My dd competed this weekend. It wasn't a good weekend for her at all. I generally stay out of it between my skater and her coaches, but a couple of things happened that I feel like maybe I need to say something about. First, for one of her programs, when they went out for the 5 minute warm up, she forgot to take off her guards, and fell hard on the ice right out the door. She skated through it all, but it wasn't good, later I saw her knee was all bruised up and swollen from it. She was pretty embarrassed as well and even the judges said something about it in the critique...gah. Her coach was WITH her, and apparently didn't notice either...is it unreasonable to expect a coach to be paying attention to that kind of thing?
Then in her other program (juv), they made a ton of changes THIS week. I went with it, but one of the things they did was put her axel as part of a combo (double flip axel). I felt like it was risky as sometimes she flubs the double flip, and she did, so she didn't get the axel in at all (required element) and thus got no credit for the last double she DID make, very nicely I might add. Not only that, she almost ALWAYS has gotten +1 GOE on her axel and the judges didn't even get to see it. She even asked her coach before what she should do if she messed up the flip, but he didn't really give her an answer and told her not to worry about it-- she even knew she needed the axel.
I really try to keep things between her coaches and her, I really do, but I am wondering about these things, I really love her coaches overall and they have taken her very far in a very short time... WWYD?