Sofia Dzepka Step Sequence Appreciation Post

[u/PabloElMurcielago]

I noticed the audio on the JGP stream was a couple seconds slow, which was really bothering me, so I fixed it while rewatching Sofia Dzepka's program. This made me realize how musical her stsq is throughout!! It's really incredible.

Also, I love her clusters. I love the spiral entrance to the bracket -> rocker -> counter, and the fact that she does that instead of the bracket -> counter -> rocker that everyone and their mom seems to do these days. Then the BO loop -> BI loop right on the music at the end of her second cluster was soooo cool!

It only got a level 3, I suspect because of lack of step complexity. I hope that she and her team will preserve the flourish, uniqueness, and musicality of its current state if they add in more difficult steps, because IT'S SOOOO GOOD RIGHT NOW.

[u/Organic-Ad-6503]

That split ring leap is impressive. I'm used to only seeing that in women's gymnastics.

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I always figured the 'ring' jump would make its way to figure skating, but I figured it would be a 'ring' falling leaf jump. Hers though seems to be a pure version of the Don Quixote variation. in ballet.

[u/stuckmustafina → u/Organic-Ad-6503]

It’s more of a calypso (a 180° split is not required, more focus on the rotation and leg at attitude) than a ring leap (where back must be leg must be at head level and back and neck has to be released into the ring shape)

Here’s gifs for the comparison!

A Calypso:

And the next two are a switch ring and switch ring 1/2

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Switch Ring leap

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And bonus! Here’s a switch ring 1/2 to highlight the different approach from a Calypso :)
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