Technician Versus Performer: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Yuri!!! on Ice]]'' gives a thorough examination on this duality, given that it revolves around figure skating, a sport that has both artistic and technical feat components:

** One of the first things we learn about Yuuri Katsuki is that he got to his current level because he practices constantly, making people inside and out of universe initially believe that he has a Technician-type of skater... except that, actually, Yuuri's actual strengths are in ''performer-like'' type of moves, like step sequence and figures, as he tends to choke while doing jumps and other highly technical moves, with only his presentation points to save his score. As Victor points out, Yuuri is "capable to create music while skating" but is held back on his potential by his comparatively lacking technical points, so when Victor coaches Yuuri he specifically goes into ironing those kinks (read, improve his jumps and make his performing anxiety under control) to increase his chances to medal.

** On the extremes on Performer and Technician mindsets among the rest of the skaters, we have Pitchit Chulanont, which is described as "a natural crowd-pleaser" and deliberately chose a popular song from a famous movie because he wanted to overwrite every other skater that previously skate to that, and Lee Seung-gil, whose mental dialogue while skating is him calculating his score with each move he does.