Right yeah, that too. Falls, especially, need to be re-evaluated in how they are scored if the aim is to move back towards commercial appeal. You need the audience at large to feel like they know what's going on, it's that simple. I get the theory that we'd get watered-down content with harsher penalties for visible errors but I don't agree with it. The cream will still rise to the top and we won't have to explain and get all the apologist rambling/mathematician seminar going on about why that chick with 2 falls who stumbled out of every other jump won.
Judging should also never have been made anonymous in the first place. There is no possible excuse on this earth for that one. Judges afraid for their lives I'm guessing would be the primary defence and that just deserves an eyeroll to the moon and back for so many reasons.
Japan is definitely where all the money is these days. The degree of cultural penetration they still have there is amazing and any skater with a mind to make this a career should be working there as often as possible but the decline elsewhere is still an issue. There needs to be more experimentation on some level to correct it, stagnation isn't acceptable at this point.
Judging should also never have been made anonymous in the first place. There is no possible excuse on this earth for that one. Judges afraid for their lives I'm guessing would be the primary defence and that just deserves an eyeroll to the moon and back for so many reasons.
Japan is definitely where all the money is these days. The degree of cultural penetration they still have there is amazing and any skater with a mind to make this a career should be working there as often as possible but the decline elsewhere is still an issue. There needs to be more experimentation on some level to correct it, stagnation isn't acceptable at this point.