I hate that Disturbed cover of “Sound of Silence” and thought James/Cipres skate to it was nice at Euros but quite overrated.
The La La Land soundtrack is much better suited to skating than most post-2010 introduced warhorses and I don’t groan when I hear it.
I like the old school quickstep, tap, Singin’ in the Rain style programs and choices. Most of the problem is the Ice Dance rules that ruin the ability for the skaters/choreographers to truly go ham with it. I also think those choices are more daring than the “In my Shirt” type of programs fans somehow convinced themselves are automatically more artistic. The art is in the skater, not the choice. P/C are artists because they could do Singin’ in the Rain and make one feel like they’re back in 1951 and watching that for the first time.
I truly hate what COP has done to spins and how skaters put them in programs that I prefer 1990s style spins. That’s saying a lot when they were way under appreciated, and still developing until the baby ballerinas of the 2000s came and raised the game. The evolution of spins were moving along fine until COP killed them. The unpopular part of this is me thinking spins were better utilized in the 1990s and more awe-inducing when you saw a great one.
Skating needs a shake up and a huge change with the current SP and LP format and I actually approved of the ISU’s thrown away idea of a technical and artistic skate but knowing the ISU and the judges who don’t know what PCS truly is, it would have been botched anyway and the AP would have just been protocol judging based on politicks.
That goes into my next segue…I fear skating is going in a direction where I may stop being a hardcore fan in a few years.
Everyone’s PCS should be lowered by like twenty or more points except for Jason Brown and other skaters who actually provide real programs with real attention to performance and dance. The skaters with multiple quads can still win with TES and quads take energy so it’s understandable that they saves tend to save performance towards the end, but if one makes that sort of choice, it should reflect in PCS. Maybe increase quad values if one is worried that a program with all triples will beat a messy one with multiple quads I don’t know.
I want transitions out of GOE. They should be taken more seriously in PCS, but jumps should only be judged on quality of the actual jump which include correct entrances, run of blade on landing, landing position, musicality, ease of entering and exiting (no muscling), and height/length of said jump in proportion to size of skater.
There should be deductions for ugly and too many transitions. Posture, carriage, and leg line need to be a major part of GOE/PCS for all disciplines.
, but he absolutely has the personality to go bounding around the ice being all goofy and doing cool tricks.
