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Audience who are not familiar with the technique of figure skating don't always recognize the jumps at all, not even can apart singles from triples. There are people who don't watch much more than worlds.m, maybe for continents or but go to watch live when there is opportunity to watch something nearby they live. En example I remember from Worlds 2017, when Emmi Peltonen singled her solo jump. A lady, with whom I chatted a little bit, sitting next to me asked why she got so low scores and did not make it to free, I explained she should have done triple solo jump but still she did not understand why she got 0 points from the jump it even though she did not fall - I explained but she still did not see the difference. For her the most important thing was she did not fall and jumps were good in her opinion.What was interesting to me is that part of the reaction was sort of delayed, as if people did not realize what they had just seen and once it sunk in and/or the person next to them said hey, that was a quad axel, there was sort of a “second wave” of cheering
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Without this forum, which I joined 2007, although I have watched figure skating since my childhood and I am born in the 60's, my knowledge about FS would be significantly less than it is today. Still I don't recognize always all the jumps, only axel and often loop are the ones I mostly recognize.
What I am trying to say, people don't know how historical it is. If I go to tell my boss, hey Ilia Malinin did quad axel at competition, he would ask, is it difficult or is it allowed, is it high or something like that, but probably would not understand at all what is worth mentioning in it.
