The number of training sessions and workouts is increased. The nutritional plan is adjusted. Daily routines are altered to make them resemble the schedule on D-Day. Many things are considered – nothing is left to chance!
DanceSport is certainly no different in that respect
In many sports, a coach also looks for opportunities to enter his or her athletes in competitions during the period leading up to the targeted main event. Nothing else prepares quite the way that competition does … That’s how the friendly matches in football come about.
DanceSport is different in that respect.
With the World Championships Standard only three weeks away, this GrandSlam could have been an excellent opportunity for couples to test the waters one more time before it counts in Vienna. But quite a few are ominously absent in Moscow. “Their coaches wouldn’t let them come,” is what some insiders say. “They cannot afford a loss at this time,” is what others add.
After the World DanceSport Federation has gone to great length in developing a system that supposedly does away with bias in the judging, it is rather disappointing to discover that some coaches seem to have very little faith in it. Why could that be?
What is certain is that the champions in Vienna will be determined with the same system. Maybe those who have competed here in Moscow will be at an advantage then, because the system is not only transparent and fair, it also provides feedback. And with three weeks to go, whatever scored lower than expected here could get corrected in time. How about it, coach?
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Jeffrey van de Schraaf on 24 October 2014 19:39
Change is scary for most people and they still consider it a "strategy" to stay away from competition, rather than compete. The next step is to tremendously increase judging fee's and divide coaches and judges into 2 separate roles. To increase the fee's for judges, there's a role for both competition organizers and for Wdsf DanceSport. Competition organizers should be concerned in organizing much more attractive competitions with more spectators and more media attending, so more sponsors are attracted who will contribute to the available cashflow for a competition, from what you can increase the judging fee's. Wdsf DanceSport could support competition organizers with a strategy to do so. In as good as all others sports, the referee or judge is not also the coach. There is a judge and there is a coach. They are two different things, two different jobs. And although a dancesport coach isn't allowed to judge his/her own couple, it still happens a lot. Oh, and while the competition organizers are at it, hopefully, they will also greatly increase prize money for the dance sporters
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