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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding the focus on weight in figure skating, once they start higher level jumping, extra weight becomes a safety issue.  They are landing all their body weight on a single piece of metal not much larger or wider than a dinner knife, at high levels of speed and rotation, at incredible force, often backwards, on a sheet of ice.

Keeping weight down becomes an issue of safety and basic physics.

American and western coaches are generally more educated,  and try to guide students into proper nutrition.  Russian trained coaches prefer the forced anorexia route.  You have to choose your kid's coaches carefully.[/quote]

I would love to see a post-baby Trusova comeback.  First, for the drama. Second, she might be the only Tuberitze skater who could survive past 18. She’s landing quads again in practice and she’s no longer rail thin. [/quote]

She is still very very thin, but by russian figure skating standards she is not actively anorexic so she is considered "fat" even though she is likely the healthiest weight she has ever been.

The Russian team coaches gave a recent interview claiming that Ilia obviously put on a few ounces of weight between his short program and long program, and those extra few ounces were why he fell.

You can't make this stuff up.

The russian skating coaches are crazy.[/quote]

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