I'm tempted to sneak in an iPod during the test. I skate better to music beats actually. (I waltz pretty well on the 5 step mohawks...)

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(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

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LOL! I find that when a fast piece of music is being played, I tend to skate faster (of course, my form could look horrible, I have no idea). Last week, one of the teenagers put on that Outcast song ("Hey ya", I think it's called) and I was flying. But that may have also been due to the fact that there weren't that many people on the ice and it had just been resurfaced, who knows?

That's why the music that is played at that rink during tests is something New-Age-y.. the instrumentals done by Enya even have too much of a beat.

Don't even try it... the judges will notice the ear piece.. but that doesn't mean you can't hum to yourself... that's how I did the five-step mohawk sequence... there had been a tester skating the rhythm blues just before me and the "lovely" standard dance music was stuck in my head... so I just kept humming it to myself and one of the judges wrote on the test sheet "nice rhythm" under the 5-step mohawks. FINALLY a good use for that "lovely" dance music!!!