Morgail
11-03-2006, 08:15 PM
I passed pre-bronze moves and free skate tonight:)
Everyone here was so supportive - thank you so much! Some who haven't yet tested pre-bronze asked me to post about the tests & how they went.
For some background - I started skating as a kid. When I quit at 17, I had passed ISI freestyle 4 and was working on FS 5 (camel, lutz, axel, back scratch spin, etc.). So now (10 years later), I'm skating again and starting all over:) I don't have everything that I used to have, but I'm getting there.
Pre-Bronze Moves:
The club put all the adult tests at the end of the day, which was very nice of them:) They were running ahead of time so I was glad I got there early. We had a 6 minute warmup. There were only 2 other adults testing moves besides myself (another pre-bronze, and one silver). The warmup was enough time to run through all the elements and get some feedback from my coach, but I was glad I skated at a session earlier.
I was the second person to skate. I introduced myself to the judges (there were 3, and all were very nice).
Stroking - I was fine on this. I accidentally added a ninth push on one side, but they either didn't notice or didn't mark me down for it.
Edges - Fine also. My BI ones are the weakest - the first lobe was tiny, but the others were bigger.
Crossover Circles - I was fine on the forwards crossovers. On my first backwards circle, I clicked blades on the second crossover and almost lost my balance. I added in an extra crossover on that side (to make 6 total on that side). And I didn't run into the boards:lol:
Waltz 8 - I'm one of those weird people who actually likes the waltz 8. I put my foot down a little early on one 3-turn - but it was ok.
Evil 3-turn Pattern - Ugh. I hate this thing. I skidded a little on the LI 3s, but still managed to pass.
I saw the comments the judges did, but I don't get a copy for myself until next week. I got mostly good comments. One judge noted that I needed to hold the tail end of my three turns a little longer on both the waltz 8 and the 3-turn pattern.
Pre-Bronze Freeskate:
When it was time for the warmup for this, I didn't know whether I'd passed the Moves yet. My coach said to go out anyway & the judges would let me know if they didn't want me on the ice:lol: Warmup went well - only myself and another woman testing Silver FS were out there. We were the last tests of the day. I got the results of the Moves test during the warmup.
Again I went up to the judges. They asked whether I wanted to skate all the elements one after the other or whether I wanted them to call out what was next. I chose the latter:) The judges were really nice again - one even told me story about one of her dance tests (which was interrupted by a hockey team barging onto the ice!!).
Jumps: Pre-bronze lets you do any two jumps - full or half revolution. I did a toe loop and a salchow. Both of these were fine. The landing of my salchow curved in on a deep outside edge - but it was ok.
One-foot spin: I hav
Everyone here was so supportive - thank you so much! Some who haven't yet tested pre-bronze asked me to post about the tests & how they went.
For some background - I started skating as a kid. When I quit at 17, I had passed ISI freestyle 4 and was working on FS 5 (camel, lutz, axel, back scratch spin, etc.). So now (10 years later), I'm skating again and starting all over:) I don't have everything that I used to have, but I'm getting there.
Pre-Bronze Moves:
The club put all the adult tests at the end of the day, which was very nice of them:) They were running ahead of time so I was glad I got there early. We had a 6 minute warmup. There were only 2 other adults testing moves besides myself (another pre-bronze, and one silver). The warmup was enough time to run through all the elements and get some feedback from my coach, but I was glad I skated at a session earlier.
I was the second person to skate. I introduced myself to the judges (there were 3, and all were very nice).
Stroking - I was fine on this. I accidentally added a ninth push on one side, but they either didn't notice or didn't mark me down for it.
Edges - Fine also. My BI ones are the weakest - the first lobe was tiny, but the others were bigger.
Crossover Circles - I was fine on the forwards crossovers. On my first backwards circle, I clicked blades on the second crossover and almost lost my balance. I added in an extra crossover on that side (to make 6 total on that side). And I didn't run into the boards:lol:
Waltz 8 - I'm one of those weird people who actually likes the waltz 8. I put my foot down a little early on one 3-turn - but it was ok.
Evil 3-turn Pattern - Ugh. I hate this thing. I skidded a little on the LI 3s, but still managed to pass.
I saw the comments the judges did, but I don't get a copy for myself until next week. I got mostly good comments. One judge noted that I needed to hold the tail end of my three turns a little longer on both the waltz 8 and the 3-turn pattern.
Pre-Bronze Freeskate:
When it was time for the warmup for this, I didn't know whether I'd passed the Moves yet. My coach said to go out anyway & the judges would let me know if they didn't want me on the ice:lol: Warmup went well - only myself and another woman testing Silver FS were out there. We were the last tests of the day. I got the results of the Moves test during the warmup.
Again I went up to the judges. They asked whether I wanted to skate all the elements one after the other or whether I wanted them to call out what was next. I chose the latter:) The judges were really nice again - one even told me story about one of her dance tests (which was interrupted by a hockey team barging onto the ice!!).
Jumps: Pre-bronze lets you do any two jumps - full or half revolution. I did a toe loop and a salchow. Both of these were fine. The landing of my salchow curved in on a deep outside edge - but it was ok.
One-foot spin: I hav