Can anyone do a triple Walley or triple inside Axel?
I've never seen seen those triples attempted or heard credible reports of such attempts. I think someone did say Jozef Sabovcik had attempted double and triple walley in the 1980s, in practice, but it could be the reported triple attempts were just awkward doubles.
However, if you add them to the Scale of Values, I would expect we would see a non-negligible number of double attempts within the first couple years they can gain points. Then a small percentage of those skaters who master the doubles would then go on to start working on triples. Might take a decade or so before anyone has them competition ready.
But if the SoV can include jumps up to 5Lz (base value 14.00) that no one has ever done yet, why not 3W and 3IA (or whatever their codes would be)? I'd suggest base values of about 7.00 and 9.00 respectively, but hey, get some quadmasters who are bored with their current repertory to experiment with them and see what they think about the difficulty of those triples relative to 3A.
In hockey, the puck goes in the net, you get one point. Yay! I get it!
In hockey, there is only one way to earn points. The interest and the complexity come from the unpredictable variety of ways one team can negotiate the defense of the other team to achieve that one thing -- getting the puck in the net.
In figure skating, there are hundreds of ways to earn points if you consider all the combinations and variations of skills, and errors, that add and subtract from the point totals.
If you're the kind of person who finds that level of complexity a turnoff, you're already not the target audience for this sport.
But if you enjoy watching skaters move across the ice at speed in different patterns, jump up and rotate and land, spin in different positions, all while trying to reflect nuances of the music accompanying their performances, you want to understand how they're scoring points while doing all those things, some of which you enjoy very much to watch and others you don't mind...
It can be summed with a brief explanation along the lines of "Skaters earn technical points for each element they do. Elements are scored on difficulty, reflected in base values for each element, as determined by a panel of technical experts, and quality (both positive and negative) reflected in grades of execution from the judges. Judges also award scores to each program as a whole in three areas: Composition, Performance, and Skating Skills.
If you're interested in details about how the scores are determined for each of these areas, here are links to the official documentation..."
The casual fan will understand the basic principles but won't care about the details.
The fans who do care about the details and want to do the research and come someplace like Golden Skate to argue about them have that option, to dive as deep as their level of interest takes them. That's part of the fun for many fans. If you're not one of those people, either this isn't the sport for you, or you can just enjoy watching the exciting movement and understand the general principles of the scoring without spending time researching details.
that's the kind of competiton i'd watch more readily.
