Which type of skills should programming for competitors be biased toward?

• A. Skills Rarely Tested In Competition
• B. Skills Balancing Aesthetics And Function
• C. Skills That Are Not Trainable
• D. Skills Commonly Tested In Competition

Answer: (D)

The main idea is to align practice with what will actually be judged in competition. Training should bias toward the skills that commonly appear in the events and scoring because those are the tasks you’ll be asked to perform under time constraints, fatigue, and pressure. When you practice those same movements, pacing, and decision-making patterns most often seen in competition, the improvements you gain are more likely to transfer to the test day performance, giving you reliable gains and smoother, more consistent results. Spinning a lot of time on skills that rarely show up in scoring tends to waste training effort, since the payoff in the actual competition would be limited. So the focus is on developing and refining the skills that are most frequently tested, while maintaining a solid foundation across other areas to avoid gaps.