Sunday 18 July 2010

Is it freestyle or a trick show ?

Recently i have been contemplating what freestyle should be and what i think it might be turning into. When i first came into the sport there were routines where the moves were all relevant to the theme or music. Nowadays it seems that routines are turning very much into a trick show with not that much relevance to the music. You might have a costume on and do a couple of relevant moves but really is that good enough interpretation of the music ?
Now you might think that i am having a go at others but i will hold my hands up and say that i think some of my routines fall into this category. Why have i done this well its probably because in order to get good content marks you seem to have to do loads of moves. The trouble is i think some judges are marking down how many moves are being done and giving a mark for content on that. Whereas we should be looking at whether that move is relevant to the theme and not just registering how many tricks are performed.
So if judges do judge on the amount of moves performed and not whether they fit with the music then how are things going to improve. If you want to be competitive under these judges you have to make sure you have the content so it becomes a vicious circle.

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