Just thought I'd update my test status on the threads I posted in earlier. . .passed my Junior moves today on the first try! Novice Free was a bit of a splatfest, so we'll be trying that again some other time. One more moves test to go and I'm done!

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Congratulations!

I started skating at 21. I'm now 27. I skate in the UK so these are NISA tests (I have tests for most disciplines - only missing pairs! lol):

Free programme: Level 3
Free skating elements: Level 3
Field moves: Level 6
Compulsory dance: Level 6
Free dance: Level 5
Original dance: Level 4
Synchro: Preliminary

I think I am equivalent of US adult silver FS but not sure about dance.

I started at 37 and am now 45 (aaarrrggghhhh! when did I get that old!?)

Have flitted between dance and free and back again and do both discipines now.

NISA tests (UK)

Free skating: free programme - level 1 (am hoping to take level 2 soon)
elements - level 1 (will take level 2 when I can get a consistent backspin (my current nemesis))

Field moves - interbronze = new level 4

Dance:
compulsories: level 2
variation: level 1
free dance: level 3

Hope to do level 4 free dance, level 3 compulsories and level 2 variation sometime this year (probably after adult championships in September)

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I'm glad to see so many adults here! I'm excited to be a part of this forum. :-)

I'm 20 now, and started back at group lessons a few weeks ago. I have NO idea where I am, lol. I skated in group lessons when I was 12 for about a year and was in ISI FS1 when I stopped. I wish I didn't stop... and I wish I practiced when I was a kid! Lol

Great job!! :-)

I started figure skating when I was about 9, but I played hockey before that, and now I an 12. I am on USFSA pre-juv MITF, and I compete in no-test. In ISI I am technically on FS 5 because I havn't landed my axel yet, but my coach said I could take FS 6 because I can do everything else in FS 5.

I'm 34, started about 2.5 years ago. I have NISA Level 1 (Moves, Elements & Free), and judging by my latest competition results I haven't overgrown that level yet. So I'm happy to hang on there for a while.

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I just turned 53 and have been skating since I was 6. Skated seriously from about 8 and quit at 14. Came back seriously again when I was about 34 and haven't looked back.

Test-wise:

Silver Dance
Pre-Bonze Moves
Adult Bronze Figures
1st Figure

Proving once again that length of time on the ice does not necessarily equal accomplishment. But I must say that I think I know quite a lot about skating, even if my body doesn't want to do it.

Never tested freestyle. They didn't have freestyle tests when I was a kid until you reached Novice, as an Adult I moved over to dance once I was able to land all of my singles again...

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Started skating at 12, stopped when I went to college. Passed 1st figure and Bronze dances back then. Started skating almost 2 years ago when my daughter got interested. I'm FS 4, still working on that loop jump after all these years. Also working on pre-Bronze moves. Age 54. Daughter is 12 and working on pre-juv moves and FS 6 (she's better than I ever was!)

If you haven't landed your axel yet then you would be in FS4 because you need an axel to pass 5, or else I'd be in 5. In FS 6 you need a double salchow I believe.

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I think that's an ISI thing. We always used to say we were "on" or "in" a level when we were working on it but hadn't passed it yet. So if someone asked you what level you were, you'd say you were on FS 5, but if that person asked you what level you competed at, you'd say FS 4 (since that's the last level you passed). At least that's how it was at my rink.

You've improved enormously over the last year, though - you really have! You look _much_ more confident this year, I hardly recognised you as the same skater!

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Oh, because I'm in ISI and I say I'm the level that I compete at, which is FS4. I don't say I'm in FS 5 because I haven't passed that test because I don't have an axel. But still, you can't say you're in FS6 if you don't have an axel.

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hmmm...perhaps the common understanding about what level you are "on" varies with the rink or geographical location then rather than with ISI vs USFSA. That's interesting. Maybe I'll start a new thread about this...

ETA: I do agree that you can't say you're in FS 6 without an axel. That doesn't make sense either way you look at it.

you could say FS5/FS6...

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She could I guess.But that really wouldnt be correct.
Here, they say what level they compete in, not what level they are working on. They always work above what level they compete in but they dont have all the elements.We dont have ISI group classes at higher levels, its all privates here.

Well, i got my first skating lessons as a christmas gift. I had four sessions with a coach when i was 14, but that was it since i didnt like him much, and i learned pretty much nothing. Then, I attended group lessons a year after, now under a new coach, and i was able to finish all required elements for the first level on my first day. So i moved on from there, but once school started, i had to stop, because we didnt have much time. this summer, i returned to the same coach at 16, I am in ISI Alpha, though i am doing moves for ISI Gamma. i'm pretty sure i want to continue this now

I started skating when I was 11 in learn to skate classes and passed all the levels. Afterward I did private lessons and still am I'm currently a Juvenile skater in USFSA going into Intermediate. I'm 17 now.

Wow, awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As for me, I compete at Adult Gold level. I am 42 and started skating in group lessons at 27, but took 5 years off between the first 5 years and the second 5 years. I didn't get "serious" until 5 years ago, but then I got seriously hooked. I passed my PreBronze and Bronze tests in 2002, Silver in 2004 and Gold in 2005. It is SO nice not to be rushing to pass any tests now, LOL!

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Congrats!!! Sounds Awesome!!!

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Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

I am 55 and started skating at 41. I am at the adult Bronze level and hope to be Silver in about a year!

I'm 15 and I'm an Intermediate USFSA moves/Silver Dancer. I started when I was 8. But I did mostly freestyle. I started dance 2 years ago.