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Tips for Trial Judges
ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT TRIAL JUDGING
You are responsible for the following:
- Know which tests you are eligible to trial judge.
- Read the rulebook requirements for all the tests you will be trial judging.
- Know (be able to recognize - if possible, play with them yourself on the ice) all of the movements necessary to execute the required elements - required edges, revolutions, patterns, timing
- Attend Club sessions and observe skaters practicing the elements you will be trial judging
- Call the USFSA and ask for a Trial Judge
packet. READ THIS PACKET !!
- The Trial packet will include requirements for becoming a Judge and an application form for use when applying for your appointment.
- Make multiple copies of each blank Trial paper (print your name, USFSA #, and name and address of person to send it to - your Monitor or Club Test Chairperson - on form before copying)
- Find out your Club's test schedule - see Bulletin Board, talk to Test
Chairperson(s), read Newsletter
- Find out area Clubs' test schedules (Club contact people & phone #'s are in the spiral bound Rulebook Officials' Directory)
- Carry your own blank Trial papers to Test Sessions.
- Keep your own records of tests trialed (with the outcome including test judges' marks, if possible and what, where, & the date). There are
forms for this.
Prior to a Test Session
- Look at the posted Test Schedule (or ask the Test Chairperson of an out of club session) to see if there are tests you wish to trial
- Contact the Test Chairperson(s) at least a week in advance
- ASK PERMISSION to trial judge at that session - DO NOT JUST SHOW UP
- Verify rink where tests will be held
- Tell the Test Chairperson what time you will arrive and when you will leave
- The Test Chairperson MAY invite you to partake of the provided meals
- Notify the Test Chairperson if you are unable to fulfill your commitment
At the Test Session
- Wear appropriate clothing - neat, warm, - (safe shoes, gloves, layers).
- Arrive at the Test Session 15 to 20 minutes before your scheduled time
- Check in with the Test Chairperson
- Obtain a copy of the test schedule (listing skaters' names and tests being taken)
- Fill in your own Trial test papers with the testing skater's name, date, testing Club, etc.
- Watch the clock and be at the designated rink's judging area several minutes before the tests are scheduled to begin
- Allow the test judges to position themselves first
- Observe the test closely
- Mark your paper quickly with comments corroborating your numerical judgments
- Place that paper on the bench (or give to the Test Chairperson) and continue with the next test.
- Ask questions of the Test Judges and discuss the tests AFTER that flight or later in the Judges' Room
Before you leave the Test Session
- Check out with the Test Chairperson and thank them for allowing you to trial at their session
- Leave envelopes with Test Chair so they can
mail your papers to your monitor and to you.
- best if 9"x 12" envelopes (at least 2
stamps/envelope - 4-5 sheets/stamp)
- pre-address the envelopes (one to your
monitor, one to yourself)
- leave a dollar or so to help defray the
costs of the copies and stamps.
Thank you to Bobbie Stoermer of Ann Arbor FSC
for compiling this guideline.
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