That's brilliant - i say the exact the same to my coach. I also say "What do you mean what is my arm doing up there on a loop jump? Surely it's a difficult arm variation that should get me +GOE?".

Ant

They must be in league together, because I'm sure I've seen some of the "better" skaters struggling to do their loop jumps with their arms in the air. I've argued that it's better for me to learn it that way to start with but she's having none of it.

Is there a way to artificially remove the arms solely for skating to avoid these issues?

Coach and I laugh because on my singles my left arm tends to go up in the air as if I am flipping her off...we can get on quite a roll with those!

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If only we could! My coach would be so happy. We pull our hair out that my arms fly up when i jump and free knee stays put. She's asked if there's any way i can talk to my knee and arms and ask them to teach each other to drive up and stay still respectively. I told her i didn't think we stood much of a chance but we'll try!

Ant

She obviously doesn't know that knees and arms speak completely different languages and if they do communicate the shoulders will wander up to talk to the ears...

You're so right!

Ant

I was wondering, in my lesson on Wednesday, whether skaters were able to give birth more easily than other women, since we have to be able to clench our bums and tummies while relaxing our shoulders, and I remember being taught in childbirth classes that you had to be able to relax the rest of you while your uterus got on with it, something I was unable to do, so I had an epidural instead. But I don't think that's an option for skaters.

One of the judges in this country has a prosthetic arm - in his active skating days (he is still skating a little, but not seriously), he gave rise to the best excuse of all time for being unable to do much one lesson: I've got the wrong arm on!

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