"Be Friends with your Axel"
"Advantages to Having a Giant Rear End"
"Throw Away that Heating Pad: Painless Skating Practices"

"Skating After Fifty: Maturity Makes It So Much Easier!!!"

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Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

Lol, some of these are great.

Mine:


Sunshinepointes Guide to Consistent Practice
How to Make Your Boots Last More than Six Months
The Definitive Guide To the Camel Spin: Volume 1, Getting the Chest Down
The Definitive Guide To the Camel Spin: Volume 2, KEEPING the Chest Down
Building On Ice Relationships - How Not to Sass Your Coach

and my all time favorite

The Power of Positive Thinking

"Only God Can Make A Three" (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)

Ellen, who is starting to BELIEVE that only God can make a three . . . at least a really good one

Hehe, I'd need that one!!!! Send me a copy when it's released! LOL

Ok, here's mine

The easy guide to tell when you need to sharpen your blades

Oh yeah, I forgot to list the second book I'll never write:

Layback Spins are for Everyone
- Beyond the myth of the "stiff back"

Ha! Don't I wish. . .

"The Art of Remembering to Remove Blade Guards"

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Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau

good one , thankfully I have only done that at least 3 times.... I once rushed to the ice glided a few times, and for a split second thought i didnt have my blades sharpened, then I looked down and fell

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Tim David's Website

Novice Moves for Skaters Over 30

How about:

The Cooperative Student: Making Your Coach Look Forward to Your Lessons

Judges are Your Friends: Banish the Nerves and Skate With Confidence

Easy Brackets For Everyone

Quarkiki: The True Story of a Reformed Chicken-Weenie

'nuf said...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Backspins But Were Afraid to Ask

Yes, You Too Can Hit A Backspin Position In Your Jumps (It Might Even Make Jumps Less Cheated)

Overcome Your Fear of Laybacks

Axel: The Final Frontier

Hmmmm lets see:

1. A traveller's guide: the front scratch spin
2. Ode to the outside edge: the story of a lutz
3. Walley: who is he? and where did he come from?
4. Do camels really fly? by Dr. Seuss
5. Tales of a free leg: the saga

That works....

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Who me? Couldn't be....
http://www.youtube.com/bouldersk8r

An idiots guide to picking the right boots

Get a double loop and keep it: an easy 10 day course

footwork for dummies: never trip again

breaking in skates- no pain, no gain

dressing for sucess in theree easy steps

build your own ice rink- save a 30min trip every time

The art of turning at speed

Crossing your feet on the ice: an expert's guide

Fooling your coach or how to look as though you're skating better than your partner even when you aren't.

(which latter is a book that Husband could write, alas!)

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

If You Think it's Good Enough, It Is! A Skater's Guide to Convincing Your Coach To Let You Test

I think you should get a package deal on:

"Unintended Air Time" and
"The art of remembering to remove your skate guards"

These are so funny

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January: Sure I'll compete, quick, send the application
April: I signed up to do WHAT??

"So Your Technique Sucks....Now What?"

"Get Your Butt ON the Ice: A Guide to a Lower Sit Spin"

"Positive Thinking: How to Come in Last at Every Competition and Still Feel Good About Your Skating"

"The Power of Focus: How to Train Around Your Former Coaches Everyday and Still Maintain Your Sanity"

If you enjoyed these titles, you may also enjoy titles from our Crazy Coaches series, such as:

"Crazy Coaches and the Students Who Love Them"
"Crazy Coaches: A Guide to Understanding Them"
"Crazy Coaches: How to Just Plain Avoid Them"
"Crazy Coaches: A Skater's Recovery Guide"

Followed by:
If You Think It's Good Enough, It Is! A Skater's Guide to Convincing The Judges To Pass You!

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Adult Nationals, 2009 "The Time of My Life"

I got two words for that MSF: "Sugar Mama!!!" (Or "Sugar Daddy" depend on your preference...hey! This is a figure skating community 'ya know...)

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Cheers,
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!!!

"The Golden Goose-Egg on the Back of My Head" grrrrrrr. evil mohawk, bad, bad evil mohawk.....

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If you keep your eyes on God, you can walk on water.

How to pass a pairs test with unheard music and unknown choreography.

I took my bronze and silver tests in the same day. For reasons known only to USFSA logic, or lack there of, I had to use a different and longer cut of music for the second test. So my coach talked me through it on the ice while testing. Tests passed.

Don't try this at home.

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Recycle Love - Adopt a homeless pet

I love it! Perhaps you can add a special section,
"Helping judges interpret test requirements"

With the unpleaseant experiences I had trying to pass the Pre Bronze free in '97-'98, you ain't kidding!

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Adult Nationals, 2009 "The Time of My Life"

With the unpleaseant experiences I had trying to pass the Pre Bronze free in '97-'98, you ain't kidding!
On retry #2 on the Pre Bronze freestyle test (it took me 3 tries to pass!) the judge *insisted* that I needed a whole revolution jump to pass in addition to the half -rev jump (test requirements state that whether the jumps are half or whole revolution, it's the skater's choice). When she failed me and my coach went to the judge and test chair, USFSA Rulebook in hand to show the judge to get a possible re-skate for me, he was told "Oh well, judges make mistakes."

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Adult Nationals, 2009 "The Time of My Life"