What a Moves in the Field Test is Like

Hello and welcome back to another post, today I am going to be talking about what a moves test is like at least for people at my hometown rink. For most tests, you show up early in the morning, hopefully dressed nicely, to show that you care about this test, and for respect to the judges. You should show up at least 30 minutes early because sometimes they can run faster then expected, and you can have time to stretch, warm up whatever you need to do for your test, sometime people bring in food and lay it out as a befe. When taking your test, like any competition or show you have only FIVE minutes to warm up on ice so use it wisely! Depending what level and how many judges in total show up, you usually have 2-3 if not more. When testing is happening it is quiet place, so don't be yelling across the rink. During testing you are allowed to go back to your coach a few times when they are writing in your comments and scores, your coach will tell you you did good, you did bad, or what to remember for the next move. When doing the test you also have to start from a complete stop for every move you do, this way the judges can see that you are either pushing or not. If you mess up you have one reskate only, unless it's freeskate testing then in this case I believe you have two. Once you have finished testing you wait a couple minutes and wait to see your score, there is a minimum amount of points you have to reach in order to pass, the more points you have to earn as you reach higher levels, if you have to have at least 16 points and you only have 15.5, well sorry it means they have circled retry, on the form it will have boxes of the points they give you, comments and finally they circle pass or retry, and theres you moves test!

Preliminary Freeskate Test Requirements

Hey guys and welcome back to another post, in todays post I will be talking about preliminary freeskate test requirements, this test is overall quite simple and is all the basic jumps and spins you learn through out the following ISI levels, freestyle 1-4. Here are the list of moves you will need

1. Waltz Jump
2. Salchow
3. Loop
4. Flip
5. Waltz Jump-toe loop combo
6. One foot (can do Scratch, three revs.)
7. Sit spine (three revs.)
8. Through out the program you should have some of the moves

In this test you will need to create a program and skate to a piece of music. This I believe has to be one minute and 30 seconds, note that the test is short and they want to see that you are able to do all the requirements so don't spend the time doing a bunch of other stuff. A tip that my coach suggested is that you should have one gap where when you skate the piece if you mess up on a element then use that gap to do that element you messed up, this gives you a second chance before you get a retest on it, unless you mess it up again. Of course to get more credit you want to demonstrate a clean spin with more then required as you may hear from teacher more is better, meaning that doing more then the minimum is good. Remember you only have one retake on one element take advantage of a little gap to do any messed up elements if you mess up. If you still mess up after that make sure thats the only one and they will give you one retake. If you do not mess up and have a gap just do what ever of the required stuff again to fill it in. Good luck and hope for all skaters to pass this test!