Here's a test for you
@IceSlider - how about reading the posts you're attacking. Because I have not criticized W&P's technique anywhere in this thread. In fact I said it
improved because of the quality of the competition they were up against.
And as for you being a more credible commentator because you've skated forever and were trained by Hall of Fame members, yeah, whatever. That boasting certainly doesn't fit with the humility you claim to have learned from them.
So, I note you swerved the test overedge, and rightly so.
But let's get the sequence right, 1) you commented on my posting and "attacked". that. 2) You didn't like my response so told me not to read the boards, another attack. Japanfan chimed in. So far from "attacking" your postings in general, I was responding to posting you initiated.
As for "boasting" I suggest you take your own test first, read all my postings and see if there is evidence if that behaviour elsewhere in them. No? What a surprise, generally boastful people boast and you'll see that pattern.
So, inconvenient as it may be to your theory, there must be another reason I put that context there other than a need to "boast". And that reason is clear in the posts themselves, namely that I do not accept that you are qualified offer an informed opinion on the technique of people skating at that level (although I accept you have a right to your opinion and the right to voice it, as I have said). The context was offered to explain why that is.
Which brings us neatly back to your post quoting the "Unless you're an ISU technical specialist..." portion of mine.
The more general point I'd make is that these skaters work really hard to get to that level. If indeed people are the skating fans, it would be great if they recognised that instead of offering up armchair and uninformed critiques of technical elements that they are (in my view) not qualified to give.
For the record, I don't follow a country or team, I just love to see good skating knowing that the very "worst" of people at that level on their worst days are far superior to me on my very best days, and appeciating just how much has gone into them being able to do that. I believe that deserves respect not denigration.
I might not like a particular performance, connect with it or be moved by it but I'll sure as heck thank them for spending endless hours and caring enough to put it together, polish and perform it to try and delight.
Oh and if you're going to take my words, please quote them correctly and not rephrase them to give try and give them a new meaning I said "humility on judging others technical accomplishment." Words are like good technique, best done with precision, especially when "quoted"
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