New questionnaire :)

[icenut84]

I thought I'd make a new questionnaire - we haven't had one for ages! Plus I think there's quite a few newbies now, so here we go.

* First name: Rachel
* Age: 20
* Country: Great Britain
* How long have you been skating: Just over 3 years
* Disciplines you do: Free, dance
* Do you compete: No
* Do you test: Yes, but not started the big league tests yet
* Number of coaches: 2 - one for free, one for dance
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: Aim for about 2 when I'm at uni
* Number of lessons weekly: 2 at the most - not often 2 a week though
* How far to nearest rink: At uni - half an hour. At home - nearly 2 hours travelling.
* Practice outfits: Black stretchy trousers, some kind of top(s)

* Rotation: Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Flip
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Flip
* Favourite jump: When it's working, toe loop
* Favourite spin: Can only do upright
* Favourite spiral: LFO
* What's your nemesis: Spin entries
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Spin entries and centring, alternating FO3s
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: LBI spiral
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Snowplough stop
* Favourite dance: Haven't done them for ages, but maybe Swing Dance or British Waltz
* Tell me something unusual: I've never skated in a skirt or dress before
* Worst fall: Fell on a RBO3, landed really hard on my knee and hip, and hurt so much I had to hobble off the ice
* Most embarrassing moment: Splatting during the dutch waltz on a dance interval
* Funniest moment: When I was learning BO3s, and I managed to turn to forwards but immediately lost my balance and tripped over my feet for about 10 metres. Turned to my coach who was staring shocked, shouted excitedly "I turned!!", and him immediately bursting into laughter
* Most exciting moment: Landing the loop for the first time

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Blue
* Colour of guards: Bright pink
* Colour of bag: Purple

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan, Cohen, Suguri
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Plushenko, Lambiel, van der Perren
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Denkova & Staviyski, Kerrs, Faiella & Scali
* Skater you think is cute: Massimo Scali
* Favourite moment from last season: Lambiel's freeskate at Worlds (should have been second IMO, very undermarked)

* Goals for end of the year: To pass gold tests on Skate UK Star for both free and dance, to get a decent and *consistent* 1 foot upright spin and preferably have started on other spins too (e.g. scratch, sit?), to get a recognisable backspin, to relearn the loop and flip, and to start working on dances again. Not much then. ;)

[NickiT]

OK, here goes!!!

* First name: Nicola
* Age: 36
* Country: Great Britain
* How long have you been skating: Seriously 4 years
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes. I have passed my NISA Level 2 Elements and Free Tests and Inter Bronze Field Moves Test
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: Yes. At the British Adult Championships last year
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Only at Club Level
* Number of practices weekly: 3
* Number of lessons weekly: 2 private lessons and 3 classes
* How far to nearest rink: 3 minutes by car!
* Practice outfits: Navy practice dresses and tights

* Rotation: Anti-Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Lutz
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Axel
* Favourite jump: Toe-Loop
* Favourite spin: Sit Spin
* Favourite spiral: BRO
* What's your nemesis: Axel
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: BI3s
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Spread Eagles
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Sit Spin
* Favourite dance: Don't do dance
* Tell me something unusual: I can't do a teapot (shoot the duck) but can do a really good sit spin position!
* Worst fall: Fell back and broke my right ankle. Had surgery and now have a metal plate and screws in my ankle.
* Most embarrassing moment: Messing up my sit spin during my very first competition.
* Funniest moment: Doing our group artistic class in last year's comp dressed as penguins
* Most exciting moment: Landing my lutz!

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Black
* Colour of guards: Blue
* Colour of bag: Blue

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Plushenko
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Not sure
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Not sure
* Skater you think is cute: Not sure
* Favourite moment from last season: Haven't got a favourite

* Goals for end of the year: To get a more consistent camel spin and improve my style and presentation

[twinkle]

Leaving out some questions because I can't think :P

Age: 20
Country: Great Britain
How long skating: Nearly 10 years :o
Disciplines: Free/Artistic (used to do dance and hopefully will again)
Do you compete: Yes
Do you test: Yes
Number of coaches: 1
Ever competed on national level: No :cry:
Ever competed internationally: No
Ever won a gold medal: Yes at open competition
Number of practises weekly: Usually 4
Number of lessons weekly: 2 x half hour
How far to nearest rink: 15 mins
Practice outfits: Skirt/tights/T shirt, dress/tights/top, black trousers/top

Rotation: Clockwise
Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Axel
Hardest jump ever attempted: Double flip
Favourite jump: Loop
Favourite spin: Layback
Favourite spiral: RBO
What's your nemesis: Speed
What "easy" move do you have most trouble with:
What "difficult" move do you find easy: Ina Bauer
Favourite dance: Foxtrot
Tell me something unusual: I do spreads and Bauers CCW
Worst fall: Three separate spin entry falls, once on a camel spin sprained wrist, once sit and once camel badly bruised knees
Funniest moment: There was one recently where I had a huge splat in the middle of my step sequence
Most exciting moment:Landing my axel/winning my first competition

Colour of skates and blades: White/silver
Colour of soakers: White with coloured pattern (fluffy)
Colour of guards: White
Colour of bag: Blue

Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Cohen, Kostner, Slutskaya
Favourite eligible mens skaters: Lambiel, Joubert, Verner, Van der Perren, Buttle
Favourite eligible pairs: Shen/Zhao, Berankova/Dlabola, Zhang/Zhang, Obertas/Slavnov
Favourite eligible dance team: Kerrs
Skater you think is cute: Alexander Abt
Favourite moment from last season: Lambiel's free skate at worlds

Goals for end of year: Land double salchow and work on 2 other doubles, improve change foot and flying :roll: spins, pass Inter-silver field moves

[Mrs Redboots]

* First name: Annabel
* Age: 50
* Country: Great Britain
* How long have you been skating: Just over 9 years
* Disciplines you do: Dance, artistic/interpretive
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Not at the moment, although I have
* Number of coaches: One
* Ever competed on national level: Yes, at the British Adult Championships
* Ever competed internationally: Yes, in adult competitions
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 3-5
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 couples, one solo (30 minutes each)
* How far to nearest rink: About 5 miles
* Practice outfits: Practice-skirt, T-shirt or polo-neck top, sweatshirt or jumper, tights, black underpants worn over tights for modesty. In cold weather, replace skirt/tights/underpants with joggers
* Rotation: Anti-cllockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Salchow
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Salchow - no, I played with a lutz once, but that was just playing.
* Favourite jump: When it's working: 3-jump
* Favourite spin: Can only do upright
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: 3-turns at speed.
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Backwards stroking
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: LFI/RFI twizzles
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Changes of edge
* Favourite dance: Starlight waltz, only I can't do it!
* Tell me something unusual: Can't think
* Worst fall: Once landed on my arm and it was paralysed for several days
* Most embarrassing moment: Trying to dance when I was unfit and coming embarrassingly last
* Funniest moment: Once asked my coach how anybody was supposed to do (I forget what) move - doing it perfectly in the meantime! Never been able to do it again, of course.
* Most exciting moment: The second time I won a competition (I was too shocked, the first time!)
* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Red with a blue pattern, matching my skate bags
* Colour of guards: Turquoise
* Colour of bag: Baby blue

[Don't know enough about current skaters except a few British dancers to answer those questions]

* Goals for end of the year: To really master the Swing Dance Mohawk, and to be able to skate backwards without fear. And not to come last in every single dance competition we enter.....

[vesperholly]

* First name: Jocelyn
* Age: 23
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: since I was 8, private lessons at 13
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle, Moves, had to stop dance :(
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 1 (dance coach is MIA)
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: Do Canadian competitions count? ;-)
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 5 hours - M,W, Sat (2), Sun
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 15min Moves every week, one 1/2hr free every other week
* How far to nearest rink: Five minutes
* Practice outfits: two pairs of tights, black leotard, black wrap-around skirt, various tops

* Rotation: Counter-clockwise, but I can spin clockwise too
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: double flip
* Favourite jump: loop
* Favourite spin: CW flying camel when it works
* Favourite spiral: LBO
* What's your nemesis: CCW backspins :evil:
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: CCW backspin
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: CW flying camel
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: rocker-choctaws from Novice MITF
* Favourite dance: American Waltz
* Tell me something unusual: I can't do a back sit into a backspin
* Worst fall: doing a LFO spiral with R hand holding up R skate in 1/2 biellmann... and tipped forward
* Most embarrassing moment: when I fall on backspins
* Funniest moment: My coach speaking in Russian accent: "Muuuuch better. Still no good!"
* Most exciting moment: Anytime I land an axel

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: medium blue
* Colour of guards: hot pink and silver
* Colour of bag: Maroon

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Jennifer Don, Shizuka Arakawa
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Stephane Lambiel, Ryan Jahnke
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: BO-RING
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Denkova /Staviyski
* Skater you think is cute: :yum:
* Favourite moment from last season: Lambiel's "I'm a Doun" SP

* Goals for end of the year: To pass my Novice Moves, to work my butt off on CCW back camel/flying camel.

[jazzpants]

* First name: If you don't know already, you shouldn't know! :P
* Age: 36
* Country: U.S.
* How long have you been skating: A month shy of 5 years
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: On and off
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 2
* Ever competed on national level: Trying to make it this year for Adult Nationals. Does that count? :P :lol:
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No, but I won two Silvers so far... :mrgreen:
* Number of practices weekly: 4-5 days a week for 1 to 1.5 hours a session.
* Number of lessons weekly: 2
* How far to nearest rink: Half an hour for my home rink. 45 minutes for my weekend rink.
* Practice outfits: What else? :mrgreen:

* Rotation: Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Flip
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Lutz
* Favourite jump: Waltz/3 jumps (despite my recent injury doing consecutive waltz/3 jumps)
* Favourite spin: Probably upright/scratch, but sit spin comes a close second.
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: FO3's at speed/forward Power 3's :evil:
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Alternating forward 3s and mohawks. But then again to do moves right is difficult! :P
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Everything's difficult for me!!! :P
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: FO3's at slower speeds.
* Favourite dance: Haven't done them for ages, but maybe Swing Dance or British Waltz
* Tell me something unusual: What's NOT unusual about it? I hate skating dresses (preferring of course, jazz pants and a top.) My figure skates are currently black but I will own a pair of custom PURPLE Harlicks pretty soon.
* Worst fall: Evil CLICK of DEATH on a forward crossovers around the ends of the rink
* Most embarrassing moment: Almost crashed into a couple of famous ice dancers at a FS session as they were coming up to me at full speed and my back was to them!!! Good thing they screamed loud enough!!! :oops:
* Funniest moment: I have too many to list.
* Most exciting moment: Landing the loop for the first time

* Colour of skates and blades: Black (soon to be purple) boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Black
* Colour of guards: Black
* Colour of bag: Black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Weir, Goebel, Joubert
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao, but I don't follow pairs that closely.
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin & Agosto (Don't follow dance as closely.)
* Skater you think is cute: John Zimmerman, Peter T.
* Favourite moment from last season: Johnny Weir making his mark in Worlds.

* Goals for end of the year: (Same as the last two years! :evil: ) Pass my Bronze Moves and FS tests by the end of the year and be eligible for Adult Nationals!!! :mrgreen:

[CaraSkates]

* First name: Cara
* Age: 14
* Country: U.S.
* How long have you been skating: 11 months
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: I've only been in one in rink competition but I'd like to do more once I'm a better skater.
* Do you test: I haven't tested but I probably will someday.
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: Usually three, ranging from 30mins to 90 mins
* Number of lessons weekly: 3, two at homeschool skate, one group
* How far to nearest rink: 15/20 minutes to both rinks
* Practice outfits: Two pairs of tights, skating dress, assorted sweatshirt/jacket till I warm up

* Rotation: Counter Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Toe Loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Salchow
* Favourite jump: Waltz or Half Flip
* Favourite spin: Can only do scratch.
* Favourite spiral: RFI
* What's your nemesis: Shoot the duck
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Left forward moehawks. Right is super easy, left is torture!
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Lunge-3-turn-lunge
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Bunny hops!
* Favourite dance: Have only danced once (this morning) so can't really say.
* Tell me something unusual: Um..I don't own a skate bag-yet. I use a tote bag for now.
* Worst fall: When a little girl stepped on my blade while playing limbo (I was holding the stick) and 2 secs later a little boy bashed into the limbo stick and I went down to my tailbone and had to have my coach, dad, and uncle carry me off the ice.
* Most embarrassing moment: Doing a spiral, couldn't stop fast enough, hit the wall.
* Funniest moment: I was working on spins and for the first time was finally spinning on the ball of my foot on ONE foot. I promtly shrieked and fell over.
* Most exciting moment: Landing my 3-turn, back edge, waltz jump with speed.

* Colour of skates and blades: white boots, silver blades.
* Colour of soakers: Teal
* Colour of guards: Sky Blue
* Colour of bag: Beige

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: not sure
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: not sure
* Favourite eligible dance teams: not sure
* Skater you think is cute: Alexei Yagudin
* Favourite moment from last season: Don't know

* Goals for end of the year: Have good loops, salchows, learn a flip jump and master shoot the duck.

[CanAmSk8ter]

* Age: legal
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: 11 years
* Disciplines you do: Dance
* Do you compete: Every chance I get!
* Do you test: Yes, more often than I'd like to ;)
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: I've competed against Canadians in the US- does that count? ;)
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 6
* Number of lessons weekly: 2, 3 if I'm getting ready to test/compete
* How far to nearest rink: 15 minutes, but the one I train at is 30 minutes away
* Practice outfits: black leggings, t-shirt. It's totally uncool to wear anything else at my rink if you're older than like ten

* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Double Lutz (three times, before I quit freestyle)
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Triple sal (only 2.5 rotations, my coach would have killed me if she knew I was trying it)
* Favourite jump: I guess flip, it's the hardest one I can land in my dance blades
* Favourite spin: backspin I guess, can't spin too well in dance blades but the backspin is stll there
* Favourite spiral: No favorite, I don't really do them very often anymore
* What's your nemesis: Choctaws, but they're coming
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Don't know
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: RFI Twizzles
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: The mohawk in the Silver Tango
* Favourite dance: They're all driving me crazy at the moment! Probably the Blues or the Tango
* Tell me something unusual: Most of my friends at my rink are guys
* Worst fall: Haven't had a bad one yet, but when I start doing free dances in the fall I'm sure I will
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling doing absolutely nothing and landing right in front of this guy I liked. This was like five years ago, I had almost forgotten about it.
* Funniest moment: Getting through the twizzle in the Argentine with the music for the first time- I got so excited that I stopped, and my coach and my best friend had to yell for me to keep going
* Most exciting moment: Winning my first dance competittion ever and passing my last Pre-Silver dance
* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Leopard print
* Colour of guards: Filthy. I think they used to be pink.
* Colour of bag: blue

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Don't follow ladies
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Don't really follow mens
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: I miss Bourne and Kraatz :(
* Skater you think is cute: Brian Joubert
* Favourite moment from last season: Seeing several of my friends skate really well at Nationals

* Goals for end of the year: Finish my Silver dances and place in the top five at Lake Placid and start working on my free dance and my novice moves

[luna_skater]

* Age: 23
* Country: Canada
* How long have you been skating: 18 years
* Disciplines you do: dance, skills, synchro
* Do you compete: Yes, in synchro
* Do you test: yes
* Number of coaches: 2 (one synchro, one dance/skills)
* Ever competed on national level: Yes
* Ever competed internationally: competed in the US once
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: Synchro twice a week; Private - once or twice in fall and winter, 3-5 in the summer
* Number of lessons weekly: Same as above
* How far to nearest rink: 10-15 min.
* Practice outfits: Black flared leggings, black t-shirt, fitted zip-up
* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: flip
* Favourite jump: salchow
* Favourite spin: haven't really spun for about 12 years
* Favourite spiral: LFO
* What's your nemesis: back inside threes
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: back inside threes
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: kilian choctaw
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: brackets
* Favourite dance: Starlight and Argentine
* Tell me something unusual: I've been skating since I was 6, but didn't start my prelim dances until I was 22.
* Worst fall: Too many bad ones in synchro to count.
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling on my face in warm-up at a synchro comp.
* Funniest moment: Imitating something my coach wanted us to do in a synchro program one year; impossible to describe.
* Most exciting moment: Getting to tell my old teammates they had qualified for Nationals.
* Colour of skates and blades: Beige skates, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: leopard print
* Colour of guards: Blue and green
* Colour of bag: Black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Yukina Ota
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Buttle
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: None
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Faiella/Scali and Delobel/Schoenfelder
* Skater you think is cute: Maxim Staviski
* Favourite moment from last season: Cynthia Phaneuf's win at Nats.

* Goals for end of the year: Finish Gold dances (testing last one in June), be working on Sr. Silver skills, skate with more speed, power, and knee-bend

[Anita18]

* First name: Anita (wow, howdya guess? :P )
* Age: 20
* Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: 4 years? I think...
* Disciplines you do: Free, though it would be awesome to start dance
* Do you compete: No
* Do you test: Nope, never tested
* Number of coaches: Never had a regular coach, either, but I had 2 about a month or so...
* Ever competed on national level: HAH!
* Ever competed internationally: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!
* Ever won a gold medal: That would awesome, but no
* Number of practices weekly: Once? If I'm lucky...will shoot for more next semester when I have less afternoon classes..
* Number of lessons weekly: None
* How far to nearest rink: 7 miles - about an hour by bus, cause LA public transportation sucks
* Practice outfits: Purple fuzzy skating pants, hot pink tank top or t-shirt, sweatshirt. Skating dress if I feel so inclined, but I prefer the slight leg protection that pants give me.

* Rotation: Counter-clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Lutz
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Lutz
* Favourite jump: When it's a good day, loop
* Favourite spin: When it's a good one, backspin cause it feels so cool!
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: Footwork. Just in general...and spin entries too, if I don't visualize it correctly...
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Centering!!! And alternating three-turns...I sure wish I had open hips! Oh, and all stops. Heh.
* What "difficult" move do you find easy:
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Finding the sweet spot on the backspin (for the moment..wait til I lose it again, LOL..)
* Favourite dance: Never done dance
* Tell me something unusual:
* Worst fall: Tripped over toepick on a bunny hop (hahaha) went sprawling on my chest and knees, missing my chin by inches. Got a good fat knee bump, but I was glad that I don't have much of a chest for that fall :P
* Most embarrassing moment: Doing a t-stop at the entrance and falling on my butt. Heh.
* Funniest moment: I sometimes slip on my spin entries, and end up spinning for a bit on my hip. Did that during a group lesson, and someone went, "Woh, that's cool! How do you do that?" I said, "Um, I fall on a spin entry" and subsequently laughed at my classmates' failed attempts at falling on spin entries.
* Most exciting moment: Getting a backspin for the first time. Wooo eee!

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Um, turquoise? Although they're closer to green..
* Colour of guards: Dark blue
* Colour of bag: It's just a backpack, but it's dark blue as well

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Buttle, Sandhu, and Weir
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin and Agosto
* Skater you think is cute: Alexei Yagudin
* Favourite moment from last season: Michelle being Michelle and skating a great free program at Worlds even with that weirdo on the ice.

* Goals for end of the year: Um, to start skating more? Maybe start working on axel. Improve my darned lutz, and my spins.

[skatepixie]

First name: Rosie
* Age: 15.5
* Country: USA!
* How long have you been skating: just over a year
* Disciplines you do: singles
* Do you compete: I hope to start in august
* Do you test: Im preping for prepre
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: 3-5
* Number of lessons weekly: 1
* How far to nearest rink: half an hour. Its pretty near my school so...
* Practice outfits: dresses or skirts

* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Lutz
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Lutz
* Favourite jump: salchow
* Favourite spin: can only do one foot well
* Favourite spiral: RBO
* What's your nemesis: loop
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: none really anymore
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: I landed Lutz 1st try
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: I had major trouble with the waltz jump and SALCHOW...
* Favourite dance:never done it...never will...
* Tell me something unusual: I get dizzy when I run and I see double and stuff...but Im totally fine when I skate
* Worst fall: broke my ankle 2nd time out because I was wearing mens rentals and my heal totally slid
* Most embarrassing moment: my 1st FS when I didnt know how to open the gate to get off...and my coach, who was on lesson with someone else, came over to show me how. Or when I split my dress along the side and you could see the liner..or when I didnt left my guards on and fell and then fell like 3 times trying to get up before I realized why I fell in the 1st place
* Funniest moment: too many to list
* Most exciting moment: new skates

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: black pengins..the blade babies
* Colour of guards: Bright pink
* Colour of bag: pink

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Sasha
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: none really...Brian is growing on me
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao but I dont really like them...they are just kinda the best there is. Perhaps Im measuring them unfairly agaist G&G...
* Favourite eligible dance teams: B and A
* Skater you think is cute: Alexei
* Favourite moment from last season: Sasha's SP at Worlds...also Marshalls

* Goals for end of the year: Pass prepre...compete...land that blasted loop

[sk8er1964]

* Age: 6 months 'til 40 8O
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: 2 1/2 years as an adult, about 9 as a kid.
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes. Probably won't do any more freestyles, but want to work on Novice moves.
* Number of coaches: 1, although my Mom, a former coach, helps me with presentation skills.
* Ever competed on national level: Yes - 2 years at US Adult Nationals
* Ever competed internationally: Yes - when I was a kid, I skated at a local competition in Canada.
* Ever won a gold medal: Not as an adult (yet :) ), but I won Tri-States (it's a midwest competition) plus a few other local comps.
* Number of practices weekly: 6
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 hour
* How far to nearest rink: 5 minutes from home to my club ice, 15-20 minutes from work to my during-the-day ice, depending on which rink I go to.
* Practice outfits: Black skirt, black t-shirt, grey turtle neck, grey jacket, tights. I like to layer.

* Rotation: Counter-Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Double loop as a kid, double sal as an adult.
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Double lutz as a kid, double flip as an adult.
* Favourite jump: Flips and axels.
* Favourite spin: Flying camel and fast scratch.
* Favourite spiral: RFI to RFO change edge.
* What's your nemesis: Double toes.
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Shoot the ducks. I'd love to be able to do a cool hydroblade, but I am shoot the duck impared.
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Choctaws.
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: My footwork sequence.
* Favourite dance: I don't dance much, but I used to love the Kilian and the Blues. I've tried the Kilian as an adult, but not the Blues.
* Tell me something unusual: I passed three adult freestyle tests in one day, and a total of four adult freestyle tests and one adult MIF test in 4 months.
* Worst fall: I did a right one foot hockey stop, hit a rut made by an adult hockey skater and flew right into the corner of the door. My arm, where it slammed into the corner, hurt for about two months.
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling at the feet of an Olympic ice dancer on a back backet from the Intermediate MIF's. A few weeks later, I collided with that same coach as he was doing a dance with one of his students and I was doing the CW power 3's pattern.
* Funniest moment: On the warm up for my Intermediate MIF test, I had the click of death on the back CW power circle and slammed into the boards. Everyone looked at me, because it was a very loud event. When it came time for me to test, the judges asked if I was ok. I replied that I was, and that I hoped I had gotten the fall out of my system! They laughed, and I passed with flying colors.
* Most exciting moment: Skating clean in my first AN, even though I was injured, followed closely by my pewter medal performance at this year's Mids.

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Blue
* Colour of guards: Light green
* Colour of bag: Purple

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Cohen and Arakawa
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Weir, Weir and Weir. Oh, I like Joubert too.
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: I've never been into pairs.
* Favourite eligible dance teams: I'm not a huge dance fan either, but Tanith and Ben are fun to watch.
* Skater you think is cute: Yagudin. Ahhh, to be 20 years younger :lol: .
* Favourite moment from last season: Weir's free skate at US Nationals, and his reaction to the 6.0

* Goals for end of the year: To get at least two consistent doubles for my AN program next year.

[NCSkater02]

* First name: Christy
* Age:41
* Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: A little over 2 years
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: Yes, just started
* Do you test: My coach claims I will this fall
* Number of coaches: One for privates, one for group (who fills in when my private is unavailable
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: Usually three, for a total of about 4 hours
* Number of lessons weekly: One private and one group
* How far to nearest rink: 20 minutes to my home rink, 30 to the other for privates.
* Practice outfits: Layered--dress, long sleeved tshirt, and fleece jacket
* Rotation: Counter clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Half toe loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Half salchow
* Favourite jump: waltz or half flip
* Favourite spin: None--am working on one foot and scratch
* Favourite spiral: Only do straight for now, no edges yet
* What's your nemesis: Spins
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Controlling the back exit edge of 3turns
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: They are all difficult at this point
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: T stop..at least on the right--the left still stumps me
* Tell me something unusual: My coach uses me as a guinea pig--she makes up all kinds of exercizes for me. Adults are so difficult--she says I ask too many questions and make her think too much.
* Worst fall: Bunny hop--I caught my toe pick on the swing through and landed on both knees, hit one elbow and my rib cage and slid, acquiring an ice burn on my arm. That, or the time I crossed my blades on a back cross over and landed on my left knee so hard that I actually had a doctor look at it. It's been two months and I still can't climb stairs without pain
* Most embarrassing moment: Stepping on the ice with my guards still on...and my coach was watching.
* Funniest moment: My coach and I laugh through most of my lessons, so they must all be funny.
* Most exciting moment: The first time I actually landed a jump (waltz)
* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: rainbow tie dye
* Colour of guards: lavender and teal
* Colour of bag: Black
* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Weiss
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin and Agosto
* Skater you think is cute: Aren't they all?
* Favourite moment from last season:
* Goals for end of the year:To pass Pre-bronze MIF and to actually do a stinkin' scratch spin

[AstarZ41]

Cool, I like filling out these thing :)

* First name: Anna
* Age: 17
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: 2 years
* Disciplines you do: free
* Do you compete: No, but I might in the future.
* Do you test: No, not officially. Our rink is so small we only have one "freestyle" class. So I'm about FS4.
* Number of coaches: 1. He's the best skater out of all coaches I've ever had, doing triples and split jumps and everything for us.
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: 2-3.
* Number of lessons weekly: Usually it has been one, but now I'll have 2 per week to prepare for the show. We'll see what happens next year, I'd like to take some private lessons in addition to my group FS class.
* How far to nearest rink: about 20 mins
* Practice outfits: yoga pants, sweat pants, gym pants, t-shirts, fleece zip-ups, hoodies, practice dresses, skating skirts.

* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: loop...no, walley!
* Favourite jump: toe loop
* Favourite spin: upright
* Favourite spiral: RFI
* What's your nemesis: spins in general, but especially back spin.
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: scratch spins, left to right mohawk at speed, RFO 3 turn at speed. Outside spread eagle....the list goes on!
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: back outside spiral, ina bauer (I've only tried it several times so far and I can do both inside and outside ones pretty easily)
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: waltz jump
* Favourite dance: Haven't done dance, but I'd be willing to try
* Tell me something unusual: Ummm I've never skated on a freestyle session. And I'm like 99% sure my coach is Russian and since so am I it'd be cool to talk to have a conversation with him in Russian or something but I still haven't asked. Actually that's more stupid than unusual :P
* Worst fall: Hmmm, hard to choose one. I'll say falling on a mohawk and sliding into the boards with a bang. It must have looked really painful because everyone was like "Ouch, are you ok?? It wasn't that bad though except I scraped my arm and bruised my hip.
* Most embarrassing moment: Just falling on something stupid like a 3 turn when we're all warming up. No one else seems to fall on stuff like that except me. Oh and taking my turn to show everyone a back spin (that I don't have) and ending up on my butt.
* Funniest moment: Oh I don't know...our coach always makes fun of us for doing stuff wrong. Today he said we look like people in space doing twizzles because we waved out arms around.
* Most exciting moment: I think doing a walz/half loop/sal combo, I wasn't expecting that out of myself.

* Colour of skates and blades: white and silver
* Colour of soakers: lavender
* Colour of guards: white
* Colour of bag: dont really have a skate bag

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Cohen, Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Plushenko
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Obertas/Slavnov
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Navka/Kostomarov
* Skater you think is cute: Joubert
* Favourite moment from last season: Plushy's reaction after winning Worlds.

* Goals for end of the year: As in until December 31st? Get loop jump consistent, get a scratch spin (about time already...) get a decent back spin (I'm not even asking for a back scratch, just a good 5-7 revs) get all my back 3 turns consistent and smooth, start on the flip and lutz.

[StarshineXavier]

* First name: Sarah
* Age:19
* Country: Canada
* How long have you been skating: Starting my 15th year in the fall
* Disciplines you do: Freeskate, Dance, Synchro, and used to do Skills and Interpretive
* Do you compete: Retired from competing in singles this past season, hope to be competing in synchro this upcoming season.
* Do you test: Yes.
* Number of coaches: 2 for singles, 1 for dance, and 1 for synchro
* Ever competed on national level: Yes.
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Several
* Number of practices weekly: 2-4
* Number of lessons weekly: 1-2
* How far to nearest rink: at school: 2 mins to walk or 30 mins by bus, at home: 15 mins by car
* Practice outfits: yoga pants, t shirt, sweatshirt or light jacket
* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double flip
* Hardest jump ever attempted: double axel
* Favourite jump: double loop or double salchow
* Favourite spin: sit
* Favourite spiral: I don't do spirals anymore
* What's your nemesis: toe jumps
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: toe jumps
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: outside spread eagles
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: axel
*Favourite Dance: Starlight, Blues or Argentine
* Tell me something unusual: I'm the only skater that my coach had in her first year of coaching that is still skating.
* Worst fall: At my last singles competition ever, I fell REALLY hard on my knees, which caused me to not skate as well as I could have, due to the extreme bruising on my knees immediately after my fall.
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling during the end pose of my program in a competition.
* Funniest moment: Tripping my dance coach after he was telling me how great he was at dancing.
* Most exciting moment: winning a gold medal at Nationals in synchro
* Colour of skates and blades: beige boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: red plaid
* Colour of guards: light pink
* Colour of bag: yellow and navy
* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Sasha Cohen
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Jeff Buttle
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Marcoux and Buntin
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Denkova and Stavinski
* Skater you think is cute: do you have an hour?
* Favourite moment from last season: Competing for the first time at Regionals after winning a gold medal at the regional qualifier.
* Goals for end of the year: not to give up.

[nerd_on_ice]

* First name: Laura
* Age: 31
* Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: Just shy of 2 years
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle--my coach wants me to start dance as well
* Do you compete: Not yet
* Do you test: Not yet
* Number of coaches: 1
* Number of practices weekly: 2 *sigh*
* Number of lessons weekly: 1
* How far to nearest rink: 5 minutes, but the one I actually go to is more like 15 min. away
* Practice outfits: Polartec fleece leggings, random t-shirt, velour hoodie
* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: waltz jump
* Hardest jump ever attempted: half flip (I know that sounds lame, but I've only tried it once and to me it just Does. Not. Make. Sense.)
* Favourite jump: Once my waltz jump becomes respectable I think that'll be my favorite
* Favourite spin: hmm...don't quite have any spins yet
* Favourite spiral: Sasha Cohen's (cheating, I know! :D)
* What's your nemesis: FEAR
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Lunges--the more I practice them, the spazzier they get
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Eating and driving at the same time (oops, cheating again)
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Back crossovers
* Tell me something unusual: Earlier this year I started taking judo in hopes it would make me braver on the ice. I think it may be working, too.
* Worst fall: When I'd only been skating a few weeks, I fell doing CW forward crossovers and bruised my knee SO badly. Then a week later I did the same thing and re-bruised the same place!
* Most embarrassing moment: Clowning around with a stick & puck at my old rink, I forgot I had toe picks and fell forward, still holding the stick. Yard Sale!
* Funniest moment: See above!
* Most exciting moment: Every time I do something correctly for the first time
* Colour of skates and blades: white boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: black
* Colour of guards: red
* Colour of bag: black
* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Sasha, Michelle, and I definitely want to see more Cynthia Phaneuf
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Emanuel Sandhu, Brian Joubert, Johnny Weir
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin & Agosto
(I think I spelled a bunch of those names wrong)
* Skater you think is cute: Joubert...good-looking AND French...*swoon*
* Favourite moment from last season: Johnny Weir kicking butt at Nationals
* Goals for end of the year: test Pre-Bronze MITF (for sure) and freestyle (if coach has anything to say about it)

[Sk8Bunny]

* First name: Sk8Bunny
* Age: 16
* Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: 6 years
* Disciplines you do: singles, and a little of pairs
* Do you compete: yes
* Do you test: yes
* Number of coaches: 4 (1 primary at main rink, 2 caoches at summer rink, and 1 pairs caoch)
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: kinda - they gave out trohpies for 1st place instead
* Number of practices weekly: 6
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 or 2 in school year, 8 at summer camp
* How far to nearest rink: 5 minutes
* Practice outfits: practice dresses, fitted t-shirt over, and a fleece warm up jacket. sometimes i just go with black stretch pants and a tank top.

* Rotation: CC-wise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double loop(but my double lutz only had a tiny cheat if that counts hehe)
* Hardest jump ever attempted: double axel(just for fun lol)
* Favourite jump: double flip
* Favourite spin: beilmann or camel
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: spilt jumps (which is crazy cause i can do the spilts off ice easily)
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: back sit spin
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: ina bauer or double flip
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: mohawks
* Favourite dance: ive only learned the dutch waltz
* Tell me something unusual: my nose always gets really runny at the rink so im kinda known as the girl who always blows her nose 20 times during practice (its all in good humor tho lol)
* Worst fall: off-ice jumps - my ankle twisted on the landing and i pulled legements and then got a stress fracture afterwards and was off the ice for a month.
* Most embarrassing moment: coming to a stop in front of my summer camp caoch for the first lesson of the summer and catching an edge and wipping out hard on my butt lol
* Funniest moment: Stepped on the ice with skate gaurds, fell, all the skating parents saw it and gasped. i stood up, took off my guards, and took a bow and everyone started clapping and cheering. hehehe im such a nut
* Most exciting moment: Skating pairs for the first time; and landing my axel

* Colour of skates and blades: White(more scuffed up than white) boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: they are butterflys - so bright blues and pinks etc
* Colour of guards: pink and blue
* Colour of bag: black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: cohen
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Joubert and Jahnke(go Ryan!!)
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin and Agosto
* Skater you think is cute: Brian Joubert
* Favourite moment from last season: Ryan Jahnke's freeskate at nationals

* Goals for end of the year: Pass my intermediate moves and juvenile and intermediate free. Compete at Regionals in intermediate since its my last year age-eligble for it (or open-juvenile if they offer it and im not ready for intermediate in time). Get all my doubles consisent(except axel) and start working on double axels.

[Clarice]

First name: Clarice
Age: 46
Country: USA
How long have you been skating: 9 years
Disciplines you do: Free
Do you compete: Yes, but not very often
Do you test: Yes
Number of coaches: 2 - one for free, one for presentation
Ever competed on national level: I went to Adult Nationals once
Ever competed internationally: No
Ever won a gold medal: Yes
Number of practices weekly: 5-6
Number of lessons weekly: 2
How far to nearest rink: About 15 minutes, but it's over an hour to the next one
Practice outfits: Black yoga pants, a T-shirt from some random competition, and my trusty GAP fleece sweatshirt

Rotation: Counterclockwise
Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Lutz-loop
Hardest jump ever attempted: Axel (but I'm really only doing prep exercises)
Favourite jump: Flip
Favourite spin: Sit
Favourite spiral: RFO
What's your nemesis: Camel spin
What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Centering spins
What "difficult" move do you find easy: Well, it's not really all that hard, but I have a pretty decent Ina Bauer and spread eagle. It seems like people can either do those, or they can't.
What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Heck, it ALL takes me forever to master!
Worst fall: In my first year of skating, catching a toe pick and taking a swan dive into the ice. I thought I was okay, but a few minutes later got really dizzy and had to get off the ice. I put my head down and didn't pass out, but it was really close.
Most embarrassing moment: Fell on a bunny hop with a former USFSA president on my judging panel
Most exciting moment: When a little girl in my Snowplow class (finally!) took her first steps across the ice without holding on to a tot cart.

Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
Colour of soakers: Fuzzy zebra
Colour of guards: white
Colour of bag: yellow and black
Favourite eligible skaters: All the kids at my club!
Favourite moment from last season: Putting on our summer ice show, for which I chose and cut all the music. Everybody had a great time, either working on it or watching it.

Goals for end of the year: To get my brackets on pattern, to master the camel spin, to progress significantly on the axel

[Stormy]

* Age: 25
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: Since I was 15
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle, Moves, Synchro
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 1 for Free/Moves, 1 Synchro
* Ever competed on national level: Does Peach Classic count?
* Ever competed internationally: Not yet :)
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 4-5
* Number of lessons weekly: 2 hour-long lessons a week
* How far to nearest rink: Ten minutes, but the one I practice at is 20 minutes
* Practice outfits:Tights, black yoga pants or club warm up pants, long sleeve shirt, sweatshirt
* Rotation: Counter-clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: double lutz, can do it with only 1/3 cheat :)
* Favourite jump: loop
* Favourite spin: flying camel
* Favourite spiral: LFO
* What's your nemesis: Centering scratch spins
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Centering scratch
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: flying sit spin
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: backspins
* Favourite dance: Don't dance
* Tell me something unusual: I have an excellent relationship with all the kids at the rink. What a great group. :)
* Worst fall: Bracket falls are pretty bad, the worst was about 10 years ago, I tripped on my toepick doing a spiral and really messed up my knee
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling on the 8 Step Mohawk during my Silver Moves test
* Funniest moment: Anytimes my coach and I are both in good, silly moods.
* Most exciting moment: Anytime I progress on something, even the tiniest bit. And skating a clean synchro program in competition.

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: light blue with white stars
* Colour of guards: hot pink sparkles
* Colour of bag: Red

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Jennifer Don, Amber Corwin, Sasha Cohen
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Matt Savioe, Johnny Weir
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Do we have any good pair teams??? Shen/Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin/Agosto, Galler-Rabinowitz/Mitchell
* Skater you think is cute: Always loved Brian Boitano :oops:
* Favourite moment from last season: Amber Corwin's finish at Nationals

* Goals for end of the year: To pass my Silver, Gold and Intermediate Moves and make the Esprit De Corps synchro team. Also, to finally get the axel and have a consistent double loop, salchow and lutz (those are the doubles I am best at.)

[Jumpingbeans]

Age:14
Country: US
How long have you been skating:Since I was 8, but only seriously since age 10/11
Disciplines you do:Freestyle, moves
Do you compete: Yes
Do you test: Yes
Number of coaches:1 main one, another one when he's out of town
Ever competed on national level:No, but I hope I will one day!
Ever competed internationally:Not yet :)
Ever won a gold medal: Yes
Number of practices weekly:5-6
Number of lessons weekly:2 20 minute ones
How far to nearest rink:30-40 minutes depending on traffic
Practice outfits:Tights, a dress, a oversized sweater, yoga pants, gloves.
Rotation: Counter-clockwise
Hardest jump ever landed cleanly:double sal and double loop, but very inconsistant
Hardest jump ever attempted:double flip
Favourite jump:Axel
Favourite spin:layback, though beillman is a close second
Favourite spiral:RFO
What's your nemesis:believing in myself
What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: three-turns! 8O
What "difficult" move do you find easy: getting height in my jumps
What move took you forever to master, but now is easy:The axel! A year and 8 months it took me, but it was worth it. Sure I can say that now!
Favourite dance: Don't dance
Tell me something unusual:I can do things pefectly the first day but can't do them again for the longest time. Like the double loop. First landed it in september; finally it's coming back consistantly.
Worst fall:When I first turned serious I fell doing a waltz-toe loop. I sprained my ankle really bad. I had to get crutches
Most embarrassing moment:It just happened Thursday. My coach was calling me from rink door and I ran on my toe-picks to meet him and tripped over and fell. Thank god there were only 5 other people on the ice and none of them saw.
Funniest moment: My lessons recently. They are so much fun now. But I suspect the closer to my competiton the more serious they'll get again
Most exciting moment:Anytime I land a new jump. Like when I got my axel after working on it for almost 2 years. All my friends were screaming. That was the best moment
Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
Colour of soakers:Green!
Colour of guards:Half blue, half silver
Colour of bag:Green with black edges
Favourite eligible ladies skaters:Michelle Kwan, Shizukza Awakawa, Sasha Cohen.
Favourite eligible mens skaters:Johnny Weir, Brian Joubert
Favourite eligible pairs teams:Shen/Zhao
Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin/Agosto
Skater you think is cute:Johnny Weir! And Brian Joubert. But I think they're really good skaters too!
Favourite moment from last season:All of the US nationals
Goals for end of the year:To pass all of my tests needed so I can compete at Qualifing Regionals. Land up to double lutz and to start on the double axel. And to enjoy every moment of it.

[IceAngel2007]

* First name: Samantha
* Age: 15 (16 may 29th)
* Country: United States
* How long have you been skating: on and off from age 6-12 then seriously from 13-15
* Disciplines you do: free
* Do you compete: No
* Do you test: Yes, but i havent for a while
* Number of coaches: 0
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: whenever i get a chance.
* Number of lessons weekly: n/a
* How far to nearest rink: 1 hour
* Practice outfits: aqua skating dress, and an elegant black skating dress

* Rotation: Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: salchow
* Hardest jump ever attempted: axel
* Favourite jump: salchow
* Favourite spin: layback, sit, scratch
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: spin exits
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: centering spins,
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Y Spiral(sasha cohens:) i can do that!)
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy: SALCHOW
* Favourite dance: n/a
* Tell me something unusual: I spin and jump in two opposite rotations
* Worst fall: axel
* Most embarrassing moment: falling from tripping on my new skates toe picks during a spiral (my trademark move)
* Funniest moment: lots of them
* Most exciting moment: Landing the loop

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: spongebob:)
* Colour of guards: blue
* Colour of bag: black and silver

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan, Cohen,
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Goebel, etc
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao,
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Denkova & Staviyski,
* Skater you think is cute: Tim Goebel... hehe and Brian Joubert
* Favourite moment from last season: for me? the skating exhibition i was in, meeting jamie sale, etc

[LWalsh]

First name: Lara
* Age: 35
* Country: United States
* How long have you been skating: 4 years as an adult, 6-7 as a kid
* Disciplines you do: free, moves
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 1, and a couple occasional supplemental
* Ever competed on national level: Yes
* Ever competed internationally: No - but I plan to next year
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: 3-4
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 half hour
* How far to nearest rink: 30 minutes - well there's one within one mile, but THEY DON"T ALLOW FIGURE SKATING! Grrrrr
* Practice outfits: plain black dresses, black leggings, black jacket
* Rotation: Counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Lutz-Loop-Loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Double Loop
* Favourite jump: Flip
* Favourite spin: layback, scratch
* Favourite spiral: LFO
* What's your nemesis: choctaws, Axel
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: spread eagle
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: layback
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy: flying camel - ok "easy" is a stretch
* Favourite dance: n/a
* Tell me something unusual: I like MITF
* Worst fall: slipped off my edge entering a spin and fell on the back of my head - ouch
* Most embarrassing moment: crashed into a wall doing a bracket
* Funniest moment: ditto
* Most exciting moment: Making final round at ANs
* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: blue
* Colour of guards: periwinkle
* Colour of bag: blue

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Brian Joubert
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin & Agasto
* Skater you think is cute: Alexi Yagudan
* Favourite moment from last season: Attending World's in DC during MKs long program

[flo]

some of the responses - don't have time for all!
* Age: 35-45
* How long have you been skating: 14 years
* Disciplines you do: free,pairs,interpretive
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 2
* Ever competed on national level: Yes
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: yes, 2 at nationals
* Number of practices weekly: 2-3
* Number of lessons weekly: 1-2
* How far to nearest rink: 20 minutes
* Practice outfits: leotard and leggings
* Rotation: Counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double salchow
* Hardest jump ever attempted: throw double axel
* Favourite jump: double sal
* Favourite spin: layback
* Favourite spiral: RBO
* What's your nemesis: no ice
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: cammel
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: layback,death spirals
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy: great inside death spiral
* Tell me something unusual: My club is very welcoming and supportive of adult skaters
* Worst fall: pairs
* Most exciting moment: skating at nationals exhibition
* Favourite moment from last season: Watching Shannon Keeler skate

[Michigansk8er]

*Age: 50
*Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: 2 yrs (mid-20'), 5 yrs now, although I've been out of commission off and on for the last 2.
* Disciplines you do: free, interp
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: Yes
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 6-5
* Number of lessons weekly: 2-3
* How far to nearest rink: 10 minutes
* Practice outfits: unitard or dress
* Rotation: Counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: lutz
* Hardest jump ever attempted: axel
* Favourite jump: lutz
* Favourite spin: flying camel
* Favourite spiral: RFI
* What's your nemesis: nerves
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: forward scratch
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: back spin, lutz
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy: flip
* Favourite dance: I loved the Blues in my mid-20's. Haven't danced this go-around other than to putz around with the Killian, European & 14-Step a few times. I pretty much don't remember how any of them go now.
* Worst fall: tano lutz
* Most exciting moment: medaling at AN
* Goals for end of the year: Be back on the ice

[Skate@Delaware]

*Age: 42
*Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: some when a kid, lately off & on the past two years
* Disciplines you do:
* Do you compete: No
* Do you test: No
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: 2 (when the rink is open)
* Number of lessons weekly: 1
* How far to nearest rink: 15 minutes
* Practice outfits: stretch jeans/fleece
* Rotation: Counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: waltz
* Hardest jump ever attempted: toe loop
* Favourite jump: waltz
* Favourite spin: can only do a 2-footed
* Favourite spiral: haven't attempted
* What's your nemesis: falling
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: back edges
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: back crossovers
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy:
* Favourite dance:
* Worst fall: really, I was at a practice session, not doing anything and I went down hard!! It was really embarrasing! :oops:
* Most exciting moment: landing my first waltz jump
* Goals for end of the year: More lessons when the rink opens!!

[NickB]

* First name: Nick
* Age: 19
* Country: United States
* How long have you been skating: 4 months
* Disciplines you do: free skating
* Do you compete: no, but I want to sometime!
* Do you test: haven't yet, but might
* Number of coaches: 0 for now
* Ever competed on national level: no
* Ever competed internationally: heck no!
* Ever won a gold medal: no
* Number of practices weekly: last week I skated for 8 hours! but until mid-June it looks like not very much... :(
* Number of lessons weekly: none anymore; it was 3 then 2, and will be 1 starting in June
* How far to nearest rink: at school, about a 2 minute walk :), at home about a 10 min. drive
* Practice outfits: long-sleeved shirt and jeans/pants (or T-shirt if I get too hot)
* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: toe loop, maybe? (I can tell I usually cheat it, but I think I might have landed it cleanly a few times, as the 2nd jump in a combination)
* Hardest jump ever attempted: toe loop
* Favourite jump: half flips in sequence
* Favourite spin: none-- I can hardly even do a 2 foot upright for a couple very slow, off balance rotations :P
* Favourite spiral: spiral? are you kidding me? :lol:
* What's your nemesis: spins I guess
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: trying to do the pre-preliminary consecutive edges, and also LFI 3-turns
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: I can't do anything very difficult
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy: none
* Favourite dance: not sure, but I don't do dance anyway
* Tell me something unusual: don't know
* Worst fall: I think it was something easy like a 3-turn, lol
* Most embarrassing moment: falling on a two-foot turn in group lesson in the middle of 20 people :P
* Funniest moment: I know there were some, but I can't think of a specific one right now
* Most exciting moment: learning and doing half flips, waltzes, and toe loops all on the same day

* Colour of skates and blades: black boots, silver blades (with a bit of rust when I didn't dry/store them properly when i first got them :frus: )
* Colour of soakers: red
* Colour of guards: black, but I don't use them because I never bothered to put them together, lol
* Colour of bag: black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Cohen, Slutskaya, Nikodinov, and some lesser-known/lower level ones :)
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: don't really have one
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao of course
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Navka & Kostomarov I think
* Skater you think is cute: Sasha Cohen and Cynthia Phaneuf
* Favourite moment from last season: it was from a lower level competition

[SDFanatic]

* First name: Steven
* Age: 35
* Country: United States
* How long have you been skating: About 3 years
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle
* Do you compete: Tried, was cancelled out of one, scratched the other
* Do you test: Planning too
* Number of coaches: Varies from 0 to 4
* Ever competed on national level: Nope
* Ever competed internationally: Nope
* Ever won a gold medal: Nada
* Number of practices weekly: Three to six, 6 to 14 hours per week
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 to 3, depends
* How far to nearest rink: About 20 minutes
* Practice outfits: Tights, dress, leggings, pants, leotard, fleece jacket, gloves

* Rotation: Usually counter clockwise, sometimes clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Um, 1/2 Lutz I guess
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Salcow
* Favourite jump: Waltz
* Favourite spin: Two foot spin, lol
* Favourite spiral: Anyone I don't toepick, I'm pretty good on all eight edges or flats
* What's your nemesis: Salcows, one foot spin
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Rolling mohawk
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Continous 3's
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: 3 turns
* Favourite dance: Hmm, eni, meeni, minee, mo
* Tell me something unusual: Prefer sharp blades
* Worst fall: Falling backwards and hitting my head when getting up from a simple silly fall
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling doing shoot the duck and putting a hole in my black tights
* Funniest moment: Doing a Waltz jump instead of a 1/2 Flip in front of my coach, she was like, "How did you do that?"
* Most exciting moment: Feeling the sweet spot on a one foot spin

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Purple
* Colour of guards: Purple and Blue
* Colour of bag: Blue

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Hmm
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Umm
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Errr
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Ahhh
* Skater you think is cute: Yikes
* Favourite moment from last season: Can you repeat the Q?

* Goals for end of the year: Play with my first Interp program, enough practice to pass my Pre-Bronze, Bronze, and Pre-Preliminary tests, pick up Loops, Salcow, Full Flip, Full Lutz, one foot Scratch Spin, Backspin, and anything else thats fun especially footwork, have a more consistant coach through the year, get my boots figured out and continue to have fun.

[NickB]

Oops, I must've copied my questions from someone who didn't answer the one about goals for this year. My goals are basically to keep improving, probably at least learning a salchow and one foot spin and stuff, and *maybe* to compete in a compulsory moves competition at a very low level. Also, to get my bronze test judging appointment (in singles/pairs).

[Figureskates]

* Age: 58
* Country: United States
* How long have you been skating: 6 years
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle
* Do you compete: No, but I want to sometime!
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: 3-4 a week
* Number of lessons weekly: 1
* How far to nearest rink: Hayden Rink 5 minute walk.
* Practice outfits: lJeans and sweatshirt, usually one I have obtained at a competition I volunteered at.
* Rotation: Now CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Salchow
* Hardest jump ever attempted: toe loop
* Favourite jump: Waltz
* Favourite spin: none-- I can hardly even do a 2 foot upright for a couple very slow, off balance rotations
* Favourite spiral: Inside edge
* What's your nemesis: spins!!
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Inside 3-turns.
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Mohawks
* WHat move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Waltz eight
* Favourite dance: not sure, but I don't do dance anyway
* Tell me something unusual: I have a completely rebuilt left knee
* Worst fall: PPM crossover pattern...dislocated shoulder.
* Most embarrassing moment: Stepping out on the Lussi Rink at Lake Placid with my guards on and falling in front of Olympic coaches.
* Funniest moment: Skating out the open Zamboni door.
* Most exciting moment: Day I nailed my first Salchow

* Colour of skates and blades: Black boots, silver blades .
* Colour of soakers: Black
* Colour of guards: Black/purple/black..I got long blades and have 3-piece guards.
* Colour of bag: Black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Cohen, Kwan, Kirk
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: don't really have one
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao.
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Navka & Kostomarov.
* Skater you think is cute: Still a big Nicole Bobek fan.
* Favourite moment from last season: Watching Shannon Keeler do her exhibition at Adult Nationals.

[BringontheRain]

* First name: Ashley
* Age: 16
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: Since I was 8 or 9
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes, one more!
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 5/6 days a week, 2/3 sessions a day
* Number of lessons weekly: 4
* How far to nearest rink: 10 minutes
* Practice outfits: Black spandex pants and I start with a tank top, tee, long sleeved shirt and sweater or fleece on, and get down to the tank top.

* Rotation: Counter clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: Double axel
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Triple loop
* Favourite jump: Double lutz
* Favourite spin: Flying camel
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: Spirals and presentation
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: LFI three turns
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: I don't know.
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Double toe, 4 years, 3 coaches, 4 entries
* Favourite dance: Don't dance
* Tell me something unusual: The "harder" jumps (lutz, flip) are easier for me than sal and toe
* Worst fall: Double axel, last year, I was off the ice for a month, I hurt my back so badly.
* Most embarrassing moment: My performance in our skating show last year
* Funniest moment: OMG, this summer, I was showing two friends how I should end my program and I did it, and skated away and fell so weirdly and it was soooo funny
* Most exciting moment: Landing double axel or medaling at Regionals

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Leopard print
* Colour of guards: Watermelon, pink and green.
* Colour of bag: Navy blue

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan, Arakawa, Liang
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Joubert, Weir, Goebel, Bradley
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: O&L, O&S
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin & Agosto
* Skater you think is cute: Alexei Yagudin
* Favourite moment from last season: I didn't watch much skating last year. Johnny Weir's Nationals free or Ryan Bradleys

* Goals for end of the year: Compete Junior twice this summer and then at Regionals. Test and pass Senior Free. Land triple sal, triple toe or triple loop. Try triple lutz. Work on presentation.

[second_destiny]

* First name: Cryss
* Age: 21
* Country: Canada
* How long have you been skating: Uh, 16-17 years? About that
* Disciplines you do: Pairs, singles
* Do you compete: Nope
* Do you test: No
* Number of coaches: 2
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: 4
* Number of lessons weekly: 4...the coaches are always there
* How far to nearest rink: About a half hour walk....10 minutes by car
* Practice outfits: Black box skirt and a sweater. Gloves if I'm all alone!

* Rotation: Counter Clockwise (a.k.a "normal" ;))
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double axel
* Hardest jump ever attempted: Triple Loop
* Favourite jump: Toe loops
* Favourite spin: HATE SPINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* Favourite spiral: BRO
* What's your nemesis: rushing jumps
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Three turns! LOL
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Ina Bauers
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: back crossovers
* Favourite dance: Golden Waltz
* Tell me something unusual: My coach and I used to skate together until I got better than him!
* Worst fall: Lasso lift in a rink with boards but no glass. Was dropped OUT of the ice area and onto the rubber mats
* Most embarrassing moment: getting the giggles during the Yankee Polka and having to pretend my dress strap broke so we could restart
* Funniest moment: Ah, we always have a good time. I guess practicing jumps in the parking lot in the summer and watching the people in passing cars stare at us!
* Most exciting moment: Getting to train in Lake Placid one summer!

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Black (they're actually my hockey ones :halo: )
* Colour of guards: Purple and silver
* Colour of bag: Red

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Shizuka! and Sasha Cohen
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Jayson Denommee ;)
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Langlois and Archetto, Dube/Davison
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Meg and Aaron! :D
* Skater you think is cute: Uh, DP!
* Favourite moment from last season: Shizuka winning worlds

* Goals for end of the year: To not kill myself while still wearing my skates

[daisies]

Yay! Something fun to do as I sit here at work waiting on all the slow people. LOL.

* Age: 35
* Country: USA
* How long have you been skating: 17 years total - seven as a kid, 10 as an adult (nine years off in between)
* Disciplines you do: Dance, FS, figures
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes
* Number of coaches: Two - one for FS and figures, one for dance
* Ever competed on national level: Yes
* Ever competed internationally: Yes
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes
* Number of practices weekly: About seven - three or four FS sessions, three patch sessions
* Number of lessons weekly: two - one patch, one dance. When I finish figures, I will start taking FS lessons again.
* How far to nearest rink: 10 minutes
* Practice outfits: Either a T-shirt and black pull-on skirt over black tights, or a black sleeveless leotard and wrap skirt ... over black tights. Always black tights!

* Rotation: Counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: As a kid - double lutz; as an adult - double loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: As a kid - triple salchow; as an adult - double lutz
* Favourite jump: Walley
* Favourite spin: Layback or back sit
* Favourite spiral: NONE. I only do spirals if I have to!
* What's your nemesis: OMG, where do I start? There are many, so I think an all-encompassing answer would be "my brain."
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Spirals. Camels. I guess I don't like lifting my leg. LOL!
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Walleys, laybacks, back sitspins
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: As a kid, it was the axel and double flip. Two years for the double flip! I can't think of anything that's easy as an adult. :)
* Favourite dance: Right now, the Starlight Waltz. I also love the Hickory Hoedown. Yes, you read that right!
* Tell me something unusual: "something unusual." LOL.
* Worst fall: As a kid - fell on the takeoff of a flying camel and hit my chin so hard, my front top teeth went through my bottom lip. Stitches required! As an adult - fell doing the Fiesta Tango -- solo -- hit the boards and broke my collarbone.
* Most embarrassing moment: I seriously cannot discuss it in a public forum!
* Funniest moment: Can't think of one :(
* Most exciting moment: As a kid - when I got my axel and double flip, just because they took so long! As an adult - performing in this year's AN exhibition.

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: FS - lavendar w/asian design; patch - brown & white cow
* Colour of guards: FS - yellow; patch - black; competition - always matches my costume. I own a lot of guards as a result!
* Colour of bag: Black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Michelle Kwan
* Favourite eligible men skaters: Johnny Weir, Ryan Jahnke
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: NONE - I don't see actual "dancing" going on anymore.
* Skater you think is cute: Cute as in hot? Peter Tchernyshev
* Favourite moment from last season: In terms of my own skating, it was skating in the exhibition at AN. I can't think of any as a spectator, because I didn't think it was that great of a season. Nothing compared to when I saw Michelle Kwan win nationals live in 2002!

* Goals for end of the year: To start doing axels again (haven't tried them in almost a year) and to put together a FS program for the first time in five years! We'll see how that goes! :)

[johnfisher]

* First name: John
* Age: 24
* Country: Great Britain
* How long have you been skating: 10 1/2 years
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: Yes
* Do you test: Yes, but haven't for a while
* Number of coaches: 2 - both free (different rinks)
* Ever competed on national level: Twice at the British adult champs.
* Ever competed internationally: Once at the Dune of Flanders, though soon to be twice at the MC
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes, though being a guy doing masters level freeskate at the British adult the only requirement for a gold medal is to turn up. I did win the gold freeskate at the DOF last year though when there were 6 skaters.
* Number of practices weekly: About 5
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 or 2 1/2hr lessons, usually just one.
* How far to nearest rink: 5 minutes by bike
* Practice outfits: Skating trousers or tracky b's and a tshirt or pullover depending on how cold it is

* Rotation: CCW
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: triple loop (3 times and then it went away again, though I recently landed a slightly hooked one)
* Hardest jump ever attempted: 3loop
* Favourite jump: double loop
* Favourite spin: Either flying camel or that sit spin that Lambiel does with one arm up one down (those of you who have seen the avi know what I mean.
* Favourite spiral: Ugh I hate spirals, but probably LFO if forced to choose
* What's your nemesis: Double toe, I hate it. :frus:
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Spreadeagles
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Flying camel/ double loop
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: sit spin
* Favourite dance: I don't dance, but if i did I would only do the ones like the kilian that speed around the middle :)
* Tell me something unusual: :??
* Worst fall: Sprained my ankle really badly on a double flip on easter Monday last year. Was off the ice for the best part of 3 months. Funnily enough at the same session on easter monday of this year I couldn't do a double flip for love nor money, couldn't even rotate it, despite it being reasonable consistent, the next day it was back with no problems.
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling over during a figures session was always quite embarrassing
* Funniest moment: When my mum was skating she once skated backwards to lean on the barrier to watch something, except that the barrier wasn't there it was a gate and disappeared straight through it. Everyone in the rink was in stitches.
* Most exciting moment: Landing my first axel

* Colour of skates and blades: black boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Red
* Colour of guards: Blue
* Colour of bag: Black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Slutskaya, Kostner
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Lambiel, Joubert
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen and Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: I don't pay much attention so ???
* Skater you think is cute: My coach's 3 year old daughter - very cute!
* Favourite moment from last season: I'd have to go with Lambiel's freeskate or Shen and Zhao's both at worlds

* Goals for end of the year: Mainly to hang onto what I've already got, with an ever increasing workload. Would be nice to get the 2 toe and lutz sorted out so that I could have a full set of doubles consistently. Anything above that is a bonus.

[skatingatty]

Cool, here are my answers:
* First name: Judy
* Age: 30
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: age 12-15, quit for a long time, started up again at age 21
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle
* Do you compete: Y
* Do you test: Yes, working on Adult Gold moves
* Number of coaches: 1 right now, but I've had lots b/c I have moved around
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Y
* Number of practices weekly: 4-6 hours
* Number of lessons weekly: 2
* How far to nearest rink: 25 mins.
* Practice outfits: T-shirt and leggings or shorts, once in a while I'll wear a real skating dress, but it's a lot more convenient to able to get in the car and go right after skating.
* Rotation: counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: axel
* Hardest jump ever attempted: double flip. Once, in 1996 at the Berkeley Iceland, I overrotated and fell on a triple salchow during a lesson. My coach Laurie Mellama witnessed it!
* Favourite jump: anything but salchows
* Favourite spin: sit
* Favourite spiral: LFO
* What's your nemesis: axels, trying to do single and dbl salchows with correct take-off technique
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: back upright spin, especially on its own.
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: ?? mini-forward flying sit spin?
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: loop jump
* Favourite dance: none, I don't know any of them
* Tell me something unusual: I skate barefoot
* Worst fall: April '02 fell on my back trying to land a dbl flip. My foot hit the ice before I fell backwards, and I heard a ripping noise. As I lay on the ice, a guy skated by and said it was great- he'd seen the jump in the air. I managed to hobble off the ice and drove home with my left foot. Had a torn ligament and broken ankle that required sugery, a plate and screws that are still there. 2nd worst fall was 1989 at Stone Mtn. Ice Chalet, fell flat on my back trying a salchow and had a weird whooshing sound in my ear for about a minute. Had to get off the ice and stop the lesson.
* Most embarrassing moment: probably being dressed up as a "Sugar Plum" for an Ice Chalet show in Dec. 1986. I was always very short for my age and I started skating late, so I had to do a silly group number w/younger kids, wearing a red leotard and red tights, + a clear trash bag filled with multi-colored balloons).
* Funniest moment: being a "tree" wearing a brown unitard and green afro wig last year for a showcase event. Not many people understood what I was doing.
* Most exciting moment: Landing a cheated 2flip at the Ashburn new yr's invitational in 1/02 and winning despite not having any real double jumps.
* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: lavender
* Colour of guards: teal
* Colour of bag: black
* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Kwan, Cohen
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Plushenko, Weir, Joubert
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Belbin & Agosto
* Skater you think is cute: aren't most of them? I'm getting too old to fawn over them.
* Favourite moment from last season: Emanuel Sandhu at Grand Prix finals
* Goals for end of the year: Pass adult gold MIF test, be able to do a flying camel that gets more than 2 revs., get a recognizable flying forward sit spin, be able to do a big, reliable, and fearless axel, and a double loop or salchow. Is this a wish list or a reasonable goal? :)

[Ellyn]

OK, I'll play.

* First name: Ellyn
* Age: 42
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: 2 years casually and 2 years seriously at ages 10-14, 11 years as an adult
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle
* Do you compete: rarely
* Do you test: rarely (last tests were adult bronze free and third failure of the Ten-Fox about 8 years ago; just recently officially working on adult silver moves)
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: usually 3, of 1-1.5 h
* Number of lessons weekly: 1/2 h private, plus I've been taking a 1-h edge class this spring
* How far to nearest rink: 20 minutes
* Practice outfits: tights or leggings; skating skirt or skating dress or shorts; t-shirt or mock turtleneck

* Rotation: counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: axel
* Hardest jump ever attempted: recognizably, double salchow; a few attempts at double loop and toe loop but only achieved overrotated singles
* Favourite jump: salchow
* Favourite spin: layback
* Favourite spiral: RFI or RFO or RBO
* What's your nemesis: lutz, back turns in general
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Spin entries and centring, alternating FO3s (This is Rachel's original entry, but I'm going to agree that these are hard for me too)
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: forward rockers
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: not sure, maybe layback
* Favourite dance: European Waltz
* Tell me something unusual: not sure
* Worst fall: one day when it was 100 degrees outside and the rink was bumpy and foggy, I missed my toepick on a lutz takeoff and landed on my lower back; took 5 minutes before I could even stand up and leave the ice
* Most embarrassing moment: hm, once when I was 13 I changed skates after patch and got onto the freestyle session still wearing my ski pants, tried to do a spiral, and did a face plant
* Funniest moment: not sure . . . a few years ago I was on a dance session after not having worked much on dance for a while; during a Fourteenstep I messed up the outside mohawk and went stumbling around before falling to the ice; one of the teen skaters passed by and told me "That was a good fall," so I guess it was funny for him
* Most exciting moment: getting the axel back at 35 after not having landed it since my teens

* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: turquoise
* Colour of guards: turquoise, but they don't work properly so I rarely use them
* Colour of bag: black

* Favourite eligible skaters: too many to list

* Goals for end of the year: be able to skate all the moves on the silver test although they won't be ready to test in 04; correct takeoffs for flip, lutz (probably hopeless), and axel; stars into combo spin or else it will have to come out of my program as currently choreographed

[gmskate]

* First name: Lily
* Age: 28
* Country: US
* How long have you been skating: from ages 10-15 as a kid, 2 years as adult.
* Disciplines you do: Freestyle
* Do you compete: only 1 competition ever and it was this year!
* Do you test: yes
* Number of coaches: 1
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: No
* Number of practices weekly: Ideally 3 days a week.
* Number of lessons weekly: 1 or 2
* How far to nearest rink: 30 minutes
* Rotation: counterclockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: double loop
* Hardest jump ever attempted: I like to try for double axels sometimes...it turns out to be pretty funny...never more than an axel with alot of spin on the landing.
* Favourite jump: double sal - when I do it right
* Favourite spin: sit
* Favourite spiral: hate all spirals, can't do them well at all.
* What's your nemesis: spirals!
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: Spirals, Camels
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: Sit spin, I get really low and fast.
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Outside spread eagle(Two months ago I just got it!)
* Worst fall: I caught my toepick in my pant leg and fell on my knee going full force into a jump. I have been going to PT since January. It really messed me up.
* Most embarrassing moment:I can't say:-)
* Most exciting moment: getting axel, dbl sal back. Being able to land all my doubles on the harness.
* Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: Don't have any
* Colour of guards: turquoise
* Colour of bag: black
* Favourite eligible skaters: I think this years men at the Worlds comp were all amazing.
* Goals for end of the year: Pass my Silver test. Compete at sectionals in Silver. Get my Double toe loop and loop back. Catch up in my moves.....I am absolutely horrible at all of them.

[Lissy]

First name: Melissa
Age: 26
Country: US
How long have you been skating: Will be 10 years this January! Wow time flies!
Disciplines you do: Singles freeskate, may try pairs or dance when my beginner husband catches up with me!
Do you compete: Yes
Do you test: Yes
Number of coaches: 1
Ever competed on national level: Yes, 2003 Adult Nationals
Ever competed internationally: No
Ever won a gold medal: Yes
Number of practices weekly: Twice a week
Number of lessons weekly: 1
How far to nearest rink: 5 minutes
Rotation: counterclockwise
Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: single lutz
Hardest jump ever attempted: double salchow and double toe...both hard for me!
Favourite jump: loop
Favourite spin: back spin
Favourite spiral: right, inside
What's your nemesis: back inside 3 turns (the ones from silver moves)
What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: shoot the ducks
What "difficult" move do you find easy: outside spread eagles
What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: flip jump
Worst fall: out of the jumping harness, onto the back of my head :oops:
Most embarrassing moment:Skating a perfect, clean exhibition program (for once) and falling as I'm holding my final pose at the end :oops:
Most exciting moment: Meeting Alexi Yagudin at State Games of America in Connecticut this past summer
Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
Colour of soakers: Elephant blade babies, tye dye
Colour of guards: pink & purple swirl, black & opal
Colour of bag: black
Favourite eligible skaters: I don't know...too many to name.
Goals for end of the year: To get back in shape after having my first baby (Due May 30), and just to pick up where I left off without too much trouble. And for my skates to still fit me post-baby!

[melanieuk]

* First name: Melanie
* Age: 36
* Country: Scotland
* How long have you been skating: 7 years altogether
* Disciplines you do: Free
* Do you compete: No
* Do you test: I did
* Number of coaches: 3 altogether including childhood
* Ever competed on national level: No
* Ever competed internationally: No
* Ever won a gold medal: Yes! :)
* Number of practices weekly: Was 4/5 now 1 a week
* Number of lessons weekly: None at moment
* How far to nearest rink: 8 miles
* Practice outfits: Black stretchy trousers, some kind of top(s)

* Rotation: Clockwise
* Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: lutz, axel short
* Hardest jump ever attempted: axel
* Favourite jump: lutz
* Favourite spin: best spin is sit, but like camel best
* Favourite spiral: RFO
* What's your nemesis: backspin
* What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: LFO 3, back 3s CCW
* What "difficult" move do you find easy: sit spin count?
* What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: camel, sometimes
* Favourite dance: one that's done by others?
* Tell me something unusual: The weather in Scotland is hot & sunny?
* Worst fall: Fell on an axel and dunked chin.
* Most embarrassing moment: Falling on a 3 turn
* Funniest moment: Trying to avert my eyes from thighs.
* Most exciting moment: Being unable to avert eyes. Seriously landing axel or lutz in front of coaches.
* Colour of skates and blades: beige boots, silver blades
* Colour of soakers: maroon
* Colour of guards: green/purple*
Colour of bag: black

* Favourite eligible ladies skaters: Cohen
* Favourite eligible mens skaters: Lambiel, Klimkin
* Favourite eligible pairs teams: Shen & Zhao
* Favourite eligible dance teams: Sinead & John Kerr
* Skater you think is cute: Lambiel
* Favourite moment from last season: Kerrs winning Brits, getting 10th and 14th at Euros & Worlds. :) Lambiel's freeskate at Worlds :bow:

* Goals for end of the year: stay healthy and on my feet. ;)

[singerskates]

First name: Brigitte
Age: 41
Country: Canada
How long have you been skating: Almost 5 years from the time I held up the boards.
Disciplines you do: Singles freeskate, interpretive
Do you compete: Yes
Do you test: Yes
Number of coaches: 1 main coach and head coach of club.
Ever competed on national level: Yes, 2004 Canadian Adult Nationals
Ever competed internationally: Yes
Ever won a gold medal: Yes
Number of practices weekly: 3, sometimes 4
Number of lessons weekly: suppose to be 3 but coach hasn't been showing up do to school.
How far to nearest rink: 4 minutes
Rotation: counterclockwise
Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: flip (once in practice) and split jump
Hardest jump ever attempted:It was suppose to be a waltz jump that almost was an axel (this was a week ago)
Favourite jump: salchow/toe/toe
Favourite spin: layback
Favourite spiral: deep LFO and RFO change to RFI
What's your nemesis: back spin
What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: loop
What "difficult" move do you find easy: forward sitspin to forward spin combo
What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: waltz jump (it took me 3 years to get it.)
Worst fall: backcross cuts in the first year I was skating hitting my head (concussion)
Most embarrassing moment:Coaching juniors and tripped over my skates while watching my students but got up quickly.
Most exciting moment: Meeting and speaking with Elvis Stojko at the HoJo loby giving him a pep talk the day before his long program in Hamilton 2002. He was thinking at the time that he wasn't going to win that last Canadian title.

Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
Colour of soakers: Blue clouds
Colour of guards: pink sparkle
Colour of bag: red
Favourite eligible skaters: Jeffery Buttle and Joannie Rochette
Goals for end of the year: To loose weight, get a consistant loop, start on axel, get lutz, get that darn backspin and back sitspin. Have a gourgeous layback spin (right now it's so so.)

[quarkiki2]

Age: 30
Country: US
How long have you been skating: 2 years
Disciplines you do: Freestyle, Synchro
Do you compete: Yes
Do you test: Not really, ISI Learn-to-Skate
Number of coaches: 1
Ever competed on national level: Yes, sort-of, ISI Synchro Nationals
Ever competed internationally: No
Ever won a gold medal: Yes, technically, ISI Synchro Nationals Qualifying round
Number of practices weekly: 2
Number of lessons weekly: 1
How far to nearest rink: 30 minutes
Rotation: counterclockwise on ice, clockwise in dance
Hardest jump ever landed cleanly: 1/2 flip, ballet jump
Hardest jump ever attempted: toe loop
Favourite jump: bunny hop, LOL!
Favourite spin: 1 foot (I've only done 3 of them, though)
Favourite spiral: LFO
What's your nemesis: 3-turns and adult-onset-air-fear
What "easy" move do you have most trouble with: 3-turns
What "difficult" move do you find easy: Well, there are no "difficult" moves at my level, LOL, but I guess the choctaws in the alternating 3-turn pattern??
What move took you forever to master, but now is easy: Mohawk
Worst fall: At synchro competition I collided with a teammate and smacked the back of my head hard enough for a concussion
Most embarrassing moment: I don't embarrass easily
Most exciting moment: Our first synchro competition

Colour of skates and blades: White boots, silver blades
Colour of soakers: black
Colour of guards: purple
Colour of bag: black and purple

Favourite eligible skaters: I think they're all pretty terrific!

Goals for end of the year: To get pregnant. If not that, then to get my dang waltz jump and 3-turns and to skate faster and be less afraid.