For anybody who intends to watch next weekend the champion of champions, and vote afterwards, please consider these points first in order to make a fair judgment:
1. This is DANCING on ice, not pairs skating, or skating on ice - therefore this means, as in the Olympics, the couples have to perform dance routines with skill, lifts and skating all within the programme. It therefore goes without saying that a good skater is not the winner if he is not very good at dancing or perfection in lifting or being lifted. Girls have to be lifted therfore the female celebrities must be judged on their ability to hold lifts which requires considerable strength, concentration and trust in their parter whilst the male celebs have to lift which requires the strength to lift, skating and balance. Each sex must therefore be judged independantly and differrently.
2. It's a clean slate for all contenders - no consideration should be made to any journeys, age, previous preference - they should all be judged not only on their own ability, but the over all performance and unity with their partner from scratch and on what we see on the night only.
3. We have to judge on skating, dancing and performance skills together not on any one feature as it is "Dancing on Ice" therefore time spent with feet on the ice is an unfair and sexest judgment against the women who merely by what is expected within the performance have to be lifted at varying points. Therefore male and female celebs should be judged independently of each other, and my vote will go to the over all celeb I consider has achieved best from all 3 criterior and what aspects of the performance they personally are expected to execute. Like Robin Cousins said last night, the skill and accuracy with which the girls leave the ice and return to it is marked on a par with the skill of the male to lift, hold and poise during the lift. That's how it's judged in the olympics and that's how I shall judge it. I just think several people have lost touch with this crucial fact and vote purely on speed skating!
1. This is DANCING on ice, not pairs skating, or skating on ice - therefore this means, as in the Olympics, the couples have to perform dance routines with skill, lifts and skating all within the programme. It therefore goes without saying that a good skater is not the winner if he is not very good at dancing or perfection in lifting or being lifted. Girls have to be lifted therfore the female celebrities must be judged on their ability to hold lifts which requires considerable strength, concentration and trust in their parter whilst the male celebs have to lift which requires the strength to lift, skating and balance. Each sex must therefore be judged independantly and differrently.
2. It's a clean slate for all contenders - no consideration should be made to any journeys, age, previous preference - they should all be judged not only on their own ability, but the over all performance and unity with their partner from scratch and on what we see on the night only.
3. We have to judge on skating, dancing and performance skills together not on any one feature as it is "Dancing on Ice" therefore time spent with feet on the ice is an unfair and sexest judgment against the women who merely by what is expected within the performance have to be lifted at varying points. Therefore male and female celebs should be judged independently of each other, and my vote will go to the over all celeb I consider has achieved best from all 3 criterior and what aspects of the performance they personally are expected to execute. Like Robin Cousins said last night, the skill and accuracy with which the girls leave the ice and return to it is marked on a par with the skill of the male to lift, hold and poise during the lift. That's how it's judged in the olympics and that's how I shall judge it. I just think several people have lost touch with this crucial fact and vote purely on speed skating!
