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Opining on the ISU Judging System: An overview
There is just over a month away from the International Skating Union’s annual congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in June, where many proposals regarding figure skating and speedskating will be heard. For figure skating observers, chief amongst these proposals, and possible amendments should these proposals be accepted, will be those regarding the rules and regulations of the ISU Judging System (IJS).
Since the inception of the IJS, there have been a number of revisions to the scoring system, many of which have been for the better (Biellmann-mania anyone?). But there are still aspects of the IJS that are glaringly inadequate at providing a truer reflection of a skater’s program.
During the next week, Examiner Figure Skating will take a look at the current state of the IJS and how it can/should be changed in order to better suit skating and improve the fairness of scoring. What about the point values? How do you prevent difficulty from trumping error? Can we bring back technically-balanced programs? And did you know that most don’t understand how grades of execution (GOEs) are actually distributed?
And then, of course, there’s the question of some antiquated nomenclature that probably doesn’t hold up anymore as figure skating has evolved since the 6.0 era.
It will be technical, but it will be informative. So whether you are frustrated with competition results or just want to understand better about how the IJS works, stay tuned for my analysis of the ISU Judging System in the next few days.
Note: Though the agenda for the ISU Congress, which includes all the proposals that will be discussed, has been released, this analysis will be uninfluenced by proposals brought up by the ISU and its member countries so as to provide a fair analysis of the system as-is. Also, my technical expertise is best served in singles skating, though there is overlap, and so this analysis will lean more heavily toward rules for the singles disciplines.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/opining-on-the-isu-judging-system-an-overview
it’s that time of the year already..sigh!
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna KimISU released the schedules for 2012-2013 Grand Prix of Figure Skating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_ISU_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating
I read that Miki Ando is returning to competition.
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna KimThere’s news that Michelle Kwan is engaged to Clay Pell. Congrats Michelle!!
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna KimHere’s a clip of the news:
Hope Yuna can attend the wedding too
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna KimCongratulations Michelle!!
"How do you make a Kim Yuna? You can't. It's truly a gift." - Scott Hamilton -
EWC was this past weekend at Harvard. Sadly Yuna couldn’t attend this year.
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna KimWeird… I’m unable to post the url address. I keep submitting but it doesn’t show up.
seano said:
Weird… I’m unable to post the url address. I keep submitting but it doesn’t show up.
Can you show us what the URL is Seano?
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna Kimseano said:
I’m afraid I can’t. I’ve tried 10 different things: cutting and pasting both the entire url and portions, and even typing it by hand. When I submit, my entire update doesn’t show up in ATY. Must be some characters that ATY doesn’t like? Sorry to take up bandwidth with this. I have to log out and go home but I’ll check in over the weekend. Thanks for your help and have a great weekend!
That’s certainly odd. Let me check to see if it needs approval. Sorry for the inconvenience Seano!
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna KimNothing was needed for approval. Try again when you have time. See if you can get any URL posted on the forum other than that particular one.
test:
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna Kimseano said:
Let’s see if this works….
http://uverseonline.att.net/play/tv/show/u-verse-exclusive/p/video/dk___dk_exc_sp1215_dec12.mp4
Is this what you are writing about? After all, you are not crazy!!! It’s the blog, thinking it was a spam.
Sorry 
“I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.”-Yuna Kim
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