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[skatinginbc]

In fact Patrick was able to do it when he was 17. Just check his ex numbers like Yesterday and Time to Say Goodbye.

I just watched his Time to Say Goodbye. Good skating skills, that's all I can say about it. He can skate it to any classical music with the same facial expression and still have the same effect--Good skating, that's all.

Jeffrey Buttle's choreography is not easy. It demands perfect execution. Any tiny flaws will stand out like a sore thumb. I hate to nitpick Chan's near-perfect performance, so great and so touching that it deserves only praise, but in order to explain my point that a "simple-looking" program is not necessarily easy, I'm afraid I have to do just that. On my first viewing of his gala program, I noticed, for instance, the following:
1. At 3:33, he looked down and soon there was a scratching sound. I don't know the technical side of the skating, but the smoothness of his skating was fleetingly interrupted. And I felt it right away.
2. At 3:18, he had a one-foot gliding move (signature move of Jeffrey's). It was supposed to be gliding on a straight line, but his left foot (the gliding foot) "wobbled" a little (snaking due to an unstable edge or an uneven ice surface?). And I spotted it right away.

My point: Perfect execution is a very difficult thing to do. Being able to achieve it is a demonstration of extraordinary skills (a combination of both sportsmanship and art).

[doctor2014]

Fuji TV

What’s Fuji TV’s youtube channel? I tried https://www.youtube.com/user/fuji-tv/ but didn’t find anything.

[mikeko666]

Oh, no. Here you are enitrely wrong. Chan not doesn't like being booed, he simply doesn't care about the audience with ears wide shut. He also doesn't care about competitors and fair play playing a generous guy who gave them little chances. If it's really what he is thinking (and I think it is), then it must be suck being like that. http://www.thestar.com/sports/articl...g-championship

Yeah, I've read the article. Another thoughtless comment from Chan.

I hope he is at least smart enough to realize than he'll never be adored like a rock star and it's unlikely for him to get another major sponsor anytime soon. It would be hard for any business to sell products or services using an athlete with this kind of controversy attached.

[Bluebonnet]

I hope he is at least smart enough to realize than he'll never be adored like a rock star and it's unlikely for him to get another major sponsor anytime soon. It would be hard for any business to sell products or services using an athlete with this kind of controversy attached.

I think Patrick knows it. Getting more sponsorship is not his goal for continuing skating. He and every skater in North America are facing the same dilemma. Not just him.

[let`s talk]

What’s Fuji TV’s youtube channel? I tried https://www.youtube.com/user/fuji-tv/ but didn’t find anything.

Oh, pardon. I clarified the original post. Fuji TV there was the name of TV broadcoast. The youtube channel is icechannel2011: www.youtube.com/watch?v=64QdXaZsUxs

[Spun Silver]

I hope he is at least smart enough to realize than he'll never be adored like a rock star and it's unlikely for him to get another major sponsor anytime soon. It would be hard for any business to sell products or services using an athlete with this kind of controversy attached.

I didn't even think of this, but you're probably right. That's a shame. He still has time to quiet the controversy. I really hope he concentrates on clean programs next season even if he slips to silver a couple times (). All that should matter now is Sochi.

[let`s talk]

I think Patrick knows it. Getting more sponsorship is not his goal for continuing skating. He and every skater in North America are facing the same dilemma. Not just him.

Lol at one more thoughtless comment. Well, first of all there is no skater in North America or anywhere in the world with such controversional wins and loud badmouthing. But that's beside the point. The point is his unfair wins doesn't belong to him entirely as some private possession, like his car or shoes. They belong to FS. They damage accountabilty of this sport and damage considerably. But hell yeah, he doesn't care, as his talking proves.

[hurrah]

So why not come up with a scoring system that's not going to result in booing? I know, I know. The reactive argument against that is to say that fans will not be satisfied no matter how much CoP changes. But it seems like the major suggestion being made this time around, to make sure that PCS categories are separately evaluated more accurately, is doable, and even before this incidence had occured, has been pointed out as a weakness of CoP, so why not just do it? It may not prevent all future booing, but it would have prevented this particular booing because Dai would have won the long, with Patrick stilling winning overall, which I think would have satisfied both casual 'ignorant' fans and more serious 'knowlegable' fans.

[Kelly]

I think Patrick knows it. Getting more sponsorship is not his goal for continuing skating. He and every skater in North America are facing the same dilemma. Not just him.

I think right now only in Japan and Korea can their top figure skating athletes achieve rock star status. I don't know about in European countries though.

[Tonichelle]

All major spectator sports continually tweak their rules in an attempt to attract more fans and to provide a product to their market that is as attractive as possible.

Do they? The NFL now fines for the "excessive celebration" in the endzone, as well as the hard hitting tackles. In the past these were allowed and were celebrated. Fans still wonder why these rules were made (especially the former one, the latter actually makes sense and most people booed the Saints coaches after they were found guilty of paying their players extra to make those injury causing hits).

[carignan]

And Takahashi skated in slower speed which has helped him tremendously in performance.

I really don't want to get into this argument, because I like both of them. But if you ask me who is the most favorite, Daisuke, of course. So I'd like to tell you that Daisuke intentionally skated a little slower in the first part of his FP in order to emphasize the energy and speed of the second part. OTOH, Patrick skates with the same speed from start to the end in almost all of his programs. For me it looks rather plain, but I know it requires more physical strength and probably is smarter way to get higher PCS, though.

[Boeing787]

I just watched his Time to Say Goodbye. Good skating skills, that's all I can say about it. He can skate it to any classical music with the same facial expression and still have the same effect--Good skating, that's all.

Jeffrey Buttle's choreography is not easy. It demands perfect execution. Any tiny flaws will stand out like a sore thumb. I hate to nitpick Chan's near-perfect performance, so great and so touching that it deserves only praise, but in order to explain my point that a "simple-looking" program is not necessarily easy, I'm afraid I have to do just that. On my first viewing of his gala program, I noticed, for instance, the following:
1. At 3:33, he looked down and soon there was a scratching sound. I don't know the technical side of the skating, but the smoothness of his skating was fleetingly interrupted. And I felt it right away.
2. At 3:18, he had a one-foot gliding move (signature move of Jeffrey's). It was supposed to be gliding on a straight line, but his left foot (the gliding foot) "wobbled" a little (snaking due to an unstable edge or an uneven ice surface?). And I spotted it right away.

My point: Perfect execution is a very difficult thing to do. Being able to achieve it is a demonstration of extraordinary skills (a combination of both sportsmanship and art).

That's truly educational. Thanks a lot.

[hurrah]

Oh, and another advantage of adopting skatinginbc's proposal of properly and separately judging the PCS categories would be that Morosov would no longer be able to choreograph his programs in the way that he does now. Isn't that a good incentive?

[Mathman]

Plus, I don't think Patrck will win if he skates like JC. Not much upper body movement, no change of the center of gravity of the body.

Curry is portraying ballet. His carriage is perfect for the program throughout.

(Um, by JC you did mean John Curry, right? The other JC can skate on water. )

[Spun Silver]

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