Youth/Amateur
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Laura
Well-Known Member
AMATEUR is not an age group. Youths and Juniors are also Amateurs, unless they do something that violates the Amateur eligibility rules like enter a Professional competition or start advertising themselves as Professionals.
If you're asking if someone who has competed in Adult but who is still young enough to do a younger age group can go back to competing in that younger age group, the answer is "of course."
If you're asking if someone who has competed in Adult but who is still young enough to do a younger age group can go back to competing in that younger age group, the answer is "of course."
Laura, if you look on dancesportinfo
events are named in results as "amateur", "youth" or "professional"
rarely you see anything titled "adult amateur" and you never can see anything titled "youth amateur"
(probably because "pro youth" does not exist)
people are used to call events exactly that, as it appears in Blackpool results on dancesportinfo
also, technically amateur is not even amateur anymore, cause many of those dancers are very professional about what they do
in fact IDSF no longer uses the term amateur, which has been replaced by "dancesport athlete"
events are named in results as "amateur", "youth" or "professional"
rarely you see anything titled "adult amateur" and you never can see anything titled "youth amateur"
(probably because "pro youth" does not exist)
people are used to call events exactly that, as it appears in Blackpool results on dancesportinfo
also, technically amateur is not even amateur anymore, cause many of those dancers are very professional about what they do
in fact IDSF no longer uses the term amateur, which has been replaced by "dancesport athlete"
Standarddancer
Well-Known Member
oh didn't know idsf now using "dancesport athlete" instead of "amateur"; actually not a bad change.
Laura
Well-Known Member
Well in that case, then Youths and Juniors are the only real amateurs left! Well, and I guess the Senior age groups too.
Anyway, Youth, Junior, Juvenile (Pre-teen), and Senior implies that they are Amateurs -- or rather "DanceSport Athletes", because there are no age groups in Professional events. However, it is possible -- although unlikely -- that someone who is young enough to be a Youth could also be a Professional. Like, didn't Annette Nicole turn Pro at age 16? As in, she danced in Professional events with Andrew Phillips....
and precisely because of that, when someone says "amateur" it is clear that they mean adult amateur.. everything else they'd be specifying an age category for
Joe
Forum Master
Exactly. Since Adult Championship is usually the amateur event(s) with the most interest, that's what people refer to when using "shorthand." When someone asks, "Did you get to see the Amateur Standard?" most people know they're talking about Amateur Adult Championship Standard.
Indiana_Jay
Active Member
And unfortunately, some of the conventions are confusing to people who are new to competition. For example, I was recently informed that when someone (in reference to USA Dance events) uses the term "championship event," they mean all events that the USA Dance rules describe as "open" (i.e., novice, pre-champ and championship proficiency levels). A newcomer wonders why we can't be less ambiguous in our terminology conventions.
Laura
Well-Known Member
Really? Interesting. In my experience that term has always meant the Championship proficiency level.
