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Save Skating: November 2009
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A blog by Monica Friedlander • Saveskating.com. Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Shrinking Judging Panels: A Bane for Figure Skating. What sports other than figure skating can you think of in which a working judge or key official could go missing smack in the middle of a major international competition without any kind of public announcement or explanation? And that only three short months before the 2010 Olympic Games! Of which only five count towards the final score. It was all because of a judging scanda...
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Save Skating: January 2010
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A blog by Monica Friedlander • Saveskating.com. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Skating Needs a Presentation Mark Again. Just compare the spread in judges' scores for the two sets of marks. The difference between Flatt and Nagasu on the technical element score was a whopping 12.11 points in the long program. Yet Nagasu only outscored Flatt in components by s. Even hundredths of a point. For the top four ladies the technical spread was 22 points while the component one only three. How can artistic impres...
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Save Skating: Johnny Weir on the Judging and the System
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A blog by Monica Friedlander • Saveskating.com. Sunday, February 12, 2012. Johnny Weir on the Judging and the System. Note: This is part of an article I wrote for the "Examiner.com" featuring Johnny's Weir's comments at a press conference during 2012 Nationals. I asked the questions about the judging and the judging system. For the full article, click on the link at the bottom. I wish we had know he was going to skate like that. They should judge what happened that day.”. On his reasons for coming back.
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Stem, Flower & Toe Pick: May 2014
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All good things come in threes (.so did Ice Dance). Friday, May 16, 2014. Last month, the ISU published communications 1860. Detailing (as usual) off-season changes to the scale of values, level features and various other technical matters. More changes may be on the way following the upcoming ISU congress. About how skating could be improved. While the Carmen moratorium is probably never going to happen, there are some things that skating can still use more or less of:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Stem, Flower & Toe Pick: April 2014
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All good things come in threes (.so did Ice Dance). Friday, April 11, 2014. I've been a skating fan for most of my adult life - sometimes a dedicated fan, at other times a more casual one. With the latest Olympic season having come to an end and many of my favorite skaters ending their careers, I find myself at a fandom crossroads as I contemplate the off-season and the coming Olympic quadrennial. Even Evan Lysacek studied those stupid birds. Aliona Savchenko, representing. France. Friday, April 4, 2014.
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Stem, Flower & Toe Pick: My problem with Schindler's List programs
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All good things come in threes (.so did Ice Dance). Thursday, February 18, 2016. My problem with Schindler's List programs. At first glance, it makes sense. A well-regarded, Oscar-winning movie. A beautiful and haunting score that lends itself to interpretation. It's easy to understand why so many skaters and choreographers have used the Schindler's List score for programs. I wish some of them hadn't. About the Schindler's List free dance that they're doing this season:. This is not just about Guignard a...
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Save Skating: December 2011
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A blog by Monica Friedlander • Saveskating.com. Saturday, December 10, 2011. Rewarding Failure Diminishes Sport. If you tuned into the men’s competition at the Grand Prix Final you must have felt like Alice in Wonderland, watching a totally different event from the one ranked by the judges. The worst part is that there was nothing peculiar about this competition. This pattern of madness repeats itself event after event. Little wonder the sport is losing its last shred of credibility. The system itself...
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Save Skating: Artistic Heart of Skating Torn Out, Skaters Say
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A blog by Monica Friedlander • Saveskating.com. Sunday, January 8, 2012. Artistic Heart of Skating Torn Out, Skaters Say. Although often considered unconventional, even eccentric in his opinions, Cranston does not stand alone when it comes to his views about the state of figure skating today. Skating champions from around the world are expressing their distress about the direction the sport has taken under the International Judging System (IJS), whic. H replaced the century-old 6.0 system back in 2004.
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Stem, Flower & Toe Pick: August 2014
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All good things come in threes (.so did Ice Dance). Wednesday, August 20, 2014. A new season and a lot of questions. Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 2014-15 season, as the junior Grand Prix. Kicks off in Courchevel - with senior international competitions to follow in a few weeks time. Im still not sure how Ill feel about skating. But there are some interesting questions that will be answered over the next few months - and in some cases, the next few years:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From the Desk ...
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Stem, Flower & Toe Pick: That's entertainment: Deniss Vasiljevs, definitely!
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All good things come in threes (.so did Ice Dance). Friday, January 29, 2016. That's entertainment: Deniss Vasiljevs, definitely! Sometimes, watching Junior Worlds leads to excellent discoveries. Such was the case for me in 2014; never mind the medalists, I was was intrigued by the fourteen-year-old from Latvia. With creative spins and and a wonderfully engaging personality, Deniss Vasiljevs was a skater to watch. Vasiljevs, 2014 edition. I'll even accept the voiceover. It had better be. Stem, Flower, an...
