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Post by murzik29 on Nov 24, 2008 3:28:48 GMT 1
Thanks for your great photos, Morena! Congratulations to Tomas!!! His LP performance was the best!!!! I am very happy that he won LP! And that quad.. Why he can't do such a good quad in hi short prorgam?((
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Post by deedeelocks on Nov 24, 2008 6:52:47 GMT 1
He can, he just didn't do it yet in competition
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Post by deedeelocks on Nov 24, 2008 11:52:21 GMT 1
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Post by deedeelocks on Nov 24, 2008 21:21:46 GMT 1
www.denik.cz/zimni_sporty/verner-zatim-opakuje-lonsky-rok20081124.htmlMost people do not go into the same river twice, they say. Only it did happen to figure skater Tomas Verner. He started the season just about the same like last year. Right after the start he lost in Oberstdorf, then in Vienna and to make it complete the first GP also didn't work out. but just like last year, there was a competition that changed everything. 2nd place behind frenchman joubert, with 222.94 points, 17 points above his previous seasons best. "From the beginning everyone was critizing me, they believed I wasn't prepared for my first competitions. But I was going step by step and Moscow made me believe that I am on the right path." the reporters are asking him, if he will be able to beat Joubert this season. "such a question is worthless to me. I'd ask it different: Can I skate 2 clean programs? and the answer is yes" says Verner. "and when I do that, I can beat anyone" In the free skate in Moscow he jumped a quad toe, followed by a 3lz-3t and then a 3A. Again it's slowly uplifting "and from that I have a good feeling, and I must confess, that psychologically, I wasn't at my best. It wasn't a friendly loss" Verner however knows the key to his psychological issues. "I go by my own aim" he says. and the aim is clear. "success at Euros and worlds"
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Post by ninadel on Nov 24, 2008 22:30:29 GMT 1
the reporters are asking him, if he will be able to beat Joubert this season. "such a question is worthless to me. I'd ask it different: Can I skate 2 clean programs? and the answer is yes" says Verner. "and when I do that, I can beat anyone" Haha, I love his confidence this year. I was getting worried at the beginning of the season, but I really believe now that he's going to be very successful with this tango (maybe not right away, but sometime soon). I'm still thinking about this SP quad though... when the opening combination is a flip you usually enter it in a straight line... maybe he shouldn't be doing the same for the quad? I think if they reorganised the first minute or so of his program it would be a lot easier for him.
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Post by deedeelocks on Nov 24, 2008 22:56:06 GMT 1
he probably does it in practice without mayor problems, or he wouldn't attempt it in competition. Also from the beginning of the season they modelled things this way that the set-up at the beginning is for a toeloop (and therefor I suppose he jumped 3t-3t in both Oberstdorf and Vienna) I analyzed the start of the LP, and he makes a lot of speed with 2 3turns going into the crossovers for the quad...and he doesn't really do these in the SP. also in the SP he makes speed forward and in the LP backwards....These are the differences I could find, because otherwise he has about 6 seconds more in the SP. (and the last few steps and things are the same, it's just the way he makes speed) If he does flip though, he gets an edgecall very often (and the judges are right...) I think, it's all in his head I suppose that thing that is there will come out one day or another....
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Post by murzik29 on Nov 25, 2008 20:21:48 GMT 1
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Post by Lilla on Nov 25, 2008 21:18:29 GMT 1
Thanks for the photos!! I really love them, many of them are so nice especially the ones taken before the medal ceemony ;D
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Post by xelah900 on Nov 25, 2008 23:42:28 GMT 1
Many thanks for the photos!!! I can't say which one I like the most, he is so cute in every one. (My mother says that the 4th one Morena took at SP reminds her of Kevin Bacon in Footloose!! please forgive her) I laughed a lot seeing the one during the gala where it looks like he is asking Smirnov why his partner never smiles.... ;D ;D ;D About 4T, I had the same feeling as Daphne (maybe because my parents kept saying: He is too slow, he is too slow....). I think that the music as well is quite slow, so if he accelerate he gets out of synchrony (Sorry, I don't know how to tell it exactly). About psycology, well, succeding in doing it in LP should make him more confident, but I agree that now he can be thinking a lot about it. I'm afraid I was a little confused, the ideas are clear as I think in italian, but get messy as I think them in english.
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Post by ninadel on Nov 26, 2008 11:09:27 GMT 1
(My mother says that the 4th one Morena took at SP reminds her of Kevin Bacon in Footloose!! please forgive her) Footloose is one of my favorite movies!! Tomas should really skate an exhibition to the Footloose song someday (pass this on, Daphne ). It would be perrrfect for his personality: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bMB8vv18ehE(love the robot dance @ 2:30) And this is an awesome photo... too bad this man's head got in the way:
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Post by Nata on Nov 26, 2008 18:24:17 GMT 1
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Post by deedeelocks on Nov 26, 2008 19:03:39 GMT 1
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Post by murzik29 on Nov 27, 2008 3:45:50 GMT 1
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Post by Eva on Nov 27, 2008 13:05:15 GMT 1
First of all....CONGRATS TOMAS !!So happy he did the best LP,with an awesome quad toe !! Thanks A LOT for all the infos,links,pics and vids(especially ) girls!!!!!! This one is simply priceless : img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/3/11/27/f_342994179m_e50dbab.jpg love this: thanks for thinking about us Tomas Me too!!Simply adore that quote !!Thanks Tommy....be sure for that,you succeed this aim !!As always !!
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Post by deedeelocks on Nov 27, 2008 19:10:41 GMT 1
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