Technique versus Artistic Skills

Hi everyone!!!

Last weekend took place the Cup of China, where participated our world championship Javier Fernandez. Boyang Jin, Chinese, also participated. He is 18 years old and, of course he has much potencial for jumping. In fact, he did two quads in his short program plus four quads in his long program (two of them were quad luzt, the most dificult one). In contrast, Javier Fernandez did only one quad in his short program and three in the long program.

Who of them won? Easy. I´m not going to be exhaustive, altohugh I would like to explain only one thing. Not only is the tecnique important on figure ice-sakating, but the artistic skills are also necessary. You can have a fantastic and refined technique (jumps, spins, secuency steps and so on) but if you don´t have a marvellous and completey riveting artistic skills (interpretation, choreography, skating skills and stuff like that) you cannot achieve a great mark.

To sum up, here you have the four programs and judge yourselves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ZmfHHD79I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDj5AfgRUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2YYZsa-OE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBoekjYtOuA