Re: Nicole Bobek on Ice Wars

> The height of the vault is not produced by speeding down the board,

Is everybody really this dense ? Amplitude in sports refers to
"exceeding the norm" in an element. LADY, it ain't got nothing
to do with technique. However, I'd give both of you a +3
for TOTALLY missing the point. Every element in all 3 sports
can be judged for AMPLITUDE in the element. That means
STRETCH, CONTROL, speed, FLIGHT, DISTANCE,
LIFT ( that is a dance term !!! ). That is how elements can
become important in the final score regardless of whether
the element is jumps, dance, spins, footwork .... or Tsukes,
full in back outs, stalders, or layouts on beam .... or reverse
2 1/2, inward 3 1/2, front 2 !/2 with 3 twists, or, God help
me, back 3 1/2 off tower ( I luved that stinking .... ! ). Nicole
Bobek has tremendous AMPLITUDE in all of her dance
elements ... which should have easily offset her difficiencies
in the jumps. But, as was always clear to me, the skating
judges were a bunch of  untrained amateurs operating in
a naive judging system. CoP should turn that around.

johns