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- Jun 6, 2019
Bear with me as this is my first post:
Whilst there are many junior ladies doing combinations with loop, almost no men are doing them. I can see why - as loop combinations are generally much harder than toe combinations: making it extremely risky and harder to get positive GOE.
This is especially interesting as in junior worlds only one boy that I saw went for a combination with a triple loop, and due to it being more of a struggle than most people’s toe’s, the GOE made it less valuable than for those who did combinations with 3T’s.
It is not a problem for a bad loop combination to be worth less than a good Toe combination - however it did not look that bad to me. This means if nobody is risking attempting loop combinations, then people will never learn how to do loop combinations properly, and we end up with people having to do quad-doubles to avoid repeating the 3T. This furthermore decreases the diversity of combination jumps we witness in senior, which makes programs less interesting to watch.
I am not suggesting that the value of 3Lo is raised, as I believe it is fair in relation to the difficulty in relation to the other triples. What I am suggesting is some sort of bonus attributed to utilising it in combination, or even a GOE bonus in combination.
Let me know what you guys think of this suggestion,
Thanks,
Daniel.
Whilst there are many junior ladies doing combinations with loop, almost no men are doing them. I can see why - as loop combinations are generally much harder than toe combinations: making it extremely risky and harder to get positive GOE.
This is especially interesting as in junior worlds only one boy that I saw went for a combination with a triple loop, and due to it being more of a struggle than most people’s toe’s, the GOE made it less valuable than for those who did combinations with 3T’s.
It is not a problem for a bad loop combination to be worth less than a good Toe combination - however it did not look that bad to me. This means if nobody is risking attempting loop combinations, then people will never learn how to do loop combinations properly, and we end up with people having to do quad-doubles to avoid repeating the 3T. This furthermore decreases the diversity of combination jumps we witness in senior, which makes programs less interesting to watch.
I am not suggesting that the value of 3Lo is raised, as I believe it is fair in relation to the difficulty in relation to the other triples. What I am suggesting is some sort of bonus attributed to utilising it in combination, or even a GOE bonus in combination.
Let me know what you guys think of this suggestion,
Thanks,
Daniel.