Well, I took the test last night and skated horribly for me. My power 3's which had been so good in Atlanta were very bad including a slide on the outside edge exactly in front of the judges!

I passed anyway but I didn't feel like I skated anywhere near how I can skate (and neither does my coach). At least they are over with!

Has anyone else tested adult MIF here yet?

Hugs!
Danielle

Congratulations Dani

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Congrats!!!!! Onwards and upwards with the Bronze FS test!

Congratulations!

Congrats on passing you MITF test!

YOU GO, GIRL!!!!!

CONGRATS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

8) CONGRATS TO YOU, DANI!!!! 8)

(Very jealous now... )

Cheers,
jazzpants

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Congratulations, Dani!!

Three cheers and a big tiger on skates for you!!!


Beth

Oh, Dani, that's great news! Many congratulations.

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Thanks for the congrats everyone!!

I just received my scores - I had straight 2.5's with a single 2.6 from two of the judges. The third judge gave me a 2.7, a pair of 2.6's, a 2.5 and a 2.4 (5 step mohawk).

Ok, what is this score out of? Did I get 2.5's just because they wanted me to pass and that is what I needed? The comments didn't really help either.

Hugs!
Danielle

The score should, I think, be out of 6, as is usual in skating. The pass mark varies, increasing as you go up the ladder. I don't know what the pass mark would be for Adult Bronze, but 2.5 average sounds about right.

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2.5 is passing. It's kind of out of 6, but is really based on what is the expectation at that level. If you perform the move to expectations, 2.5. The 2.6 means you performed the move better than required, the 2.4, not as well as required, but not terrible.

Excellent. :-) You must be so thrilled and proud.

That is what I was guessing based on the scores. How much do they normally vary? I mean if I had skated my best I would have had really solid edges and quiet 3-turns. Would that have broken me out of the 2.6 range? I guess this is really judge-specific right?

For example, on one of my (good ;-) moves I received the comment "very nicely skated - extension nice" and my score was a 2.6

I am very happy and proud that I passed and have started on my Silver moves. I guess I am the first "rinksider" to test these? I am also happy that I can finely get back to my pre-bronze dances! ;-)

Hugs!
Danielle

Dani,
Congratulations! I think you are the first rinksider to pass. That's a great accomplishment - not the least of which is now they are out of the way. I am taking my Gold Moves the last weekend of October so I will be interested to see how that goes. I don't think any of the judges in our area will have had to judge the new adult moves by the time I take them - it will be an experience.

dani, congratulations! Sounds like you did
better than you think you did (does that make
sense?)

Does anyone here skate well on a test? I know that
when I took my Bronze free, I fell at the end on
a lunge/turn/lunge. I never did that before...but
I passed. Nice comments too. My friend was
cracking up on the sidelines.

And on my preliminary moves test, I was aghast
that I was expected to do my crossovers at the
end of the rink, on the itty-bitty circles. I have
big crossovers....I also heard that I nearly hit
the other person taking the test on the back
crossovers to an outside edge. Oh, that would
have been great! All the same I had some marks
over passing, so I was pleased.

One day I will take a test and do well, until then I
will be relieved just to pass!

Oops, This was the quote for my earlier post ;-)

Hugs!
Danielle

I skate well during freestyle tests, but not moves tests. I think part of my moves issues is the structure of the tests; it always seems that *my* hardest element on each test is the first one and I can't get warmed up enough in five minutes to get my knees nice and loose.

Oops! Forgot to say congrats earlier Dani.

About your other question...it seems to vary by judges. Where I skate there are occasionally Prelim moves tests passed 2 of 3 judges 1.0 over (in total) and the 3rd judge is nowhere near as generous. Still 2.6 means you did very, very well.

As for actually testing, I don't think I've tested as well as I skate yet. Pre-Preliminary free maybe , but that's about it. I usually do just fine on the first move or so, then it goes downhill. When I took Pre-Juv moves, I skated terribly on the 5-step mohawks...they were my best "practice" move, but in the test they were so bad - I just couldn't wait to get off the ice. Juv was a little better since there were less moves .

What if I gave Michelle Kwan her own Dani-suit (so that she looked just like me) and let her skate my MIF test? Would she get 6.0's?

(of course why Michelle would want her own Dani-suit is another question ;-)

Congratulations! As my coach says....A pass is a pass! Whether it be at the passing average or above. I think the highest test scores I've seen may be been about .7 above the passing average, but this is truly an exception. Most of the skaters are very pleased with .1 or .2 over the passing average.

The passing averages go up for each level......for example the passing average for each move on a Senior test is 4.5...

I would have been thrilled with even .1 over the passing average on my Bronze FS.....alas I was marked 2.5 and 2.5. I was lucky to get that considering my "squat spin"....