The way I have always had "passing" scores explained to me is that if you get exactly what you need to pass, then your skating was what the judges expect to see at that level (regardless of what the passing "number" is). In our area, to see a mark even .1 over passing is actually considered to be quite good. Taz Jr. passed her preliminary FS last spring with marks of 2.6/2.7 for a total of .3 over passing - she did skate a nice test that was a pretty obvious pass anyway, but her coach was blown away that she was marked that far over standard.

Congratulations on passing your Bronze moves. I was hoping to have my Silver ones testable for November-ish, after my coach gets past the Regionals frenzies that invariably take over this time of year (ugh - the tension at our rink is so thick you could cut it with a knife). Not sure if that's realistic or not - back cross strokes are still pretty awful, and the chasse move from Intermediate is just cruel and unusual punishment!

My guess is "probably not". Reason: there isn't enough difficulty in the adult bronze moves to warrant a 6.0.

Congratulations! I'm quite impressed that you got any marks above 2.5. My impression is that you have to be well above the passing standard to get marked above it.

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Cleveland Dancer

Thanks! Then I will be a little more proud of it, but against the most important metric, I didn't skate as well as I am capable.

I have started on my silver moves, and that Intermediate move seems fairly tough! I have enough roller dance experience that the mohawk and cross stroke sequences aren't starting too bad, but they of course need lots of repitions to become good enough to test. I am not in a huge hurry for them because my next goal is the bronze FS and I probably need that in November to qualify for AN. (I don't think we are having a test center in December).

Hugs and good luck when you do test them!
Danielle

But what about the 8 step mohawk?

Am I the only one who absolutely detests
that move? Blah. My hips don't like the
ccw version at all. Mohawks freak me out;
I'd much rather do three turns.

I am far closer to taking my pre-juv moves
than I am to Silver Adult moves. According
to my coach, the judge I had for my prelim
moves is the main person who made the
adult moves. I liked him because he scored
me .3 above passing, but after seeing what
I'm in for in Silver, maybe I don't like him so
much now!

He enjoys a reputation of being tough, but
very fair - I've seen some HUGE discrepancies
in judging in my area, that's for sure.

Dobiesk8r,

I'm taking silver moves in November.
I really like the slide-chassé sequence. And the rest of the test is pretty straightforward. But the outside-to-inside 3-turns in the field are going to be the death of me. If I fall in that LBI three *one* more time.

And like the 8-step because I prefer mohawks over 3 turns. My issue with it is maintaining the size of the circle. I think it is hard to practice because you have to occupy such a large piece of ice. (That is especially hard when the rink is crowded with regionals competitors. Whomever said you can cut the tension with a knife is right. I've witnessed at least one meltdown/staredown/argument every day this week.)