clairdelalune wrote:... Men are clearly able to perform harder elements, like quads and 3A, girls have more flexibility, they are different, no doubt, but IMO t
he difference shouldn´t mean different programs. ....
What´s the point, if the rules are the same for both, boys and girls? Nobody will ask girls to jump quads or boys to do spirals and layback spins, it´s impossible to "equalize" them and ISU knows it very well.
Your first and second sentences are contradictory
- if their programs are the same, male and female skaters should also be evaluated on same way. So what's then the difference between average male skaters, and excellent female skaters - which perform the same elements? Do they - if they have the same programs - should to compete in the same category? Why then and rules and scores dont be a same?
Who will assess - where begin male, and where female the genes - what about those, who not have highly represented "one type" of genes? If someone is on the verge to the other gender? If a woman, for example, in future had more male genes, and maybe jump quadruple? Change the rules? Why with other female skaters who cant jump quad? Or should this "female" skater move to compete with men?
If the programs are the same - in what does it consist the difference?
If they differ only by
difficulties in programs (whether we are talking here just about jumps?) - then it means that
presentations should be identical .... and measured by identical rules? But I do not see, how the "presentation" can be the same in men and women? They are inherently different by nature - accordingly, they can not have same type of presentation (artistry) ... and where is then: "same programs"?
... and so on, so on, I can go on about that forever, but now I confused myself...
I hope that you understand the main problems:
- programs (choreography) is identical in the different sexes
- but simultaneously measured by different standards
So, by me - I think that their programs need to be very much different! The point is that ISU should evaluate and favorite different things, in different sexes - in other words -
should emphasize "benefits" (and diversity) both of them! Rules, choreography and evaluation must be different ... because then we do not know which competition we are looking at!
P.S. All this is very contradictory
just because ISU "mixed together frogs and grandmothers" - as we say
Sorry, I not wanted so much and confusing to write, but the subject is sooooooooooo grateful....