flo
04-10-2009, 08:36 PM
HI,
I thought I'd start this thread apart from the Governing Council thread as there are two topics, moves and pairs, within that thread.
The issue of concern is that those of us who took the preliminary pairs test prior to the development of the adult test structure were grandfathered to the juvenile level when the preliminary test was removed. This places us in gold pairs. The same preliminary pair test was brought back, and then again eliminated this past September. However these skaters are grandfathered at pre-juvenile, which places them at silver.
A similar change happened in freestyle, however the competition qualifications now include a "date passed" of 1994, when that change was put into place.
This inequity in pair test levels combined with the recent rule changes (allowing pairs to skate "down" from their fs level) results in a gold level with silver to masters level skaters.
Lexi, the adult chair was under the impression that this did not impact many skaters. I know of 7-8 pairs, but there are probably more. I also do not want to speak for any of the other pairs, but would like to hear what the pairs in this situation think. For me, I'd like the option of competing at silver or gold pairs.
If you are, or you know of any pairs in this situation, please let me or Lexi know. If anyone would like the spreadsheet I created of the past and current pair test qualifications, also let me know (you can pm me).
Thanks
I thought I'd start this thread apart from the Governing Council thread as there are two topics, moves and pairs, within that thread.
The issue of concern is that those of us who took the preliminary pairs test prior to the development of the adult test structure were grandfathered to the juvenile level when the preliminary test was removed. This places us in gold pairs. The same preliminary pair test was brought back, and then again eliminated this past September. However these skaters are grandfathered at pre-juvenile, which places them at silver.
A similar change happened in freestyle, however the competition qualifications now include a "date passed" of 1994, when that change was put into place.
This inequity in pair test levels combined with the recent rule changes (allowing pairs to skate "down" from their fs level) results in a gold level with silver to masters level skaters.
Lexi, the adult chair was under the impression that this did not impact many skaters. I know of 7-8 pairs, but there are probably more. I also do not want to speak for any of the other pairs, but would like to hear what the pairs in this situation think. For me, I'd like the option of competing at silver or gold pairs.
If you are, or you know of any pairs in this situation, please let me or Lexi know. If anyone would like the spreadsheet I created of the past and current pair test qualifications, also let me know (you can pm me).
Thanks