Hi everyone! I haven't logged in here in quite awhile, but with AN's coming, was looking to see if there was anything posted, and I came across a thread with the following info, which was posted on January 10:

Not to throw a wrench into the works, but due to the fact that the AN announcement was published before the corrected version of the adult well-balanced program rules was published, the latest news is that they are NOT going to be enforcing the jump repetition rule at AN this year (or at Sectionals, if the others are following the same rules as Pacific Coast). Instead, you will be allowed to do each jump as many times as you like, as long as you only do it once as a solo jump. They will be limiting combinations, of course, so that you are allowed only 3 combinations, of which only one can be a 3-jump combination. So you could hypothetically do 6 loops in your program without repeating the same jump element. For example, you could do a loop, a loop-loop, a flip-loop and a lutz-loop-loop. I'm not saying I'd recommend doing all loops and no toeloops, just that it would be allowed.

An announcement has already gone out to everyone registered for Pacific Coast Adult Sectionals saying that the wording of the WBP rules here:

http://www.usfigureskating.org/Programs.asp?id=112

is what will be used at Sectionals. Tony Conte (Adult program chairman) has also personally confirmed to me and several other adults that the jump repetition rule will not be used at AN. He says he plans to issue a clarification so that people know that the wording in the competition announcement (and the USFSA link above) supercedes the wording of the corrected rulebook pages.

My questions is....is this true? I can't find anything on the usfsa site that clarifies this. My coach and I struggled with my program to fit in the new well balanced program requirements, the ones that were listed in the AN's registration packet. Is that what is correct??? Now I am panicking that I need to change my program!

The jump repetition rule IS in effect. A clarifying statement already went out