Skill level testing is important as it reinforces a rider’s skill standards and provides a graduated development plan. It is good to know your skill level, especially if you want more higher level challenges and if you want to go to overseas competitions.
To be able to test riders for skill levels, you have to attend a skill level testing workshop at UNICON every two years or be trained and tested by someone who has been to the UNICON workshops. There are a few sites with information but the official IUF site is a good one because it gives hints on how to do some of the harder skills.
At the Melbourne Juggling Convention (MJC), we ran a skills testing session and we were able to test and pass 17 riders for skills levels 1 to 3, with most riders getting levels 1 and 2. Probably the hardest skill for level 3 for most of the riders is riding or hopping over a 10 x 10 cm obstacle. For level 4, it is normally riding one footed.
Thank you to all the people who helped do the testing on the day. This year Karin Gill has been trained as an assessor and now can assess riders in Tasmania, and Aubin Gill was able to help me as a second assessor, having passed level 4 at UniNats last year himself.
If you have any questions about skill levels, please give me a call. I have posted all the certificates, so if you have not received your certificate in the mail, please contact me and I will get another out to you.
| No. | Name | Level Achieved |
| 1. | Ian Bricher | 1, 2 |
| 2. | Mark Brown | 1 |
| 3. | Jake Green | 1, 2 |
| 4. | Corey Mangan | 1 |
| 5. | Matthew Penn | 1 |
| 6. | Alesia Bourner | 1 |
| 7. | Liam Scott | 1, 2 |
| 8. | Leda Scott | 1, 2 |
| 9. | Kim Monty | 1, 2 |
| 10. | Clare Robinson | 1, 2 |
| 11. | Anna Wolff | 1 |
| 12. | Roz Best | 1 |
| 13. | Iain McCoy | 1, 2 |
| 14. | Rui Hannington-Pinto | 1 Needs to ride down a gutter for level 2 |
| 15. | Zachariah Johnson | 1, 2 |
| 16. | Ross Atkins | 1, 2 needs to do level 3 |
| 17. | Simon Chan | 1 |
| 18. | Daniel Edgecombe | 3 |