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- Jun 16, 2008
Quite a few people have fallen or tripped on twizzles ,
Ask Nikita Katsalapov this year.
Heck, ask any dance team.
Exactly. Twizzles are a LOT harder than they look. Elena and Nikita lost both the European and World Championships this year because they missed the twizzles. In the case of worlds, they missed the podium all together because of their mistake with twizzles.
The "average fan" can't tell if a jump was done well or not (proper edge, full rotation, etc),
"But the "average fan" can tell if you stood up or not."
One could argue that it is really confusing when someone "stood up" on all their jumps, and yet gets a really low technical score. Standing up on the jump isn't even half the battle. Correct takeoff edge and full rotation, which the average fan knows nothing about, are just as important. A "stood up" "triple" can actually net someone almost no points if they get lots of deductions on it, deductions that cannot be identified by most people watching. And yet, people watch. If you have no interest in learning about solo ice dance, that is fine. I just ask people not be so dismissive/ flippant about it, especially when clueless about the discipline.