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Subject: Re: Professional/Amateur

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Tim

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Date Posted: 10:58:14 06/03/03 Tue
In reply to: Helen 's message, "Re: Professional/Amateur" on 09:33:33 06/03/03 Tue

The answer is nothing. Why? Because EADA has neither the inclination nor the ability to do so. It probably only has the rule in because it's olympic practise. But it has no way of finding out, and even if it did, it would have no ability to do anything about it, since the number of cases of abuse it would then have to deal with would be enormous. Which, of course, is not a problem at all.

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that should disqualify you as an amateur is paid teaching. If you're doing it without pay, you are, by definition, not 'professional', but amateur. That's what the words mean! If you are just scrutineering etc, I don't see why you need to be a professional dancer, though if you were paid you would obviously be a professional competition organiser.

>James - although you're right, uni comps don't have to
>abide by E/S/WADA rules, I know I'm concerned that if
>I help at a class (uni or otherwise) will I be
>disqualified from open comps?
>
>And the argument that everyone does it is not
>sufficient because dancing's very important to me and
>to make a mistake now that would prevent me competing
>for the next 20+(I hope) years would be disasterous.
>
>I don't care about the rest of the politics right now,
>I just want to know what will happen to me if I fail
>to abide by the rules?

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