Gallyamov on Butenko’s quintuple twist: “Cool, but what’s the practical point of this? Suitable for social networks”

Russian figure skater Alexander Galliamov told that the five-round tour has no practical significance, but is an effective element for fans on social media.

Earlier, a video appeared on social networks, in which figure skater Daniil Butenko performs a five-turn twist while training in China. The name of the figure skater with whom Butenko skated during training was not revealed. In February, he announced that he had broken up with Varvara Cheremnykh.

— I congratulate Danya on this wonderful element. It’s very cool, but what is the practical significance of this? Let me remind you that these are juniors. I don’t want to know exactly who the partner is in this video, the problem is not even that, but the fact that the naked eye can see that this is a young girl who can be launched in five or six rounds.

I remember the story from my youth in figure skating, when we had a couple where the partner was very easily thrown into quadruple. After a few years, it became apparent that it was becoming more and more difficult for the partner. When this couple moved on to adult skating, they had difficulty doing triple twists.

As a motivation or argument, this element deserves great attention, but in terms of competition, it is certainly a huge risk and a dubious story. I am sure that in today’s figure skating, not a single couple will do more than a quadruple twist. From my own experience, I know what twisting is and how difficult each half of a revolution is. Even a miniature partner in adult skating is very dependent on many external factors. Of course, if Nastya really wants to, she can do the quintuple, but this is a huge risk, the game is not worth the candle.

“Also, I have always said and I will say again that a quadruple done in training is not even worth a well-done and quality quadruple in competition. In fact, it’s cool, it’s happening on social networks, everyone started talking. I’m sure that for a 16-year-old, there must be a super talent to finish fourth,” Gallyamov told .

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