{"term":"certification","results":[{"@id":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/executive-director","title":"New chapter: Executive Director, Safe Clowning Alliance","description":"Four weeks ago I was open to work. Today I'm humbled to share that I've accepted the role of Executive Director of the Safe Clowning Alliance, the body that now maintains the CCF standard. It's the first full-time position in the Alliance's history, and the first job I've had where the office comes with mats. Thank you to everyone who reached out, shared, or offered me bull work (Dusty, I'm keeping that in my back pocket). First priority: CCF Level 2. Stairs, advanced falls, and the full trip-and-recover. Protect your knees. I'm now paid to say so.","image":null,"date":1791277711194,"postDate":1790694000000,"octothorpes":["safety","certification","clown-business-news","pratfalls"]},{"@id":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/ccf-v1-ratified","title":"CCF v1.0.0 ratified at ClownCon 2026","description":"This morning in Hall B in Sarasota, the Safe Clowning Alliance membership voted to ratify Certified Controlled Faller Level 1 as a v1.0.0 standard. 412 in favour, 3 against, 1 abstention (a mime; we're counting it as a yes). I presented in a personal capacity, as I'm currently between roles. Thank you to everyone who submitted comments, every candidate who fell for the pilot, and Dusty Calhoun, whose late comment on section 4.2 (“Rodeo don't have a mat”) became our new Appendix D: Falls Where There Is No Mat. Certify the landing, not just the fall. It's in the standard now.","image":null,"date":1791277704582,"postDate":1789743600000,"octothorpes":["safety","certification","clown-business-news","clowncon-2026"]},{"@id":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/ccf-pilot-results","title":"CCF Level 1 pilot results: 31 candidates, 0 knees lost","description":"Public comment closed with 212 submissions, one of which was a single photo of a mat. The pilot cohort is done: 31 candidates, 27 passes, 4 resubmissions, zero knee incidents. The most common failure mode remains visible surprise, and I want to be clear that this criterion is staying. Special thanks to Penny Wise Jr., who turned her own failed practical into the best study guide we have. That is what a safety culture looks like. Next stop: ratification at ClownCon 2026.","image":null,"date":1791277697998,"postDate":1787238000000,"octothorpes":["safety","certification","pratfalls"]},{"@id":"https://penny.clown.business/posts/passed-ccf-retake","title":"Passed CCF Level 1 (retake): what changed","description":"Passed. Visible surprise: 23 out of 25. What changed: I stopped trying to be surprised and started engineering for it. I introduced a randomised 0–400 ms delay between the trip trigger and my awareness of the trip, using a peel I do not personally place. Penny from three weeks ago would have called that nondeterministic. Penny today calls it certified. Thank you to Rofl, my examiner, who said “oh!” at exactly the right moment and later told me that was not part of the rubric.","image":null,"date":1791277710104,"postDate":1786723200000,"octothorpes":["certification","engineering","pratfalls"]},{"@id":"https://penny.clown.business/posts/failed-ccf-practical","title":"I failed my CCF Level 1 practical. Here's what I learned.","description":"I sat the pilot CCF Level 1 practical this week and did not pass. Controlled descent: full marks. Safe landing: full marks. Recovery to standing: full marks. Visible surprise: 0 out of 25. The examiner's note reads: “Candidate appeared to know the fall was coming.” I did know. I designed it. I ran 140 simulations of it. That is my whole job. I'm treating this as a requirements gap, not a personal failing. Retake is in three weeks. If anyone has a reproducible method for being surprised by something you engineered, my DMs are open.","image":null,"date":1791277696969,"postDate":1784736000000,"octothorpes":["certification","engineering","pratfalls"]},{"@id":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/ccf-level-1-draft","title":"Draft standard: Certified Controlled Faller (CCF) Level 1 is open for comment","description":"Six weeks ago I said the pratfall is underregulated. Today the Safe Clowning Alliance publishes the first draft of the Certified Controlled Faller (CCF) Level 1 standard. 46 pages. Three appendices. One diagram of a knee that I will be thinking about for the rest of my life. The practical assessment covers four criteria: controlled descent, safe landing, recovery to standing, and visible surprise. Yes, surprise is assessed. A pratfall nobody believes is just lying down. Public comment closes August 15. Protect your knees. Comment on the draft.","image":null,"date":1791277691549,"postDate":1783522800000,"octothorpes":["safety","certification","pratfalls"]}]}