I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to Tango Romantica with you.

[mosca]

Wow! There's a lot of you new here. This is exciting.

If you're just joining me, I'd appreciate it if you read my friending policy in my userinfo. I'm a grad student in the middle of dissertation hell, and I can barely get through my friends list as it is. I am really really glad to have new readers and look forward to getting to know people, and

Comments

[mecurtin]

From the outside, the subdivisions of the PCS seem ... obscure. Which part PCS covers porte de bras? As a non-skater, the variation in arm movement and expressivity at the highest level is really striking -- it makes it seem as though e.g. Takahashi and Plushenko aren't even doing the same sport.

[mosca]

I think you're looking at this from a classical/modern dance perspective, and the thing to remember is that figure skating is not dance. Except in ice dance, where the holds matter, there's no protocol for how skaters are expected to use their arms. A skater might pick up points in Performance and/or Interpretation for graceful, fluid, and musical arm movements, but there's a lot of room for personal style, and you're not punished per se for having bad hands.

One very valid criticism of the CoP is that the five components of the PCS are not rigorously defined. It has been strongly implied that the ISU plans to unvague that in time for the next Olympics.

[callmesandy]

I love that picture of Jeremy to death - it's just funny because one of the skating tumblrs has it as their icon so I see it and think "oh, love the ice" and my fingers start looking for the reblog button.

Jeremy makes the awesomest faces.

[mosca]

It's one of my favorite pics of him, and it has so many uses as an icon. I love using it when I know nobody will know who he is or why he is making that face.

You can totally reblog me if you wanna, just don't put my real name on it.

[shetiger]

because I think Jeremy Abbott is more Adam's type.

Well, yeah, because he's Kris Allen.

I'm sorry, that was like so totally not the point of this very cool post, but I had to say it. I was compelled by some invisible force.

[mosca]

The most relevant difference between Jeremy Abbott and Kris Allen is that Jeremy is not married.

[mandysbitch]

Adam/ Johnny: you know, it should be obvious (or maybe not? Why *should* sparkly people be paired with other sparkly people), but I just can't see it. Not even to talk about shoes. Too much diva going on in one space? I don't know.

[mosca]

I am glad I'm not alone in this!

I think they'd get along, though, at least long enough to have a fashion-related conversation. Both are reported to be pretty nice people underneath all the hair product and feathers.

[spicklething]

I still have a lot of trouble wrapping my lobes around the scoring system

[mosca]

The emotional part of me thought he deserved bronze.

That's exactly it. Weir's performance was beautiful and stirred the emotions. It was excellent art. But Takahashi put forth the better competitive performance.

Plushenko is one of the sorest losers I've seen in any sport. Everyone outside of Russia seems to be appalled. I think Lysacek actually summed it up best (and I'm paraphrasing): if this were a jumping competition, the judges would give you 20 seconds to go out there and do your best jump. The fact that they give you 4:40 means they're looking for something beyond that.

[txvoodoo]

Plushenko seems to be believing his own PR circa 2004!

How have you and I not talked olympics yet?

[ashfae]

I've really been looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this; thanks for the entry. =)

[mosca]

You're welcome. Hope it helped.