ISU officials, Hely Abondatti, Veronique Fleury and Wieland Luders with the second groups of skaters to receive their merit certificates at the end of the Development Meeting.

ISU officials Daniel Delfa and Jeroen Prinz with the first three groups of skaters to receive their merit certificates at the end of their seminar

Following on from the Scottish Cup, which is part of Scotland’s new International Competition Progamme, Simon Briggs the National Coaching Director, and Figure Director for Sk8cotland, offered skaters and coaches a new concept in IJS development, which to date has only been used for synchronized skating.

Simon however, moved the concept into a new sphere by arranging with the results team and panels officiating at the Scottish Cup to offer the development meeting the use of the IJS equipment producing protocol sheets for all the skaters and a follow up seminar.
The meeting concept is to offer skaters of all standards the opportunity to skate their programme for at least one judge and one technical specialist or controller to receive feedback based on the International Judging System.  On this occasion, two judges officiated, one to input to the system and the other to offer written feedback to the coach for each skater.  Skaters also received a certificate for their performance highlighting any part of their performance as having been delivered with merit.

The skating was divided into 5 groups with two seminars offered to coaches, skaters and parents, one following the third group and a second following the fifth group.

In all 30 skaters skated their programmes which ranged from lower levels to senior standard. 

Sk8sccotland propose to extend their development programme to incorporate these meetings together with camps and seminars for coaches and skaters in a bid to offer an economically friendly form of education together with a deeper understanding and firsthand experience of the International Judging System.