Here is a fun thread and a way to find out a little more about our skaters.

List your current skate level (example: adult bronze)
and
List the element(s) that distinguishes you from your competitors in your level (example: speed and good spirals)

Here's mine: Adult pre-bronze skater. Distinguishing moves: good height on my jumps.

Adult silver

Distinguishing moves: Very low sit spin (cannonball position) and good flexibility (donut spin, back grab spiral, back shoot-the-duck/hydroblade).

Silver pairs
Distinguishing moves:Um, nothing spectacular right now. Well, maybe good side-by-side jumps and a 30-second spiral sequence (that gets pruned down to fit in our 2:40 program

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These: and this: this:

and this: and finally this:

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My not so bad waltz jump and my extremely bald pate!!

I can reflect light from anywhere in the rink.

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Keeping School Figures Alive!!

I'm adult gold, and I'm going from what other people tell me -

my footwork and my axel.

I do know I absolutely love both! I'm quite sure they feel much better than they look .

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adult bronze

distinguished elements: forward inside to back outside spiral sequence; fast footwork in my artistic program; expression on ice

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Wang chung!

Level: Masters Junior

Distinguishing element: a layback I can hold forever!

Braver I think. I'm more willing to attempt harder skills than some of my peers. Falling seems to bother me less. Well, you know. My coach has told me that my positive points are strength, soft knees, flexibility, and fast rotation on jumps. She seems like a pretty honest gal. =-) At the least, kind.

Chico

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Level: Adult Pre-Bronze (still!!!)

Distinguishing elements: A combination of things...

• New Purple boots (in fact, TashaKat was an inspiration for my new purple boots!!! I LOOOOOOVE PURPLE!!!) Before that, it was black figure skating boots!!!
• I wear jazzpants to skate (not skating dress... well, except for tests and competition... then my wearing a skating dress becomes a distinguishing element!!!)
• Spins and jumps clockwise...
• My primary coach!!! I can actually say that I have "Michelle Kwan" as my coach!

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

my level :preliminary

What distinguishes me from the crowd I compete against:

I'm 43, they are around 12 give or take a few years
I have a drivers license and car, they don't..hehehe
I have a bank account, they don't!
I work, they go to elementary school!
etc etc!

skating wise, I have a heck of alot of fun!!!

Oh whoops .... forgot to put my 'level':

Free: UK 'Old' Prelim Free, Elements and Field Moves
Dance: UK 'Old' Bronze Compulsories & Elementary Variation

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People compliment me on how well I fall! I even received an award at our club banquet for being an excellent zamboni prospect. Whooohoooo!!
Becca from Alabama

Who would know where to start with what distinguishes you from the crowd Becca. Your hairy chest for one...

John

Hmmm, perhaps we need a whole thread devoted to "What Distinguishes Becca." I'll play!

Her propensity for entering every event listed in a competition announcement.

Her ability to drink heavily up until 2 a.m., skate 6:45 a.m. practice ice, "sleep it off" in the car, then compete at 9:30 a.m.!!

Her unique ways with rental cars...

Level: Masters Junior II
Distinguishing element: Walleys! I usually do three consecutive walleys in my Interp, but I can actually do up to five or six in a row before I hit the wall (literally)!

Level: Pre Bronze II
What distinguishes me:
My backscratch spin and power!

my size

and my weird music (I like unusual European house music)

my level: USFSA Freestyle 4/5
distinguishing characteristics: I'm preparing for my ppm MITF test and have only been skating for less than 2 years. I am 16 so I compete with kids ages 7-12. I have a car(nice one) and a job. hmmm....I have a cool spiral sequences(high spirals)...FLI/O~Y-spiral~BRI...o yeah- I'm taller then most of my instructors and fellow competitors.

To say nothing of her bald head.... Oh, and the barking..... And the unusual (and delicious) things she chooses to throw on the ice (yum, yum - I didn't know I liked bourbon until this May; now I love it!).

As for me: being grossly overweight; barely able to skate; being funny on the ice.

Level: Old UK Novice Dance and Novice Dance Moves, now credited with Level 3 Compulsory Dances and Level 2 Dance Moves.

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Ahem Annabel ...... first of all you'd lost a lot of weight when I saw you last so don't go putting yourself down!!!! Where's that stern look smilie? Secondly you've forgotten another thing that makes you stand out MRS REDBOOTS .......

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Adult Pre-Bronze (not tested yet)

Like Annabel, I am over weight, but I have lost 30 pounds skating

I'm also the only redheaded adult I've seen skating.

Sooo, I guess I'm the fat, middle-aged redhead.

Annabel,
You're an inspiration! I will be sure to bring an extra bottle of "the good stuff" for you next year!
You go, girl!
Becca from Alabama

You haven't seen me recently, then... but I hope we'll rectify that in October (you are coming to watch the British Adult Championships now that you're local, aren't you?). And I hope that by October I'll have lost serious weight - I have at least 20 kg to lose, which I certainly won't have done by then, but hopefully will have lost 4 or 5.

And yes, I always wear boot covers for practice (and over-boot tights in competition)... not always red (although always on the first day of camp, so that people like BlueIIIMoon can recognise me!), but one of any number of colours. Today was navy-blue, for example. Tomorrow will be green.

Becca - thanks! I can't wait.

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Nothing, sadly ..... I guess I am just a typical run-of-the-mill, not-very-good-but-tries-hard, adult skater - and I so wish I could be more than that..........

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