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I'm obviously not the OP, but I don't think anyone is advocating for deliberately misusing IJS. I think the posters skylark mentions are referring to programs such as the modified version of IJS that USFS uses at its lower-level competitions. (I don't know what other federations do, and a conversation on those comparative lines would probably best be left to its own thread.) These modifications are clearly laid out in a published document every year; the latest document is here. The most relevant of these modifications is the bonus points that skaters receive for executing more difficult jumps than are strictly necessary at that level.
If I understand correctly, those bonuses are applied by the technical controller, not the judges. So skaters get the feedback of actual judges' scores, without any mandated overscoring or manipulation of BV, GOE, or PCS criteria. But their final placements are affected by the bonuses added to those scores, so they have an incentive to master and perform more difficult technical content.
If it were up to me, I might give the full bonus only to qualifying fully-rotated jumps, and a smaller bonus to under-rotated jumps, to create a stronger incentive to get the technique right. But more experienced posters might have strong counter-arguments for continuing to give the full bonus to under-rotated as well as fully-rotated jumps.
Apologies for driftingtopic:
Thank you very much for explanations
Now all's clear for me... By the way - I can agree with some kind of bonus for UR'ed jump (not big - because still UR is UR and it should still be the pushing to master the right and clean technique). But still it should be a punish for fall... Because sorry but the fallen jump is not an executed jump doesn't matter how many revolutions in the air was done... And I'ts just a matter of skater's safety and health (you will not argue that falls don't make skaters safer or healthier).And great spin technique shall also be revarded - just because I see here and there that judges often close their eyes on some mistakes in spins like travelling of weak positions. Like GOE + for Brown's spin with "V" on nationals. For me that also does not make our sports better.
And of course +2 for Jasons popped jump - the problem to address as well...
I hope she’s ok.
.However. Mie is a pretty harsh coach despite her smiles in the k&c. I don’t like the quotes she gives about her students. Criticism should be given to a skaters face in a reasonable way, not through the press.
