Carolla5501
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Well, some of you better be careful because someone over on GSD already called me out for being incredibly negative because I didn’t think the pairs event was an outstanding example of skating last night.
I know there’s a lot of debate over first and second but honestly it’s like the lesser of two evils. Neither one of those teams put out a skate that I think would hold up well internationally. maybe I’m wrong I don’t follow pairs that much but compared to what I’ve seen and the little skating I’ve watched this season there are a lot better teams out there
I am not sure we ever going to be very good in it. We tend to push skaters over to pairs who couldn’t do solo jumps, as if it suddenly going to improve when they have to do them side-by-side. We couldn’t do a solo jump on our own so let’s add some complexity to the situation and that will make it better.
But if I was the mother of a young skater, especially a female skater, I wouldn’t want her doing pairs. It’s expensive, it’s dangerous. You probably have to move to get coaching. (I realize a lot of single skaters eventually move, but it seems that a lot of them do stay with coaching in their hometown longer than pair skaters do maybe I’m wrong on that.)
I know there’s a lot of debate over first and second but honestly it’s like the lesser of two evils. Neither one of those teams put out a skate that I think would hold up well internationally. maybe I’m wrong I don’t follow pairs that much but compared to what I’ve seen and the little skating I’ve watched this season there are a lot better teams out there
I am not sure we ever going to be very good in it. We tend to push skaters over to pairs who couldn’t do solo jumps, as if it suddenly going to improve when they have to do them side-by-side. We couldn’t do a solo jump on our own so let’s add some complexity to the situation and that will make it better.
But if I was the mother of a young skater, especially a female skater, I wouldn’t want her doing pairs. It’s expensive, it’s dangerous. You probably have to move to get coaching. (I realize a lot of single skaters eventually move, but it seems that a lot of them do stay with coaching in their hometown longer than pair skaters do maybe I’m wrong on that.)
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