ORIGINAL: mjfrederick
….. I just get the feeling from this thread that there are a lot of people out there harping on one single maneuver thinking that it will be the key to them making it into the "big time" instead of focusing on their pattern as a whole. I often compare pattern flying to ballet or figure skating. It's not just one trick that makes the whole sequence work, rather it is the way they work together....
Yep figure skaters are graded on the whole performance, but that whole performance, like pattern flying, is based on a string of individual elements that must be done correctly. Staying with the figure skater analogy: Sometimes they will work weeks just trying to perfect one maneuver before moving on to the next segment.
For us this week or month is snap rolls. Once this discussion has died down, hopefully another maneuver will take center stage and we can all learn something from that discussion.
I doub’t that will happen though, too much P’ing and M’ing going one in here for anybody to take a chance of starting this fire again.