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- Dec 25, 2012
Still, it is understandable that people long for Faulkner in a Twitter world.
Personally, I think the whole thing about "IJS is hard to understand; USFS and NBC should explain it better on TV" is sort of missing the point. The casual audience knows that you get points for doing certain tricks and then you get points for "artistic expression." Whoever gets the most points wins. What's hard to understand about that?
The real question, in my mind, about the IJS is whether or not it is responsible for producing paint-by-the-numbers programs that are unlovely and uninteresting. It does seem like the IJS encourages busy but ugly spins, busy footwork and transitions that contribute nothing of value to the program, etc.
VS the 6.0 days that encouraged spins that were 'rest time' and multiple stand and pose sections, crossovers that took up a lot of the program and very few transitions. "He's going for the 3A....still going....going....there it is!" -or not.
But both systems also produced some really great programs that were sublime and gorgeous and difficult, checking off all the boxes of what I want to see in a program. So, 6 of one half-dozen of the other?