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At the U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships, the International System of Judging will be used for the following events: championship, masters and gold levels of singles and pairs, and the championship, masters, gold and pre-gold levels of dance (including masters open dance). All nonqualifying events will be judged using the 6.0 judging system.
While I'm only a bronze level skater, the UK is introducing IJS for all levels (except Beginner kids), so I'm trying to get myself up to date with the coding.
So can you do a change-foot upright spin (CUSp)? If so, it is worth 1.5 points, more than any single position spin (Upright 1.0, Camel 1.1, Sit 1.1). Can you do a forward sit to back upright? If so, that would count as a CCoSp (1.7 points) and would be worth more than a CUSp (change foot upright, 1.5 pts), CoSp (Camel-sit, 1.5 pts) or SSp1 (sit with broken leg variation, 1.3 pts).
I'd never even thought about trying forward sit to back upright. I've messed around with camel-sit to back upright as it forces me to practice the camel-sit and the change foot, but hadn't ever really thought about it as a spin option for trying. I'll have to have a mess around tomorrow. Are you meant to do the change foot immediately or can you spend a couple of revs in the forward upright position before changing feet? I suspect that sit and back spin might actually even be easier for me than a normal change foot as I need to control the speed for the change foot bit (I'm not that good at it) but on the back end of a sit spin I've already slowed myself enough for the change.