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Changes to the Choreo Rhythm Sequence Explained
So the ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee just released a wave of brand new changes to the ChRS. I am currently working on a more descriptive video to get into the nitty gritty of identifying the element, how it's judged, and what in general to look for but this table is a bit of a cheat sheet explaining how the element is being called (by the tech panel) and judged (by the judging panel). Hope this helps explain the significance of these rule changes!
-@wtficedance
#wtficedance#ice dance#figure skating#rhythm dance#ice dance rules#skating rules#rules#choreographic elements#chrs#pattern dance
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"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics
Tomorrow (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. Tomorrow night, I'll be in person at LA's Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You." On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.
It's been 143 days since the WGA went on strike against the Hollywood studios. While early tactical leaks from the studios had studio execs chortling and twirling their mustaches about writers caving once they started losing their homes, the strikers aren't wavering – they're still out there, pounding the picket lines, every weekday:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/how-hollywood-writers-make-ends-meet-100-days-into-the-writers-guild-strike.html
The studios obviously need writers. That gleeful, anonymous studio exec who got such an obvious erotic charge at the thought of workers being rendered homeless as punishment for challenging his corporate power completely misread the room, and his comments didn't demoralize the writers. Instead, they inspired the actors to go on strike, too.
But how have the writers stayed out since May Day? How have the actors stayed out for 69 days since their strike started on Bastille Day? We can thank the studios for that! As it turns out, the studios have devoted so much energy to rendering creative workers as precarious as possible, hiring as little as they can getting away with and using punishing overtime as a substitute for adequate staffing that they've eliminated all the workers who can't survive on side-hustles and savings for six or seven months at a time.
But even for those layoff-hardened workers, long strikes are brutal, and of course, all the affiliated trades, from costumers to grips, are feeling the pain. The strike fund only goes so far, and non-striking, affected workers don't even get that. That's why I've been donating regularly to the Entertainment Community Fund, which helps all affected workers out with cash transfers (I just gave them another $500):
https://secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donation2?df_id=8117&8117.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T
As hot labor summer is revealed as a turning point – not just a season – long strikes will become the norm. Bosses still don't believe in worker power, and until they get their minds right, they're going to keep on trying to starve their workforces back inside. To get a sense of how long workers will have to hold out, just consider the Warrior Met strike, where Alabama coal-miners stayed out for 23 months:
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/warrior-met-strike-union/
As Kim Kelly explained to Adam Conover in the latest Factually podcast, the Alabama coal strikers didn't get anywhere near the attention that the Hollywood strikers have enjoyed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvyMHf7Yg0Q
(To learn more about the untold story of worker organizing, from prison unions to the key role that people of color and women played in labor history, check out Kelly's book, "Fight Like Hell," now in paperback:)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063
Which brings me to the UAW strike. This is an historic strike, the first time that the UAW has struck all of the Big Three automakers at once. Past autoworkers' strikes have marked turning points for all American workers. The 1945/46 GM strike established employers' duty to cover worker pensions, health care, and cost of living allowances. The GM strike created the American middle-class:
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-18-uaw-strikes-built-american-middle-class/
The Big Three are fighting for all the marbles here. They are refusing to allow unions to organize EV factories. Given that no more internal combustion cars will be in production in just a few short years, that's tantamount to eliminating auto unions altogether. The automakers are flush with cash, including billions in public subsidies from multiple bailouts, along with billions more from greedflation price-gouging. A long siege is inevitable, as the decimillionaires running these companies earn their pay by starving out their workers:
https://www.businessinsider.com/general-motors-ceo-mary-barra-salary-auto-workers-strike-uaw-2023-9
The UAW knows this, of course, and their new leadership – helmed by the union's radical president Shawn Fain – has a plan. UAW workers are engaged in tactical striking, shutting down key parts of the supply chain on a rolling basis, making the 90-day strike fund stretch much farther:
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-18-labors-militant-creativity/
In this project, they are greatly aided by Big Car's own relentless pursuit of profit. The automakers – like every monopolized, financialized sector – have stripped all the buffers and slack out of their operations. Inventory on hand is kept to a bare minimum. Inputs are sourced from the cheapest bidder, and they're brought to the factory by the lowest-cost option. Resiliency – spare parts, backup machinery – is forever at war with profits, and profits have won and won and won, leaving auto production in a brittle, and easily shattered state.
This is especially true for staffing. Automakers are violently allergic to hiring workers, because new workers get benefits and workplace protection. Instead, the car companies routinely offer "voluntary" overtime to their existing workforce. By refusing this overtime, workers can kneecap production, without striking.
Enter "Eight and Skate," a campaign among UAW workers to clock out after their eight hour shift. As Keith Brower Brown writes for Labor Notes, the UAW organizers are telling workers that "It’s crossing an unofficial picket line to work overtime. It’s helping out the company":
https://labornotes.org/2023/09/work-extra-during-strike-auto-workers-say-eight-and-skate
Eight and Skate has already started to work; the Buffalo Ford plant can no longer run its normal weekend shifts because workers are refusing to put in voluntary overtime. Of course, bosses will strike back: the next step will be forced overtime, which will lead to the unsafe conditions that unionized workers are contractually obliged to call paid work-stoppages over, shutting down operations without touching the strike fund.
What's more, car bosses can't just halt safety stoppages or change the rules on overtime; per the UAW's last contract, bosses are required to bargain on changes to overtime rules:
https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Working-Without-Contract-FAQ-FINAL-2.pdf
Car bosses have become lazily dependent on overtime. At GM's "highly profitable" SUV factory in Arlington, TX, normal production runs a six-days, 24 hours per day. Workers typically work five eight-hour days and nine hours on Saturdays. That's been the status quo for 11 years, but when bosses circulated the usual overtime signup sheet last week, every worker wrote "a big fat NO" next to their names.
Writing for The American Prospect, David Dayen points out that this overtime addiction puts a new complexion on the much-hyped workerpocalypse that EVs will supposedly bring about. EVs are much simpler to build than conventional cars, the argument goes, so a US transition to EVs will throw many autoworkers out of work:
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-20-big-threes-labor-shortages-uaw/
But the reality is that most autoworkers are doing one and a half jobs already. Reducing the "workforce" by a third could leave all these workers with their existing jobs, and the 40-hour workweek that their forebears fought for at GM inn 1945/46. Add to that the additional workers needed to make batteries, build and maintain charging infrastructure, and so on, and there's no reason to think that EVs will weaken autoworker power.
And as Dayen points out, this overtime addiction isn't limited to cars. It's also endemic to the entertainment industry, where writers' "mini rooms" and other forms of chronic understaffing are used to keep workforces at a skeleton crew, even when the overtime costs more than hiring new workers.
Bosses call themselves job creators, but they have a relentless drive to destroy jobs. If there's one thing bosses hate, it's paying workers – hence all the hype about AI and automation. The stories about looming AI-driven mass unemployment are fairy tales, but they're tailor made for financiers who get alarming, life-threatening priapism at the though of firing us all and replacing us with shell-scripts:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way
This is why Republican "workerism" rings so hollow. Trump's GOP talks a big game about protecting "workers" (by which they mean anglo men) from immigrants and "woke captialism," but they have nothing to say about protecting workers from bosses and bankers who see every dime a worker gets as misappropriated from their dividend.
Unsurprisingly, conservative message-discipline sucks. As Luke Savage writes in Jacobin, for every mealymouthed Josh Hawley mouthing talking points that "support workers" by blaming China and Joe Biden for the Big Three's greed, there's a Tim Scott, saying the quiet part aloud:
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/republicans-uaw-strike-hawley-trump-scott/
Quoth Senator Scott: "I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike. He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely":
https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1704136706574741988
The GOP's workerism is a tissue-thin fake. They can never and will never support real worker power. That creates an opportunity for Biden and Democrats to seize:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/18/co-determination/#now-make-me-do-it
Reversing two generations of anti-worker politics is a marathon, not a sprint. The strikes are going to run for months, even years. Every worker will be called upon to support their striking siblings, every day. We can do it. Solidarity now. Solidarity forever.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/#strike-to-rule
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Maybe putting a 7ft metal creature on unstable wheels is a bad idea--
extra background-less version:
#lexeart#fanart#lexart#sun and moon#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#sun fnaf#moon fnaf#sundrop#moondrop#the daycare attendant#daycare attendant#DCA#DCA fnaf#not a ship sorry lol#I personally see them as some form of related but go ham with your own tags ig#roller skates#roller skating#suns gonna fall#moons good at it#i dont make the rules#except I do lmao#ive neglected the boys for so long im so sorry my loves#but after 80 years ive FINALLY decided on a colour palette and design choices#slight tweaks to colours and little bits#my beloveds
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Quick art to practice drawing without relying on so many references. Of course I had to make her a horny disaster lesbian, duh.
(Just in case this needs clarifying: here "Yuri" with only one u refers to fem!Yuuri, yes she'd have the ultimate sapphic name).
#eli's art#artists on tumblr#artblr#art#digital art#drawing#illustration#fanart#fan art#rule 63#genderbend#yuri!!! on ice#yuri on ice#yuri on ice fanart#yoi#yoi fanart#viktor nikiforov#victor nikiforov#fem!viktor#get yurified idiot#breaking news: the living legend of figure skating is a pathetic woman (affectionate)#procreate art#not kuro
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Now what?
#nothing to do now except spend two years writing a long drawn out tgm figure skating au#summer olympics are for sports and winter olympics are for fucking in the olympic village...those are just the rules#olympics
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Teacher au anyone???
#adler would be iconic as a history teacher#like “you kids wanna hear about all my trauma but as 'cool' war stories?”#and yes there is a no-skating rule on campus#do you think he cares at this point?#bell would be an awesome pe teacher#and i know dodgeball would be a warzone#you'd be lucky to get out without at least one (minor) bruise#cod cold war#russell adler#call of duty black ops cold war#adler#cod#cod black ops cold war#adler cod#cod fanart#bell cod#call of duty#cod adler#cod russell adler#russell adler cod#call of duty cold war#call of duty black ops#black ops#adler x bell#adlerbell
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le epic 2000's bffs
#oc: mica#regretevator#my art#regretevator infected#regretevator kasper#frutiger aero#regretevator oc#i don’t make the rules they’d literally be best friends#they’d bond over 2000’s nostalgia and skate together#AAAAND!!! neither of them truly know themselves!!#perfect friendship!!!
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sskk Yuri on Ice AU ⛸️ !!
[ver w/o words/etc under the cut]
#pretend this is all my own little world where irl rules and regulations dont exist#i dont know anything about actual skating#also the ADA type costume is killing me like it just doesnt look RIGHT and ive gone through SO MANY OPTIONS#bsd#bungou stray dogs#sskk#shin soukoku#yuri on ice#atsushi nakajima#akutagawa ryuunosuke#implied bsd spoilers#bsd spoilers#bc of the Ak costume yk just in case#bsd fanart#sskk fanart#shin soukoku fanart#my art#fanart#digital art
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Watching the pairs short from Lombardia this morning and Ghilardia/Ambrosini had a boot problem and stopped and took a 6 pt deduction. Ling/Wein's interruption for a boot problem at Lake Placid last month cost them 5. When VM stopped for Tessa's leg cramps at 4CC in 2013, why didn't they get any deduction?
Q #212:
Hi anon,
So there are a few different kinds of breaks and they can be instigated by the skater or the referee. I haven’t watched the pairs short program so I can’t comment on G/A but for Ling/Wein they were blown dead by the referee because the referee determined that the costume issue was a safety issue. If you as a skater are whistled to stop by the referee, you must stop or risk disqualification. For obvious reasons, a loose boostrap could be very dangerous in ice dance, especially for lifts and any transition which involves a mini-lift. L/W were mandated to stop to fix his boot because the referee made the call that his bootstrap significantly increased the likelihood of injury or other adverse events (pretty obviously). In case of a costume malfunction, that is deemed somewhat in the skaters’ control (not saying I agree with the logic this is just the rationale) but a medical stoppage is not. For example, a skater is responsible for tying and securing their laces and therefore will receive a deduction if they come loose but would not if they got a bloody nose (not controllable).
In 2013 there was a bit of an uproar because not only did V/M stop in the middle of their FD at 4CC but so did P/C at JWC. These were medical stoppages and therefore did not get deductions. Tessa has a condition called Chronic Exertional Compartments Syndrome where her muscles are overly restricted by her fascia resulting in intense nerve pain and reduced blood flow. I’m sure that when Scott was explaining to the referee the cause of the stoppage that her (documented) compartments syndrome was preventing her from skating and was specifically a safety risk when it came to her kicking up into that straight line lift. CCES is pretty obviously improved by a break because those extra seconds yelp reduce muscle inflammation and restore blood flow.
Gabi sprained her ankle the day of the JWC free dance in warm ups (might have also included a fracture I don’t remember the specifics). You can see that Gabi’s right ankle is taped to high heaven and back in the videos. P/C stop right after a series of transitions that’s pretty heavy on Gabi’s right ankle with a leaning besti squat and lunge and before their circular step sequence. Both of her one foot sections within the steps were on her right foot and you can clearly see that her skating throughout the entire program is affected by limited strength and mobility in her ankle. Again with the stoppage there was a clearly documented and visible injury and when talking with the medical personnel (after the referee) it was clear that they could continue within 3 minutes.
Here are the relevant sections of the special rules and regulations:
Hope this helps answer your question!
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HUGE step forward for gender diversity and progress moving forward in our sport!
Skate Canada has officially announced a change in the rule book for Ice Dance and Pairs teams that will allow for teams of any gender composition to compete at local and National competitions, instead of limiting teams to (1) man and (1) woman.
This is such a marked achievement, and I really hope we see more National organizations and the ISU follow suit <3
#figure skating#isu figure#kaitlyn weaver#weaver Poje#skate Canada#pairs skating#ice dance#my fever dream of same sex competitive skating that I’ve had to gloss over sooooo many rules and ignore other stuff to make FEASIBLE —#I’m cryin y’all#also justice for Cain-Gribble/LeDuc#also true pioneers#lgbtqia
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nhk kami documentary
#figure skating#kamila valieva#i tried my best to follow the rules :(#no offense guys but i think im gonna side with the 15 year old here#and be fucking outraged that CAS and ISU just let fucking FSFR and Sampo70 get off scot free#like this poor little girl was so good and it was just snatched from her by the comically evil adults who only care about money and country
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hey judges make it make sense (you cant)
#hello mutuals i have a special interest in figure skating if you didnt know#but i also hate the sport at the same time.#case in point: what the fuck is this#if they actually deducted the right goe kao would be first#i just beg for some consistency and the isu actually sticking to rules they set themselves#figure skating#skate america 2024#but i will admit i have no clue why they gave ilia a deduction. my heart says for that costume but i know thats not the reason
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Am I obsessed? Yes. Does yuichi look different in my every drawing? Also yes. Do I keep drawing them in sweaters and coats cuz I'm too lazy to draw Leos shell? Mmmmmmm ye.
#leonardo#yuichi usagi#leoichi#rottmnt#hamato leonardo#leochi#samurai rabbit#usagi chronicles#ice skating#Leo is a simp I don't make the rules#rottmnt usagi#sliderbunny#Why are there so many different ship names 😭😭😭#THE-SNARKIEST-ART
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Wherever you get your figure skating information from, don't let it be comments on tiktoks about Alexandra Trusova
#tiktok loves her#which is fine#I get why her story appeals to people#but the comments are so inaccurate#I don't know if there is any truth in there#it's just trusova fanfiction in there#including the part where you can just make up rules about figure skating itself for the sake of the story#twitter is closer to the truth about backflips than tiktok is to the truth about trusova#figure skating
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I'm back on my bullshit, here's the Loser's Club roller-skating
I went skating with my best friend and their younger sister the other night and it single handed threw me back into Loser's Club headcanons so here we fucking go.
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Bill: He's definitely skated with Georgie before and while he hasn't skating in a while (RIP Georgie I love you) it didn't take him long to get back into the motions of it (Just like riding a bike, pun partially intended). He loses his balance occasionally but always manages to stabilize before he's really in an danger of falling.
Stan: He's a natural. His first time skating he struggled for around five minutes and then all the sudden could skate as though he went every weekend, no one can explain it. Bill and him spend most of the time catching while they skate and matching each others pace. Bill will go check on someone if they fall while Stan pretends not to know them.
Richie: He's really good for some reason??? You'd think he'd be flailing around and falling constantly but he's the only one who can do those fancy turns (Where you put your feet in a triangle, idk man but I can't do it) and skate backwards (if you can skate backwards I hate you I can never figure it out). He likes showing off but in the process trips over children that fall while he's not looking.
Eddie: He can't skate and he's made about it. He is like a newborn deer on an icy road. He desperately grabs onto whatever loser is closest and refuses to leave the wall unless they let him hold onto them. Richie (and occasionally Stan while he skates by) keeps making fun of him and hallway through Eddie gets fed up and goes to sit out until Mike finally convinces him to try again and sticks with Eddie for the rest of the night.
Mike: He's not a pro but he's definitely not bad. He enjoys just slowly going around listening to the music the DJ plays. He's very careful of avoiding young children especially the ones who like to zip around the rink really fast (Honestly the children who are good skaters are more dangerous you don't see them coming and they're unpredictable. At least the kids struggling you can tell where they're trying to go) He's the first to notice if one of the Loser's is sitting out and always goes to sit with them even if it's just cause their feet or ankles are hurting.
Beverly: She likes to go fast. As soon as she's comfortable on her skates she is going around as fast as she can until she falls, knocks someone over, or is asked to slow down by a worker. She's also the first one to get bored and will inevitably drag someone with her to get food (most likely Eddie who was already sitting out and will complain about how gross the food is while proceeding to get probably the worst thing he could've gotten).
Ben: He struggles for the entire time he is there but is determined to be able to skate by the end. He falls the most out of anyone but swears he does not need to hold onto the wall and refuses the Loser's help. Good news! he does eventually get it. Bad news, he gets it down five minutes before closing.
#guess which character is based on me#which is my friend#and which is their sister#hint its between Eddie Bill and Stan#and it is not that order#it 2017#it fandom#bill denbrough#stanley uris#stenbrough#this isn't even stenbrough related I just love yall#richie tozier#realizing I made him like how my dad skates lol#my dad did in fact trip over a kid while showing off#eddie kaspbrak#every friend group has a really shit skater I don't make the rules#except in this specific case I do#slight reddie i suppose#Idk they're just bantering but isn't that just what Reddie is?#mike hanlon#he's just such a sweetheart I love him#he's very no man left behind#and good for him#beverly marsh#she has a need for speed and you can't tell me otherwise#ben hanscom#honestly I didn't know what to put for him then remembered my friend making a joke about only learning how only in the last five minutes#they didn't but its the thought that counts
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ADVANCEMENT TO THE U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS
*Also among the list of approved international competitions are all the grand prix events.
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