No.302
/sp/ can't handle figure skating, let's have a general here. Seems appropriate, at least there's a chance to have some sort of discussion here. In /sp/ figure skating threads just drown and die.
No.335
>>302Not sure, but it might help your thread if you head over to /sp/ and link them to here so that other skating fans on /sp/ have a place for discussion.
>>>/yulia/302 No.438
If anyone cares to see some figure skating, it'll be streamed for pretty much three days straight from Thursday to Saturday over here (for the Junior event)
http://www.youtube.com/user/ISUJGP2011/and over here (for the Senior B-tier event)
http://www.eislauf-union.de/No Yulia anywhere, but Gracie Gold will be in the second one.
just trying to convert Yulia fans into general figure skating fans I guess>>335/sp/ figure skating fans don't exist though. This thread is literally the entire English speaking figure skating community on any AIB.
No.443
>>438I'll try watching some of it.
Are you just a big fan of the sport or are you a skater?
No.449
No.458
>>438Gracie Gold will win the medal, infa 110%. All of the other participants are pretty much nobodys, fuck Germany.
No.465
>>443Just a fan, we have a pretty active thread about it over at Russian 2ch, but nothing in English.
No.506
>>438Haha oh wow, both leading girls are Russians so far. Gracie sucks ass.
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No.507
Thanks 8chan for ignoring my images...
No.527
>>507wow wow wow...beautiful girls
No.623
Gracie got humiliated by 2 Russians again.
No.635
>>623Gracie was alright. If it wasn't for all the mistakes, she could fight Alena and Liza no problem. Plus Liza isn't all that stable, even her coach says he doesn't expect her to perform this well in the upcoming competitions. She still has some problems with her back.
Also, Sotskova was alright in JGP. Not on the level of Medvedeva and Sahanovich, but maybe she'll get there later in the season, her new program is great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_-Bpa1uQU No.636
Also, men in Nebelhorn were really strong. Brezina was great, too bad Voronov sucked ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4b7mQJnRI No.672
>>635Russia truly has no problems getting new blood, so many young and talented skaters. Even same-aged Anna Pogorilaya and Elena Radionova are almost on par with Yulia. The competition will be a lot harder in the future.
And I believe Yulia will face negative judging bias at the Olympic winter games in 2018, simply because they'll take place in South Korea (which is still butthurt about Yuna Kim's second place).
No.677
>>672If only we had some good young male skaters as well. It's just Kovtun and Pitkeev at the moment and they're not really all that strong. Everyone else is old and ready to retire.
No.711
>>677Is Yulia going to marry Kovtun one day? Seems like both are close, also both coming from EKB. Athletes usually stick together, especially Yulia who doesn't have many friends.
No.713
>>711I'd say zero chance of that happening, they're not that close and kovtun currently has a gf who is nothing at all like yulia. seems to go for girls who are nothing like yulia. I think she has said in one article it would be easier to date an athlete because they understand the hard work but who knows.
No.714
>>711Who knows. Maybe she has a crush on him since she liked most of his photos on his page vkontakte (Russian social network).
No.715
>>711Nah, Kovtun isn't really the type I think. And they're from competing clubs - Kovtun with CSKA, Yulia with Sambo-70. So they probably don't even know each other that well.
No.717
So team Europe did win Japan Open without Yulia today. Radionova got 136 for her FP, that's a damn good score.
No.718
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>>717Nice how "Europe" is exlusively representend by Russian ladies ;)
>>714It seems that she spends every free minute on the Internet now, isn't it?
I fear that she might get corrupted by it too soon, just becoming another #yoloswag slag, her "cute" personality and girly interests thus far were particularly based on the strict upbringing by her mom IMO.
No.719
>>717>Radionova got 136 for her FP, that's a damn good score.Also: Yulia got a maximum 141 score for her Schindler's free program, but I kinda doubt that she will top that this season.
And Radionova beat Yulia several times before.
No.720
Every1 knows Yulia is a closed lesbian. She really is into Serafima Sakhanovish, her teammate
No.721
>Japan Open
No.722
>>717>>719Radionova is a great skater but I can't help but feel this event was treated as more of an exhibition and had pretty generous scoring. I do worry about Yulia's place in the future of Russian skating though with Serafima, Medvedeva and Radionova all looking potential contenders. Pogorilaya isn't going to be a top skater, Adelina will fade before the next Olympics, Sochi seems like a fluke given her previous results. I think Yulia will just about hold off the challengers but she needs to vastly improve her jumps to do so, also her performing skills, if you watch the others I mentioned they all give great performances and Yulia has so far been much more reserved, due in part to her choice of music. For the next few years Yulia will be fine but come the Olympics she may be in trouble if her abilities start to plateau rather than improve.
No.723
>>722Don't go dismissing Adelina and Pogorilaya so easily. Adelina isn't a stable skater, but she's good, if she does a clean program she can be number one. And I would argue that Pogorilaya already is a "top skater". Being number 4 in the world sounds pretty top to me. She might get into top 3 one day. Also, there's Sotskova and Proklova, both can develop into awesome skaters in a few years if they're lucky. And Tuktamysheva is coming back. Hard to predict what's going to happen, but it's gonna be brutal. It won't be easy for Yulia and Radia.
No.724
>>723you make a number of good points, I just hope Yulia can stick around at the top for the next few years and yes it's going to be brutal!
No.725
>>722Yep, competition will be tough in the future.
I believe Yulia only gained so massive scores in the 2013-2014 season cause her programs and looks were truly enchanting, but technically, she isn't unchallenged. Her jumps are rather weak. And some of her unique strengths like her insane Biellmann spins aren't really honored in the ISU scoring system.
I once saw a British documentary about Russian talents where Radionova and Adelina were featured (approx. one year before Sochi), but couldn't find it again on Youtube, do you know it?
>>723Adelina's gold medal was legitimate, she did a neat free program and had more elements in it than Yuna Kim. I don't understand that huge media butthurt (probably only cause she is a Russian which MUST imply corruption). Anyone who's slightly familiar with ISU scoring system wouldn't have bothered.
>>724I seriously hope that she'll remain in business for the next two Olympic cycles, but the chance of a Russian winning a gold medal at Olympics in South Korea will even tougher due to that Yuna Kim incident.
>>720If she really was a lesbian that would be awesome, cause then I won't ever have to be jealous of the luckiest guy on earth who will be her boyfriend. But I doubt it.
No.726
>>725I really have a good feeling about Yulia being around until she decides to retire, which I guess will be aged 23 or 27 after an olympics, she clearly has incredible drive and is totally dedicated although it's been a strange pre-season full of rumours mostly started by online trolls. Just worried about the really talented opposition from within her own country.
I think she has a solo gold in her, perhaps south korea will love her and just hold it against adelina, although that really is unfair. Plus Russia have the potential to dominate the team event providing some of the men mature.
The record number of medals in Olympic figure skating is 4 for men and 3 for women, if she maintains her progression, thanks to starting winning at such a young age she still has a couple of Olympics in her, maybe a couple more podiums in team and solo could put her right up there and she would be considered one of the greats. I'm sure she must think about that sort of thing and be driven towards achieving something really special.
No.772
>>723>ProklovaWow, her spins look almost identical to Yulia's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQhmxa_Rng&t=2m50s No.773
>>723>ProklovaWow, she can also do a standing split and her spins look almost identical to Yulia's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQhmxa_Rng&t=2m50s No.774
Truly a huge amount of talent in Russian figure skating right now and for the next 10 years, I still believe Yulia will emerge as the best of them all though.
No.775
>>772>>773Too bad she failed at the JGP this season. I guess she still has a problem with her leg, she was falling on every other jump, it was painful to watch. Goddamnit Sasha. Now I just hope Masha Sotskova makes it to the finals, she needs to get a silver medal tomorrow.
No.776
>>774Also, there's a new generation coming up - Tsurskaya and Gubanova. Both are too young to be in junior competitions, but they're already getting the same scores as Medvedeva.
Gubanova:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprpgqe2lOETsurskaya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgrH4Ijt9jYAnd here's Diana Davis, Eteri's daughter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Am7NCn9gI No.779
Tuktamysheva won Finlandia trophy by far... yet no match for Yulia (193 vs. 209 personal best score).
http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat00028227.htm No.784
>>779She actually can win if Yulia stumbles. For example Yulia got 192 in GP Finals last year. It's scary how high Liza's scores are. And I don't like her skating at all.
No.785
Also, JGP got Russo-Japanese Finals for Ladies with Sotskova, Sahanovich and Medvedeva from Russia and Wakaba Higuchi, Nagai and Miyu Nakashio from Nippon. And the men's finals are almost entirely Asian with Boyang from China, Shoma and Sota from Japan and Hyoung Lee from Korea. The only non-Asians are Russian Petrov and Canadian Sadovsky.
No.1389
Could you friends help me get into figure skating? Any required listens/videos/reading? It seems interesting.
No.1401
No.1411
>>1389Learn about the rules
>>1401 and just start watching the Grand Prix series, they're about to start next week. This week we're watching a B Event called Cup of Nice, here's the stream
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27vd42_nice-cup-2014_sporthere's the table with the results
http://nice-baie-des-anges.fr/images/stories/docs-coupe/resultats2014/html/index.htmand the schedule for the event is on this picture here. It's in local time.
No.1430
>>1389Here's all you need to know about figure skating. Except another one of Sotskova's charm points is that she always acts in a wise and noble way. And Medvedeva is kind and understanding.
No.1458
>>1411Junior ladies are starting in 10 minutes.
No.1462
>>1411I can't wait until the other half of the world can figure out deinterlacing and afford something besides a potato to record with.
No.1463
>>1462That's just France being shitty. Germany did a much better job at their B event, they had a nice HD stream.
No.1478
>>1463Cup of Nice - it's even not B (challenger).
No.1515
>>1430>Sahanovich>sexually aggressiveElaborate, please.
No.1537
>>1515I don't know man I mean look at her, that's what it feels like. And there was this incident when she started dating a figure skater named Pitkeev earlier this year. Nobody really knows what happened later, but now they don't talk much and he sends her expensive presents. So it kinda feels like she's a dominating lady.
No.1538
>>1463Mensonges! La France c'est magnifique!
No.1544
>>1537She has a very boyish stature, a too small head and weird looking eyes, she is nowhere near as perfect as Yulia (see
>>720 for comparison).
I don't care if she's slutting around.
No.1549
Just found a parallel board dedicated to figure skating, but it's only in Russian:
https://8chan.co/fk/ No.1551
>>1544Nah, she's cute.
>>1549Yeah, that's our board. But we only use it when 2ch is down, most of the time we're in a figure skating general thread over at 2ch.hk/sp/
No.1577
>>1430>Here's all you need to know about figure skating>Юля, 3 шлюхи и 4 лолиВся суть
поклонников фигурного катания, лол.
No.1579
>>1577Прочитать надпись "гид по женскому ФК в России" ты не смог, убогий?
No.1583
>>1577>3 шлюхиAdelina a whore, okay.
Elizaveta, certainly.
But Anna? Why?
No.1584
>>1583>But Anna? Why?I don't like her face. Maybe I'm wrong.
No.1586
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>>1430All I need to know is skating works your buttocks. Pic related, more Ass Goddess.
No.1635
>>1581Ты все на дваче воспринимаешь буквально али как? Это кстати, тред про ФК в целом, тут постят не только Юльку, так что твой бугурт неуместен.
No.1636
>>1635Бля, это уже не двач, привычка.
No.1639
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>1586I prefer this ass. Her face is weird though.
No.1652
>>1635>Ты все на дваче воспринимаешь буквально али как?А ты?
>тред про ФК в целомДа, но ты про ФК еще и слова не сказал.
No.1656
>>1652Ты че сказать-то хотел, я не пойму? Или просто решил бугуртнуть на пустом месте?
No.1664
>>1656Я сказал тут
>>1577 еще, это ты что-то распереживался, оправдания какие-то нелепые, потом обвинения в баттхерте. Чудак ты. Нет же ничего плохого в том, чтобы смотреть ФК исключительно ради нескольких маленьких девочек, мне просто не понятно, почему так трудно это признать.
No.1669
>>1664Потому что я смотрю не только... А впрочем, ты не поймешь. Забей.
No.1671
>>1669Не только маленьких девочек, но и маленьких мальчиков? Фу... Пойду я.
No.3372
>>1674typical figure skating fan
No.4037
anyone know what happened to this page...
http://vk.com/figureskatersome months back there was a ton of content there focused mostly on russian skaters and with a big community. maybe a new url?
No.4038
>>4037>Возможно, сообщество было захвачено недоброжелателями. Мы заблокировали его, чтобы вернуть настоящим хозяевам.
>It is possible that the group was taken over by unauthorised person. We blocked it to return it to the initial owners. No.4039
>>4038right, but where are they now that their site has been returned? I want to visit it.