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Thread: [Acro] The Ljungbyhed Files - 13.5 - 2nd unknown
Message: [Acro] The Ljungbyhed Files - 13.5 - 2nd unknown
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From: "autotech at flash.net" <autotech@flash.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:03:47 UTC
End of the day, aircraft sound still shredding the peace. We are going to make it to pilot 45 today. The scores for the highest ranked 30 are in, and we sort of improved and sort of didn't. Rob Holland had a great flight, pulling himself up to 10th overall in the standings. I sort of treaded water with an otherwise pleasant flight marred by a momentary wrong-footedness in a snap. I've moved up to 12th overall due to the generosity of some higher placing pilots, but am still hovering around 75%. Mike Wiskus crept closer, and is in 13th only 8 points behind me. If the weather cooperates he'll probably move past me with his good flying, and we believe he's gotten the zero-itis out of his system. Jeff had a good flight, and is in 18th, and our rising star Mike Niccum moved into 20th. This means we have 5 pilots who will fly the 3rd unknown if they fly as many as 20, 3 if they cut to 15, and only 1 if they cut to 10. Please note that there are still pilots flying, and it is possible that one of the more lowly placed pilots will bump us down a notch or two, but it isn't likely at this point. Two of the Czech pilots had indifferent flights, with Mike and I both gaining ground on the 3rd and 2nd place Czech pilots respectively. Since Rob has moved into the highest team pilot his job was to beat Petr Biskup. Petr won the flight with a presentation of grace and precision. This puts the Czech team about 181 points ahead of us. Not a big leap if we fly well and they stumble. I'm not counting on Petr to stumble, but Martin Vecko (winner of the Q) has proven to be mortal, and Martin Muck is sitting in 23rd, and so may not make the cut for the 3rd flight. Most other flights were workmanlike at worst, and inspired at best. Tomo Poljanec from Slovenia was flying the very very very best Yak flight of the day when he did a full snap instead of the half snap that was required. This was on the highest K figure in the sequence, so he has dropped from 3rd overall to 21st. It is a treacherous game, isn't it? As I noted, Rob finally figured out some of the presentation issues and earned big marks for this high K element. The French did well, with Bichet placing 2nd and Simon Roy taking 3rd in the flight. Very different styles among the countries. Most of us push the lever forward and barge along fast and high at the mid to back of the box. This gets good presentation scores. The French fly right on the front line in the judges' faces, but down low. They also pull the power on uplines making hammerhead lines short, and 45's brief and tight. This keeps the whole program within a short head-swivel for the judges. The place NOT to be is high and close, or low and far. This may sound obvious, but it is clear that the skill to place it both low at the bottom of each maneuver and low at the top as well is one the French have taken great pains to master. Why are we hearing Greg Dungan referred to as "Stud Muffin?" Is there a history that has escaped this roving reporter? Time to watch Doug Sowder's flight. Hugs to all, Don -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
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