I've looked at the European Championships videos several times in regular and slow speed and
Christophe, to me, is clearly the smoothest flier there. Some of his flying is the best I've ever seen.
My comment on his snaps is, to me, it looks like he starts the snap with an aileron roll then the
airplane breaks into the rest of the maneuver. In slow motion it looks like, to me, the wings start
rolling before the airplane does anything else. As I understand it according to FAI rules this is to be
zeroed, although he does them so fast it's very hard to see at full speed. I personally don't have a
problem with this type of snap being judged as long as it's the same criteria for everyone else. To
tell you the truth if I was judging his flight I would have scored his snaps but would probably have
zeroed his wingover "OOPS" I mean stall turn !!
Anyway you look at it the best flier won the championship in my opinion.