- Joined
- Mar 22, 2004
It was very annoying and distracting. When I figure skated - about a hundred years ago - the goal of every skater was not to make that sound with their blade. Of course that is when figures were taught and we were taught proper technique.
Well back then, technique was supposed to come first and then you learned the tricks, now the tricks come first and technique be damned as long as you can keep on your feet and/or get the rotations in.
Without figures, a lot of the technical requirements need to be re-thought.
Is it fair to evaluate the control of edges by skaters trained by MITF by the same criteria used for figures?
I think it's clear by now that MITF aren't sufficient for teaching classic lutz and/or flip techniques and maybe those jumps should be re-defined according to entrance rather than edges since that's apparently how skaters are learning them: A lutz is a jump performed by picking with the landing foot while skating backwards, a flip is a jump made by picking with the landing foot after turning on the non-landing foot (or a lutz is a flip without the turn?)