Welcome

This initiative is for friends in the figure (artistic) roller skating community that want a more efficient and higher quality National Championships.

Mission Statement

This web site is designed to stimulate dialogue between coaches, officials, skaters, parents, and anyone who cares about skating enough to want to improve competitive artistic roller skating. The ultimate goal is to:

reduce the National Championships to 9 days,
integrate skaters from the youth, elite, and adult divisions into one cohesive National Competition, and
challenge skaters more than the current system does.

The decrease in length of the National Championships would give all skaters the chance to be inspired by elite events, and also to create a fuller audience, as skaters and their families would be more inclined to stay for the whole length of the meet. In order to accomplish this goal, the C events would be eliminated from the National level of competition.

The new proposals would allow skaters to skate fewer events with greater proficiency, leaving the B and C divisions for newer skaters, thus increasing involvement in the sport by being less discouraging to incoming skaters. This will strengthen the A events in the hope of having more Jr/WC and World Class skaters. More Jr/WC and World Class skaters will breed stronger competition in the United States, thus making the United States more competitive on the World level.

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Goals for Restructuring of Artistic Competitive Divisions

Decrease time at the National Championships to nine (9) days

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Comments on 9 Day Nationals Goal:
Eliminate C events from the National Championships to encourage skaters to challenge themselves and enter the A and B events

Comments on Eliminating C events from Nationals:

Challenge Youth skaters with a wider variety of requirements and some harder elements at a younger age in order to use the standard American events to better prepare them to enter the JrWC division.

Comments on Challenging Youth Skaters:

Challenge Adult skaters with a wider variety of technical requirements in order to keep adult skaters interested and active in the sport and continually learning.

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