So we need to do the steps and put some more moves into the program, because last year everybody told me it's good, but it's a little bit too less. So we have to do more for the components, the transitions, that's all.
"You have to do the steps anyway, and it has to be nice, because you'll get the pluses from the judges. The step for the GOE actually must be better than the step for the level," he laughed. "There must be more moves, because the judges don't care about the edges so much, they care for the moves."
"In the short program right now we have two," Březina revealed. "I go for quad toe-triple toe combination and quad Salchow from the steps, and triple Axel.
The 20-year-old has a cool, realistic approach to his sport that helps him to focus and to reach his goals. Asked about if he is excited to begin the new season, he shrugged. "Not really. It's just work, it's not exciting."
One of his goals is obviously to make the Grand Prix Final after being a substitute in the past year. Another goal is reaching the podium at least at Europeans.
That's something I don't agree with. I think that the judges do care about the edges. After all, you can execute the moves with strong, deep edges. That's what the judges are looking for."You have to do the steps anyway, and it has to be nice, because you'll get the pluses from the judges. The step for the GOE actually must be better than the step for the level," he laughed. "There must be more moves, because the judges don't care about the edges so much, they care for the moves."
Nope, the judges don't really care that much about good edges in the footwork. First of all, it's not a requirement for gaining levels. You just need to have the right amount of steps, turns, quick rotation, and full body movement. Secondly, judges do indeed score the footwork in GOE based upon, basically, how "exciting" they find it to be. If they really cared about strong, deep edges then we wouldn't have seen some of the scores for certain competitors that we have on these elements.
Do judges do all of the criteria or what they feel is the most important?
Nope, the judges don't really care that much about good edges in the footwork. First of all, it's not a requirement for gaining levels. You just need to have the right amount of steps, turns, quick rotation, and full body movement. Secondly, judges do indeed score the footwork in GOE based upon, basically, how "exciting" they find it to be. If they really cared about strong, deep edges then we wouldn't have seen some of the scores for certain competitors that we have on these elements.
It's been a while since you wrote this but :thumbsup:Nope, the judges don't really care that much about good edges in the footwork. First of all, it's not a requirement for gaining levels. You just need to have the right amount of steps, turns, quick rotation, and full body movement. Secondly, judges do indeed score the footwork in GOE based upon, basically, how "exciting" they find it to be. If they really cared about strong, deep edges then we wouldn't have seen some of the scores for certain competitors that we have on these elements.
The bullet points for GOE on the technical elements need to be reworked. Most specifically, footwork should have a REQUIRED bullet point of "adheres to a Circular, Straight, or Serpentine pattern". Jumps should have more emphasis on height and distance (those together are 1 single bullet point right now, which is stupid, because you could theoretically get +3 GOE for a tiny jump). Oh, and multi-direction spins should receive more credit as well since they finally disallowed simple upright multi-direction spins as counting for a feature.