The Super Skater Program (For Beginning Skaters)
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archived as www.stealthskater.com/Documents/RollerSkating_Competition.doc (also …RollerSkating_Competition.pdf) => doc pdf URL-doc URL-pdf other articles are on the /Sports.htm page at doc pdf URL note: because important websites are frequently "here today but gone tomorrow", the following was archived from various websites on 02/12/2018. This is NOT an attempt to divert readers from the following websites. Indeed, the reader should only read this back-up copy if the updated original cannot be found at the original author's site. http://www.rollerskating.com/pages/super+skater+program/34 the Super Skater Program (for beginning skaters) 'Super Skater' is a program designed to recognize achievement at the beginner level. Anyone of any age may take this basic skills exam. No previous roller skating skills are required. There are no RSA membership requirements. At the roller skating instructor's discretion, either 1 or 3 judges may be used. All judges must be at least 15 years of age. RSA judge's commissions are not required, but individuals who are judging must have skating knowledge. If 3 judges are used, a majority will determine if the skater has passed the requirements. Upon completion of the Super Skate' tests, fill out the Super Skater I and/or II form(s) and send with $3.00 per test to: RSA Attn: Achievement 6095 Corporate Drive Indianapolis, IN 46278 Super Skater pins may be purchased by the Rink owner/operator or RSA SRSTA coach prior to the Super Skater Test Center and presented on the spot to skaters who pass. Please contact the RSA Achievement Director with any questions (317) 347-2626 or [email protected] . Forms are available from the national office or on the website at www.rollerskating.org. Download Super Skater Poster (you may open and edit in Illustrator or another design program) (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/6a851923f24c38176ce65c4f0aa29909.pdf ) Using Super Skater in your Rink ● Super Skater -- How it WORKS for YOU! (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/cbb6db164c6f26e781a8ff19a9156a1a.pdf ) ● Teaching Beginning Skating (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/a0fbe2d4b4f47666421084c95cce97f5.pdf ) - 1- Super Skater (for beginning skaters) Requirements Super Skater Award Requirements Level I. Cost: $3.00 The skater must perform and pass any three of the five requirements to receive a RED level I award pin. 1. Stopping or Braking The skater must stop within 10 feet without falling. In-line: The skater must skate continuously at a comfortable speed make an emergency stop in a straight line by raising the toe of one skate and applying his or her brake. Or the skater may use the traditional “T” stop. Quad: Have the skater point the toe-stop of his or her free skate toward the floor and then let it drag the surface. Or the skater may use the traditional "T" stop. 2. Maneuvering Set up 10 cones, 10 feet apart along a straight line 100 feet long. The skater skates at a comfortable speed weaving in-and-out of the cones without knocking them down. 3. Forward Crosspulls Skaters must perform one repetition in a circle. Use a figure circle or set up cones. 4. Balancing on One Foot Skaters must skate a distance of 50 feet balancing from one skate to the other for a slow count of three on each skate. 5. Limbo The skater will perform one pass under the limbo pole without falling or touching the bar. (The height of the bar or pole is to be positioned at the skater’s chest). Super Skater Award Requirements Level II. Cost: $3.00 The skater must pass 4 of the 6 requirements to receive a BLUE Level II award pin and certificate. 1. Forward Crossovers (the collegiate straigway) Skater does one sequence down or across the rink (6 or more crossovers). 2. Backward Scissors Skater does one sequence across the rink. 3. Jump Skater must perform a 2-foot jump with a ½ turn revolution. 4. Spin Skater does any spin of 2-or-more revolutions. 5. Race Skater completes 2 laps around a speed track in 45 seconds or less. - 2- 6. Hockey Skater must display a technical skill using the hockey stick. Super Skater Test Forms Super Skater Level I (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/c9bf1e940e9993d36ab725beeb9e080d.pdf ) Super Skater Level II (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/85239263c7024574f2478ac1f0fa9ed9.pdf ) Super Skater Fillable Certificate Level 1 (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/c83125b44afb0372c97d1b837d69c294.pdf ) Super Skater Fillable Certificate - Level 2 (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/d4749826e16b2c9a3887044024e552fc.pdf ) Super Skater Contest Super Skater Contest Ad (http://www.rollerskating.com/files_uploaded/2f167bc5079da4280d9fa9262b840cee.pdf ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_roller_skating Competition Roller Skating Artistic Roller Skating is a sport similar to figure skating but where competitors wear roller skates instead of ice skates. Within artistic roller skating, there are several disciplines: ● Figures (similar to compulsory or "school" figures on ice) ● Freestyle (individuals performing jumps and spins) ● Pairs (a subset of freestyle with two people performing jumps, spins, and lifts) ● Dance (couple) ● Solo dance ● Precision (team skating, similar to synchronized skating on ice) ● Show teams ● Creative Solo/Freedance Artistic roller skaters use either quad or inline skates although quad skates are more traditional and significantly more common. Generally quad and inline skaters compete in separate events and not against each other. Inline figure skating has been included in the World Championships since 2002 in Wuppertal, Germany. - 3- The sport looks very similar to its counterpart on ice and although there are some differences, many ice skaters started in roller skating or vice versa. Famous champion ice skaters who once competed in roller skating include Brian Boitano, Tara Lipinski, and Marina Kielmann. Roller figure skating is often considered to be more difficult because the ice allows the skater to draw a deep solid edge to push off from when performing jumps such as a lutz or an axel. Also, roller skates are generally heavier than their ice equivalents (making jumping harder) and do not leave behind tracings (which makes judging by eye more difficult on tracing out a figure). Equipment Skates Artistic roller skaters most commonly skate on traditional quad skates. Skates designed for artistic skating typically have leather boots, a strong sole plate, and a jump bar for reinforcement. The plate has to be made from a strong material as it has to be able to withstand the shock of jumping and landing. Artistic roller skates usually have stainless steel or aluminum plates for that reason even though these are heavier than ones made from other materials such as plastic. Free skaters usually use a toe stop which can be used in the take-off in certain jumps such as the Mapes or the flip. Dance skaters substitute toe plugs as the large toe stops are cumbersome when performing dance footwork. Figure skaters generally have specially made plates for figure skating which have no receptacle for the toe stop. Some artistic skaters use inline skates. Skates designed for inline artistic skating have leather boots (as ice and quad figure skates do) and usually have rockered wheels and a toe stop or toe "pic". Rockered wheels (wheels which are arranged at different heights so that the baseline of the wheels forms a curve instead of a flat line) are more suitable to skate the curved "edges" which are typical of artistic skating than un-rockered inline wheels are. Roller skate wheels and bearings Roller skate wheels come in many different sizes and hardnesses. Typically a 62mm wheel is used for dance, 60mm to 63mm used for figures, and a smaller 57mm wheel used for freestyle. The hardness of the wheel determines the grip or slip of the wheel. Normally a harder wheel having more slip is used for turn figures. A softer wheel with more grip is used for dance. Freestyle skaters tend to use both on the skates using a harder wheel on the edge they need to spin and a softer wheel on the other edges. Typically 7mm bearings are used because competitive artistic skates have a smaller axle. Most inline skates use an 8mm bearing. The Abec rating determines the tolerances in the bearing and most people can use an Abec3. However, most people believe the extra cost of Abec 7 or 9 bearings is worth paying for a better bearing. There are also other kinds of bearings such as Swiss Bones which are also a very high quality. - 4- Figures Skating In the figures discipline, skaters trace figure circles painted on the skating surface. This is different from skaters of compulsory figures on ice who skate on blank ice and draw their own circles on the ice as they skate. The official dimension of plain figure circles measured at their diameter along the long axis is 6 meters (19 feet, 8¼ inches). The official dimension of the smaller loop figure circles measured similarly is 2.4 meters (7 feet, 10½ inches). Circles are typically painted in "serpentines" (sets of three circular lobes). The basic figures skated are typically referred to by numbers (the same as those skated by ice skaters) ranging from simple circle eights through serpentines (figures using one push for a circle and a half), paragraphs (figures using one push for 2 circles), and loops (smaller circles with a teardrop-shaped loop skated at the top of the circle). There is one category of very simple figures (111 and 112) that are unique to roller skaters. These are serpentines that begin with a half circle skated on one foot; then change to the other foot for the next circle; then change back to the other foot for another half circle. Some of the more basic figures are numbered 1, 2, 1B, 5A, 5B, 7A, 7B, 111A, 111B, 112A, and 112B in which the letter 'B' means you start on your left foot.