Anyway, it's all experience. I do not know if Camden will get a quadruple jump. I do know he skated a beautiful LP at the JGPF last season. He can do that, and I was so proud of him for getting his combination in the SP throughout this season. He really struggled with it all last year. This season he nailed his combo so many times, and often when going up right after a great performance by someone else. There is a competitor in there. He just never seemed to develop the confidence with all of the elements in his LP this season. (It was the same during practices at the JGPF so not just competition pressure). I haven't analyzed his protocols. Are there particular jumps in his LP that he has struggled with all season & are not in his SP? Or is it more random? Obviously, in two of his performances he's missed a lot of jumps, including the ones he usually gets. I'm just wondering which ones he usually doesn't get.
Camden's planned layout for the FS for JW and US Nats seems to have been: 3A, 3Lz-eu-3S, 3Lo, 3A-3T // 2A, 3F-2T, 3Lz
Layout for JGP events: 3Lz-eu-3S, 3A, 3Lo, 3A-3T // 3F-2T, 2A, 3Lz
I'm only listing jumps with issues.
JW FS
- 3A (-0.57 GOE)
- 3Lz (fall)
- 2F!-2T
- 3Fe
- 3Lz-eu-2S
US Nats FS
- 1A
- 2Lz
- 2Lo
- 3A<
- 3Lz<
He did change the 2A into a clean 3A-3T, and added a double loop on the 3F-2T to make up for missing the 3 jump combo.
JGPF FS
- 3Lz-eu-3S<<
- 3Lo fall
- 3A-2T
- 1F !
- 3Lz<
He switched the 2A for a clean 3F-2T after missing the first one (I think).
CS Inge Solar FS
- 2Lz-eu-2S
- 3Lo (-1.08 GOE)
- 2A (-0.26 GOE)
- 3F-2T (-1.06 GOE)
Here he opened with a solo 3T, so I'm not counting the 3A-2T he did as a mistake.
JGP Czechia FS
- 3Lz+1Eu+3S fall
- 3A (-0.11 GOE)
- 3A+REP (-ve GOE)
- 3F-3T !
- FSSp2 (-ve GOE)
I assume he switched the 2T to a 3T on the flip since he missed that on the 3A. He also added 2T onto the last 3Lz.
JGP Austria
- 3Lz+1Eu+3S (-0.93 GOE)
- 3F-2T !
- 3Lz (-1.43 GOE)
Summary
I would have that this season, Camden has had a lot of issues with his 3Lz-eu-3S combo. Out of the 6 frees I looked at, he only had it mostly clean once, and that had some negative GOE. On his other attempts, he fell on the 3Lz once (and did 2S when he tried it on his 2nd 3Lz), fell on the the 3S once, popped both triples once, downgraded the 3S once and missed it completely at Nats. There were also some issues with the 3F-2T combo in 3 FS (2F-2T, 1F, -1.08 GOE), plus he got edge warnings most times, with a full edge call at JW. His 3Lo had issues about half the time in the FS, with a 2Lo, a fall and a -1.08 GOE.
Those look like the most consistent issues.