There are bad mid jump shots of the singles all the time. But aside from the distorted facial features, you can still look at the mid air positions, the vertical rotational axis, the compactness of the body in the air, to get a sense of how well the jump is.
This is a closer look at Meryl Davis' postures and lines as a world champion ice dancer, which incidentally are one of the most important traits of a dancer of any kind. Most of these pictures are taken from figure skating forums with fans of the Ice Dance discipline taking a closer look at the supposedly best female ice dancer today (at least according to the judges).
Let's focus on their perfect free dance of this Olympic Season, Scheherazade. Text in italics are what other people on the internet are saying.
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| This look like a mid-fall photo, yet it is not. Completely let go of her upper body and leg lines. |
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| Charlie looks seems that he is lifting a sack of potatoes |
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Meryl had to rely on Charlie to hold her right leg down to maintain position
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| No extensions whatsoever. It 's really ugly exit from a lift in this way |
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| Another thing that I noticed from a few years is that I find Meryl worse is the fact that she skate always with her legs open, always. Especially for a girl is ugly looking. |
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Still open
This was interesting and thought maybe this was because this is an Arabic themed dance... So I did a little searching:
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Looks like it's also a masquerade waltz thing
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| And a Gypsy thing... |
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| Also was a thing in 2011 |
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| and a latin thing... |
Carrying on with Schez...
Wow, this is the best in the world folks, gold medal standard. All teams should aspire to this excellence of skating skills.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't ice dancing, it's ice awkward.
ReplyDeletepeople call her queen or a disney princess but theres nothing regal about her dancing or posture/lines/etc. she is worse than brobrova
ReplyDeletescheherazade would NEVER move that way
Delete"Emulate her ladies, because she brings home the hardwares."
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone want to emulate her (or Charlie for that matter) both are terrible privileged and unversatile dancers. considering the majority of their body of work in their senior career are character pieces the only characters meryl knows how to play are damsels in distress and pretty princesses and charlie cant act to save his life. why would anyone idolize that?
Ooh girl, I think you should have let the post's sarcasm stand! Much more effective.
DeleteSarcasm or now, why would anyone want to emulate them?
DeleteApparently their amazing politicking skills!
DeleteYou still should have let the sarcasm speak for itself, you're not doing yourself any favors. Just a tip!
neither are you lol http://youtu.be/2Z4m4lnjxkY
Deleteon second thought you are right, 3:06 PM Meryl would make a great politician especially in the USA considering she does not give a crap about the poor in Detroit. hopefully one day she can run for governor and Charlie can join her as well because America really reeds more rich, white, money-hungry oil tycoons who think gay rights are "semantics" running the country.
DeleteDamn, are we bringing trololo back?
DeleteMeryl ugly?? Maybe to a shallow southern bell...
ReplyDeleteThe correct spelling is "belle." If you're going to try and write a snappy insult retort, yes, spelling counts. Whatever point you were attempting to make is null and void. Hint: The poster that you're going after spelled it correctly, as well. That should be your first clue.....
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