WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Axel! (I cut out the scream right after )

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Many years, many tears, and I couldn't have done it without all of you guys! Thanks for all your support and awesome advice!!! <3

Wow, what an amazing week you are having!!
NICE AXEL!!!!!

I didn't turn the speakers on, but I would have screamed, too.

Congratulations - what perfect form you have!

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Wow, clean & confident--that does NOT look like a new jump! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Congrats!!! Isn't it a relief? You are such a hard worker on the ice

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awesome job! way to go!

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Really nice one! Well done! Great technique!

That's fantastic! Such a lovely axel too - so strong and clean. You deserve to be really proud of yourself and you are an inspiration to the rest of us!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Nicki

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Corr, fantastic, doesnt look like a first one, really clean.

Many congrats

Very nicely done, good height, you made it look easy!

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OMG!!! CONGRATS to you!!!

(Now if only the same happens to me with my loop... )

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Wow! good for you Vesperholly.

You WILL get your loop Jazzpants...

S xxx

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That is a beautiful axel!!! I agree, it does not look like you "just" got it; your hard work really shines through! Congratulations!

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

BTW, was that really, actually your VERY first one?
How was it that you happened to have a video camera on you to catch it?
I wish I'd caught my very first axel--and the look of suspicious disbelief right afterwards--but of course it is emblazoned in my mind for eternity (I even remember the exact date!).

Wow, well done!! You look like you've been landing that for years

Clare

Great axel!!! I am really glad you shared that video! Cause now I feel really inspired!

Way to go! It looks lovely.

WOW! A big congrats! Beautiful Axel with nicely wrapped free leg! Way to go Vesper!!!

It's not my first "ever" axel - I first landed it in November 1997, but it was never, ever consistent. Then I went away to college in 1998 and essentially quit skating. After I graduated college in 2002, I came back and started skating more consistently.

I had to basically restart my axel big time about 2.5 years ago because I had developed bad habits and bad technique from sporadic practice. It was two-footed and cheated until April of this year, when I started landing one-foot/rotated and then falling, which didn't last long. Yesterday, I landed one on one foot and fell, which was the first time I'd done that in a few months. Today, I brought my video camera and was actually intending to tape double loop attempts. The first axel I attempted was a rotated-one-foot-fall one, so I set up the camera and taped the rest. That was the fourth attempt of the session.

Long story short, technically not the first one ever, but the first in almost 10 years.

I kinda wanna hear the scream........

Yeah, I know, I want to see/hear the scream, too! Can you post the unedited version?

Sure - I'm at work now (otherwise I'd have watched the video 200 times instead of 100, I'm trying to convince myself it was real) but I'll load it when I get home. Unfortunately, that's not until 2am-ish.

ETA: Hyphen for doubletoe.

2 "Amish"?

Congratulations!!!!!!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! Way to go and heres to many many more axels (and axels in competitions!!!)

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