Good luck on your tests! I'm doing the same myself - passed Gold MIF's two weeks ago, and will test Gold Freestyle in two weeks (I'm not allowed to compete at AN unless I pass the AG tests). When I did my bronze free I entered my backspin from a forward to backwards pivot. The judges here didn't seem to have any problems with that, and it helped me get the necessary speed and proper position for the spin.

Also, somebody asked the deadline for AN - it's Jan 15th. So any tests you need to have need to be passed before then. (Taking into consideration any need to retest...)

Hi everyone!! These last couple of posts are very timely. I passed my moves and I am taking my bronze freestyle test on November 24th. I can do a 3 rev backspin maybe 10 percent of the time and my skates are so broken down that I have a real tendency to fall to the inside on my sitspin.

However, I feel a little better once I realized that if I can do my spins in isolation I can still pass! Is that a bad way to look at it? I will try them in my program and if they work, great! If not, I do them in isolation because of my 2 retries and life will be good.

Does anyone know what kind of score I would get, for example, a slow backspin on an outside edge in which I lose my balance in the end and put my free leg down? I am really hoping to score well on my jumps - my salchow and loop have lots of height and reasonable speed at this time. My toe loop has good speed, also. My front spin may travel but will have 10 or so revs to it in a scratch position. So, I am just hoping that I get lucky and failing that that I can pull everything else up.

In case I fail, does anyone know of a test center planned in the beginning of January in Florida or an easy to fly to place like Atlanta or Dallas?

Hugs!
Danielle

Dani,
Dallas Figure Skating Club has a test session on January 5th - designed specifically to make sure that any adults trying to qualify before the 15th have a chance to do so.

Kate

Georgia Figure Skating Club has a 5 Jan test session posted on their web site (http://www.gafsc.org/testing.htm)

Thanks!! Either one of those may work, should I need it.

Would there be an issue if I bought my own test session? In other words, if I could get the judges to agree to come in and I rented the rink, is that allowed? That has been my other thought.

Hugs!
Danielle

Only if you can get your club to agree to this situation. All test sessions are run a USFSA club, so the test chair of your club would have to agree. I don't think ours would because of the additional time and effort she would have to put into it (test chairs do a lot of paperwork!), the loss of control over who comes to judge, as well as the whole "fairness" thing. I don't think she'd want to set that precedent.

But why are you making Plan B? Plan A is for you to pass!

I was thinking of some of those issues. And I would personally worry about the appearance of part of it. I mean would they really want to fail me if I paid for everything? I would probably worry about that.

I so hope I pass! My back and sit spins are maybe 10 percent elements right now. Of course I do have 2 weeks ;-)

Hugs!
Danielle

Dani,

It might be worth it to talk to your test chair about your situation. An adult Bronze test requires only one Silver or higher judge. If you have a local judge that would agree to come in, and your rink agreed to give you the 15 minutes or so you would need to warm up and test.....this might work for you.

You have to remember that judges do get reimbursed for travel expenses, but often local judges come in and don't ask for reimbursement. So the expense involves the ice time, the judges travel expense, and hospitality (lunch)......

We once had a session with one Gold judge, and two adults testing their Bronze......

We sometimes schedule low level sessions with one judge. If there is enough testers, your club may agree to do this. The kids can test up through Preliminary moves and FS with one Silver or Gold judge.

I agree that you shouldn't be worried about Plan B as yet.....

Umm, the requirements for the prelim freeskate program is a minimum of 3 diff. jumps and 2 diff spins. You don't "have to have" 5 and 3.

Even at the junior bronze level, it's still only 4 single jumps, not 5. 2 spins again. But those are just the minimum requirements ..... it's always an advantage to have more.

Is it posible to pass two tests at once; prelim & junior bronze? I don't think I can do that but I'm just curious?

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You *could* possibly register to take them both in the same test session, but the Jr. Bronze would be *conditional* on passing the Prelim. If you had one part of the Prelim test, you could take the 2nd part and have one or both parts of the Jr. Bronze as conditional tests, but you must have the lower test completely passed before attempting the higher. And yes, you'd have to skate the program twice.

I took three USFSA adult freestyle tests in one day. The club had no problem with that. Of course, I was exhausted at the end of the day!

My club may or may not allow "contingency testing," which is defined as taking multiple tests that are dependent on passing an earlier test taken at that same session. It depends entirely on how much ice time we have available. Ice is very expensive and just plain hard to get around here. Contingency testing is sometimes allowed under unusual circumstances, though. For example, we had a skater move here from overseas. Her freeskting tests from the other country aren't recognized here, so she had to take a lot of tests to qualify for regionals in time. I think she was allowed to take 3 per test session.

I took my adult pair tests this way. It's pretty common around here.

When I took my multiple tests, there were several MIF's/Freestyle testers. This was at the last test for regionals (and the last test before the Adult MIF's became mandatory). At that time, I checked with another club that had a test session, and they would have allowed it too. So maybe it is more common here too.

It's pretty common here too. In fact I'm taking Pre-Bronze, Bronze, and Silver moves soon, all in one day. You pay for them anyway, but I do feel rather sorry for the judges if the skater isn't ready...seems just rude to waste their time since they're volunteering.

My club, it's iffy...depends alot on how much time we have available and how many test candidates there are. It tends to be much more on the FS side of things than the dance side of things.