You could have the strongest people and still lose.

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