That windmill thing with their leg at the end of the spin they did last year in singles and pair spins in dance. In pairs, the death spiral variant when woman bends her leg at the knee. But first and foremost, I would put athletes in comfortable yet attractive athletic attire. No more swimsuits on ice for the sake of all that is holy. I just can't with it.
One of the junior ladies did it this last competition.. can’t remember who but I took note of it at the time. When I have a free moment I’ll go back and search..
AgreeI like the play
Personally, I too would ditch the split position liftings in pair skating, for me they became completely unelegant, disgusting and anti aesthetic..... There are a few other lifting positions that are nice, simple yet complex instead, that I prefer a lot. Here's an examples of them. I don't know the exact name of these liftings, but I always liked them.
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). So the judges have much, much more influence overall results, especially in the women's competition where all these scoring innovations 
are aimed at.
Although I would say that I love a well timed hitch kick, which is by necessity fast. Jason and Andrew T. have been masters at hitch kicks performed to the music and for effect in a program.
A random leg sticking out just to show a leg sticking out is, well, weird.
Problem - That's not just a position, that's literally the only physically possible mechanic for outside death spirals, so you'd be deleting two types of death spirals, not a position.
Karen Magnussen had a "party trick" she'd do as an encore after a gala performance, encouraged by the audience -- build up speed and then do a FO spiral that completely circled the perimeter of the ice surface after one push. No slowing, no wobbling. You wouldn't put that in a program because it took too long, but after seeing that many times, now I tend to view those upanddown blink-and-you-miss-it spirals with some scorn. Cute toddlers doing a little pop up and down backwards kick can get away with that, but it takes strength and balance and control to hold a beautiful position for longer.
I love those kinds of moves.
Oh yes.... hydroblades have been getting shorter and shorter too. And I adore a good long spirally hydroblade, so am sad.
And I'd go the other way and give extra presentation points for a great costume that fits the theme of the program. Many of the RDs last year and so far (mostly juniors) this year have been jawdroppingly disconnected and let us not talk about the men in all disciplines who fish Grandad's black duds out of the washing basket/run to the op shop and don't even care if the shades of black clash (okay I do talk about this. I do. I know. It's my therapy for seeing them.)
I can't watch when a female skater, whether in singles or with a partner, wears a very short crop top with a lot of torso bared. I'm always convinced that during some move with her arms raised or in a layback position that top is going to ride up under her arms and not come down again.
Well, people said they don't want a lot of lifts that look not particularly pretty to them. These types of death spirals look really ugly to me. I've never seen one like that and liked the look of it. They are just not graceful.Problem - That's not just a position, that's literally the only physically possible mechanic for outside death spirals, so you'd be deleting two types of death spirals, not a position.
At least if I am interpreting your description right, and these are the kinds of positions you are talking about:
I'm just saying that goes a bit beyond what other people are saying in this thread - It's more like the equivalent of saying you want to remove the Loop jump or layback spins as a whole for example, because you find it ugly.
I guess? I like other death spiral when the line of the body is not interrupted with a weird bend in the leg.
No, I don;t think so. The ISU is not in the business of holding back or pushing forward individual skaters. They are in the business of codifying the scoring system to reflect various features of a suprior skating performance, as opposed to the performance of an exce[tional skater, if you see the difference.It's a way of lessening the advantage of women with triple axels and quads, much like the introduction of the sequence rule. With less disparity in the tech score by allowing weaker skaters to catch up with spins and sequences, the secondary benefit is that it places much more importance on PCS in differentiating the skaters (maybe that was the primary benefit all along
They're not weaker skaters. They may be lesser jumpers but for a few years now TPTB and a lot of fans have been pretending that all of the quad girls (and yes, some of the men) also had artistry and skating skills and could fill a whole 4 minutes with watchable content, and maybe it's time to admit that not all quads/3As are at all attractively done and not all quad/3A skaters are at all interesting to watch outside the nanoseconds of quads/3As. (Some are, yes. Some skaters do them beautifully.)
