But later in the article, "Johnson admits NHK Trophy, plus the 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit – and any later season assignments he might earn – may mark the final competitions of his career. He is determined to savor them." SAD.
There was quite a lot of criteria posted from USFS. Short of an actual score for each competition (disadvantages rising skaters like Bradie) or televising the discussions (LOL), I'm not sure how much more they could give.
Are you joking? They're painfully obvious and only become more stark on replay. It's nothing to do with "landing on the toe pick" (everybody lands on the toepick otherwise you're gonna have a bad time). He's not rotating. Plain and simple.
I don't think the USFSA would think it's in their interest to go soft on Vincent at Nationals if he's then going to be sent to Worlds and get nailed again by the international panels (assuming this continues for the remainder of the season), potentially harming Team USA's spots for next year.
Other Federations publish lists of how much weight is given to each competition. This can be anything from a better placement than one's rivals at one specific competition, such as Four Continents, to taking an average or total of Total Scores from designated competitions. Federations that have done so at one time or another include Australia, Germany, and Japan.
, which is what we have now. Or the USFSA could go back to choosing the highest finishers, barring an extremely compelling reason for not doing so (such as a top skater's missing Nationals due to illness or injury).
You mean sad for his fans? I'm happy for Alex that he finally gets to compete in a Grand Prix at the age of 28... and it's Japan! And he showed some quality skating in the SP!
My view, though I don't claim to be an expert in the coaching department, is that maybe it would be better to take a huge step back. Stop doing quads for a while - or pick one he can actually get called around in competition and just work with one. Get the triples nice and big and clean, and one, or two quads called clean - even take it back to the toe and Salchow. Do that for a while, build up some nice goodwill for consistency and also start stacking up the clean protocols. Then, and only then, start re-introducing the harder quads. Yes, it will take time, but this is the perfect time to do it! We're at the beginning of the quad, it's still four years til the next Olympics, and Vincent's only just turned 18.
That will make nationals exciting and worlds a bit scary.
eta: On a different note, this year no one is showing himself as the US fed's reliable goto for the team, except our noted Yalee.
). The judges, on the other hand....well, you saw Vincent's PCS. But then they were not as generous to Ashley Wagner as they could have been, but that's another topic.
I honestly think his PCS scores are fine. He's 0,25 behind Matteo Rizzo in PCS in the SP, and he's definitely not better than Matteo in PCS imo, even with Matteo's jump errors (well actually I think Matteo is quite a bit better in this area, but even if you disagree, no way he's behind Vincent).
Well, that explains a lot!
I'm not sure how much of an impact it would really have had though, since he wasn't that much better at Skate America.
My point was that he's had the UR issues at tons of competitions, so you can't just blame it on the shoulder. He said he'd trained well before SA, and he had tons. And I don't think he was going to fix them that much in the couple of weeks from then until NHK, regardless of the shoulder.
: http://www.isuresults.com/events/gpjgpf1819/Entries_JuniorMen.htm
