Zaraah doesn't deserve to be a female Steve Backley!

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wakey

04-03-2008

Originally Posted by Li-Li:
“Zaraah is just as good as Gareth IMHO, Why are people so negative about her? She deserve's to be in the semi's she's just as good as anyone else, and actually when she's in a lift shes very graceful and elegant and she skate's really well. The relationship between her and Fred is lovely to watch.”

People are negative for two reasons imho.

1) She is being over marked alot of the time for routines that lack solo skatings, quality of skating and fails to emote anything but a fear of falling over to the audience

and

2) Shes been saved while giving a skate which is technically inferior and the last two weeks especially which show a real lack of effort in the skate off. With Steve it was maybe fair as she made an improvement in the skate off but with Linda while she improved a bit she didnt even attempt the required element in the skate off. Linda got higher marks in the main show, she made improvements also and she tried a harder jump than Zaraah was supposed to be trying and she Landed it. Surely a required element has to be attempted not just ignored and the Judges are supposed to judge on the skate off performance not performances from previous weeks.

Then against Greg she crumbled when she dropped the hula hoop and it was somewhat of a train wreck from then on. Greg on the other hand stepped up and put in a wonderful performance and once again the Judges (apart from Nicky) voted on other factors not the skate off

Katenutzs

04-03-2008

Originally Posted by interband7996:
“FYI, I actually think Gareth is good. I may have failed to say so, but he's very good, but I think Zaraah is better and he was largely overmarked last week. Suzanne should win because although Chris is an excellent skater, he's a bit too full of himself, I think. Suzanne to win, Chris a very close runner up, Zaraah and then Gareth, but that's just my opinion. I didn't make personal remarks about Gareth either, I just didn't think he was as good as he could have been last week.”

I would prefer the winner to win because they actually were the best skater and dancer on the ice not because one of the competitors 'he's a bit too full of himself' This is a celeb competition not the playground :yawn:

If as I said in an earlier posting Zarrah actually manages to dance unaided by her partner and manages to land smoothly from one of her elegant lifts then yes she would be in with a chance, She didn't even attempt the required element against Linda yet was saved. She was clumsy dropping her prop and just lost the flow of her routein last week whilst Greg came out and gave an improved almost error free preformance... sorry but that is not the stuff of champions imho.

Sorry but all the other 3 can skate without holding on to their partners all the time and Suzanne lands beautiful from her lifts, I am not against Zaraah but just can see how behind she is. I honestly think their is too much ground to make up at this late stage

Veri

05-03-2008

Originally Posted by Mamaboogie:
“Complicated steps like Suzanne sitting on the chair for most of Saturday night's programme being tugged around by Matt? (Apart from doing the flip thing!) But, as Nicky said: she had lovely poise!”

But Suzanne wasn't sitting on the chair for most of her performance.

Nor was she being tugged around my Matt most of the time when she was on the chair. And I don't mean only apart from the flip. A lot of her time on the chair was before Matt had even touched the chair or her: when she pushed it then got on to slide across the ice at the start.

There was also a fair amount of skating during the routine, including a spin on one foot while holding the umbrella.

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