For her PCS to increase, Osmond needs to work on her overall presentation in her freeskates ... I find them lacking the right personality and presentation that her SP shows.
The jump layout you show---3F+3T, 3Z, 2A, 3T, 3S, 3F, 2A+2T+2T---has only two combinations. So she's forgoing the 2A+3T for the 3F+3T? No real difference there, in fact she's losing a 2T.
It's still the same layout as before. She can't do 3F+3T AND 2A+3T AND 3T because that would be repeating 3T one time too many. It's still a max 6 triples. There is also a new rule being proposed which would limit the repetition of doubles. Skaters wouldn't be able to do three 2Ts in the same program, making it necessary for them to learn 2L in order to do all the combos.
But a +1 on a 3F is worth more than a +1 on a 2A. It works out to about the same in the end.
But there's psychologically something "better" about doing a 3-3.
I think judges account for that greater difficulty in PCS. A 3Z-3T and a solo 2A has the same BV as a 2A-3T and a solo 3Z, but everyone knows the former is more difficult to pull off.
Kostner's FS didn't have a 3-3 planned in her Worlds FS (and her 3F+3T was unplanned and fell), and yet her PCS was the highest at Worlds... not to mention, a personal best for her... with a fall. Lipnitskaia and Gold both fell in their Olympic individual freeskates, and got higher PCS than their clean individual FS. So, I'm not following this logic that Osmond needs to stop falling to bring her PCS up, when other skaters have fallen all year and their PCS has seen increases.
For her PCS to increase, Osmond needs to work on her overall presentation in her freeskates ... I find them lacking the right personality and presentation that her SP shows. Obviously, skating cleaner will help (duh), but she's clearly shown that she's capable of skating clean competitions, she (like Gold and Li) just has to do it internationally. Doing an extra double axel instead of a 3L (which, mind you, Kim does too) isn't really a big deal either... it's less than 2 points of difference. Not to mention, she doesn't do a 3-3 in her FS because she doesn't want to use up the 3T as the repeated triple (note that skaters like Suzuki, Meite and Kostner employ this same strategy and don't go for 3T-3T in their FS).
Next season, if she's in healthy form, her intended FS layout will probably look something like: 3F+3T, 3Z, 2A, 3T, 3S, 3F, 2A+2T+2T. If she learns the loop (which she doesn't attempt at the moment), then it could increase to 7 triples, but as Kim (who doesn't do a loop) and Kostner (who won Worlds without a lutz), it's not completely essential to have all 5 triples. Obviously Osmond isn't nearly the same calibre, but she's not giving up more than 2 or 3 points by opting for a 2A instead of a 3L.
This. :thumbsup:
I loved her SP but I found her FS missing something. I don't know what it was but I didn't like it.
Lipnitskaia's PCS boost hasn't entirely been due to delivering all season - a lot of it has been Russia-devised boosting. Ever since Cup of Russia where she got a personal best PCS for a freeskate with 3 triples, higher PCS than her clean FS at Skate Canada prior to it. Lipnitskaia also failed to deliver in the Sochi individual FS where she also got a personal best PCS (and she also had a bad SP). And then at Worlds she had a poor FS but was essentially saved by Kostner bombing and Pogorilaya getting significantly lower PCS than her.
She did however deliver clean skates at Skate Canada, Euros, and the Sochi team event, and was thus the most consistent skater this season. But it's inaccurate to say she delivered all season. And of course she's way more consistent than Osmond/Gold/Wagner/Li/Murakami.
Consistency and PCS is a relative matter. Hanyu fell in every competition this season (except Finlandia where he singled a 3A), and his PCS still steadily increased in a manner similar to Lipnitskaia.
It's ludicrous to think Lipnitskaia's PCS boost was all program related. She got a personal best PCS at CoR for 3 triples... her flawed individual Sochi FS was a personal best PCS too, compared to her clean team FS the week before. How does a skater go from 59 PCS for a clean FS at Finlandia to 70 PCS for a FS with a fall and a stepout in Sochi?! Must be the dress.
I don't get why you're comparing Julia with Osmond... I acknowledge that Julia is far more consistent than Osmond. I was addressing the false statement that Julia delivered all season, which merited her PCS boost.
It's ludicrous to think Lipnitskaia's PCS boost was all program related. She got a personal best PCS at CoR for 3 triples... her flawed individual Sochi FS was a personal best PCS too, compared to her clean team FS the week before. How does a skater go from 59 PCS for a clean FS at Finlandia to 70 PCS for a FS with a fall and a stepout in Sochi?! Must be the dress.
As for Hanyu, he's fallen on his 4T and 3F this season (remember the Worlds SP and the Olympics FS?). He's also landed the 4S prior to Worlds, btw.
"The only one in that lumped group who won no international medal this season was guess who?"
Ooh, lemme guess, the only one in that lumped group who was injured and didn't even skate half of last season?
The point of that "lumping" was that there were plenty of skaters last season who failed to produce clean skates most of the season, so to hold it against Osmond (who was coming off injury at that) is ridiculously lame. The closest skater who competed all of last season who skated the closest to clean and consistent was Lipnitskaia, and even she lost Russian Nationals due to an error in her SP, fell in her Olympics SP/FS, and fell in her Worlds FS. That's hardly "delivering all season", even she had the most clean competitions of any singles skater last season.
And if you wanna give brownie points to Gold's SC bronze for holding off Gao/Lacoste/Hicks and Li's 4CC bronze for holding off Hicks/Imai/Chartrand, be my guest.
I think they were only rivals for the past season (though they qualify as a rivalry far more than Li vs. Osmond ). Before that, Chan vs. Takahashi was the rivalry.Chan v. Yuzu 12-14 was a rivalry