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Sk8n Mama said:To me, Sandhu's problem is that he pops the axel so much, even in practice, that his 'muscle memory' is now to pop the jump rather than to rotate it. [/B]
I think this is the key factor. I remember on the British announcers on Eurosport pointed out the danger of popping jumps in practice. Skaters differ in how they approach jumps-going-wrong. One camp tries to go through with it and save it on the landing (or at least not injure themselves in the fall) and the other pops at the least provocation. Under the stress of public performance almost all jumps feel off and the latter group pops or doubles while the former group toughs it out and either fall or save the jump.
In the case ES's SP, it almost looked as if the pop was choreographed into the program as what he intended to do.