So who is skating when?

For us:

Thursday:

Husband 08:40 in the Under Level 1 Free "Classics" (oldest age group)
Me 13:25 in the Level 1 and under artistic

Friday:

Husband 09:20 in the Level 6 and under compulsory dances
Both of us
15:00 Level 4 and under couples compulsories
16:20 Level 4 and under couples free dance

and almost definitely the Drawn Partners at the end!

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I am just doing level 6 and under compulsories at 9.20.
Maybe drawn partners i don't know. xx

All the best! Have a great time.

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Best of Luck, Annabel, Nicki, Gayle, John, Chantellyand anyone else that I dont know that will be going. I am really going to miss going to Bracknell this year, but never mind there's always next year and of course I should see you all at the British in Sep/Oct.

GOOD LUCK to everyone

Please say 'hi' to Will and Viv for me if they're there



TK x

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I'm doing my under level 2 free at 9.05 Thursday (pretty sure I'll be returning the cup what with new coach,programme, boots etc but you never know!)

Then the group artistic at 13.10 and the Improv at 15.00.

I'll also probably be on the gate on Friday so will see Annabel and the rest of the dancers then! I'm not dancing this year and looking at the huge number of entries I'm glad I'm not!

Good Luck everyone - see you all there!

Good luck to all those competing! Have a wonderful time!!

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I'm skating at 16.10 on Thursday - level 2 and over interpretive. Have been skating very erratically but I love the programme and feel pretty comfortable with it so I just want to enjoy it. This is the last time I ever plan to skate the programme.

Good luck to all you guys at Bracknell!!! Go kick butt Annabel and Robert! (You too, 2loop2loop!!!)

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I'm competing on Thursday - Under Level 3 at 10.15 am and Small Group Artistic with Batikat and others at 1.10 pm. I'll be there all day Friday as I'm helping with results and on the gate so will see you there.

Good luck to everyone. I must admit I'm feeling sooooo nervous. So wish I could be like my daughter who is competing at Basingstoke tomorrow and actually looking forward to it!

Nicki

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Good luck to all you guys taking part (and to any of the Oxford contingent if you happen to read this forum lol!)

Have fun all

S xxx

Good Luck to All!!

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Me skating in the same group. My 2nd coach gave me a "kamikadze" look and said: "The most important thing is to enjoy yourself".

I also signed up for artistic but have to withdraw: with all work and travel I didn't have a chance to prepare the second programme.

PS: Does any one know what time the patch starts on Thursday?

PPS: I would also like to mess around with my photo camera, just to practice a bit. Please let me know if you mind having your pictures taken and I won't.

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With hindsight, we should have entered Husband for that group, as that's where he'll compete if he does the British Adults, but there, hindsight is a wonderful thing. Anyway, at least he'll have got it over and done with, so we can go and have a bacon roll and watch you lot!

The bumf sheet we got says 05:45.

I don't mind, but if you get a decent shot of either of us, please send us a copy! And don't forget the Laws of the Medes and the Persians when it comes to taking skating photos - NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY!

Which reminds me, I'd better charge up our video camera!

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I don't mind you photographing me if you so desire. I warn you though, I never skate anywhere near as well in competition as I do in practice. I suffer so terribly with nerves!

Nicki

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I'm skating at 11.50 in the open standard freeskate. I'm not expecting a vintage performance though as I have hardly skated my program since the MC and training has generally been a bit erratic since (jumps were decidedly iffy this morning - I wonder if the eponymous jump combination will grace us with it's presence...). Even so, it should be fun.

Good luck to everyone else who's competing.

John

I don't think you are allowed to skate up in free - it's not like in dance where you can choose your group - otherwise I'd have skated up to level 2 and under, where I could have come 3rd of 3!

The British Adults includes level 2 and under, so even skating in our group would not have been the same and don't they split the guys out in free anyway? Pretty sure we didn't compete against any guys - seem to remember thinking I'd have done pretty well against the guy group...........

Sceptique - I doubt you'll have time to take photos of our group but if you do it's no problem to me - just as long as I don't notice you - everytime I catch someone's eye in the audience I forget my programme!!!!!!!

Anyway given my lack of practice, I have to treat this one as just for fun, as I am not at all ready for serious competition and my boots are still killing me every time I put them on!

I didn't think there was a maximum standard stated in the schedules, but I could well be wrong!

I've just checked - I'm not wrong; apart from in Pairs, there's no minimum test requirements, so he could have entered Level 2 & Under. Anyway, he did ask if he could go to level 1 & under and the secretary said would he awfully mind not, as that would leave only one person in that class and 3 in the level 1-and-under (oldest age group). So he agreed.... and then remembered that he could have a 3-jump if he wanted (the programme had been choreographed to conform to NJS requirements, and they don't count 3-jumps), so he dropped the cherry off of the end of his salchow-cherry combo, and replaced the not-in-combination salchow with a 3-jump. Sorted!

And yes, they do split the guys out at the British Adults, which is lovely for the guys..... mine you, he's going to get either gold or silver tomorrow even if he spends the entire minute and a half sitting on his bum on the ice, as there's only two of them....

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well I'm off to bed see you all soon I'm there both days so say hello if you see me! xx

Well, I didn't see you today, but I saw lots of other people! Didn't see everybody skate, though so won't comment on individual performances other than ours, except to say that 2loop2loop did land it! A bit of a struggle, but it happened.... he was definitely the star of the show.

As for us, The Husband won his class, which wasn't very surprising as there were only two of them in it. But that wasn't important, although it's always nice to have a shiny trophy to take home. What mattered was that he landed his loop jump and he did 3 revolutions on his camel spin, which he has simply never done before! He has obviously landed his loop loads of times in practice, but no way did he land it at the Mountain Cup!

It was weird, actually, the first 30-45 seconds of his programme were awful, and I was like, oh no..... and then all of a sudden he got the triple 3-turns in the step sequence and after that he skated really, really well. I was sooooooooo proud of him!

What was interesting in all the free skating was that you could tell who'd competed in Europe, as their programmes were somehow all NJS-oriented. This was relative scoring, but most people did better than those whose programmes were choreographed for the relative system!

I skated really well, for me, and finished 6th out of a field of 8, which was pleasing. Artistic is always a bit of a lottery, but I got 2.1 for technical merit, which is unheard-of! Yay me!

Life is real and life is earnest tomorrow, though, with the dances. Looking at the pool of judges - well, we could have the ideal panel (I hope!!!!) or the panel from you-know-where..... Needless to say, we are drawn first in both events. Husband is drawn 2nd in his solos - that is going to be a very interesting class, as there are all sorts and conditions of skaters in it. He certainly won't win, nor make the podium (I'd be very surprised if he did), but he might well come in the top ten. There are five couples in the compulsories - my guess is we'll be either 3rd or 4th, but we'll have to see. In the free, I'm expecting we'll be second (there are only 3 couples in it, and I think we'll beat one of them, but I could be wrong).

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Congratulations to all forum members that entered, from what Annabel tells me you all had very good results.

Does anyone know how Nicki and chantelly did?

I know that Nicki skated very well in her free to come second.

I skated fairly well but not as well as I have done in practice. I completed everything in the programme but never really got into the ice. I was 4th which is the most annoying place to come, but was happy not to come last.

Well done 2loop2loop!!

Brill, I bet you were.

Now I'm worried!!

Yay indeed you clever little thing you.

I like first because I can relax and watch the others.

Who knows, with his new found confidence.

I shall once again keep everything crossed for you both.

Well done!!

Grace
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Thanks for that, well done Nicki

Yes last is far worse, I most certainly have been there on at least three occasions.

Well done twinkle 4th is still not half bad, will you be at the British, so we can introduce ourselves?

No I don't think so, not unless I improve dramatically before the closing date. I don't feel I can justify the expense when I have no chance of skating well...