Recent content by KristyJ

Very nice routine I feel like that lighting is so dangerous though. Noone would choose to train in a gym that is so poorly lit, but then we throw athletes into arenas like that as though it's a pageant and not a highly complex sport?

My favorite routine of the quad for artistry

Gina had inferior dance but by far superior tumbling

Figure skating hip injuries are frequently the result of the explosive power needed to launch into a jump that takes off on a curve (even if a small one, proper technique involves up to a half rotation on ice before air time, which was a really weird thing for me to learn after decades of...

I wonder how a panel with a ballet or lyrical background would judge some of the hip hop routines or Simone Rose's that has step moves in it

I noticed she was back at TCT and have wondered the story behind the gym changes back and forth

I would argue that Eteri's group over-choreographs. I find it hard to describe exactly what I mean, since if you watch Jason Brown he's also as detailed, but with Jason he finds a way to make the program come from him, whereas Eteri's camp often looks like they are acting.

It's amazing how much selling a routine can cover for other deficiencies in artistry. Roberson immediately comes to mind. She's lacking in flexibility, posture, and complexity of choreography, but she sells the heck out of it and gets the crowd behind her. I find myself rooting for her even if...

AI caused the floor debacle in some ways..... the OOB system was just bad

I've been watching through old gymnastics, starting with very old gymnastics footage and working my way forward year-by-year. I'm up to 1959. As I've done so I've been struck by how artistic many of the mens' movements on floor were in the past. Heath Thorpe would be pleased with some of it. At...

Figure skating, synchronized swimming, and of the other gymnastics disciplines beyond artistic, equestrian dressage...

Well then.... alas

I really hope Betty Okino brings a fresh perspective over time, but it may be a many years long project

I often think back to learning the 2000s compulsories in a judging course, and Cheryl Hamilton saying "we give them just enough ballet to get by." That struck me as short-sighted then and continues to now. Also, honestly, the upcoming athletes remind me a lot of the athletes from Stars a...

Given the source of all of of that on Reddit and how adamantly they've been convinced of spurious information before, I am taking it with a dump truck load worth of salt.