Thanks sheetz
I think those are just proposals ... but I think the changes of reducing the free skate time to four minutes and eliminating one jumping pass have already been approved. I really have no clue about the tights situation lol
Raf from today's Philip Hersh icenetwork article:
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2018/04/30/274122364
"In young bodies, bones are not formed. If you do so many quads, they get damaged, and they will wind up in a wheelchair. If we don't have evidence of that yet today, we will have it tomorrow."
It may seem odd to hear Arutunian speak of higher age minimums, given that he has coached a virtual child prodigy, 2018 world champion Nathan Chen, to one landmark quadruple jump achievement after another.
Chen was just 15 when he got full base value on two quads in the free skate at the world junior championships; 16 when he became the first U.S. man to land four clean quads; 17 when he became the first in the world to land five quads cleanly; and 18 when he became, this season, the first in the world to land five clean quads (and get full credit for a sixth) at both the Olympics and world championships.
"I was trying to stop him," Arutunian said. "Because of his cultural approach, I couldn't. When he was younger, he always wanted to do more."
Arutunian said training Chen to do quads was not based on repeating quads over and over in practice but in doing triples with a technique that would easily allow him to later make them quads.
"When I set up the technique for an element, it does not mean I want to see them in competition," Arutunian said. "Now, it's not a problem. When he was 15 or 16 and starting to do quads, I wanted him to try only one. I was trying to make him do much less. Now he is 18, and it is no problem."