— Sports trash

ISU does not have a lot of money to make this kind of project possible. FS is not exactly a sport that generates a lot of funds. And to be honest, visually judging a jump -- assuming that there are footages from different angles of the said jump -- is not that bad. It’s the easiest and most pragmatic way to go about deciding edge issues because believe it or not, in an engineering standpoint, there are way too many variables to consider in analyzing edges on an actual competition. In fs, what happens before take-off,  upon take-off, or on landing matters. The position of the blade matters. The area of the rink , which is anything but predefined, where the jump will occur also matters . It’s not as simple as, say, Hawk-eye (tennis) triangulating/tracking a ball over a predefined area (the tennis court). [2/15/2022] I decided to log into my tumblr,  clean up my drafts, and check the state of the FS fandom here while figure skating as a sport is in shambles at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.  Istg the best thing I did as a sports fan is to stop religiously following the figure skating circuit after Pyeongchang 2018.

If you told me at the beginning of the quad that a side somi connected to the ugly straddle half and split half jumps that all of the Americans were trying would be a cool connection I’d have laughed in your face….. And yet here I am, impressed and completely sold……