What her coach of five weeks does know is that his star pupil is performing jump combinations she could not do before. And the triple axel, the difficult jump that deserted her, is making a comeback, if not here at the World Figure Skating Championships, next season.
Kimberly Meissner and coach Richard Callaghan were very pleased with her short program.
"Oh yeah, I'm happy," the 18-year-old skater beamed. "That was the best I could do right now, and I did it. It's great to come back after some hard performances and skate like that."
"I wanted to play it smart," Meissner said. "I knew I could do that [triple-double] combination clean without worrying about downgrading. In the long, I will definitely do a triple-triple."
kimmie said, "I started better than I have done all year so I'm kind of happy with that but it wasn't perfect. I still fell and I can do it better."P She was asked about her shrug at the end of the routine. "It was because I missed silly jumps, that were stupid mistakes. Some I could understand but some were, like, 'Okay. What's happening here?'"