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the landing is bad that is what everyone remembers and therefore the score suffers.
Platform diving too and I'm sure there's many on going examples.  Landing on your jaw over and over is not executing.  I expect the judges see them too and it is their job to penalize those .  Some of these dogs are very consisted at bad landing and I believe that they think it is part of the drill having learned it wrong.  For some of the tougher breeds they can and will take hard hits with little set backs.  However most dogs will
began to show signs of avoidance over a period of time.  A well executed leap includes a superb landing.  Upper level competitors train for it I expect.  What I fear most is that the average Joe will have a dog who will not leap well from off the ground and so in order to appear as though his dog can leap the
owner takes up his training time asking the dog to go vault too soon, too high and not being concerned about the way his dog is landing, properly or not.  This is all too sad. 

Remember teaching the dog to leap from the ground is the bases for learning how to land.  Landing secure is on all four feet.  Vaulting is an advanced trick and your dog must know quite a bit before ever trying one.  What goes up must come down and
so the higher you go the harder the landing will be on impact and that is a fact. We all have seen in competitions dogs crashing over and over again.  This is not neccessary and should not be excepted.  What they are doing is teaching their dog how to
crash not how to land.

To avoid bad landing try teaming up with a frisbee