“I felt good about my quad toe and then calculated if I should add the triple toe after it,” explained the 26-year-old (Daisuke). “It could be better in order to get a higher score. That is what caused my mistake on the triple toe. I should not have been thinking like that. I am not happy about it, but my overall performance was quite good. I am satisfied that I was able to include a quad toe in my short program.”
Did he mean 4T3T + 3Lz will score higher than 4T + 3Lz3T? Is that true?
Now, compare it to Chan's:I had to make a choice upon landing, whether to tack a risky 3T or safer 2T to avoid negative GEO, or rather add a perfect 3T to my later jump which was 3Lz. Then I thought to myself, with a fraction of a second, that without landing 4-3 combo in SP successfully, I had no chance for winning (against others), so I decided to go for it.
It tells me something wrong with Dai's training. Chan was so trained that he simply relied on what he has been doing in the daily practice. Dai was not trained for all possible scenarios so that he had to make a critical decision in a fraction of a second. If he had to think through so many things in just a fraction of a second, how could he expect himself to focus his mental and physical energy on the second jump of the combo?Sometimes the jump is not perfect or I am too close to the boards, so I have to resort to a triple Lutz-triple toe. If it happens as quickly as it did today, I don’t even have to think about it, it’s automatic.”
It tells me something wrong with Dai's training. Chan was so trained that he simply relied on what he has been doing in the daily practice. Dai was not trained for all possible scenarios so that he had to make a critical decision in a fraction of a second. If he had to think through so many things in just a fraction of a second, how could he expect himself to focus his mental and physical energy on the second jump of the combo?
Oh, no. I will never give up on him. It's such a pleasure to watch him skate. So divine.Just give up on him then if you can not trust him and his team.
skatinginbc said:It tells me something wrong with Dai's training. Chan was so trained that he simply relied on what he has been doing in the daily practice. Dai was not trained for all possible scenarios so that he had to make a critical decision in a fraction of a second. If he had to think through so many things in just a fraction of a second, how could he expect himself to focus his mental and physical energy on the second jump of the combo?
Thinking too much is Dai's biggest enemy. He should simply rely on his daily practice.