Some PS thoughts

The main role of a judge isn't to give an accurate grade out of 10 in a specific criterion. What judges do is a ranking of spinners. The larger the amount of spinner you rank and the more reliable your results will be.  For this specific article, I will talk only about execution and I will act as if execution was an undivided criterion, like it use to be.  Ranking When you start judging, you might be tempted to give a score to a combo right after watching it. That's something that comes with experience and it's not that easy to do. To begin with, you need to rank spinners relative to each others. Below, a very simple example that'll help me to illustrate what follows. Each trait correspond to the execution score of a spinner, represented by a letter. e.g. Spinner D has a better exe score than spinner C, E and F. In an ideal world with a very comprehensive rulesbook, I believe judges would all agree on ranking and disagree on score repartition. That score repartition wou...

Retirement From December 31, 2022, in my 10th year, I will stop penspinning. It's not that I will stop everything penspinning related, but I will definitely stop sitting on a chair and film for hours for CVs or tournaments. When it comes to oldies and development, there are 2 kind of person with toxic behaviour : washed up spinners that still release combos are boring  people who stop penspinning are some kind of "traitor" to the community I think it's ok to think either of those, as long as no one really take it seriously and create some kind of negative atmosphere to force everyone to always improve individually (which is totally different to search for collective improvement). I think it's less visible nowadays but it was the case from ~ 2016 to 2020, especially after Menowa's retirement from international competitions.    the chad 2019-2020 On my side, I will enter active life in 2022 and I don't really like the idea of a continuous regression. I had ...