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- Jun 21, 2009
The New judging system kills figure skating and loses the beauty of sport
I don't know for the people in this forum. But, for me, I'm a figure skater and I begin to hate figure skating even if it was the sport that I like the most to do.
I think the new scoring system ensures that skaters do not take any risks and make all things easier. For example, women no longer try the triple lutz and replaced by triple toe / triple toe.
Also, I think it becomes redundant, the skater spins with the new system are not at all original, everyone does the same positions to get levels 4.
Really figure skating has lost its beauty, in the past, spins were much more perform to give style and elegance at the choice of music, today's skaters are no longer spins to properly interpret music . Skaters are spins to earn points even if the positions are ugly and they do not fit with the music.
The footwork are also much less interesting. Why skaters can not interpret their music as they want and can not put it the turn and the step like they want to.
For example this kind of skating is missing for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMwXYdkSK4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlVeNEBFKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gJ5H3ubfA
You can really see that in the debut of the new scoring and in the past with the 6,0 system, that the skater was more free and skate more fabulous program because they try the difficulty and the footwork sequence and spin was simply art and beauty for being with the music.
It's sad because, I tell myself that if I begin to not like the sport, guess how the people who knew nothing about skating, how can they love our sport? Nowadays, the element in the program are completely redundant ... What are your thought? Do you think like me that the new system kill figure skating and is the reason why figure skating is less popular year by year?
I don't know for the people in this forum. But, for me, I'm a figure skater and I begin to hate figure skating even if it was the sport that I like the most to do.
I think the new scoring system ensures that skaters do not take any risks and make all things easier. For example, women no longer try the triple lutz and replaced by triple toe / triple toe.
Also, I think it becomes redundant, the skater spins with the new system are not at all original, everyone does the same positions to get levels 4.
Really figure skating has lost its beauty, in the past, spins were much more perform to give style and elegance at the choice of music, today's skaters are no longer spins to properly interpret music . Skaters are spins to earn points even if the positions are ugly and they do not fit with the music.
The footwork are also much less interesting. Why skaters can not interpret their music as they want and can not put it the turn and the step like they want to.
For example this kind of skating is missing for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMwXYdkSK4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlVeNEBFKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gJ5H3ubfA
You can really see that in the debut of the new scoring and in the past with the 6,0 system, that the skater was more free and skate more fabulous program because they try the difficulty and the footwork sequence and spin was simply art and beauty for being with the music.
It's sad because, I tell myself that if I begin to not like the sport, guess how the people who knew nothing about skating, how can they love our sport? Nowadays, the element in the program are completely redundant ... What are your thought? Do you think like me that the new system kill figure skating and is the reason why figure skating is less popular year by year?