Watching Skate America, I didn’t see one lady with a beautiful layback leg position or traditional layback, eg and ie: Sasha Cohen, Why don’t ANY of them do it anymore. I so miss the gorgeous laybacks of years ago and detest the profusion of doglegs. The points requirements do not mean they don’t have time to include a real layback. A Bielmann isn’t a layback even though the points code includes it as such.I find ladies skating boring as the artistic side is being demolished by the emphasis on quads and combination triples. Also why do the commentators refer to the technical score as only being jumps? Improving the tech score involves more technically difficult spins and footwork , not just jumps. How can skaters be shown that they don’t have to sacrifice beauty for points as both are possible. I am almost not interested in ladies skating anymore due to the emphasis on multi revolution jumps that have MUCH MORE to do with GYMNASTIC ability and extremely slender body type than figure skating and deep edges and blade control. Being able to do multiple revolutions airborne has nothing to do with skating ability. The sport has given over totally to self selection by body type for gymnastics. Any ideas or thoughts welcome!