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- Jan 11, 2014
And yet some people would say that Shibs slow down before the twizzles and therefore make them easier than a team that heads into them with total abandon and at break neck speed. I am not one of these people but I've seen it argued here.
You tube is a terrible place but there are worse ones. People should be able to dislike something, say they dislike it without being insulting and rude and without being insulted back. The death of civil discourse is a sad fact of life.
I have, for example, a Davis and White problem in that I've never liked their skating much. I can watch it, acknowledge that it's great skating and yet feel nothing when they skate and I have no idea why. I think they deserve their Olympic victory but even though I am fan of Virtue and Moir I didn't like their programs at the Olympics either. So it's not that I'm a V/M fan and therefor not a D/W fan. I want to like them but I just don't. It's not hatred or seething resentment (I have no idea how people watch figure skating with those kind of thoughts in their head) but rather a big ole "meh". My favourite routines for the Olympic year were Péchalat and Bourzat little prince FD and Weaver and Poje's SD. Were they the best? No. But they were my favourites. Maybe we need to learn to distinguish between what is the best skating and what is our favourite skating. Not the same things in the end.
I dread, dread, dread (3 dreads is a hairdo) +5. Not that there are not elements that deserve a plus 5 but because I don't like how GOEs seem to be tossed around as it is. Give them more weight and it could just become a big boondoggle if the judges don't do it fairly.
You tube is a terrible place but there are worse ones. People should be able to dislike something, say they dislike it without being insulting and rude and without being insulted back. The death of civil discourse is a sad fact of life.
I have, for example, a Davis and White problem in that I've never liked their skating much. I can watch it, acknowledge that it's great skating and yet feel nothing when they skate and I have no idea why. I think they deserve their Olympic victory but even though I am fan of Virtue and Moir I didn't like their programs at the Olympics either. So it's not that I'm a V/M fan and therefor not a D/W fan. I want to like them but I just don't. It's not hatred or seething resentment (I have no idea how people watch figure skating with those kind of thoughts in their head) but rather a big ole "meh". My favourite routines for the Olympic year were Péchalat and Bourzat little prince FD and Weaver and Poje's SD. Were they the best? No. But they were my favourites. Maybe we need to learn to distinguish between what is the best skating and what is our favourite skating. Not the same things in the end.
I dread, dread, dread (3 dreads is a hairdo) +5. Not that there are not elements that deserve a plus 5 but because I don't like how GOEs seem to be tossed around as it is. Give them more weight and it could just become a big boondoggle if the judges don't do it fairly.