"Vast personal experience and studyiing many aspects of the sport more than anyone else on the entire planet" - there is is. This is why I consider your choreographic flights of fancy to be a joke. How old are you? 22, 23? What training have you had? What have degrees do you hold? What titles have your programs won? What master did you train under? You're a kid who fancies himself an actor, director, writer, producer whoo has taken some skating lessons. You've never competed at even a junior level. You're a dillitente. And an arrogant one at that.
LOL, and this is where you've really gone off the deep end. Are you trying to play a game wherein you make as many wrong assumptions as you possibly can? You would definitely win some kind of award here. Starting from the beginning of your list, I'm 26 years old and I'm quite certain I've had far more training in this sport than you have. By all means, let me know if you've trained to the level where you are working on Triple Axels and subsequently had your competitive career ended in part due to substantial injury from said move. I hold a degree in film studies and have contributed as a writer to a very successful series, as well as having some producing and acting credits (I've never worked as a director or ever called myself that, though, not sure where you're pulling this one from).
I've studied ice skating perhaps even more extensively than film, have passed the technical specialist tests, and have seen quite a few of my submitted ideas successfully voted through by ISU. I've had lessons from many people over the years, a couple of whom may be considered among the best in the business, although such a thing is not a prerequisite for becoming closely attuned to the business..."what master did you train under"...really? What a pompous and insufferable mindset you have. Talent and knowledge are not restricted to the preordained or those who have been given titles.
My only concern is the amount of misinformation contained in his choreography posts. Regardless of what he thinks he knows about choreography or the process by which skating programs are created, there are some gaps in his knowledge big enough to fill the Grand Canyon. When I pointed out to him that Carolina was restricted on what jumps she could do because of her injuries. BOP would have none of it. I didn't know what I was talking about and she most assured had done these jumps in the past and could easily do them now.
The only misinformation here is what you're writing. You
didn't know what you were talking about, as it was clear from your posts that you've never actually done Triple jumps in your life. You insisted it was impossible for Carolina Kostner do to a 2Lutz or 2Flip because of injury and I said it's essentially impossible for a skater to not be able to do a 2Lutz or 2Flip and still be able to do all of the other moves Kostner was performing. A few weeks later Kostner was doing 3Flips. Gee, yeah, you were SO right Dragonlady. There was some kind of mystical ailment plaguing Kostner that made it impossible for her to perform 2Lutz or 2Flip but then suddenly be able to do a 3Flip a few weeks later. If you had ever trained these moves as a skater then you'd know the things you were saying didn't make any sense.
All of this insistence and terrible misinformation on your part was due to your knee-jerk reaction of trying to prove me wrong no matter what, since you couldn't handle someone talking about how to potentially improve a program and can't fathom the notion of someone other than the skater's own coach or choreography having ideas that could help them.
Another example, is that choreographers do not choose the order or the location of the jumps in the program. The coach does. The choreographer works within the framework of the payout provided by the coach and the skater. Do you think it's an accident that every choreographer Plushenko has ever worked with has used essentially the same jump layout in every single program the man has ever skated? Or that Tarasova and Nichol just happen to put the triple axel in the same spot on the ice in all of Mao's programs. This is done to aid muscle memory. So BOP's insistence that jump layouts can easily be changed to improve points or for asthetic reasons isn't really valid either.
I'm quite aware of how certain jumps are placed in specific spots because of muscle memory and stamina issues, and how choreographers do not have the final say when it comes it deciding such placements. I've never said any jump layout can easily be changed either; practice is clearly going to be required. The amount of practice varies, though, and in the case of Kostner it was things she could have incorporated relatively easily. Again, all of my ideas in this regard are centered around the competitive framework and blossoming the skater's specific skillset.
BOP was changing jump layouts to increase base value, not PCS, and to pick up the post 2:30 bonus. He was also suggesting extending spins and holding landings longer for effect, and when I questioned where he was going to get the extra time to do this, he insulted me. As for the order of execution of the jumps, there are multiple considerations involved.
Other moments in BOP's posts which made me chuckle: Choreography doesn't change from the start of the season to the end.
No, actually, my ideas were to benefit all of the Base Value, GOE, and PCS. I never insulted you about your question either, unless you think that thorough explanation and description of how it would fit together and work better is insulting? Apparently anything that gives legitimacy to what I say is insulting to you, though. As for your last sentence, you completely misunderstood the context and meaning. It was not a literal statement.
Look, it's the same person who suggested Miki Ando's Gold at the 2011 World = judging favortism due to earthquakes in Japan and that Ando should be no better than 5th.
I never said Ando's 2011 Gold was due to the earthquakes in Japan (especially seeing as how she was being overscored before that took place), I only mentioned that such a thing could have created extra sympathy. I believe Ando deserved to place 4th at the 2011 Worlds based upon the skating at the event and I gave very specific and complete protocol breakdowns and analyses of the performances. You are the person who always agrees with the judging 100% of the time and provides little or no reasoning to support your viewpoints, instead just resorting to name-calling when others have given very valid criticisms.
..is it an expression I can use?
