While Transitions are no longer a standalone Program Component, entries and exits to elements will still be rewarded under Composition. For example one of the Composition criteria is Connections Between and Within the Elements. Judges will be looking for continuity of movement throughout the program and units of movement throughout the composition. A unit of movement = movements + element + movements. Creative, difficult or unexpected entries will be rewarded in the connection between and within elements criteria. Where units of movement and choreography match the musical phrasing, this will be rewarded in the Choreography Reflecting Musical Phrase and Form criteria. Creative and multidimensional movements throughout the program can be rewarded in the Multidimensional Movements and Use of Space. Where a skater performs a program that has movements threaded throughout that create a coherent and meaningful composition (ie clear mood, theme or concept based on the music) this will be rewarded in the Unity criteria. Maybe I am telling you what you already know but I hope my thoughts are helpful. There is a lot less overlap between the criteria now but to me nothing important has been lost. If anything, better judging of Composition and Presentation as well as Skating Skills (which now includes quality of movements executed throughout the program) should result from the move to 3 PCSs and lead to better and fairer judging of skaters. My hope is that judges will feel more empowered to reward skaters who demonstrate superior composition and presentation skills regardless of the level or difficulty of the technical elements they execute and/or their skating skills. So if you perform a Quad it doesn’t mean your skating skills are at least 7 - they could be average (5s) or fair (4s) or above average (6s). Judges should be able to give positive GOEs for well executed 3As and Quads and not be afraid to give PCS scores in the 4s, 5s or 6s if that is the level a skater demonstrates on the day… and of course to go lower or higher when that is merited by what the skater does on the day. I believe the move to a split panel where judges only focus on judging GOEs or PCSs will be another helpful change. This was rejected at the recent ISU Congress but it is going to be trialed at some ISU competitions in the coming seasons and will be presented as a motion to be voted on at the next ISU Congress. Without wanting to make excuses for poor judging, it is very difficult to focus on all of the detail of technical elements and all the detail of program components at the same time. There is only so much a person can focus on and their brain can process at one time. There were 27 criteria in the 5 PCS system that judges were supposed to evaluate as well as evaluating technical elements. The move to 3 PCSs brings a reduction to 13/14 criteria (Pairs, Ice Dance and Synchro include Unison) which is more realistic and a move to split panels where a judge only has to focus on identifying and assessing the 13/14 PCS criteria will be another helpful step towards getting better and fairer judging of our beautiful sport of figure skating

@@aalleennoo if truly that is the way it goes then it will be better judging. Unless of course judges are biased towards some skaters, we know that happens. I think people just want to be sure that the most talented in all areas are scored the way they should be.

@@annestep4868 that is what I hope will happen too Ann. Let’s hope judging will improve. The ISU now addresses bias explicitly in all judge training. You can see it on the ISU e-learning platform resources. We all bring biases to every situation including judges when they are judging. The ISU wants judges to be aware of the different biases that can impact on their judging and to consciously avoid those biases impacting on the scores skaters receive. It’s not just biases for or against certain skaters, it’s also availability bias, confirmation bias, availability heuristic, halo effect, anchoring and affinity bias. We all want fair judging with score that reflect talent, skill and what skaters demonstrate on the day

what a shame...ISU does everything possible lately to kill the sport...(

yeah he constantly surprises us with something different!! So happy he's continuing!! 😆😆

Yes Yuzuru Hanyu performed the most difficult and beautiful jumps yet I did not see any 5 + GOE scores on those. Some judges need to check up their eyes. LOL. I wonder if those same judges watch the performances after and repented???

💓💓💓 Always love their special transitions! Figure skating is beautiful because of these skating!

ikr! So happy!! This is long overdue!! 😀😀

Unfortunately.... No longer coz Yuzu announced his retirement 😭😭😭😭

@@AishiBhattacharyaOfficial Oh dear, I was disheartened when I heard about his retirement :(

Me too!! I rewatched that for a thousand times!!!

Yeah they just wanna make their judging easier with less criteria 😫😫

I feel it might be political?

I think because also the Russians overused them. They have lots of transitions that only lead to more transitions. It hides lack of skating skills

@@MsJubjubbird i look at the entire program when I watch figure skating! and as Yuzuru said, high technique produces high artistry. you can see it everytime he performs..

@@victoriar9728 the entire program is important. Buit the judges also have to look at individual elements. I also think you can be a very technical skater with not great artistry. Miki Ando was a great jumper but lacked artistry. Nancy Kerrigan probably lost to Oksana because of lack of artistry, even if she was the better technician.

Why would « being small » not look good ??

@@maouimaisnon2535 OK I correct my sentence:In MY opinion a tiny man with short legs doesnt look good

I like short skaters. So much power in a smaller package is visually exciting for me. But, you can't get mad at someone just because they don’t visually like it. You can't like everything and this idea we are supposed to pretend to like things we don't like is preferring dishonesty to truth and some people do prefer the dishonesty but we don't all have to.

Each time someone talks about small skaters, I think Midori Ito ❤

@@kadovax6567 who is this?

o anı asla unutma!! 👆💓

Никогда не сомневайтесь в Ханю! 😀😀

La inepta isu debería crear una categoría para *«dunk» y/o jumps de patinaje artístico*, no les da pena ni vergüenza haber convertido este hermoso deporte en un circo mal hecho de quads y triples ejecutados sin gracia, elegancia, fluidez, vaya el medallista olímpico actual salió a competir con una pijama y recibió puntajes altísimos por sus quads que no hicieron match más que en una sola ocasión, la isu ya hizo todo lo que estuvo a su alcance para que el deporte llamado patinaje artístico muera... ¿Ahora me pregunto si podrá hacer algo más errático de todo lo que ha venido haciendo desde que Hanyu fue senior hasta su retiro?

WOW!!! Ok we will keep making videos 💪💪

Ya somos dos... Aprendo tanto de sua vídeos tan completos y de comentarios por admiradores y conocedores del patinaje artístico...

Yes it's always those special moments that touched our hearts..

I kinda agree with you to some extent. Yeah when watching the old skating footage 20-30 years ago, there's a lot of two foot skating pre / post the jumps. Skaters like Hanyu changed all that! But honestly not sure whether in the future it would go back to the "old era" of two foot without transition with new rules 😫

It takes integrity to keep doing what one thinks it’s good for the sport regardless of the rules. For now, I can only see Yuzu sticking to it. Do you think younger generations will still work on difficult transitions when they’re not rewarded? Take the latest ogm, he used to show SS in his junior years but then he went full jumps because they’re what ISU wanted. He’s part of the degrading of the beauty of FS.

ISU always screws up everything around them. The most corrupted and incompetent sports organization ever.

need to wait 1 season and see how it goes.. Keeping our fingers crossed 😖

👏👏

２人のジャンプをみると、プレロテがあまり大きくないですね。