I'm multitasking: waiting for a job to finish for work while I have last night's "Chuck" playing on the other computer.
The laundry and dishwasher are hard at work...Oh, and I'm on skatingforums! Thought the title was appropriate, ROFLOL!

Working Hard:
MITF were okay last night; didn't try anything too high-level, but nothing tanked.

Spins were good - taught moving back scratch spins and my student caught on right away.

Hardly Working:
Jumps were wonky on loose skates with loose blades. Talk about a moving target on the landings!

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Working hard - back to getting up at omg-thirty to get to 6:30am session now that Rockefeller Center is closed for the summer (sob). Had a good practice session for jumps and spins, footwork so-so as I get used to the high-speed crowd at this rink again. Met summer coach and talked plans and goals. I'm psyched for summer tests

hardly working - RBI 3 turn has gone pffft. It scrapes, it jumps, it skids out, it does everything but turn crisply. LBI 3 is not pretty, but not this kind of trouble.

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It's all about the dress!

working hard, but not on the ice......Catching up on my online class homework (got behind during spring break, imagine that, but with hubby home AND tv on constantly....grrrr!!!!).

Tried to register for the last class I need and it is full already!!!! GRRRRRR!!!!!!! Registration opened at 0800, by 0815 ALL SECTIONS (4 with 18 seats) were full. It's campus specific so, that's that. Have to catch it in the Spring or next Fall (during which time I will ....hopefullyy..... be in clinicals).

which means I have no classes left to take while I wait and paying jobs around here are nada, zip, gone. Can't skate if you have no money!

I'm like number 33 on the waitlist.............

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

Did you try to petition your way in with the Professor or Dept Chair? They can usually grant waivers for special circumstances. (Although online courses could be different.)

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I would like to think that this would help, but it is the department chair that is teaching this course and it fills up quickly. In the old days (before they changed the way you registered) you had to get approval to take certain classes and seats were held for advanced students (for cases like mine, for instances, who needed this microbiology).....but nowadays ANYONE can take any class provided there is no campus block/restriction or prerequisite block. This class has a lab, so there are a very limited number of seats (because of the lab equipment needed).

Because today, most registration is done online....and you have to keep refilling out your page and clicking on submit faster than the next person. And even tho I am fast, I was not fast enough.

All this for a 4-credit course!!!! And, it's only taught by one person anymore.

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

Which is so much better than when we had to do phone registration (my school switched to online my junior year)- classes filled up as fast, so you'd gather all the phones you could find and hit redial until one of them connected!

Keep watching it in add/drop periods (if your school has them). I know I was notororius for changing my schedule 15-20 times.

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on a skating note....
Hardly, sort of working: because I have been busy with other things, I have done some off-ice stuff for my sit (yeah, non-existant) spin....

This morning, even tho I was very stiff, I managed to achieve a sit spin position. Getting up proved impossible, as my free leg managed to get a cramp in the quad; it was a horrific cramp and I just rolled over. Now I can get into a beautiful position, as long as I go down until my behind is almost down to the floor (simulated ice). Once there, my back is not sore and I feel pretty good.

so, I'm thinking I'll just spin down and work on achieving a split position and end my routines with that! Unless there is a part of the rulebook that says you actually have to go back UP out of a sit spin, I should be good!

maybe I found the loophole we've all been missing?

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

Yeah, I'm hoping there will be an opening, even if I have to pick it up during the 1st few weeks of classes....which would be sort of bad but not irrecoverable.

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

That would be pretty funny if it's allowed. If you get away with it, I might have to try that too!

I wonder if the exit is considered part of the spin though
But congrats on hitting that position.

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Ah, the joys of technology. I remember having to stand on multiple lines in the gymnasium at 7am while they pulled index cards and checked green-and-white dot matrix lists to determine if you could/couldn't register for a class. Then they'd give you a form or card (I forget what they were called) that you have to get the chair/prof to sign. It was like being a process server, lol.

However, there were ways to beat the system, like getting a few credit ahead of your classmates by taking summer courses or getting transfer credits applied to your transcript. The more credits you had, the earlier you were allowed to register for a course.

Sometimes, if enough people hit the wait list, our school starts a new section. I hope that you get into the class.


PS - I do think some one-foot exit must be required, lol. Although, I have seen skaters use a knee slide to get out of a sit spin...


Wish me luck - I'm attacking my blades with a screwdriver again.

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Thanks! Like i said, getting down is easier, it's the getting up thats problematic!!!
knee slide, hmmmm.....have to see how I would work that in.

Be careful with your surgery and good luck!!! I'm thinking of moving my right blade over a scootch....but since it's my backspin blade, I'm cautious.

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

Working Hard: My test to see if I pass Delta (ISI) is this evening, wish me luck! Lunges are easy enough for me now and all it cost me was the use of my right leg the next day. I've been working very hard on mowhawks and inside three turns. Very excited about (hopefully) passing Delta and moving to Freestyle and getting a new coach with that move.


Hardly Working: I don't like practicing cross-rolls! (I think that's what they are called)

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Hardly working: We are competing in less than a week and I have no idea what we are going to wear! We could wear basic tango kit (this is for our free dance), but, while my tango dress fits, it's far from flattering, and I'd rather wear something silly.

Working hard: Coach was complimentary about our routine, although this just might be because it was our last run-through with him before the comp (we have another lesson on it with Coach2 on Sunday).

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

See if you can get an online course from one of those reputable colleges/universities and have it transferred to your school.

My daughter had the same problem when she was in university. It cost here an extra half year to graduate for a 4 year BA Honours Deploma in Dramatic Arts. It would have taken longer if she hadn't have made a deal with a few of her profs that had their courses at the same time. She managed to get them both with a B+ or higher. Can't remember the marks. In her core classes she had to have 70% for a C and needed a B to pass. Talk about hard.

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I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008.

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Hardly Working - after some few weeks of depression, it hardly got me to do pass a loop jump, then more weeks of just laziness


Working hard - at the last minute, after not skating at all for 5 days and now stepping on the ice the day before and at nationals practice ice

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Working Hard:

Had 2 fully rotated axels today and my double sals are way close!!

Hardly Working:

Spins were not working all that well today...and while not skating related, I was a hot mess before I got to the rink...couldn't find my car keys, lost my ID card, ugh! Found my spare set of car keys, and still don't know where my other set went to So, I was rushed to get my time in at the rink...

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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

Tim: I saw you at practice ice, but I didn't get a chance to say hello since I was invited to go to dinner. Besides that, I'm exhausted and I probably wouldn't be much good company anyway... (BTW: I know what you'll be skating to tomorrow!!! )

flo: Thank you for covering for one of my practice ice! It was much appreciated!!!

Well, I'm at Grand Rapids and rooming with Terri C. I'm really jet lagged right now and am getting ready to go to bed!!! Tomorrow is my technical event and I'm the last person in my group to compete (Terri is two people before me.)

Working hard: Me during my practice ice. Did an hour! And my feet LOVES the NHL rink!!! It's cold but it's not ROCK HARD!!! The worst thing is pretty much that the ice chips, but meh, I've skated a LOT worse and this old body loves this patch!!!


Hardly working: Technical program is still unstable!!! Not always landing my loop, flips and lutz jumps, but I did land some of them!!!

Working hard: We (Primary coach and I) did make a strategic change! We'll see if it translate tomorrow!!!

Wish me luck! Wish Terri luck too!!! Who knows? Maybe hell will freeze over tomorrow and I'll actually make it to finals!!!

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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!!!

GOooooOOOooo AN Skaters! Have a great skate!
This title is so appropriate since I wasted 45 out of 90 minutes procrastinating and doing nonsense, lol.

Hardly Working:
Right skate blade is just wrong! I can feel it on RFO 3's and crossovers. Grrrr. I will make these skates work!

Still fighting with flip and loop landings. I'm all the way around, but I just can't keep that free foot off the ice long enough to catch the landing.


Working Hard:
Left skate is okay, but needs to be sharpened.

I have half of the threes-on-the line (Inside & Outside) pretty solid, but it's the right turns that are making me sweat and touch down.

The new Prel MITF crossover pattern is not half-bad. It's harder to remember to only do one round of fwd crossovers, lol.

Spirals were really good, although the RFI ones were s-l-o-o-o-w.

"Went for it" on a half lutz and managed a 3/4 turn in the air. Have no idea what edge the takeoff was, but it felt like a BO.

Spins were pretty good; camel entrance was skidding. Layback was nicely centered, which probably means it wasn't "laid back."

Started working on a new fancy backspin. Have no idea what it looks like, but I liked the willowy arms and the tucked skating foot.

I tested music for my students on my iPod; have to redo two of them - one sounds strange (distorted) and the other is the wrong length. Duh!

Did preliminary choreography for my Basic 7 skater's program. I usually overestimate the skater's speed, so I played it safe this time and did everything three times slower than I ordinarily would. If she's faster, I can add some elements into the program. I think she *might* cover the ice in one minute, end to end.

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Good luck Jazz and Terri!

Hey, maybe we should have a separate AN news/results thread?

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

Good luck, all you AN skaters. Is there a news/results/gossip thread yet? If not, I'll start one in a minute.

Meanwhile, we were working hard this morning on the Swing Dance and Willow Waltz with Coach2 who wants us to improve the presentation.

I just wish I could get up out of the assisted teapot in our free dance, as we then go straight into the spin and, right now, it's the only bit that is hardly working!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

As I was just leaving my office, I found my keys....I put them on my bookshelf, where I NEVER put the darn things....oh well, at least I found them!

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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

A very appropriate thread title for this week:

Hardly Working: First skate back after the Easter school holidays (when there was no point even trying), but public session was still packed with kids, so didn't get much done. Had a lesson, but was too worried about who was about to barge into us to actually concentrate on what I was doing, so it was pretty rubbish. In fact, I now can't remember anything we did!

Working Hard: Not me, but my husband and his competition partner (he also has 'scary partner', but that's another story...). Their 'dress rehearsal' for the competition next week looked good. Can't wait to cheer them on.

http://www.skatingforums.com/showthread.php?t=28462

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Yes, I know about that thread. I started it right after I posted that question.

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

Working Hard Actually got a compliment on my sit spin from my group coach. I was thrilled!

Did forward 3's on a line and the inside ones went pretty well.

Hardly working
The outside ones did not. Man am I glad these aren't on the adult tests. How does that transition work?

MITF Spirals are horrible. (The straightline ones and the ones on the edges, but we just did edges). On the forward outside, my right one isn't too bad, but my left one really is. My inside ones I look like a hippopotamus impersonating an airplane. It's HORRIBLE. And I'm terrified of even doing it on my left leg and think I'm going to fall over and can't make it through the whole lobe even as a hippo. YUCK!

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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)