Recent content by barbk

And Fosse-inspired choreography!

A friend's daughter is an in-house counsel for a very large business with many government contracts. For a while she was responsible for signing off on exports to ensure conformance with various export restrictions, and apparently the amount of stuff that was proposed to ship to weird places...

Kevin (1st one) All his turns are counter-clockwise until the ending pose where he turns to face the judges table. Does that meet the varied directions and pattern very well? The entire sequence other than the slide feels somewhat out-of-control/edge of disaster. I guess that adds to...

Can the thread title be changed to add something like "date change!" I would have missed this entirely if I hadn't seen a note about it on reddit. The original dates didn't work for me, so I wasn't paying attention to this thread. Not sure if others might be similarly situated. I can probably...

Reddit has an interesting thread with videos showing side by side men v. women's choreography sequences with the respective scores earned for each. https://www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/comments/1sf4f7x/choreo_sequence_goe_men_vs_women/ At least to me, it does look like the men are scored...

I wonder what changes to the scoring/judging system might generate more meaningful differentiation in scores. Should the possible difficulty be increased? Longer routines? Are aspects like "stuck landing" given too much weight vs. other technical challenges?

Doping continues to be a huge issue, but I think that the Russian figure skating community is most likely very careful on that issue after the last Olympics. My belief is that some Russian coaches have figured out good ways to train the quad. That isn't a bad thing at all. The changes in...

I continue to really appreciate Tuk.

Yup. I have found that the ice dance pairs spins are usually way more interesting and effective than the pairs skaters pairs spins.

Lifts that are labored should be downgraded even if they are complex. I wish there was a more effective downgrade for slow & labored footwork, no matter how complex.

Elbows aside, I also note that they look very labored getting into that lift. It lacks the ease some of the other top teams show.

I'm sorry, but this sounds way too much like Andrew's claim that he can't sweat.

Isn't this a "field of play" issue that cannot be retroactively changed? I would not mind one bit if there was substantially more consistency in calling.

I'd say "stupid" rather than odd. Glad that didn't come back to bite him.

Super impressed that Jacob managed to score exactly 8.0 on each PCS measure. Never seen that before!