Now none of this should be a surprise. Frank is a notorious curmudgeon. He's like the grumpy uncle every has to listen to complaining about the loud kids on the bus when he comes over for holiday meals.
As for what he said, I am of two minds on this. On the one hand, Frank does have a point about Tuk's more immature presentation being somewhat overscored due to her technical content. I say this not because I think he's coming at this from a pure position, but because his own skaters have also received such benefit at times over the years. He knows it when he sees it. That brings up my other perspective, which is that Frank has certainly benefited from the same things he criticizing in Tuk with his own skaters. He was practically the go to coach for young American female skating prodigies for several decades. He had his share of success and failure with them. Many did flame out due to height, weight, injury, burnout, emotional problems etc. Still because of all that experience, He knows not to get worked up about her yet. He had his own perfectly formed champion with textbook technique who did not quite make it, Tiffany Chin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9pApU53W0 (flawless triple axel as a 14 year old about 30 years ago.)
