ISU adds second quad option to mens short program

This is odd as very few to almost no skaters do one quad in their short programs. I don't believe this was because skaters didn't like that they couldn't do two! LOL. The past three world championships and the Olympics has shown that no one who does a quad will win a competition based upon how judges are scoring programs right now. Now I do know that the ISU has removed a required step sequence from mens skating. That would give a man who wanted to do a quad or two more set up time. I thought the main reason why quads have nearly completely vanished from mens short programs was because of the time required for set up. There are so few skaters who do quads anymore and you can see that are routinely criticized for lacking choreo and tranistions in there programs as they need time for set up and also recovery really. You might have read what Plushenko was reported to have said in an interivew when he commented on not having transitions because he focuses on his jumps.

Now if you look at Kevin Reynolds who has the talent for a quad toe and quad salchow-would he do both in his short programs? Maybe he will do a test and see what will happen to his PCS score as a result of doing two quads. I thought Brian Joubert could do both a quad toe and quad Salchow but he really hasn't done a quad salchow in a while - and also what would happen to his PCS? Takahashi can't do a quad toe anymore so he tried a quad flip but failed (but failed better than his failures with his quad toe) but he probably wont try anything but a flip now.

Overall it seems to be an odd change as quads are largely disappearing from mens skating anyway.

ISU Meeting

The ISU meeting this week should have something on the quad jump. I mean for 10 years all the world and Olympic gold medalists did it and now of course winners no longer do it. Jumping has gone horribly backward and I hope something is done to get it back on track.