When he won the world championship in 2008 I remember reading a lot of articles that mentioned his quadless win. Reporters seemed intent of pointing out that his skate did not have that element because from 1997 to 2007 all winners had the quad. Four revolutions in the air was big news. He could never really land quads consistently but was able to win because he really did do a lot of jumps after the halfway point. When Lysacek said he injured his foot and would not be doing quads anymore the Buttle skate was his roadmap for winning. He could do all the triples and not doing the quad meant more time to train for steps and spins. So he was able to win. Brian Joubert with all his quads had slower spins and due to the fact that quads take a lot out of a skater could be counted on to fall on something during a program. It just seems to happen all the time with skaters who did quads.
Under 6.0 system where judges just subtracted from 6.0 quads meant it was very likely you would get the least deductions unless you really were a terribly bad spinner or step skills.
So is Jeff Buttle the cause of the vanishing quad? He certainly showed how it was totally unecessary under the COP system and probably not even worth doing. In the 2006 Olympics and the world championships since 2005 people still were embracing the 6.0 mindet of quads quads quads. Now that is gone. It has totally vanished. Only Russian coaches and some skaters who started under 6.0 seem to think the quad matters.
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Jeff Buttle won without quads because he didn't have a strong rival with quads. The same happened in the Olympics or Worlds.
ReplyDeletePlushenko didn't lose in Vancouver because he had quads, he lost because he had an awful SP and a very bad night when he skated his long program. Joubert lost to quadless skaters because he is not a consistent skater and he did not pay attention to other elements of his program.
You are blaming the COP for the absence of the quads. Let's not forget the "experts" who try to convince the FS fans that quad is in fact a very easy element and skaters who put quads into their programs have weak skating skills, etc, etc.
I am not going to ask you what's the reason of this propaganda, the answer is obvious!!!!