Which criterion has the highest severity described for missing 90 degrees or more?

Which criterion has the highest severity described for missing 90 degrees or more?

• A. Insufficient height of aerials & acro flights with hand support
• B. Insufficient split when required (dance/acro elements)- missing 1-20 degrees
• C. Insufficient split when required (dance/acro elements)- missing 21-45 degrees
• D. Insufficiant split when required (dance/acro element)- missing 90 degrees or more

Answer: (D)

In scoring, how far you miss the required split directly drives the severity of the deduction. Missing 90 degrees or more means you are far from the needed position—it's a large, noticeable gap in flexibility and control and signals a major deviation from the standard. That kind of large deficiency understandably carries the strongest penalty. Smaller gaps are described in the other options (1–20 degrees, 21–45 degrees), which are progressively less severe than a 90+ degree miss. The first option talks about height of aerials and flights with hand support, which isn’t addressing the same split angle issue at all, so it doesn’t apply to this particular measure of deficiency.

In scoring, how far you miss the required split directly drives the severity of the deduction. Missing 90 degrees or more means you are far from the needed position—it's a large, noticeable gap in flexibility and control and signals a major deviation from the standard. That kind of large deficiency understandably carries the strongest penalty.

Smaller gaps are described in the other options (1–20 degrees, 21–45 degrees), which are progressively less severe than a 90+ degree miss. The first option talks about height of aerials and flights with hand support, which isn’t addressing the same split angle issue at all, so it doesn’t apply to this particular measure of deficiency.