Dear Wendi,

Thanx for your "feedback from a real inline figure
skater who has thought at some length about these
issues."

I meant to answer earlier, I apologize for the delay.

The EIFSA TESTS were devised primarily with the
following information in mind:

1) Worlds 2002 include INLINE ARTISTIC:
Singles: Ladies & Men Freestyle.

2) No national roller skating federations within
Europe have ARTISTIC INLINE REGULATIONS for NATIONAL TESTS and
CHAMPIONSHIPS of any kind. QUAD and ICE regulations
for tests and championships are usually inadequate to
be taken over identically as such, for Inline Artistic.

3) Artistic Inline Skaters include:

a) ICE SKATERS crossing over,training off-ice on
inlines.

b) QUAD SKATERS (Artistic) crossing over to inlines.

c) INLINE SKATERS (Agressive & Recreational) also
crossing over, to Artistic Inline.


4) The division into levels and parts is inspired by
the NISA Ice Dance Tests :

Bronze - Silver - Bronze
subdivided into several introductory and intermediary
levels each including several parts:

Moves/ Compulsory Dances/ Original Dance/ Free Dance

Which can be taken separately "horizontally" at each level.

5) Ideally we thought for example: EIFSA JUMPS TESTS:

Bronze: including ALL single jumps.

Silver: including All double jumps (Novice & Junior World Class)

Gold: including Triples (Senior World Class)

6) WORLDS 2002 : skaters who are at least 12 years of
age or over as of January 1 2002.

7)Inspired by the skills of CHELSEE FOSTER

http://www.iifsa.com/Chelsee.html

http://www.geocities.com/eifsaweb/chelsee_foster_album.html

http://www.geocities.com/eifsaweb/chelsee_foster_2001.html


Glossary:

- FLAMINGO or STORK:
is simply skating on a straight leg with the free leg bent,
thigh horizontal, with the free foot pressed against the inside of
the skating-leg-knee.

- SWALLOW DIVES:
are deeply bent (forward or backward) inside edges with a straight
free leg crossed behind the bent knee, and the arms spread
diagonally with the inner-hand fingers almost touching
the floor.(Often followed, for example, by a change-of-edge into a FO
spiral.)

-FWIW : For Whatever It's Worth



Skatingly,


Samantha