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Sochi 2014: the Quad, Disappearing Myth in Figure Skating
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There are numerous unforgettable first times. For skaters, there is one above all the others. That of the first quad, of those four rotations in the air with the impeccable one-foot landing. Brian Joubert remembers the smallest detail. 'I was training with another French skater, Restencourt, we did a jumping contest and I said to myself let's go for the quad. First try I fell, the second I did it.' The figure skating world fell on its bum. 'I must have been 15 at the time, there were maybe three or four skaters who had already done it.'
It was a mythical time. The time when succeeding the famous quad secured the podium, the bouquet of flowers and the most beautiful girl in the audience. The time when each skater trembled at the very mention of the beast. 'It's such a special technique', Florent Amodio tells us. The entrance has to be perfect, you have to be tight in the air and get enough speed for it...Physically and technically it requires perfect synchronisation.''No matter if you do it in training every day, you may still blow it each time in your programme', adds Joubert. 'Because you can't recover, as in the case of a triple or an axel, it's very hard do it it perfectly'.
The French may sometimes have quarreled with his quad, but it is still him who baited it best, together with the legend Evgeny Plushenko, when the two men were at their peak. Up to the change in the scoring system carried out after the sadly remembered Games In Salt Lake City. 'They took up looking for artists more than skaters', laments Joubert. 'It's a time I haven't really liked in my sport.' When the American Evan Lysachek becomes Olympic champion without a quad in Vancouver, the farce has got too far. OH, MON DIEU! LOL QUOI?Obligated to skate backwards, The Federation re-balances the scoring system and to some extent restores the quad's nobility.
By the way, Plushenko has made the pleasure last up to Sochi just for that. The Russian promised his fans two quads . The trouble is that he won't be the only one. 'There have never been so many guys capable of it', explains Amodio. 'Today, you can do two magnificent quads, but if you don't do anything next to them, yo will finish far behind.' Far? How come? 'Frankly, there are ten or twelve guys who will do it in Sochi', Joubert emphasises. The young generation's technical level is crazy.' The normal rate? Two quads per programme, preferably at the beginning, when the body is still responsive. Javier Fernandez, the Spaniard, does even better, with three quads in one. And that wasn't enough for him to win the most recent Worlds.
Julien Laloye
Thoughts before the SP
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Florent
I will remain humble,but I know that I can shine. Everything is in place. I need to keep myself inside my bubble.
Brian
I am feeling rather good, but I see clearly that guys like Chan or Hanyu are better than me in certain areas
The two team members agree on one issue: their joint favourite is called Yuzuru Hanyu.
HEEEE, MINE, TOO! I'M SUCH AN EXPERT WHOA!
And when they don't quad, they do this. Together. Because it takes balls to.
Sochi 2014: the Quad, Disappearing Myth in Figure Skating
Source
There are numerous unforgettable first times. For skaters, there is one above all the others. That of the first quad, of those four rotations in the air with the impeccable one-foot landing. Brian Joubert remembers the smallest detail. 'I was training with another French skater, Restencourt, we did a jumping contest and I said to myself let's go for the quad. First try I fell, the second I did it.' The figure skating world fell on its bum. 'I must have been 15 at the time, there were maybe three or four skaters who had already done it.'
It was a mythical time. The time when succeeding the famous quad secured the podium, the bouquet of flowers and the most beautiful girl in the audience. The time when each skater trembled at the very mention of the beast. 'It's such a special technique', Florent Amodio tells us. The entrance has to be perfect, you have to be tight in the air and get enough speed for it...Physically and technically it requires perfect synchronisation.''No matter if you do it in training every day, you may still blow it each time in your programme', adds Joubert. 'Because you can't recover, as in the case of a triple or an axel, it's very hard do it it perfectly'.
The French may sometimes have quarreled with his quad, but it is still him who baited it best, together with the legend Evgeny Plushenko, when the two men were at their peak. Up to the change in the scoring system carried out after the sadly remembered Games In Salt Lake City. 'They took up looking for artists more than skaters', laments Joubert. 'It's a time I haven't really liked in my sport.' When the American Evan Lysachek becomes Olympic champion without a quad in Vancouver, the farce has got too far. OH, MON DIEU! LOL QUOI?Obligated to skate backwards, The Federation re-balances the scoring system and to some extent restores the quad's nobility.
By the way, Plushenko has made the pleasure last up to Sochi just for that. The Russian promised his fans two quads . The trouble is that he won't be the only one. 'There have never been so many guys capable of it', explains Amodio. 'Today, you can do two magnificent quads, but if you don't do anything next to them, yo will finish far behind.' Far? How come? 'Frankly, there are ten or twelve guys who will do it in Sochi', Joubert emphasises. The young generation's technical level is crazy.' The normal rate? Two quads per programme, preferably at the beginning, when the body is still responsive. Javier Fernandez, the Spaniard, does even better, with three quads in one. And that wasn't enough for him to win the most recent Worlds.
Julien Laloye
Thoughts before the SP
Source
Florent
I will remain humble,but I know that I can shine. Everything is in place. I need to keep myself inside my bubble.
Brian
I am feeling rather good, but I see clearly that guys like Chan or Hanyu are better than me in certain areas
The two team members agree on one issue: their joint favourite is called Yuzuru Hanyu.
HEEEE, MINE, TOO! I'M SUCH AN EXPERT WHOA!
And when they don't quad, they do this. Together. Because it takes balls to.