Here are some lesser known free skates from the men's events at the 1998 Olympics and Worlds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHTSI3MisKc Cousins O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX499ZyEVLY Guo O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTG6swQ-T8Q Tyllesen O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIz6fHxzu2o Langdon W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFcd6q_s3E Pliuta W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-_oVk39yB4 Vidrai W
I chose these performances because they placed in the (bottom half of the) top 10 at their respective competitions but have not been analyzed to death elsewhere, they represent a fairly wide variety of approaches, and there's no authoritative version of how official panels would score them on PCS so we can just share our own evaluations without worrying whether they're "right" or "wrong."
Inspired by the discussion in the Skating Skills thread, I thought it might be interesting to discuss how we think the Skating Skills and Choreography in each of these performances should be scored, if they were being skated under IJS with 2015 expectations.
I thought it might help to focus just on two components, but feel free to mention Transitions, Performance/Execution, and Interpretation as relevant.
How would you come up with numbers for SS and CH for any or all of these programs, given your understanding of the kinds of scores that 2015 programs would receive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHTSI3MisKc Cousins O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX499ZyEVLY Guo O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTG6swQ-T8Q Tyllesen O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIz6fHxzu2o Langdon W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFcd6q_s3E Pliuta W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-_oVk39yB4 Vidrai W
I chose these performances because they placed in the (bottom half of the) top 10 at their respective competitions but have not been analyzed to death elsewhere, they represent a fairly wide variety of approaches, and there's no authoritative version of how official panels would score them on PCS so we can just share our own evaluations without worrying whether they're "right" or "wrong."
Inspired by the discussion in the Skating Skills thread, I thought it might be interesting to discuss how we think the Skating Skills and Choreography in each of these performances should be scored, if they were being skated under IJS with 2015 expectations.
I thought it might help to focus just on two components, but feel free to mention Transitions, Performance/Execution, and Interpretation as relevant.
How would you come up with numbers for SS and CH for any or all of these programs, given your understanding of the kinds of scores that 2015 programs would receive?