Hi Peter, When I solve, I don't ever consider going slower to avoid pops. I very rarely pop, because I've spent lots of time getting used to the cube and learning how to make turns accurately.
If I were in a competition, and I popped, and I recorded a 40 second time in an average of five, I would need to make a choice. Do I want to try and set a fast average, and risk popping and essentially destroying my rank, or do I want to cube conservatively and try to place high in the competition. These are choices everyone has to make. The only difference now is that you aren't awarded a solve for something that was your fault. I really need you people to explain to my why pops are not the fault of the cuber, especially when I've spent time practicing to avoid pops. This was all outlined to me one fateful afternoon last year when I was cubing and jamming everywhere, and then Macky walks into my room, and makes a ridiculous number of moves in a ridiculously small amount of time and told me I needed to work on my accuracy. I learned that day that my cube didn't suck, I did. Frank Chang's cube is ludicrously loose. I've popped it while scrambling very slowly... but Frank doesn't pop. It was the same cube, but he didn't pop because he's practiced on that cube and so he can control it. Equipment failure is when something doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Pops have always been a part of solving. The cube is designed so that it can come apart... not while solving, and so when you solve, you shouldn't be taking the cube apart. Tyson Mao MSC #631 California Institute of Technology On Dec 25, 2005, at 4:38 PM, pjgat09 wrote: > I agree with Per. There really isn't any reason to dis-allow ALL pops. > Well, there is one, but it really doesn't mean anything. The only > reason i have heard is that people will abuse it. They will purposely > pop because they are having a bad time. The new rule is to make people > not do this. The thing is, I have never met a cuber that I would think > would do this. All of the cubers I have met are always nice and > friendly. All of them would accept a bad time, even if it means a bad > average. I am sure that a cuber could get ovwer it. Isn't that the > point of doing this? To try to get better? Even if it means going to > several competitions or doing 100 cubes in a row, I would live with > the pop and do my best to get better. > > The makers of this new rule should get out more to see this! :) I > really think a better reason for this rule is needed before it > actually goes into effect. > > Peter Greenwood > > --- In [email protected], "Per Kristen Fredlund" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi :-) >> >> Sorry, that analogy does not hold water ;-) It is actually LEGAL to >> tip over all the hurdles and get a valid time, as long as u follow >> the lane from start to finish :D (And if not creeping under all of >> them ...) I will still say that most pops are not the fault of the >> cuber, or at least not in a predictable way. That's the real >> difference. If u tip over a hurdle it's the fault of the runner, and >> the runner knows exactly why he tipped the hurdle over. >> >> Sorry, but i feel strongly about this. I can live with the new rule, >> but i strongly disagree with the reasons for not allowing a single >> pop anymore. I haven't seen convincing theoretical or practical >> reasons :-) >> >> -Per >> >>> --- In [email protected], "Stefan Pochmann" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> --- In [email protected], "Per Kristen >> Fredlund" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I agree with Peter here. Not allowing ANY pop at all [...] >>> >>> Pops will still be allowed, just not rewarded anymore. >>> >>> Probably better analogy than Nascar: 100 meter hurdles. If you >>> fall/stumble crashing into a hurdle because you were too sloppy >> (e.g. >>> trying to jump more forwards than upwards) then you don't get a >>> replacement run. And why should you? >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Stefan >>> >> > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/MXMplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
