- Joined
- Jan 20, 2017
As of yesterday, the below passed at the USFS Governing Council. Regarding the MIF changes it looks like they are NOT changing the patterns. But they are renaming MIF to "Skating Skills," and renaming the standard track levels. The adult track MIF/Skating Skills remains unchanged (for now). The below will take until July 2023 to take effect.
- The nomenclature of “pre-juvenile – senior” was amended to “pre-bronze – gold” in skating skills (moves in the field), singles (free skate), free dance and pairs tests.
- The restrictions capping the highest singles, pairs and ice dance tests competitors may have passed to compete in a corresponding level were removed.
2022 Governing Council Concludes | U.S. Figure Skating
www.usfigureskating.org
Also, this helpful video breaks it down.
https://youtu.be/C-qwJj1hPfQ
For instance, Standard Track Intermediate MIF will now be Standard Track Pre-Silver Skating Skills.
I think this is a mess, and while I get that most kids may support this (so they don't have to tell non-skaters they are high level "Novice" skaters), I think it really confuses the adult levels, especially if one "graduates" from Adult Gold to Standard Pre-Silver (but then, say, tests it Adult 21+).
Yeah I've always hated that I have to explain "Novice" and "Junior" are higher level than "Intermediate" to non-skaters. "Intermediate" doesn't sound bad, but "novice and "junior" sound low-level. But this update is insane.
You're going to have stuff on the test list that says:
Adult Silver
Pre-Silver (21+)
Silver (21+)
We've had several mix-ups at my rink in making sure the club registered me or another adult for the correct test and that the judges were actually handed the correct sheet or pulled the correct sheet from the big stack they were handed. Can you imagine how bad it will be now that the names are even more confusing? I've always been very, very vigilant in constantly reminding my club and the judges on test day what test I'm taking, so that it doesn't happen to me, because they screw up so frequently.
Standard | Adult |
---|---|
Pre-pre | Adult Pre-Bronze |
Prelim | Adult Bronze |
Pre-bronze | Adult Silver |
Bronze | Adult Gold |
Pre-Silver | Pre-Silver (21+) |
Silver | Silver (21+) |
Pre-Gold | Pre-Gold (21+) |
Gold | Gold (21+) |
Aren't international competitions still called "Novice", "Junior", "Senior"?