Hanyu actually said "I am studying skaters like Akatieva" on Russian junior ladies.
@axelsandwich omitted the entire question
@Iron_Klaus omitted her name (because she is younger than 13 ?).
For chrissake, most sports would sacrifice virgin plushie GOATS by the supertankerload (and anything else they could think of) to have their 2OGM/biggest superstar keep going, let alone keep raising his own bar the way ours does.
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Wait...how is his 3A the highest scoring element? What about Nathan's +4 GOE 4F, or even any of Yuzuru's other quads? Surely they score above 12? Unless you mean highest GOE
But I can't say I believe he actually changed things with SC though. High difficult jumps from big named skaters will continue to be rewarded with GOE even if they aren't landed all that well.
Also, the things he says about his own transitions are not true. Comparing his programs to when he first skated them, he has taken out transitions in and out of elements…
If he's had issues with the judges' GOE scoring based on transitions in and out, then his perception of transitions bolstering GOE is rather aggrandized (like many skating fans who love to consider transitions as king) compared to what the judging system actually awards.
Refer to the GOE table/jump bullets: https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/...-and-guidelines-for-marking-goe-2019-20/file:
1) very good height and very good length (of all jumps in a combo or sequence)
2) good take-off and landing
3) effortless throughout (including rhythm in Jump combination)
4) steps before the jump, unexpected or creative entry
5) very good body position from take-off to landing
6) element matches the music
Things to note:
1) Jump transitions are not worth much when it comes to GOE. Transitions into a jump (creative entry/steps) are worth merely 1 GOE bullet. And it's not even a bolded/major GOE bullet. Which means that if your jump does not have great height/distance AND great takeoff/landing AND is effortless throughout, it doesn't matter how hard or how many transitions you have going into it, you won't get higher than a +3. (And in the past, entry transitions only contributed 1 GOE bullet out of 8 and creative exit transitions were just 1 bullet... which means your overall GOE would be increased by +1, if you did both; so it's not like entry+exit transitions were historically a whole lot either).
2) The benefit of including an entry transition can be easily negated by other errors on the jump which factor into a judge's GOE (creative entry being worth only 1 bullet, and there being several areas for deduction/reduction of GOE). For example, Hanyu's 4L at SCI2019 was on a lean, had a scratchy landing and a turn out. At best, he would have earned bullets #1/4/6, and then the lean (-1 to -3) and poor landing + turn out (-2/-3) would have negated that. So really, the highest GOE he should have gotten was 0 (LOL @ the judge who gave it a +3). The current IJS does a better job of emphasis quality of bigger, effortless, well taken off/landed jumps over things like preceding steps or musical structure, which to me is a step forward. A skater, of course, can choose to add transitions to add that bullet -- but it's a senseless idea to include them if it's compromising the success rate of the jump and more valuable bullets like height/distance or a more effortless-looking execution.
3) You don't get more points for harder entry transitions. So for e.g. while a counter into 3A entry is very difficult, according to the rules it still earns the same GOE bullet as a bracket/spread eagle/double3/quick toe steps/etc. going into a 3A. Kind of goes back to that height/distance discussion from a while ago --- the highest/farthest jumper does not get more points for doing so, rather everyone who achieves a subjectively "sufficiently" very good height/length is awarded that GOE bullet. It's a checkbox.
4) Exit transitions are now worth nothing when it comes to GOE. They can of course increase the TR PCS mark but a skater should not expect their jump's score to be higher because of a creative exit now that the rules have changed.
I genuinely hope that ISU values the opinion of their superstar and from here on look more carefully at those bullet points when awarding GOE.
Saying that any athlete in any sport should retire so the rest can get on the podium basically means that "He is so better than the rest of the field that no one can catch him". Just saying
Oh my goodness. I overlooked that statement.
I've always been a fan of the true sportsman. The guy who says, "If you beat me, I salute you. But, you're going to have to beat me. I'm not giving it to you."
Edit: It's one of the reasons I think Nathan and Hanyu respect each other in a way that some of their ignoramus fans don't. Both these guys know how hard the other is working. And, because they're pushing each other so hard, we're getting to see some amazing skating.
Oh my goodness. I overlooked that statement.
I've always been a fan of the true sportsman. The guy who says, "If you beat me, I salute you. But, you're going to have to beat me. I'm not giving it to you."
Edit: It's one of the reasons I think Nathan and Hanyu respect each other in a way that some of their ignoramus fans don't. Both these guys know how hard the other is working. And, because they're pushing each other so hard, we're getting to see some amazing skating.
Back to the topic of this interview, it occurred to me that this interview may look like a sudden bout of communicative-ness on the part of Yuzuru, but this is just one of the interviews he always gives after each competition. They are all detailed and interesting, but not always shared in the main page on the Edge. -And this one covers the topic of how judging has affected his choices this season, which he doesn't usually address directly and a topic much discussed here so I guess it stands out. But many times in the past, (even at this seasons' ACI) TV and interviewers will hand him his protocol sheet and ask him to do an analysis. Those are always interesting.
I also disagree with those who admire the polite way that Yuzu addressed these issues in. For me personally, this actually makes it worse, because of its backhanded nature. And it always feels like it’s just a way to protect yourself, make you less vulnerable to attack and easier to backtrack. I hate it when people do this in my everyday life, so it also rubs me the wrong way when Yuzu uses this strategy.
Although in Yuzu’s case it might just as well be a cultural thing, I mean, I wouldn’t know, just guessing. Plus, I’m basing my impression on a fan translation and obviously I have no way of knowing how his words and phrasing come across in his native language.
4Lz was attempted many times before COP. Some succeeded, some less so. When COP introduced ISU gave 4Lz the highest BV among "basic" quads to make guys happy.
4Lo "looks" more difficult just because skaters decided to learn it at the later time. Much later.
Messi made a rather scathing comment about the organizers of the South American Cup and he was sanctioned ... a skater who disagreed with his scores in a tournament, throws negative comments to the judges and gets more flattering scores in his next competition. .. oh well, but he has so many world titles and olympics that give him the right to voice and vote, after all it is the ISU and this is figure skating