Larry, i have to respectfully offer a different opinion. in the early days of scat, i tried "saving time" by using a sequence template technique and varying/applying the critical roll and snap elements in the sequences to bring them up to the appropriate "K". I did it, I think twice, and never thereafter because I wasn't satisifed with the results. We ended up with the some figures that didn't flow well, or had strange positioning requirements, or both. In fact, there was an unwritten rule of "you wrote it, you judge it." There was no need to hear it from the pilots - as a judge you knew right away when something didn't work. The SCAT known and unknowns were written thereafter from a clean sheet of paper (screen?) with no regard to what the sequence looked like in the other class. It took more time, but freed the writer from the technical gymnastics sometimes required to turn a sportsman figure into an unlimited figure. and based on the years of positive feedback we received about the quality of our knowns and unknowns, my two cents and (and i think aresti2004 would agree with me) recommendation is taking the extra time for each sequence.

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