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(This was a reply to a thread on Tumblr on how ridiculous Victor’s free program from “last season” was.)
The only skater who bothers jumping 4 quads in his free skate is Jin Boyang, and he is ridiculously young and springy. Also who the heck does 4T as their last jump pass, never mind 4T–3T! Your last jump pass is for the easy jumps! The only reason anyone even bothers putting quads in the latter half of the program is because of the 10% bonus, as you’re going to be tired to death by then.
Also no choreographer worth their salt would have a program go directly from dicey quad combo into a spin combo at the very end of the program, because they would add a time delay in case the skater fell. Not completing your spin combo, or not completing your program on time, are both disastrous.
At least Victor didn’t have a 4Lo in his program or that would be the height of impossibility—reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu only landed the first one ever in competition this month. Of course, the only person who does the 4Lz rather than 4S–3T or 4T–3T (or *-2T) is Adam Rippon because he loves lutzes that much.*
(*By regulation, you are only allowed to jump one of each type of jump per program, but you can get around this by doing combos. So skaters fit three quads in one program by comboing one of them.)
The only skater who bothers jumping 4 quads in his free skate is Jin Boyang, and he is ridiculously young and springy. Also who the heck does 4T as their last jump pass, never mind 4T–3T! Your last jump pass is for the easy jumps! The only reason anyone even bothers putting quads in the latter half of the program is because of the 10% bonus, as you’re going to be tired to death by then.
Also no choreographer worth their salt would have a program go directly from dicey quad combo into a spin combo at the very end of the program, because they would add a time delay in case the skater fell. Not completing your spin combo, or not completing your program on time, are both disastrous.
At least Victor didn’t have a 4Lo in his program or that would be the height of impossibility—reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu only landed the first one ever in competition this month. Of course, the only person who does the 4Lz rather than 4S–3T or 4T–3T (or *-2T) is Adam Rippon because he loves lutzes that much.*
(*By regulation, you are only allowed to jump one of each type of jump per program, but you can get around this by doing combos. So skaters fit three quads in one program by comboing one of them.)
