- Joined
- Jun 21, 2003
It's kinda funny...I think we skating fans have become a little spoiled in recent years. When you look back at good skates from a long enough past, even a quality performance may lack some measure of audience connection. It's a strange experience for a newbie like me to look at a clip of, for example, Peggy Fleming or Dorothy Hamill--lovely, talented skaters, but there is an impersonal flatness that I'm not used to when I watch them. Modern skaters really try harder to engage the audience, and it shows.
What an interesting observation! Critics of the IJS claim the opposite -- that in modern programs the skaters must concentrate on wringing out each tenth of a point, leaving little opportunity for engaging the audience, compared to the oldies but goodies of by-gone eras.