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- Jan 25, 2013
To me, the difficulty in guessing what kind of a 6.0 skater Patrick might have been is this: The things that Patrick is most amazing at, those are exactly the things that the CoP brings to the fore and were not greatly valued under 6.0 (transitions, blade work).
Under 6.0 he might have fallen less, but by the same token he might not have worked to develop his eye-popping edge skills.
True... although his entries leading into jumps would be less complicated (since they wouldn't be particularly rewarded) and you'd see less errors, theoretically. His only real weakness is his axel (and maybe his lutz as of late, which one could partially attribute to the transitions preceding it). I think with less content to worry about he'd focus more going into his easier elements. It's apparent that going into his quads, the transitions aren't nearly as complicated to maintain the speed, and the focus is there. But it seems after he's got them "out of the way" he loses attack and focus, possibly due to complex choreography.