I have had a judge tell me that I should count out the 45 and vertical uplines and downlines and when I pointed out to him that the airplane's speed wasn't constant so that wouldn't produce equal lines he stated that the speed doesn't change that much. I had the same judge tell me that my airplane should come to a stop in the stall maneuver before the spin. Obviously that thinking is flawed since if the airplane's horizontal motion comes to a stop then the airplane isn't maintaining altitude (unless it is in a hover).