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- Oct 22, 2005
Again, the competing in any level does NOT apply to adults at this time and it sounds like it will be quite awhile before it's even considered. There's also a lot of American skaters who will not compete at the international adult events because of the free-for-all approach of those events with self reporting of levels.Yeah, but I'm now wondering if they're going to ditch this and make the adult tests exactly like the kid tests, but with the "adult scoring" aka being judged one level below so that the judging is more lenient for adults than the kids.
They think adults are passing these MIF tests too quickly and easily to get their Gold Medalist jacket, so why not put the "harder" exercises from the kids test back into the adult levels?
If they're going to revamp the entire MIF eventually anyway, everyone's exercises will be changing somewhat anyway. But I wonder WHEN it will happen. Will they keep the adult exercises the way they are during the name change and wait to change them when they revamp ALL the MIF tests?
Maybe Bronze(21+) will have the same exercises as Adult Gold for a little while until they're ready to change the exercises in ALL the MIF levels. This gives adults more time to finish off whatever exercises they're working on now, even with the names changing.
Here's another question:
How does this change the naming of the adult competitions? The kids competitions will still follow the old naming convention: Juvenile, Novice, Junior, Senior, etc, as far as I know. But adult competition levels are named Adult Bronze, Adult Gold, etc. That's going to be super confusing if your test is called "Bronze (21+)", but your competition level is still called "Adult Gold".
It works for the kids because the tests are so far behind what actually happens in the competition levels of the same name. But adult tests are very inline with the competition level of the same name. Perhaps it doesn't matter since you will be able to compete in any level, regardless of what tests you take. AKA every competition level is a free-for-all race-to-the-bottom because there are no blocks to skating down several levels if you want to.