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I am working on my loop (almost got it!!), flip, and lutz (Grr!).

What about you?

I'm working on a bunny hop on my left side and a waltz jump. (Well, a waltz barely can call it a jump)

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Funny thing, I never actually learned to do the bunny hop....My coach said it was dangerous lol. It does help you get used to jumping and the edges and so on, but...I don't know. I just don't like it.

btw good luck on your waltz jump!

more consistency on the salchow,

working very hard on the loop

toe loop..1/2 lutz...1/2 flip...falling leaf..1/2 loop and waltz always need some improvement

I am working on my flip thought i had it then it disappeared and am trying to find it. getting ready to start on the lutz after my next competition.

Waltz, loop, flip, lutz, and axel. I can do toe and sal, we've just been neglecting them. All my singles are sound; it's just improving quality (height, flow, etc....but they are fully rotated and on correct edges). Axel is the challenge of the day! I do a lot of waltz-backspins, and have progressively trying to get into the backspin position sooner after I leave the ice, so I will rotate more in the air and less on the ice. It's working sloooowly, bit by bit.

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I have all my jumps to lutz. My coach occasionally touches on the axel but I've done very little on it since changing coaches last year. Once I get the British out the way I guess I must push her to help me work on it once again.

Nicki

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Axel, Double Toe and Double Sal,

Flip and loop.

The former, I'm pleased to report, was getting consistent last week. The latter I'm falling on a lot, but on the plus side I'm getting more height and they're fully rotated.

S xxx

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Consistency on the double toe in program (can do it consistently when I am not in program)

Double loop - cleaning up that last 1/4 turn and being able to put it in the program as well

Double flip - why is this so hard if I can do the loop at least >50%?

I almost have my wlatz jump mastered, and I am also working on the half flip jump.

Waltz jump (always -- I don't want to take off forwards, grrr!!!)

1/2 loop, 1/2 lutz (I can jump these, not necessarity pretty, LOL!)

Toe Loop, Salchow -- very pretty walk throughs, no jumping yet (Also grrrr!!!)

I have the 1/2 flip down pat. Now working on more height and less of what I call "1/2 trip"

incidental footwork jumps: side-toe-hop, ballet jump, and bunny hop -- all OK

I gave up on the bunny hop (evil, pure evil )

Waltz jump...I don't care what anyone says, if you can do a beautiful high waltz jump then you will have beautiful high salchows, toes, and axels.

Salchow...working hard on holding my check and really getting some height

Loop...trying to get full rotation and not 2-footing it or landing on the wrong foot

Toe-loop...always room for improvement on this one as now I'm not picking back far enough AND I'm bending my picking leg while straightening back up again...ARGH!!!!

Flip...haven't done this in a while but recently tried it

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Waltz - kick thru higher

Toe jump - No toe waltzing

Salchow - kick thru again and just a higher jump

Loop and flip - land cleanly on the LBO edge.

Lutz - Rotation is there but it's wimpy and needs more height!!! Otherwise, getting it to land cleanly. (I have the rotation!)

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I'm working on the axel. I have strong singles and single combinations but that darn axel....I'm finally getting close with about 1/2-1/4 cheat on the ice...grr if I could just stay in a little longer in the air...I'm getting height now.

EDIT - we started double salchows today! THis is a sign my coach thinks I'll land the axel very soon! 2sals suck so far however....

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I'm not, as I prefer dance; Husband is polishing his loop jump, but hopes to get both a flip jump (well, his coach hopes he will - after a bad experience some years ago, he's not that keen), and also a loop as part of a combo. Right now he does a salchow-cherry combination, but he wants a salchow-loop.

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Right now my jumps are train wrecks because I have been working so hard on the waltz 8 - I have a mental block but anywho...

Waltz -just trying to get it higher and more open
Loop - have the rotation; just trying to land it on the correct foot
Flip - 2 footed queen

Axel, double toe, double sal.

I'm working on my waltz and salchow jumps, both are pretty much walk throughs.

Loop
Toeloop since I learned Flip first and I've convinced myself that it can't be as easy as it is.
And Lutz.. instead of a half lutz.

Axel (which I think I've been working on forever!!)

Double salchow- just to make it better quality and never cheated (it sometimes is cheated)

Double cherry and double loop sometimes - they have been neglected in favour of competition routines.

Double sal.
and
Double loop.

Working on getting the double sal more consistent, and working on getting over the mental block on the double toe. I've landed them plenty of times, but it still takes me forever to work through the mental block and trust myself when I take off.

Split jump. What split?

I find the inbetween jumps extremely annoying but need them to improve the level of difficulty in my program. Like half loops, I can do a loop but not a half loop!

I have everything up to lutz, I might learn the lutz eventually but am not freeskating much these days.

Lutz. I love it's feeling and landed a couple in the last few months but it refuses to come back and stay...

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