I have noticed that often you will see a number of variations of common sets. I was at a tournament and a classmate performed a set in a very capable manner. A judge had seen a variation of this set before and decided that a couple of moves were slightly different than he expected. He appearred to downgrade the mark because of contentions that the set had been adulterated. How do you avoid being biased because you favour a particular way of performing a set? And furthermore..how do you avoid being biased towards styles that are physically or philisophically similar to what you already practise? What are the criteria you use when judging a set that you are unfamiliar with or do you simply withdraw from judging? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Cheers, Ross