IS THIS LEGAL? - DANCE

DANCE RULES SERVICE – dance@aascf.com.au

If you are an AASCF member and have a question as to whether a dance skill is legal or not, you may submit a video for our Safety Officials to determine legality. Here are important tips to help us get your results back to you as quickly as possible.

NOTE: This service is provided to AASCF member coaches & gym owners only

• Every email must indicate the division and category for which you are requesting a ruling.
• We cannot rule on written descriptions of a skill, you must submit video.
• Every email must include a video of the skill for which you are seeking a ruling. Video must be of exactly what you want a ruling on. We will not rule on a portion of a video, or a skill based on a video with a description of a difference.
• Videos should be filmed specifically for the purpose of getting a ruling.
• Videos must be of your dancers.
• Videos must be of a single skill or sequence.
• Videos from competitions, of more than one skill or sequence, or believed to be of other groups/teams will not receive a reply.
• If you have questions regarding multiple skills, they should be sent in separate emails. Sending multiple angles of the same skill in a single email is allowed, but a separate email is required for each different skill.
• We can only tell you a skill is LEGAL or ILLEGAL for a specific division/category along with citing the rule violated. We will not assist with changing choreography.
• We only rule on the legality of the skill in the video, not the participants.
• Our ruling is only valid if the skill is performed the same way in the video as at an event. If called on a skill we said was legal, then the safety judge or official at the event should point out the difference.
• Please watch the video before sending it in to make sure it’s a clear. We’ve received several videos that we couldn’t rule on due to something that would have been obvious if the video was watched in advance, such as the view being blocked by a finger of the camera holder.
• It is your responsibility to have the original email containing the ruling with you at events. This specifically means the email directly from dance@aascf.com.au, not a forwarded version of the email.