abw wrote:There are very rarely any new individual tricks - the backspin would probably be the last one that came along, and that's going back 5 or so years now.
Here we go again... IMO the Comete is definitely a new trick of its own (yes, I know you don't want to agree for some reason). A good flyer
can turn Multi(ple) Axels into a reasonable approximation of a Comete, and the C has its roots in the Multiaxel/Torpille stuff, but it deserves a page of its own int the book of tricks by now.
Also, I would consider the fast, aggressive, almost slack-less Multilazy a different trick from a Lazy Susan (or even a "multiple Lazy Susan"). They share quite a few things at a basic level, but so do the Backspin and the Barrel Roll for instance, and they've generally thought of as 2 separate tricks.
Both of the above came along after the backspin. Saying that a trick is "just a derivative" if it happens to share some elements with earlier stuff is implying that everything that happened, say, 7-8 years ago had more worth than what's being done today because it was
original.
Juha