The layout is decided by skaters and coaches also have an input.
Skating skills is not only determined by deep edges (which is Patricks forte). They also look at your knee's, the flow, the speed and power, mastery of techniques, all which Yuzuru is extremely good at. Transitions; well no one can say Yuzuru doesn't have enough transitions as he is one of the skaters with the most in their program. PE, IN, CH are all extremely subjective. What you may not like, the judges might love. And if your program is much higher in difficulty, they will mostly likely reward you for that.
In fact, if we want to talk overscored PCS we need to throw in a few more names into the mix. This isn't the era of Chan anymore, where he was the sole benefiter. We're in the era where all the top skaters are "overscored" because they needed to even out the playing field. If they keep the current top skaters PCS down to a realistic level, when compared to the highly overscored Chan, they will be way behind him, when in actuality their skill level is NOT that far behind. Chan will look like a skating god compared to everyone else. I've said this before. They went too crazy with Chan, and now they have NO CHOICE BUT to keep the top few skaters PCS on the 90's level.
This isn't the same situation with Chan where he was winning with his PCS, currently the top few skaters are ALL ON EVEN PLAYING GROUNDS.
If you want to start questioning Hanyu's 91 PCS, start questioning Machida's 90 for a program with a popped jump and Fernandez 91 with 2 popped jumps. None of them are superior in SS and all 3 programs IMO were not great.
Skating skills is not only determined by deep edges (which is Patricks forte). They also look at your knee's, the flow, the speed and power, mastery of techniques, all which Yuzuru is extremely good at. Transitions; well no one can say Yuzuru doesn't have enough transitions as he is one of the skaters with the most in their program. PE, IN, CH are all extremely subjective. What you may not like, the judges might love. And if your program is much higher in difficulty, they will mostly likely reward you for that.
In fact, if we want to talk overscored PCS we need to throw in a few more names into the mix. This isn't the era of Chan anymore, where he was the sole benefiter. We're in the era where all the top skaters are "overscored" because they needed to even out the playing field. If they keep the current top skaters PCS down to a realistic level, when compared to the highly overscored Chan, they will be way behind him, when in actuality their skill level is NOT that far behind. Chan will look like a skating god compared to everyone else. I've said this before. They went too crazy with Chan, and now they have NO CHOICE BUT to keep the top few skaters PCS on the 90's level.
This isn't the same situation with Chan where he was winning with his PCS, currently the top few skaters are ALL ON EVEN PLAYING GROUNDS.
If you want to start questioning Hanyu's 91 PCS, start questioning Machida's 90 for a program with a popped jump and Fernandez 91 with 2 popped jumps. None of them are superior in SS and all 3 programs IMO were not great.
, making me almost cry.
