I miss the skating skills that came from compulsory figures, not so much the figures competitions themselves.
People think judging now is bad? Figures were rife with favouritism and holding some skaters up and others down, and since almost nobody in the general public understood or even watched them, results sometimes seemed (and were) arbitrary and bizarre.
Do I think skaters should still do them from a young age? Yes. Emphatically.
People think judging now is bad? Figures were rife with favouritism and holding some skaters up and others down, and since almost nobody in the general public understood or even watched them, results sometimes seemed (and were) arbitrary and bizarre.
Do I think skaters should still do them from a young age? Yes. Emphatically.