#victoria sinitsina
S/K have the best Midnight Blues pattern of the season, one of the best Midnight Blues patterns ever, & my favorite part of it is their execution of step 9, the RBO leg tuck. Most teams do the leg tuck by lifting their free legs very lightly, but S/K choose to do it with a lot of power instead. They showcase deep knee bend, deep edges, close holds, & matching lines accompanied by a lot of personal flair.
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Vika does not have to rely on Nikita at all & has complete control of her arm & free leg. She already initiates very neat free leg movement in the RFI-Three Turn before the leg tuck, while most ladies free legs are looser until the leg tuck.
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Perfect Kilian hold with no space between them made more difficult by Nikita’s head resting on Vika’s arm, deep right back outside edge, & free legs matching in perfect unison on the leg tuck.
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“I Don’t understand why Russia is pushing Sinitsina/Katsalapov instead of Stepanova/Bukin. S/B’s programs are more memorable compared to just blurs of ‘Barbie & Ken’ from S/K. As we know, TAT is behind S/B, and since S/K are always ahead of them, that just reveals how little of power TAT actually has in Russia, and how much Zhulin has way more power than we think (going a bit too far probably, but Zhulin’s ex-wife IS the current wife to the press secretary of Putin. Does that influence things? Maybe.).”
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“How Sinitsina/Katsalapov won Euros is still beyond me, while Papadakis/Cizeron weren’t perfect at all there, they still should have won, but not by that large margin that they usually do, obviously. If this happens in Beijing, and they make S/K somehow win, that is the end of watching ice dance for me, forever.”
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