jskater49
11-02-2008, 04:54 AM
Well I'm done with the Cyclone Championships.
I chaired it and I was in 3 events. I kept saying I wasn't going to do it again and then they kept catching me saying "When I do this next year, I'm going to do such and such differently"
I signed up for bre-bronze spins because there was another adult who signed up for them. I met her here but I don't see her post publically so I won't identify her - but she had an ill child and couldn't make it for spins, though she did come for artistic.
Being the comp chair I knew right away what side I was on (although so did everyone else because I emailed that info as soon as I got it) so I practiced on the zamboni end...during the warm up I skated out to the zamboni end and the announcer tells me to go back to the lobby end "Really?" I ask him. Really. Okay, last minute change I guess, I go back to the lobby end, start practicing "No - go to the zamboni end"...I go to the zamboni end, practice one spin and my warm up is done.
I did a two foot spin which was very good. Then a one foot scratch with the edge entry...and while I pulled off a decent one in the warm up - it was just about the worse one I ever did for the program. Then I had a fairly decent back inside pivot. I got gold - but I'm going to write a separate post about why that gold is meaningless.
Freestyle - I was a little nervous and it was okay, not my best. Why I was nervous on my own rink, with NO competition...I don't know. But it was the best I've done it in competition, just not the best I've ever skated it. Another meaningless gold.
Then my "Master of the House" artistic and I had competition in this one. Two other adults. I won but I'm pretty sure - that the other skater that is on this forum got one 1st place from the judge.
I was so exhausted I was asleep for the night by 7 pm last night.
J
I chaired it and I was in 3 events. I kept saying I wasn't going to do it again and then they kept catching me saying "When I do this next year, I'm going to do such and such differently"
I signed up for bre-bronze spins because there was another adult who signed up for them. I met her here but I don't see her post publically so I won't identify her - but she had an ill child and couldn't make it for spins, though she did come for artistic.
Being the comp chair I knew right away what side I was on (although so did everyone else because I emailed that info as soon as I got it) so I practiced on the zamboni end...during the warm up I skated out to the zamboni end and the announcer tells me to go back to the lobby end "Really?" I ask him. Really. Okay, last minute change I guess, I go back to the lobby end, start practicing "No - go to the zamboni end"...I go to the zamboni end, practice one spin and my warm up is done.
I did a two foot spin which was very good. Then a one foot scratch with the edge entry...and while I pulled off a decent one in the warm up - it was just about the worse one I ever did for the program. Then I had a fairly decent back inside pivot. I got gold - but I'm going to write a separate post about why that gold is meaningless.
Freestyle - I was a little nervous and it was okay, not my best. Why I was nervous on my own rink, with NO competition...I don't know. But it was the best I've done it in competition, just not the best I've ever skated it. Another meaningless gold.
Then my "Master of the House" artistic and I had competition in this one. Two other adults. I won but I'm pretty sure - that the other skater that is on this forum got one 1st place from the judge.
I was so exhausted I was asleep for the night by 7 pm last night.
J