What event are you watching? P/B got level 4s for their Finnstep at TEB (and the only team to do so). Earlier, at their 1st GP in China they got a level 1 (a competition that they won).
I/K had the same issues with only one week to make any adjustments and their improvement was noticeable to both the judges and fans alike. P/B will need to work just as hard if not smarter.
I was watching the same one you were in fact you made my point. However, I was incorrect in stating that their first event was NHK; it was Cup of China. Thanks.
I'm sorry, but I still disagree: after watching closely the two set of twizzles, I think that they both deserved +2, I/K were very distant from each other during the first set and in the second their twizzles look a bit out of unison, too, you don't get that perfect-match feeling that D/W or V/M give, just as P/B, and that you should have in order to receive +3, so I think that (even if those twizzles were far better than the twizzles that I/K usually perform) both team deserved +2 for that element and that the step sequences should have really made the difference, because P/B's were executed really better
I/K had the same issues with only one week to make any adjustments and their improvement was noticeable to both the judges and fans alike. P/B will need to work just as hard if not smarter.
^^Remember how relatively empty transitions wise D/W's Phantom was in comparison to their more recent F/D's. However, they won silver and each year they developed in the areas where persons said they were lacking :yay:
I am sure that if someone has the motivation to write huge posts about the weaknesses of a couple, it means only one thing: this pair has become too strong and ready to change the balance in the dances.
Especially if these posts consists:
exaggeration ("almost 10 seconds of standing on one foot and watching at each other");
forgery ("position od Lena's free leg in last part of spin must be around 180 degrees to take it as another difficulty" - in the technical rules is written "almost" and "about" 180) ;
NLP techniques ("I more admire people who come with new things, who improves (please no notices about new lifts ...)"
and so on.
Yeah, I can agree with many, that criticism versed in figure skating fan. But the picture in any case, one-sided and not entirely objective.
I & K did a great job in the off-season and the result in this of it not only became the new lifts (and no lifts better and more difficult in 2010/11). They become greater endurance, they are more stable in the elements, Lena keeps better posture and lines, they have much better programs, costumes and exterior. They received a long standing ovation from the neutral audience on the first competition of the new season. By the way, the first in their career. It's not impressive progress?
PS. sorry about my language