I like the idea of you doing dance; your skating skills are better than many bronze skaters I've seen, and it would get you to AN.
I took dance lessons for awhile, and the Rhythm Blues is what caused my hip injury (so now I can't do spirals...). Those step behinds will take me YEARS to get
Besides which, our dance coach quit coaching. I know Clarice drives long distance for her dancing, and I could even just drive the hour to her rink if I really wanted to do it, so it is just excuses, but dancing doesn't appear to be in my future. But thanks for the compliment. To some extent it just makes me sadder though, cause I'm likely never going to get to be a bronze skater...
I disagree with the "time to develop spins" thing. If you spin faster, you can get plenty of revolutions and still have 3 spins. Additionally, it was a MAXIMUM. If judges put programs with two better spins above three crappy ones, people will do the better spins rather than more spins. I understand the statement that it puts it more in line with the standard track levels, but then- why not just have adults test the standard track? The current layout gives a lot more flexibility.
The section chair I emailed said this: "However, the proposed changes in competition are directly tied to proposed changes in test programs. We've heard repeatedly that skaters don't want to have separate programs for testing and competing. So by changing the test requirements, it only makes sense to change the competition requirements."
This makes ZERO sense at all. I'm fine with the test change- however, you still need two seperate programs. The test doesn't allow for changes of position or feet, nor lets you do the jump layout you'd do in competition. You still need two programs.