So basically your argument is "I think this is pretty just because I do and therefor it has to score higher and win stuff otherwise all artistry is dead"? Yeah well, I really can't argue with that.
But one thing - since you are naming Jason. Among the reasons Jason is this successful is because he does pay attention to stuff like one foot skating, long step sequences that utilize changes of direction, variety of turns, variation in speed... all those tedious things you seem to want to say shouldn't matter. It's a bit puzzling to bring up Jason in an argument like this.
^ But Skaters should be on one foot all the time (except for an Ina Bauer or a spread eagle), isn't that right?.Skating on two feet looks terrible and shows lack of basic skills. Even I can skate on two feet. (Sort of).
Eh, is this supposed to be irony or something?
I'd think it doesn't need to be spelled out like this, but it's not about two foot skating being ugly, but about the fact that skating on one foot takes more balance and needs more stamina. A sequence of turns/choreo movements compared to a long line of corssovers takes also more stamina, shows more skill with the blade and makes succeding in the next jump a lot more difficult, as you have to focus on this instead of just preparing the next jump. This is all part of what makes Figure Skating a sport (you know it ain't at the Olympics for the pretty costumes, right?).
No, that doesn't mean no skater ever should be on both his feet. Of course in every program there will be points when someone is, everyone needs crossovers to some extent, and so on. But the point is the amount of one-foot vs. two-foot skating being there and how it is one part of what makes a routine more difficult to perform and should therefor be rewarded -
like the current rules for PCS/Skating skills say they should. There are other things as mentioned above - variety of turns (if you move around in nothing but 3 turns you're not winning difficulty awards either), how clean & deep your edges are, and so on. A hyperbole like "skating on 2 feet looks terrible" has nothing to do with it
And no, nobody has to care about things like one foot skating for their own enjoyment, it is perfectly fine to say you don't care about it. But you will have to live with the fact that the CoP thinks it is important, that it is by all accounts of logic an aspect to the sport, that skaters using it should and will get credit for it, and that people on skating discussion boards will discuss it.
R - "I don't know what PCS really means and how it's calculated, Boyang has inferior skating skills because of his costume, and Nathan Chen is near the artistic and ss difficulty level of Jason Brown and for some reason I think Nathan Chen would be in the top 6 men without quads"
