ORIGINAL: SBerkheimer
For as many times I have seen people start at intermediate and above and be successful I have seen twice as many move into a class when they were not ready, struggle and then quit.
What he said. Although I think it is 4 times as many. In the end, what's the rush?? I have always felt that unless you are consistently in the top 25% of your class you still have something to learn. And trust me, it is less than no fun for the Judges to have to sit there and watch someone struggle through a sequence when their skills would place them in the lower third of the class below them.