I invite you to make a nice cup of tea, curl up on your armchair, and read with great interest Communication No. 1672.
Ah, how I love Hersh who is one of the few writes indepth articles about figure skating! However, I feel that ISU is desperately in need of educating people on their scoring system! Hersh's knowledge on IJS is still very limited and remained on the surface.
Some others may think Tosca is super (and it's your every right), but not I (and that's my right). Carry on.
I invite you to make a nice cup of tea, curl up on your armchair, and read with great interest Communication No. 1672.
How can you not remember Honda's sp and mostly Alexander Abt sp from SLC??His footwork is also very memorable. And I remember Eldredge's program as well!
During post-figures 6.0, skaters were encouraged to spread out their footwork and spiral sequences during the LP as choreographic elements, rather than singular elements within the program. You might see something like: twizzle/twizzle/LFO 3 into triple salchow... rather than a full-on footwork sequence.
I believe that this is the whole problem. "I don't like the CoP."
"You need more education."
"But I don't like the CoP."
"That's because you need to study it more, television commentators need to tell you more about it, the ISU needs to put out some in-depth brochures for you to read."
"But...(nevermind)."
If Hersh says that he doesn't like a scoring system that has a category titled "skating skills," but then gives a score of 9.5 in that category to a skater that falls twice, then the ISU should be listening to Hersh, not the other way around.
Well, you don't have to like it.
60% of the PCS are based upon Performance, Choreography, Interpretation. This past season, the rules for scoring step sequences were changed to specifically include bullet points that punish step sequences which don't go with the music and reward step sequences which "reflect the character and concept of the program."
The system does emphasize it, the judges simply aren't scoring properly.
To me, figure skating is half sport, half --- not art, but entertainment. If this were not the case, there would be no need for costumes, for music, or for skaters to display performance skills. “No entertainment value” was the rationale, for better or for worse, for the elimination of required figures.
Like everyone in the sport and entertainment industry, the ISU must pay attention to what the public thinks of its product. To tell the fans, “learn to like the current scoring system or go watch something else” – I think that’s cutting off your nose to spite your face.
...If this were not the case, there would be no need for costumes, ...
Well, that's too bad but you wouldn't be the first Plushenko fan who was a Yagudin detractor (which I find interesting.) I liked both, but Yagudin a little more. He was a very passionate, powerful performer at his best. I definitely agree with Daisuke Takahashi as one who has had some marvelously musical CoP programs.
To me, figure skating is half sport, half --- not art, but entertainment. If this were not the case, there would be no need for costumes, for music, or for skaters to display performance skills. “No entertainment value” was the rationale, for better or for worse, for the elimination of required figures.
To me, figure skating is half sport, half --- not art, but entertainment.
If this were not the case, there would be no need for costumes, for music, or for skaters to display performance skills.
This is off topic but I don't mind at all if all the skaters (even ladies) were restricted of their costumes to wear only black. ..or even to a plain uniform. It won't take away artistry. We'll be able to compare skaters with tiny bit more of objectivity.
“No entertainment value” was the rationale, for better or for worse, for the elimination of required figures.
Like everyone in the sport and entertainment industry, the ISU must pay attention to what the public thinks of its product.
I think you're forgetting the option of advocating for change which MM as a prominent and highly informed fan is doing very ably.Well, you don't have to like it. But it exists. So your choices would seem to be learn to appreciate it, ignore it try to enjoy the skating apart from the scoring, enjoy hating it, or stop watching current skating and enjoy the old videos. Your choice.
I think you're forgetting the option of advocating for change which MM as a prominent and highly informed fan is doing very ably.
Or at least, making concrete suggestions on the message board that, with luck, might somehow end up in front of the eyes of decisionmakers who could do something productive with them.
Just saying "I liked it better before. Turn back the clock, please," isn't going to create change.
Nor is saying "Please change things to appeal to fans who like the same kind of skating and competition format that I like best. I don't care what other fans with different interests like. I don't care what the skaters want. There are enough fans like me to pay all your bills if only you'll give us what we want."