RED STAR (beginner)
Fitness: 20 push ups and 20 sit-ups
Skills:
- T-stop, plough stop, and a turn around toe stop
- Single knee fall, a double, and a 4 point fall
- Able to be able to recover from a fall and keep going
- Jump while skating, hop from one foot to another while standing still- to each side, and forwards and backwards
- 5 minutes of continuous skating in correct stance, able to smoothly do cross overs in each direction
ORANGE STAR (intermediate)
Fitness: 30 push ups (20 of these on toes if possible) 50 sit ups and a 60 second body bridge (aka: plank).
SKILLS:
- 5 minutes of sprinting aiming for 30 laps of the track
- Snake pace line drill (pace line with an arm's length between skaters where the person at the back snakes between skaters and takes the lead)
- Do all falls and be back up and skating again within 3 seconds
- Fall big (like from a big hit in a bout) and be up and skating again in 3 seconds
- Skate for one minute and squat when the whistle goes while maintaining motion, ten second break, and then skate in a squat for another full minute
GREEN STAR (bout ready)
Fitness: 50 push ups, 100 sit ups and a 60 second body bridge and side bridges
SKILLS:
- 5 minutes of sprinting aiming for 30 laps of the track
- Double-snake pace line drill (not sure but suspect this means two people snaking through a pace line)
- 30 minute endurance pace line
- Do all falls, be up and skating in good form within 2 seconds (in line with new WFTDA Minimum Specs - Aug 2009)
- Fall big (like from a big hit in a bout) and be up and skating again in 2 seconds
