Interesting.... The main Skate Canada page does not list these requirements and implies that anyone can become a judge... I know for a fact that this wasn't always the case as I looked into a number of years ago. This is generally a good thing though as Joe pointed out a skater will definitely have a better understanding of what is involved and the difficulty. Skate Canada seems to have brought the entry requirements in line with those for being a coach.
I don't know why, but I really REALLY hope that being a teacher isn't at all similar to being a figure skating judge. For at the bickering we do around here and the ISU efforts to improve judging - whether you think they are misguided or not - it's obvious that figure skating will always be more subjective than most every sport. In great big scheme of things, who cares? It's just figure skating. But teaching - it's bit more consequential.
And I think a top figure skating judge could hurt someone a lot more than a teacher if he/she doesn't do a good job. I have 2 or 4 marking periods and probably over 100 grades per student before the final grade is due. You have a lot of time to save yourself from summer school! But a judge choosing to give a medal to one skater over another in the Olympics can affect who gets endorsements and contracts, based on one performance on one day.
I think that judging is a separate skill from performing. Coaching/teaching is yet a third discipline. John Archibald Wheeler was the greatest teacher of physicists of the twentieth century, but not himself a great physicist. (He was the Frank Carroll of physicists. )
Absolutely!! Even the tech, for example, what is it that makes a skater a +3 and another skater a +2? There may be some wording on the use of plus GoEs, but ya can't go bananas when you read a base score which is modified to include some novelty by the competitor - only a judge can understand his GoE for a particular element, and we are expected to think it is correct because there is a Corridor.
As to the PC scores, How can they be quantified when it is all based on the eyes of the judges who do not agree with each other? and what is the point of the competition? Is it to find a Winner, a Podium, or an evenings entertainment?
Russian has 11 ISU judges and 14 Intenational judges.
What I like most from his many famous quotes is his first moral principle: "Never make a calculation until you know the answer!"
What is the difference between ISU judges and International judges?
what does this mean?
Never make a calculation until you know the answer: make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every puzzle. Courage: no one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun!
Most of those attributes should be judged by the PC scores. A jump is a jump and it contains the elements of Number of Air Rotations; and Landings with Flow out. Anything else to consider like URs, steps into a jump, speed, posture are how the jump was performed and should appear in the PC scoring system. I don't think skaters should be judged whether they jump higher than buildings. Landings and Flow throughs should be judged as TechniqueJust regarding GOE, I read it on a website, in case of jump, there are 6 elements being evaluated for GOE; foot steps or choreo before entering, speed on entering, posture in air, height of jump, landing and flow through, if I recall them correctly.
A skater has to execute two elements in quality for +1, four for +2 and all six for +3.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Most of those attributes should be judged by the PC scores. A jump is a jump and it contains the elements of Number of Air Rotations; and Landings with Flow out. Anything else to consider like URs, steps into a jump, speed, posture are how the jump was performed and should appear in the PC scoring system. I don't think skaters should be judged whether they jump higher than buildings. Landings and Flow throughs should be judged as Technique
All this would be accountable if the scoring of individual elements were on a scale of 0-10 which would include skaters meeting the standards of the definitions for each element. The rest belongs in PC and show quality. JMO.
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All that could be included in a 0-10 score. It is in all other Single Sports but not Figure Skating. Why nitpick the Tech with 3 levels? There could be and are more.
And we all are on the same wave length of Artistry (which is not mentioned in the Rules). Quality is a preference in life. The PC stands for Program Component, as you know not a performance component.
One look at a performance can bring critics to many disagreements.