Boyang Jin is a cart-before-the-horse type of skater. Fans can keep trying to compare Jin to Nathan, but there is no comparison. As Jin showed in this competition, he struggles to land all of his jumps cleanly and he's clueless in regard to knowing how to actually skate to the music. Talk about someone moving around the ice mainly focused on the jumps, that's Boyang. Yes, Chinese fed has paid for helpers to work with Jin on improving his presentation skills, which turns out to be more mugging than anything else. I think that Jin is a charming fellow with charisma and good rotating abilities, but he's not close to being a great skater with superb skating skills and capacity for artistic growth.
What is being asked of skaters today is tremendously difficult: cramming humongous tech into 5-minute programs along with skating beautifully to the music, and exhibiting wonderful blade skills. Patrick is the only skater with unmatched blade skills. Boyang can continue to work on his skating and presentation, because he needs to, but he still gets loads of points just on reputation of jumping ability whether or not he lands his jumps cleanly, whether or not he's trying to improve artistically. The sport is clearly out of whack on a number of levels, but the message is rather clear about the quads. That's what the sport wants, and they don't care so much if you are an exquisite all-around skater like Jason Brown who actually deserves even higher PCS for the quality of his skating (regardless of what haters think).
If skaters have the quad rep, judges will recognize them more and their PCS will rise. There's no question that Nathan already has a fine level of artistic ability, which comes across even more in his exhibitions. If you can't see the difference between Nathan's better feel for the music and his greater movement quality and command over the ice (than Jin can ever hope to have), then you can't see it and nothing I say will allow you to see it.
IMO, Jin and a lot of skaters need to go back to the basics and learn figures like Patrick Chan was raised on. Even Nathan could benefit from learning figures. But please stop with trying to categorize Nathan with Boyang Jin. Nathan has already surpassed Boyang in jumping ability and quad repertoire. And Nathan even as a junior skater was already way ahead of Boyang in terms of efficient jump technique, skating skills, musicality and graceful expressiveness.
Silver medal again at 4CC but this competition must mean a lot to him considering the next season. I just hope he won't overtrain before the Worlds 
Trust me, I am a fan but he used to do that all the time 
--I thought Keiji was getting the hang of his nerves but he popped so many jumps this time. It's sad.
