Hot and high!!

We have now all flown the Q programme and our Free sequences. It has all been a real eye opener for us and much has been learnt about how we need to fly to please the judges.

Paul was first to fly the Q with John, David J and I following. Our results placed us about middle of the field which put us in groups two and three for the free which we flew yesterday. John was first up and put in, what looked to us, a very aggressive and stylish flight. Unfortunately the judges didn't fully agree and awarded him 68%.

Then Paul flew. After having been told that we have been a little far away for the judges liking, he flew right up the judges noses all the way and looked pretty sharp, however, the judges clearly did not like having to pick bits of Edge 360 out of their nostrils and awarded Paul 70% minus 2 lows which took his score down to the late 50s. But after checking the scoresheets we found that the low penalties had been over counted somewhat and his score was rectified to 64.5% (still not quite Tomlinson territory).
I flew a clean sequence, in about the right place it seems as far as the judges were concerned and landed 73% and David J pushed himself to the top of the Team GBR pile with a very respectable 74%.

Next up is the Free Unknown. A sequence cobbled together like a puzzle from 10 figures (one figure submitted by each team), plus 4 linking figures of our choice. Of course the teams try to snooker each other with difficult figures, so you end up with a sequence where nearly every figure is very challenging to fly.
We think Paul and John will fly today. We will publish the sequence on the blog as soon as we can put it in a pdf format.