I compete at the Adult Bronze level.

I'm working on the Adult Bronze MIF and FS tests (hoping to test this summer), and have passed Adult Pre-Bronze MIF and FS, Preliminary MIF, Preliminary Dance and ISI FS 4.

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I've got mad salchow disease!

I'm all over the "board". =-) I'm strongest in jumping. Trying double loops/flips and salchows. I'm an okay spinner and my moves are improving. I'm sorta lopsided in my skills and my coach is trying hard to balance this out. I have made it a personal goal this year to have fun and be a better rounded package. That, and hold onto those doubles for dear life! =-)

Chico

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"I truly believe, when God created skating, he patted himself on the back."

Working on Jr. Bronze dances (Fiesta, Swing, Willow) and Preliminary Skills -- damn 3 turns!

Freeskate is not yet a part of my daily on-ice vocabulary...

Not really! There's really not much of a parallel in terms of moves, since ISI doesn't really have MITF as much as they have "dance sequences." But if I were to put it at a parallel level to ISI, I would put it somewhere between ISI 3 and 4 actually!

Keep in mind that pre-Bronze tests are considered to be "encouragement tests", but starting from Bronze level on, the judges expect more than just being able to do the moves but to do them at a certain level. (i.e. speed, edge quality, extension, etc.) So...definitely NOT the same thing!!! (This is why it's taking me more than 2 years to get it to the point where it's getting close to passing level on the Bronze Moves test... that is... if my nerves don't get in the way...) You will be royally scrutinize from Bronze on up on moves!!! (The higher the level, the more closely the judges will scrutinize those move elements!)

If you find yourself in a situation where you can do all these jumps and spins, but can't get much control out of your basic skating and you WANT to look like you *know* how to skate, then the USFSA track is for you! ISI doesn't really have that much in the way of putting those types of building blocks to perspective in terms of moves... the "in-betweens" of skating.

Just some food for thought...

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

What do you have to do for Preliminary Skills? Our Moves tests (the equivalent) don't have turns in them for the first two levels (first 3 levels, for dancers - they are due to be concatenated at the end of this year, though, so that may change).

I'm interested, though, that the Willow is considered to be on a level with the Fiesta and Swing. When they first changed our test structure, they put the Willow Waltz at Level 4 Silver (in those days called Elementary 2, I think) with the Swing Dance, but when they changed it again a couple of years later, the Fiesta was put in with the Swing Dance and the Willow was bumped up not one level, but two, to Level 6 Silver, where it's paired with the 14-step. Level 5 Silver, FYI, is the British Waltz (formerly known as the Prelim waltz) and the Foxtrot.

Someone said this was because the PTB at NISA had all done their dance tests in the days when the test structure was just Novice, Prelim, Bronze, etc, and so they found the Foxtrot really easy and the Willow, which they'd never danced before, really hard! Hmmm - know which I'd rather do. Our Willow is dreadful at the moment, but we are beginning to take it apart and look at each individual element before rebuilding it. And it's a whole lot easier than the Foxtrot, I think. I think.....

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Forward edges on a circle, back edges on a circle (that have a 3-turn to get into them), waltzing mohawks and waltzing 3's. I haven't worked on the waltzing 3's at all so I can't tell you which ones they are except that they're all forward ones.

The Willow has been with the Swing and Fiesta since about 1990 here. Actually, our kids seem to get through it okay; they have way more trouble with the European Waltz (which is grouped with the Ten-Fox and 14-Step). I've learned the Swing -- sorta -- my focus has been the Fiesta until my back edges get stronger. I think I've been through the Willow once -- until I get better with the 3-turn in that, I'm just gonna keep working on the Fiesta.

At the start of the year, my goal was to test all 3 dances and the Skills by the end of March -- don't think that's gonna happen...

I'm working on Tango, which will be the first of my USFS Silver dances to be tested (fingers crossed, knock on wood) at the end of February.

I've competed American Waltz, Blues and Paso before, with not much success.

Occasionally I work on Adult Bronze MIF.

When I first started testing Dance with USFS(A), there was no Pre-Bronze test level, and Swing Dance (US tempo) was a Preliminary dance. Then they added the Pre-Bronze test level, and maybe re-arranged things once. Right now, Swing Dance is sandwiched with the Fiesta and the Cha-Cha at Pre-Bronze, and Bronze is Hickory Hoedown, Willow and 10Fox.

The only other recent change (other than adding Midnight Blues at International) is that USFS pushed Starlight Waltz down from International to Pre-Gold, so that now we have 4 Pre-Gold dances (Killian, Blues, Paso and Starlight).

Those are Skate Canada's Sr. Silver dances, along with the Cha Cha Congelado which was added to the group about 4 years ago.

At one time the Swing was a Prelim dance, but they introduced the Baby Blues into Prelim in about 1990 and put the Swing into Jr. Bronze. I guess our Diamonds would be closest to USFS Internationals (Rhumba, Romantica, Yankee Polka, Ravnsberger Waltz, Golden and Austrian Waltzes). The Silver Samba was added to the Gold dances (West, Quick, Viennese and Argentine) at the same time the Cha Cha was added to the Sr. Silvers.

Thanks.

Do you have to test all the dances at once, as we do, or can you test them one at a time, as in the USA?

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

passed adult silver and juvenile pairs, so compete adult silver and gold pairs.

Loops - as you have passed Gold fs, don't you two have to compete gold pairs?

Gold FS, in my dreams! No, I've passed gold MIF but silver FS, so we're squarely in silver pairs.

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I need a detachable left foot!

oops - I misread. I'm sure it's just a matter of time - and perhaps a few bruises.

Adult gold Free ,, .. first time at this level, we will see what happens
but Im sure looking forward to it...

When I stopped doing much skating three years ago, I was in FS3. I imagine I'd be around FS1 if I were to start again, but I don't think it would take long to get back to FS3 and beyond.

I'm kinda not working on a level. I was doing ice dance and was working on a couple of pre-Golds -- the Startlight Waltz and the Blues. But then I got bored dancing, since I don't have a partner, and decided to work on a FS program instead. I passed my Novice FS as a kid, and there's no way on God's green earth I will ever pass my Junior FS, so I'm not even going to try to work on that test. I've also already finished the Moves and Figure tests. I guess I could take up Pairs, but I'd rather not ever be thrown or lifted, thank you!

So, given all that, my levels are and always will be Masters Junior and Masters Interp.

I just started last year--won't test until next year. Right now I am at Adult 3/4 (held up at 3-turns and mohawks, (stuck on left side ) but can do some stuff at FS 1-2.

I will be 43 soon (real, real soon)

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Adult Silver and staying there. I was working on Gold moves to humor my coach too..............but have given it up in favor of dance. I'm working on the Hickory & Willow right now.

I can do them one at a time, but because of work, I'd like to test as much as possible in one day -- preferably on a day where it's a professional development/staff meeting day and I can sneak in really early and still be at work by about 9 a.m. All the parts of the Skills tests have to be tried in the same day. It used to be both the elements and program parts of freeskate tests had to be attempted in the first go, but that's changed now too.

I just started last year too -- at the age of 44. Yay for the olde fartes!

I've competed as an Adult Bronze skater, but I am currently working on both prebronze and bronze MITF and FS. I am not quite old enough to even test adult yet.

I passed pre-pre MITF and FS back in high school. I started at about 15, then quit my senior year in HS and took it up again my senior year of college. Now, after about a year hiatus, I have a car, so I have rink access.

Older is better, The skating and the people get better with age, Im 45
and still busting my butt trying new things
"and loving it. "

( "Maxwell Smart ")

" The greatest risk in life is not taking one"

Well, I don't compete on my own, but in synchro I skate Adult Festival. The highest level of synchro I skated was senior competitive, for four years a number of years ago.

I do test, though. I passed my gold dances last year and am working on my gold skills.

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MITF: Tested through adult silver and standard prelim (hope to go back to standard track once I'm done with the adult gold). Hope to test gold after nationals.

FS: passed silver a few months ago.

Dance: Have learned the patterns through pre-silver, and have learned the partnering through bronze. Now, if I could just find the time to polish them and test them...

i skate junior dance by canadas standards.

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SO Im guessing you are Canadian because I did the same dances on that level.......and Im now on the European(was supposed 2 test it but they CANCELLED!!! ) Im on sr. Bronze dances until next test day......Jr. Silver Skills (LOOPS) and Sr. Bronze freeskate (axel dbl toe, sall, loop, flip)

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