Difficulty

Wheel difficulty and repeated skills are judged with the same criteria as Single Rope Difficulty, the key difference is that scoring is separated by athlete instead of by skill type. Any skill performed by an athlete is scored by their assigned judge. If the two athletes are doing a skill at the same time in synchronised wheel it is scored by both judges. Skills performed in a single rope fashion (where ropes are not shared between athletes) will not be scored.

The athletes are judged as athlete A and athlete B. The athletes may themselves provide a clear marker to separate the athletes, such as different shirt colour, or wide bracelet, arm-band or coloured tape on the shoe/sleeve of one of the athlete. The event organiser should be able to provide coloured tape. Athlete A will be the athlete with the designated marker.

Wheel Matrix

The following matrix adds in a few wheel specific skills, and provides examples of how the single rope matrices translate to wheel.

Starting Level	Examples of skills
Level 0.5	180° spin 360° spin/pinwheel Cross Basic arm wrap
Level 1	Switching places Double under Entry into frog, pushup, crab, split Basic scoop Basic release (note: both A and B judges give marks) Single restriction (e.g. toad, crougar, inverse toad, EB) Buddy bounce/butt bounce
Level 2	Front handspring Exit from frog, pushup, crab, split by jumping over the rope Triple under Double under with single restriction (e.g. toad, crougar) Mic (note: both A and B judges give marks) Double restriction (e.g. AS, CL, TS, EB toad, KN, CN, EM)
Level 3	Single restriction (L1) triple under (+2) One-handed frog or pushup exit Restricted release (behind the back or knees) Quadruple under ¾ front flip crougar triple under (triple Under (L2) crougar (+1) cross (+0)) Double under entry to pushup (double under (L1) pushup entry (+1) multiple in power (+1)) AS double under (double restriction AS (L2) double under (+1)) Two-footed frog entry Ariel
Level 4	Quadruple under (L3) with single restriction (+1) Front flip/backflip AS triple under (triple under (L2) with double restriction (+2)) Pushup/Frog to Pushup Restricted release (behind the back or knees) with restricted catch (under legs, behind back, behind head, behind knees, by a body part that isn’t a hand). (note: both A and B judges give marks) One-handed frog with a scoop
Level 5	Double under frog (1.5 open rotations landing in frog) (two-Footed frog (L3) double under (+1) multiple in power (+1)) Front flip (L4) with double under (+1) Sunny D/Darkside with rope movement prior to one or both hands leaving the ground Double restriction quadruple under (e.g Quadruple under (L3) with AS (+2), Quadruple under with CL, quadruple under with TS, quadruple under with EB Toad) French Trick with a scoop (French Trick (L4) Scoop (+1))
Level 6	Kip whip Front handspring whip Backflip (L4) with triple under (+2) Backwards Split exit
Level 7	Sunny D/Darkside Kip Whip (L6) with a cross (+1 for cross with gymnastics)
Level 8	Double back Backwards Pushup to Pushup, Backwards Frog to Pushup Money Maker(Frog to Frog)

note

When scoring a rope release, both athletes should receive a score for a rope release as both athletes are involved in either the release of the rope, control of the release, or the catch of the rope.