The Future of Figure Skating

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A podcast about making figure skating healthier, more inclusive, and more joyful. Find us on major podcast apps, Spotify and YouTube. Hosted by @choreosequence.bsky.social

Quote: Everybody is saying, let's make figure skating more popular. How do you make that happen? ...I heard some of the core figure skating fans were talking about ‘well, the results are already made. The judges are already discussing the results.’ It’s not true. But the problem is objectivity... The skaters, the coaches, even the judges, and also the fans, they want some fairness. But these days we can't secure that, because the human eye cannot measure those details....So, AI to support judging, not AI to take over the judging, but to support the judges, it is mandatory....Otherwise, we're gonna lose lots of fans, which we don't like.
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What was helpful for me when I was skating, was that I lived with a host family...l would come home and they would be like, we're doing family board game night, if you want to play games with us... they knew about my skating but they weren't going to not allow me to play the board game because l fell on my throw. If had a bad day at skating today and I fell on everything, my home life was still the same. People still cared about me.
Madison Hubbell and Gabriella Papadakis sit on a couch side by side. I think now the burden falls upon the ISU to figure out how to open the door up into those more international and you know those events that the kids dream about participating in because you're asking families to invest many years and tens of thousands of dollars and all of this effort and to imagine that you become extremely successful the top of Canada and you won't be allowed to participate internationally doesn't really make sense. But I do have a lot of faith, you know, talking with the ISU representatives, and I have faith that this is the direction that they want to go, and they're very open to it. It's just more a matter of trying to figure out how the rules will work, and to be honest, somebody needs to try it and be willing to take that chance to figure out how it's going to work.
Text post reading: “Do we need leveled elements: a debate from The Runthrough November 6, 2024. Adam Rippon: ‘And I think a lot of what we see now is like a lot of sophisticated kind of bullshit. It doesn't make any sense, doesn't have any sort of musicality to it. It's just being thrown in to be like, look at me, I'm doing all of this flashy stuff before things…. I hate these programs where there's nonstop fucking junk bullshit, turn, turn, turn, no crossovers, whatever. I understand the complexity of the transitions and all of that stuff. But like, there's something to be said about beautiful classic skating.’