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- Jan 12, 2018
I care that Brown doesn’t jump quads by this simple reason. To me, a laywoman that I am, Brown, Cha, Boyang, Tomono, Kagiyama and Hiwatashi all skate prettily/smoothly and with a good speed, all spin fast.
When I open their scoring sheets, I can clearly see Cha’s 4 under-rotations and I saw Boyang pop two quads while he skated (whereas Brown popped only one).
But when it comes to Tomono and Kagiyama I can’t distinguish what they did wrong and/or worse than Brown, and they both had more difficult technical content.
I care that Brown doesn’t jump a quad because his scores are an anomaly that I cannot explain away, so I have to take the result on its face value, and I have to trust that he does something that I cannot perceive.
And I don’t like not knowing. The other day someone posted a run down of all the elements that go into Chen’s skate showing how composite and complicated it was. If someone broke down Brown’s like that next to the other skaters’, it would helps me.
The difference between Brown and Tomono/Kagiyama is the GOE's and the PCS. Tomono had a few iffy jumps/landings throughout the program, and the quality of both Tomono/Kagiyama in general just isn't as high. Brown has some of the best spins and footwork in the world (or ever probably) and he very rarely loses levels on them. The transitions and his programs skating wise are insanely difficult all the way through (I especially love the transitions into his 3F in his short for example, but the transitions in the long are also gorgeous) and to add to this his jumps (although they are triples) are textbook and almost always perfect which warrants the extremely high (deservedly) GOE's he gets. On the PCS side, in my opinion he's the best skater in the world (some may not agree with this, even if you don't you have to admit he's wayyyy up there). the basic SS and the interpretation,difficulty and flow (there's other things I can't remember the words for) are so perfect that he gets extremely high (also deservedly) PCS. So basically, Brown wins by maximizing the points for what he does compared to the others.