When to stop competing Prelim?

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I have been thinking about this since I half qualified for the regionals. In my view, once I have that second qualifier for the regionals there is little reason I should continue competing at BD Preliminary. Grace has already qualified for the Area Festival Finals in Prelim and Novice, and fingers crossed I can get her qualified for the regionals.

I was just wondering when people decided to stop competing in the Prelim classes? Grace has done around 4 Novice classes at a consistent 64% (apart from one 59% when she was a complete monster!!!) so would you start concentrating more on these and not do the Prelim class?

Rebecca x x x
 
You will prob find she starts to get bored in prelim tests. Once they start coping well with novice, they need more to occupy their brains. My boy switches off in prelim now so i have stopped doing them. Hes far more forward and attentive in novice cos the movements come up much quicker.
 
We just moving up a level now (tho only unaffil as its too expensive for me to go BD) all my prelims for the last three shows (6 tests) have been plus 65%, so going to move on to novice tests.
She has been working at home at novice levels for a while and now were moving her on at home towards elem stuff.
Good thing is if it all goes to pot you can always drop back and re build her confidence!
 
when you qualify for the national finals???
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I qualified for my first regionals, then concentrated on novice for a while, went back to do a practice for the regionals and in order to qualify for the winter regionals and now I'll probably leave it alone (unless the second novice at a comp is too hard!) until just before the regionals then do the regionals and then no more as I find it really boring! I've gone back and forth because my girl wasn't properly established at novice when we first started and I was convinced prelim was my only chance of regional qualification!
 
i never did affiliated prelim - went straight into novice but he had already been competing unaff elem and prelim was boring for him. if i had a baby i was bringing up through the grades then i would probably give it a season, hopefully have qualified for regionals in that time and then should be ready to go up a level. if still struggling to get good scores, then would stay down a bit longer.
 
Thanks star... that is sort of the stage we are at now.

She has qualified for the Area festival final in prelim and novice (not sure how she managed in novice as only done about 5 tests in total
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) and has half qualified for the regionals. I was thinking that if I qualified for the regionals with anothe 1st or 2nd then I would leave it there and start to concentrate more on the Novice tests.
 
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