Flip Your Board
How many flip tricks should you land in your 🛹 run❓
According to data from all the World Skate Olympic qualifiers, for an above average score...
👉 🙋♀️ 2️⃣ +
👉 🙋♂️ 4️⃣ +
How many flip tricks have skaters landed during WS qualifying comps so far?
🙋♀️ 1.09 ± 1.22 flip tricks per run (n = 199 runs) ▶ 18.3% of the tricks in their run
🙋♂️ 2.56 ± 1.72 flip tricks per run (n = 230 runs) ▶ 40.1% of the tricks in their run
So, is it as clear as, more flip tricks = higher run score? OR is there again a 🍭 spot of flip tricks vs. other tricks? OR actually, does it completely depend on the individual skater? ⤵
Let's look at the 🙋♂️ 🇯🇵 team: #5 and #6 in the world
🛹 Kairi Netsuke and Ginwoo Onodera both flipped their board 4.1x per run (~58% to 63% of their run tricks)
🛹 Yet, Kairi's average run scores are 25% more than Ginwoo's
(77 pts, 0.49 normalised VS. 62 pts, -0.26 normalised) 🤯
The story seems a bit clearer for the ladies 🙋♀️: Chloe Covell averages 3.9 flip tricks per run - that's more than half of the tricks in her run! She also has the highest run scores on average.
📈 So while doing more flip tricks doesn't necessarily guarantee a higher score for the 🙋♂️...
📈 ... it does appear to be a good way for 🙋♀️ to differentiate themselves
Will the girls be looking to flip their board more in Shanghai this week to improve their run scores?
Author: Shelley Diewald