Rha of course i danced championship level with my ex partner, and now i'm doing a professional training but without having a serious partner.

"Have you danced championship level ballroom or latin?"

While ballroom has traditionally used retired top-level competitors as judges, that is not the case in some other sports. Skating for example uses "classroom trained" observers who were not particularly distinguished competitors if ever even competitors at all. Some feel that this reduces the conflict of interest, since such people would not be also teaching competitors.

It seems like diva may be somewhere where an effort is being made to create a cardre of non-ex-champion trained judges. While the concerns about loosing the best years of ones comeptitive life are real, I wouldn't read a requirement for the usual pre-judging experience into this quite different program.

Latin Diva. One thing that seems to have been forgotten is that you could at a later stage dance Pro Am. Maybe with your then husband. Good Luck.

Latin Diva,
My old boss was a 5 time national Foxtrot Champion. He decided to open a studio 25yrs. ago. He became a judge. A few years ago while training a student to do a lift, she landed it wrong and destroyed his knee. He is now 51 yrs. old, and Judging became his livelyhood. He still owns the studio and trys to teach as much as possible, but the fact that he was a certified judge more then payed the bills while he was injured.

we're doing this friday at our academy a trial competition for our new competing couples, and i will be a trial judge on this competition.
Everybody in this forum are telling me to consider judging at 40 or 50 years when i will be unable to compete, and i'm feeling this is true, i feel i should never waste my energy and my dreams of becoming a competitor.
Anyways i will decide soon which way to choose.