Recent content by Aeris

I don't understand what it's helping to not send Alice D'Amato when she is showing this level of performance just a few weeks before Worlds. It's not like she has to keep at it for months, and she's already been taking it easier this year, only competing AA at this one competition. I would still...

Roberson is able to score higher and has done so many times in her career, whereas this is the only time Caylor has ever delivered a noteworthy FX. She should've had to perform FX again on Day 2 to show it wasn't a fluke. And frankly she got overscored anyway for this lackluster imitation...

Best case scenario for this team, outside of total disaster event finals, is probably 4 medals: Wong AA+VT, Skye BB, Roberson FX. I don't see Dulcy being much of a threat and would send Jayla Hang instead - she has put up several better AA scores this year and has some chance for a vault medal...

It really shouldn't be that difficult. Every element should have an abbreviation that the tech controller types as it is being performed. Every element also has a number, if the controller prefers to enter it that way. For example: TK - tkatchev TKP - tkatchev piked TTKL - Toe tkatchev layout...

Well yes the exact placements won't always go that way but the program is starting to feel quite unserious. Like the goal is now NCAA and elite is mostly an afterthought.

Remember when a post Olympic year used to mean USA still having the top 2 AA'ers in the world. This field is more like what would be expected from the country for a Junior Worlds selection.

It definitely hasn't been tried like I am talking about. As a judge you would notate the routine as it happens and then at the end start entering the official scores into the computer, giving the tech controller enough time to enter the routine into the computer and provide video replay.

It should be done the same as figure skating. Every move of the routine is input into the computer by a technical controller and judges use a computer to click on each move and assign a deduction amount, and be able to have video replay as well.

When someone thinks they have no other option to achieve a goal, they will accept any amount of prickly behavior to get there.

Clear-hip skills are certainly something of a gatekeeper, same as Stalders. The majority of people don't like the feeling of one of them, so the choice to force a specific root skill on everyone is something of a dice roll for who is advantaged or not. Tour jete shouldn't be the term used for...

DENG YALAN - WORLD GOLD MEDALIST! Happy they made the correct decision.

Wolf jump full is a D on beam, the 1/2 is a B. L-hop 1/2 is already a B in the code, nobody has ever done a full on beam. With regards to the difficulty, the L skills require the shape to be maintained through the whole thing. A wolf jump, or any other type, just have to hit the position...

:eek: Don't agree at all. People already had some issues with keeping their leg at horizontal through the full turn when doing it on floor. Now we expect it to happen on beam, with a steady landing? That's certainly a D skill and not something I would recommend to anyone.

L-hop full on beam? Well that's not happening. Doing a fake "tour jete" is a D, she kept trying to do it with an extra 1/2 turn last year, maybe it would be consistent if she tried to do it without the extra turn.

I forgot that most of the Russian WAG are eligible for Worlds. Anna Kalmykova and Lyudmila Roshchina have AA chances, probably not Melnikova given her current level. Roschina also has to be considered the favorite for UB Bronze right now.