Re: Nicole Bobek on Ice Wars

>I thought aplitude had to do with height.

Using the sense that johns is using, amplitude has to do with "excess", with
breadth, height, stretch, "bigness" of a move.   

Thus, in skating, spirals have "amplitude" when the free leg is held extremely
high.   But Joseph Sabovcic's single tuck axel has amplitude in that it is a
high and exaggerated in form (look to John Misha Petkevich's jumps for
amplitude -- height, form, distance, "hang time").  Yagudin's entire
performance usually has amplitude of expression.   Shen/Zhao's split triple
twist has amplitude (amazing height), and so does Sale/Pelletier's (height,
form and an in your face catch-and-setdown).  Kwan's full-body extension has
amplitude.

This is one accepted/valid sense of "amplitude", but it's not the only one
that's valid.


janet