Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2020 18:51:56 GMT
There was no doubt that Kamila Valieva would win the junior world championship. It cannot be otherwise with the skaters, for whom the only test in the entire tournament is only 20 seconds at the beginning of the free program, where there are four jumps. Are there any other people besides her? Have they been before?
The more you watch Camila’s skates, the more you are affirmed in the thought that her secret is simple, but at the same time it is rather difficult to comprehend and understand it. The fact is that she does not seem to compete at all. She performs. That is, no, she, like everyone else, noticeably worries before each exit on the ice, sometimes even beyond measure, and really wants to win. But personally, I don’t know those who would think about what kind of jumps she will have next and how she will do them.
Competition is a little different. Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva, Kim Young A and Mao Asada, Yulia Lipnitskaya and Adelina Sotnikova competed. We felt a nerve, knew where and how each of them could be mistaken. Moreover, we saw these errors. As well as how much effort was required to correct them. But now try to look deep into yourself - in tournaments with Valieva, we really do not expect the fight and the sharing of medals.
We are waiting for Kamil Valieva without reference to the places on the podium. And she gives the viewer exactly what he wants to get. Perhaps without even realizing it. The idea of fixing all the skaters of the group Eteri Tutberidze - to concentrate not on titles, but on beautiful and clean skates - was embodied in this very young girl. And it seems that it really works, although there is not so much pure sports spirit in this theory.
What is a "strong athlete"? In essence, a stamp is a standardized set of specific qualities. He runs faster, throws further, hits harder - we see this and understand who we are dealing with. But what if the athlete is not just strong? If he is different, from some other, his own category?
Comparing Camila with other skaters is useless due to the banal lack of suitable examples. Even Anna Shcherbakova, Alena Kostornaya and Alexandra Trusova can be reflected in the past. Trusova, for example, is athletic like Irina Slutskaya, Kostornaya is the spitting image of Carolina Kostner in the manner of skating, and Shcherbakova got an amazing symbiosis of feminine plastic and complex technical content from Mao Asada. All three ride on adults only one season, but already surpass all who came before them. They launched women's single skating into space, but at least we can trace where they started.
Camila doesn't look like anyone else. Her movements are incredibly smooth, accented, graceful. In everyday life they don’t move like this - a comparable effect can only be achieved under water. It is as if stroking the air, as if it were material. But at the same time it takes the highest tempo and holds it until the very last musical chord. The combination of softness and speed is a real oxymoron, but we encounter it whenever it goes on ice.
The set of her strengths is paradoxical, because before her, few could equally master everything that is in figure skating. Someone believes that this is impossible in principle - there will not be enough time either to work out all the elements, or talent. Valieva, by her own example, proves that everything is real. Peerless rotations, high-quality glide and presentation of programs on the brink of perfection - all this, one way or another, we saw before, but only separately.
The more you watch Camila’s skates, the more you are affirmed in the thought that her secret is simple, but at the same time it is rather difficult to comprehend and understand it. The fact is that she does not seem to compete at all. She performs. That is, no, she, like everyone else, noticeably worries before each exit on the ice, sometimes even beyond measure, and really wants to win. But personally, I don’t know those who would think about what kind of jumps she will have next and how she will do them.
Competition is a little different. Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva, Kim Young A and Mao Asada, Yulia Lipnitskaya and Adelina Sotnikova competed. We felt a nerve, knew where and how each of them could be mistaken. Moreover, we saw these errors. As well as how much effort was required to correct them. But now try to look deep into yourself - in tournaments with Valieva, we really do not expect the fight and the sharing of medals.
We are waiting for Kamil Valieva without reference to the places on the podium. And she gives the viewer exactly what he wants to get. Perhaps without even realizing it. The idea of fixing all the skaters of the group Eteri Tutberidze - to concentrate not on titles, but on beautiful and clean skates - was embodied in this very young girl. And it seems that it really works, although there is not so much pure sports spirit in this theory.
What is a "strong athlete"? In essence, a stamp is a standardized set of specific qualities. He runs faster, throws further, hits harder - we see this and understand who we are dealing with. But what if the athlete is not just strong? If he is different, from some other, his own category?
Comparing Camila with other skaters is useless due to the banal lack of suitable examples. Even Anna Shcherbakova, Alena Kostornaya and Alexandra Trusova can be reflected in the past. Trusova, for example, is athletic like Irina Slutskaya, Kostornaya is the spitting image of Carolina Kostner in the manner of skating, and Shcherbakova got an amazing symbiosis of feminine plastic and complex technical content from Mao Asada. All three ride on adults only one season, but already surpass all who came before them. They launched women's single skating into space, but at least we can trace where they started.
Camila doesn't look like anyone else. Her movements are incredibly smooth, accented, graceful. In everyday life they don’t move like this - a comparable effect can only be achieved under water. It is as if stroking the air, as if it were material. But at the same time it takes the highest tempo and holds it until the very last musical chord. The combination of softness and speed is a real oxymoron, but we encounter it whenever it goes on ice.
The set of her strengths is paradoxical, because before her, few could equally master everything that is in figure skating. Someone believes that this is impossible in principle - there will not be enough time either to work out all the elements, or talent. Valieva, by her own example, proves that everything is real. Peerless rotations, high-quality glide and presentation of programs on the brink of perfection - all this, one way or another, we saw before, but only separately.