I admit, have never watched the YOG skating event despite following juniors. Thanks a lot for reminding me and explaining how they create the teams!! That kind of team building could make the teams actually interesting also in the senior events.
As for motivation for skaters or fans, well, a lot of the popular team sports are not based on countries or even continents, but rather something else. Like majority of the football players do not represent clubs of their home towns, but do it for love and money somewhere else. You would skate for your team, no matter how it was put together. Fans would have to decide their favorite team, though, using whatever criteria that pleases them - maybe their fave skaters in the teams?
As for Jason, el henry, we most certainly have to agree to disagree. However, would like to point out that I do appreciate Sinnerman a lot - probably the best choreo Jason has ever had. But for me it is first and foremost a study of style, the story is simple enough and comes from the song lyrics - the sinnerman trying to hide himself from the wrath of God on Judgement Day. Someone else in some Worlds discussion pointed out they would like to see Jason a bit less playful and a bit more anguished for his life and I agree on that.
My criticisms on Jason's interpretative capacities are more about the FS which seemingly has a storyline and character which he fails to make understandable. Even after viewing the Gene Kelly original it is heavily nodding to, I cannot make head or tail of what is supposed to be going on. The choreo perhaps does not help him a lot being a collection of interesting moves rather than a coherent whole - it does not catch the quirky style(s) of the Gene Kelly choreo and the story/idea gets lost in the details. And Jason is not strong enough to save it or to make the bits between the moves work as a storyline and/or character.
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As for motivation for skaters or fans, well, a lot of the popular team sports are not based on countries or even continents, but rather something else. Like majority of the football players do not represent clubs of their home towns, but do it for love and money somewhere else. You would skate for your team, no matter how it was put together. Fans would have to decide their favorite team, though, using whatever criteria that pleases them - maybe their fave skaters in the teams?
As for Jason, el henry, we most certainly have to agree to disagree. However, would like to point out that I do appreciate Sinnerman a lot - probably the best choreo Jason has ever had. But for me it is first and foremost a study of style, the story is simple enough and comes from the song lyrics - the sinnerman trying to hide himself from the wrath of God on Judgement Day. Someone else in some Worlds discussion pointed out they would like to see Jason a bit less playful and a bit more anguished for his life and I agree on that.
My criticisms on Jason's interpretative capacities are more about the FS which seemingly has a storyline and character which he fails to make understandable. Even after viewing the Gene Kelly original it is heavily nodding to, I cannot make head or tail of what is supposed to be going on. The choreo perhaps does not help him a lot being a collection of interesting moves rather than a coherent whole - it does not catch the quirky style(s) of the Gene Kelly choreo and the story/idea gets lost in the details. And Jason is not strong enough to save it or to make the bits between the moves work as a storyline and/or character.
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