I would read it!
Really? Mine is mostly about what I've observed with what happens when kids start competing from juvenile and get to juniors. It won't have anything to do with money and more with the fundamentals of the USFS program.
I would read it!
Really? Mine is mostly about what I've observed with what happens when kids start competing from juvenile and get to juniors. It won't have anything to do with money and more with the fundamentals of the USFS program.
Really? Mine is mostly about what I've observed with what happens when kids start competing from juvenile and get to juniors. It won't have anything to do with money and more with the fundamentals of the USFS program.
Really? Mine is mostly about what I've observed with what happens when kids start competing from juvenile and get to juniors. It won't have anything to do with money and more with the fundamentals of the USFS program.
... (there isn't much positive about Max's tbh) ...
That sounds amazing. Juniors don't get enough support because there is no emotional investment in them.
There is currently a proposal to go back to a separate juvenile/intermediate championship.
According to the current proposal, they would take the 4 best skaters from each section plus the 6 next highest scores from all three sections combined.
So that would give more opportunities for skaters at those levels than is currently the case, but not as many as when top 4 from each region went straight to the national event.
We'll see in a couple weeks whether or not that proposal passes.
USFS should institute a rule that if a skater makes it to Sectionals, then they must move up a level for the next year.
You see skaters that make it to Sectionals, but don't reach the top 4 there and decide to stay at the same level for another year so they can get another shot at reaching Nationals.
Forcing skaters to move up a level after making it to Sectionals (even if they don't make Nationals) is taking things too far. Just because a skater does well enough to make it out of Regionals, that doesn't mean they're ready to move up. Even skaters that make it to Nationals may not be ready.
I always thought CBC was comparable to PBS in the U.S. or BBC in the UK.
I'm not Canadian, but I have a friend who works for CBC Radio in Vancouver and one thing she mentioned to me is that there are conversations about whether CBC needed to take more of an NPR style model, i.e. getting donations from the public. She mentioned that CBC is kind of at the mercy of whoever is running things. Things are fine under Trudeau but when Harper was at the helm there were definitely some funding issues.
Is your prospective the men or ladies? My prospective is the East Coast ladies.
If you are from the East Coast at Juv or Int, and get to Sectionals then you are in the top 4% of the Region so you really should be moving up. But if you from the West Coast at the same level, then you are top 16%. This shows how the inequitity in numbers really play a huge difference.
The Regions are based on 1960s USFS membership numbers and have not been updated in 50 years.
I think that Regions and Sections should be redistributed, rather than forcing young skaters to move up.
USFS's goal should be to develop talent that can compete on the international level. To do that, you need young skaters to push themselves to do the harder tricks.Keeping kids at the same level at each year may benefit the individual skater but it does not benefit USFS.