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Dazzle · 20th-December-2004, 03:52 AM

IMHO the answer to this post can very much depend on where you are coming from.

I have to enter the Advanced at Blackpool because I have just become an Instructor. I have never competed before and would have preferred to have entered the Intermediate section to test the competition waters.

I think the time you have been dancing is as poor an indicator as many of the others. I have danced with dancers who have been dancing for 2 years and they have been of a lower standard than someone else who has been dancing 12 months. It depends on your natrural ability and dancing frequency and exposure.

Maybe the experience of competition should be an indicator to the level entered? How do we prove this other than remembering names and faces? Maybe the MJDA (or whatever it may be if at all) could implement a competition passport that lists your past attempts and successes. This would then be used to determine your entry level?

An administrative nightmare? Blue Sky view?

20th-December-2004, 03:52 AM	#15 (permalink)
Dazzle Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 231 Status: No Status Rep Power: 0 Rep.: 73	Re: Competitions:Ideas for rule changes IMHO the answer to this post can very much depend on where you are coming from. I have to enter the Advanced at Blackpool because I have just become an Instructor. I have never competed before and would have preferred to have entered the Intermediate section to test the competition waters. I think the time you have been dancing is as poor an indicator as many of the others. I have danced with dancers who have been dancing for 2 years and they have been of a lower standard than someone else who has been dancing 12 months. It depends on your natrural ability and dancing frequency and exposure. Maybe the experience of competition should be an indicator to the level entered? How do we prove this other than remembering names and faces? Maybe the MJDA (or whatever it may be if at all) could implement a competition passport that lists your past attempts and successes. This would then be used to determine your entry level? An administrative nightmare? Blue Sky view?