Very disappointing judging with regards to her difficult jump combinations. The 3Lutz-3Loop< at Cup of China this season should have been at least +1 GOE, but received -GOE instead. The 3Lutz was huge and the 3Loop was right at the quarter turn mark, maybe one or two degrees short, with clean outflow on the landing. The 3Lutz-3Loop<< call at the GPF was undeserved, it should have only been <.
Several undeserved calls during the 2009 season. The call at 2009 Worlds SP was actually fair, but there should have been +GOE for the huge jumps and clean outflow (and the system was more flawed back then so the base value should have been been higher too). It was ridiculous when Ando placed below Rochette in that SP.
Ando isn't attempting the 3-3 at all anymore because of this poor judging. Why bother when you're likely going to be slapped with -GOE for a BIG, CLEAN jump combination? The way the judges are scoring, her 3Lutz-2Loop gets just as much points and for far less risk.
Boring.
3Lutz-3Loop is incredibly hard. The secret with Loop combinations, btw, is to land a little bit short on the first jump and for the arc of the first jump to cater a little more towards distance than you might normally jump (rather than height). This maximizes the inertia created by the landing of the blade when you swing around into the Loop.
Miki often gets into "trouble" in terms of the rotation of the second part of her 3Lutz-3Loop simply because the first jump is so BIG. Jumping that high and getting all the way around
in the air (which is normally ideal) before landing doesn't leave you with as much of a snap to get back up into the 3Loop, as opposed to getting more distance on the jump and landing just a little bit short to allow the blade to keep turning on the ice and use the momentum from the first jump to get off the ice on the Loop.
Anyway, yeah, the 3Lutz-3Loop is literally Miki's best element and yet she is so frequently snubbed when she tries it and doesn't get the credit she deserves.

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