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When the goal is to pass four Gold Tests- Free Skating, Interpretive, Dance and Skills before University (age 17-18) it is more efficient to commence training each branch in step-wise fashion rather than simultaneously. Delaying the start of certain branches gives skaters an opportunity to develop complex Free Skating skills first. Since transfer flows from the complex to the simple this provides a head start on other branches without compromising progress to the Gold Free Skate test. A Gold Free Skating test requires many, many more hours of training than a Gold Dance or Skills test. Beginning work on all branches at once, especially without adequate ice time, can interfere so severely with one's ability to learn to free skate that it can not only prevent a skater from achieving the Gold Free Skate test, it often causes skaters to quit in frustration long before they reach that level. |
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