Good luck to everyone who is testing in the next few weeks/months!

December 2009
Renatele just blew away all three Preliminary ice dance tests! Congratulations!
LilJen is taking the Fiesta Tango soon - Hope you pass with flying colors! Ole'!
Lsk8 - Gold Moves - Own the ice, Linda!


January 2010
phoenix is taking the Paso dance test - is that also an ole'? Good luck!
Kim's going to BLOW AWAY the judges with her Junior Moves! Go get 'em!
Rob Dean is testing Bronze MITF. Knock it out of the park!
SkaterBird (Tentative) - PreBronze Dances will take flight. Fly high!
ibreakhearts - Intermediate Free, Novice Moves (Tentatively) - hoping for a clean skate and good health!
sk8ergalgal - Gold Freeskate - Best of luck!
FlyAndCrash - Intermediate Moves - Hope all goes according to your plan!

February 2010
RachelSk8r (Tentative) - taking Junior Moves and passing with high scores!
Late Feb Scarlett - Bronze Moves, last Pre-Bronze Dance - Moving out of the Pre-Bronze peanut gallery!

March 2010
herniated - Bronze Dance tests - sending good karma your way.


April 2010
Terry's Quest to Test (Skate@Delaware - tentative) - Thinking good thoughts for your Pre-Bronze test(s)! Bravo!
coskater42 - Blues, Paso, Jr. Free Dance, Sr. Moves (ETA) - Ambitious schedule - best of luck!

May 2010
sk8tegirl06 - PreJuv Moves and College Graduation! Hoping for great grades on both!

Spring/Summer 2010
Skittl1321 - Preliminary Ice Dance Tests - Hope you do well!
flying~camel - Silver Moves, Pre-Juv - We're right behind you!

Disabled List:
Liz_on_Ice
Debbie S

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Thank you! I'm taking my Paso January 11.

January 16th it's Junior Moves again for me!!

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Skating Dreams

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

Unfortunately, my testing has been put off until at least April (school break)....so now I am calling it

TERRY'S QUEST TO TEST!!!!!



Good luck to everyone else!!!! I'm sending good karma your way!!!!!!!!!!

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

*chuckles* I like the title - Terri's Quest to Test - say that 3x fast, lol.

I have three or four private students who are working on the Pre-Preliminary MITF tests. They're all Basic Skills USFSA members, but in order to test, they have to become Club members, which is a little pricey.

Since we think they'll be ready to test in late May, and the USFSA's membership year ends 6/30/2010, they'll wait for the new membership year to join/register. A good $70-$100 will be saved and the skater will have plenty of time to prepare.

I know some Clubs have offered prorated membership fees late in the season, but I don't think ours will.

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I hope to take my junior moves in late February, but I'm still recovering from the injury that caused me to pull from my November test date, so we'll see.

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2010-2011 goals:
Pass Junior MIF test
Don't break anything

That's a good idea to wait, my club doesn't pro-rate any more...and any time to save some money-grab it!

I'll be happy to test (and pass) pre-bronze moves & freestyle before I'm 50; I turn 48 in February so there's plenty of time.

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

LOL should have seen the thread in the morning - tested preliminary dances around 10:25 am, passed all three.

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--renatele

Congratulations!

I had hoped to have my first 2 dances passed by December, but there are no test sessions to be found. Will likely have to wait until mid-spring/summer. Maybe I can have all 3 instead of just first 2, or maybe my bronze free. Will also give my coach a bit more time to figure out all the partnering stuff- she isn't used to being the boy.

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

Big Congrats!!!!

I'm testing Bronze dances in March. Think it's the 9th!!!

I was planning to finally test prejuvenile moves on Nov. 28, sent the application in and everything, but my left knee gave out a couple weeks before and I've been off ice and had to scratch from the test session.

I say I've been trying to get to pre-juvenile level since I was 13, only back then it was the first figure test. I want to be "pre-juvenile" before I'm 50.

After that, any other tests I manage to pass will be gravy.

Hope to get back on the ice soon. Left inside threes were my nemesis before the injury and now will be the hardest thing to get back on a weak left knee.

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

I wouldn't expect anything less from you, given your recent graduation from Gold Moves! (Just saw your name in Skating magazine recently - that issue had been buried in the mail pile.)

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If you ever feel like a drive over Wisconsin/Chicago way, there are more regular test sessions. I also don't think it would be too difficult to scare up a male coach to partner for you.

I'm anticipating testing bronze MIF on 18 January. (-: Went over all patterns on last night's lesson as we're entering the home stretch for this test session. <sigh> It's taken a good deal longer than I had hoped.

I'm sorry, Ellyn. I hope you recover quickly and can get back on the ice soon.

I was planning to test Pre-Juv last Monday, the 30th, and then I broke my left leg on Nov 7. I have no idea when I'll be able to come back (at this point, I just want to walk) - could be anywhere from March to November, depending on healing, how PT goes, and how soon the swelling in my ankle goes down enough for me to fit in my skate.

When I do return, I think I'm just going to skip Pre-Juv (I broke my leg falling on a RBO 3-turn) and focus on Gold, which I was aiming to put out this coming June - who knows how long it will take me now.

I'm also going to work on dance (my coach is thrilled, she's been trying to get me to do that for 4 years) - I may end up testing the first 3-6 dances before Gold MIF, we'll see.

Good luck to all those testing!

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Terri C is a Bronze lady!
Gold Moves, here I come!

My coach and I are trying (as in, long-shot trying) to fast-track my PreBronze dances to test the 2d week in January. Like I said, long shot, especially as my Mohawk is basically nonexistent, but I at least mostly know the steps to the three dances (ChaCha fairly well, Swing and Fiesta more-or-less) but we'll see. Nothing ventured . . .

Hoping to test my Intermediate free and (possibly) Novice moves on the first session of the new year!

Great thread!

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Youtube Videos

I will be taking:
Blues
Paso
Junior Free dance

and...Sr Moves all before April!!

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

I plan to take my Gold freeskate test on January 28th. Its the only test I have left to take.

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Goal:
Pass Gold solo
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Very passionate canadian skating fan && skater <3*

In the spring I'll probably drive to either Illinois or Nebraska (it looks like local sessions might not be until summmer! The club I usually count on for a January session is holding a big competition, so they probably won't do it)- but traveling in the winter for a session just isn't a good idea. Who knows if I'll make it that weekend or not.

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

All of us pre juvie wannabes should join together for a support group or something I just started learning the PJM last week, but would really like to pass them before I graduate college, May 2010. Freestyle testing is probably on the back burner for a bit, maybe over summer 2010.

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~Always Dream!~

Check my progress at www.freewebs.com/sk8tegirl06

WOO HOO!!! You ROCK!!!

Funny I thought of you today... I was working on back cross strokes!!!

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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!!!

How's it coming along?

Glad you're thinking positively about moving forward with the skating goals.

Debbie: Hope you're healing well...

You will be back on ice!

BTW: re the RBO3 turns...on the Gold Moves, don't you have the double 3's to contend with then??? Can't avoid those RBO3's unfortunately.

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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!!!