- Joined
- Jun 6, 2019
It's not the fact it's gala style, it's the fact that the skating itself has issues. I wouldn't mind the gimmicks if there was the highest level of skating displayed within it. And the fact that the levels and GOEs are inflated for weaker elements (less depth of edge, less kneebend, unclean turns called clean).they don't want to be put to sleep, which is what the G/F free dance does!
I understand the more "gala" style of F/G isn't to everyone's liking, and that's totally fine. Me? I just don't want to fall asleep during the FD! However, I'm seeing all the blame being placed on the judges and on Fear/Gibson, and NONE being placed on Guignard/Fabri for such a mediocre free dance. They're world silver medalists, for crying out loud! IF they had decent material, they wouldn't be in this position!
Lilah and lewis are entertaining. I never denied that once. But in sport, there must be objectivity when judging individual elements and components. There is none of that here. If you want to stop calling it a sport, and call it a performing art, then it's fine if the judges are subjective. But from a sporting perspective, the marks aren't accurate or reflective. Give charlene and marco lower performance scores, that's fine. But everything else to me is of the higher quality.