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No it isn't. Many of those calls could have been "e" but weren't, and the GOE from the judges is also not as punitive in comparison to other people with equal/better quality jumps, as already discussed with examples given, but you continue to ignore.
Keep failing to understand the concept and jump mechanics. Shows how you haven't done these things yourself. High quality jumps exist across all spectrums of rotation. Does anyone in competition bother to try doing a perfect, gorgeous 1Axel or such things? No. But if someone ever did, then that's how it objectively deserves be judged.
Specifically not landing "backwards" is a literal skating skill, just not one that is currently worthwhile in the ISU system. A forwards landing ("<<") jump with multi rotations is exceedingly difficult to land with quality, to the point of impossibility at a certain amount of rotation. Good luck hitting a flowing forward edge off a huge jump like that. And even without that kind of landing, these kinds jumps are needlessly overpunished in the rules right now. Like Lu Chen doing a 3Toe+3Toe<< at the end of her iconic 1998 LP. There's no reason it should score less than a decent 3Toe+2Toe with the way she did it, and artistically it definitely added more to that moment.
Speak with committee members and you'd know. Oh right, you're not in contact with them. Whereas I have countless correspondences going back nearly 20 years now, starting with my proposal to not fully downgrade < jumps; the scale of values I created was taken almost exactly and voted through in 2010. Somewhere on this forum at least a year prior to that I even listed the changes that we were confident would get implemented and the scoring differentials, and indeed that info I publicly provided is what came to pass.
That's not what hypocrisy is. You love to constantly say empty, wrong catchphrases.
It's possible to want an organization to improve while at the same time being highly critical of its poor decisions and systems. I don't extol the ISU training, there are tons of things I'd change, I simply stated I've done it and that the judges who get chosen don't have any superior level of knowledge or capability; and it's a fact that the ISU does not select judges on merit, rather on federation submission.
The hypocrisy is from you, acting like the "judges' scores" and whatever rules are infallible, when it suits you. You constantly use the most feeble fallacies of "you can't argue with this score or this rule, it's on paper after all and it's from the ISU, how dare you question it". But then of course when it doesn't suit you, you'll complain about a judge's score. By your own mis-logic, you should never be speaking on any of these topics at all, since you're not "a judge". People who are capable of higher level thinking, though, realize that superficial titles and status quos are not what determines the most accurate answer or level of expertise.
): Thank you for posting the Lingua Alina piece. I was not familiar with this blogger, but I looked her up. She apparently is a Russian language teacher and a Russian culture scholar. She is very blunt in this vid.
) who did almost all of her jumps with both arms overhead. Once or twice is great but IMO after that it gets boring.
