Shopping:
With a crowded freestyle and pre test nerves starting to hit, I skated a clean free program with only one thing left out and that one thing is not required.

Dropping:
One coach always teaches her skaters in the one corner by the Zam, which is the corner where I have circular footwork (8 step mohawk) going into a scratchspin. She never moves herself or her skaters! Ugh! Therefore while I did have to leave out the footwork, I did fight to get the scratch spin in at the end.

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Adult Nationals, 2009 "The Time of My Life"

Good job! BTW, don't cut out the footwork, cut out the rude coach!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

OMG I am freaking out (what else is new) because of last-minute costume add-ons/changes (yeah, what else is new!!!!)

Shopping: TOE-LOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Despite the FACT that i HATE this jump, it kicked ICE tonight!!!!! I actually got some air time with this...and hit it with more speed than I normally do! My coach did not have too much to add. Yay!!! I had been practicing gliding backwards after the 3-turn and bending my knee more....then putting my toepick into the ice. Must have done it right!

Dropping: still sooooo far behind! Worked on the salchow, and we changed my arms...and it's so much better! (Oh I forgot to tell coach I actually scooped a few yesterday). My waltz is good if I watch my arms. I keep dropping my right hip AND lifting my free leg on the scratch spin. And the backspin has gone south for the winter, although I squeaked on out.

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

Shopping: Passed my last Pre-Gold dance, the Blues, today. I'm now officially on my Gold dances!

Dropping: With finals all this week, I didn't get to test my Intermediate freestyle because one of my finals conflicted with it, so I had to scratch last minute. ::sigh:: So much for passing that this year...

Shopping: I'm getting all of my forward 3-turns!!! Even that pesky RFI. Overall, picking up more speed on the ice and my crossovers today had POWER! Now I know why bending the knees is so important!

Dropping: My right ankle felt weak. I do not have weak ankles. I was walking through the steps for a waltz jump (pretty much doing a three turn and then going onto a RBO edge - think waltz jump minus the jump part) and my right ankle was clearly saying "don't do it!!!! Don't jump!!!" So I didn't. I know my rec skates aren't meant for jumping anyways. I just can't wait until my new ones come in!

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CONGRATS!!

shopping:
2T+2T combo was kiiinda happening. the second jump of the combo was toe-axely some of the time, but at least i'm DOING the second jump. it def needs work tho

even tho i'm over-rotating my double sal, i'm able to make it LOOK nice

dropping:
first time skating since friday and still getting over some sort of bug, so skating wasn't great. plus, i hadn't skated since friday (i know thats not that long, but believe me, it felt like ages).

i felt very discombobulated on the ice. double loops were just weird. the first one i tried did not have anywhere NEAR the height i'm used to. by the time i'd normally be at the top of my jump, i was already back on the ice!

camel spins. what the heck?!?! my camel is generally my best spin. even my coach said (years ago) that i had the best camel in the rink ( ). well, today, i could not do one to SAVE my LIFE! i only tried a few, but it was sooooo weird. idk, i'm sure it was just today, but it was so annoying!

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I did Dutch Waltz solo today. Not to music, but just the full steps.

Doesn't sound like much, but it's the first dance pattern in total I've done since the knee surgery. And also the first time since the knee surgery that I've linked different elements other than alternating feet on the line or up and down the rink.

So I feel like I made another step forwards.

Coach is working with me to break my bad habit of dropping the left hip as soon as I push onto the right foot. This puts undue stress on the knee joint besides making holding a proper outside edge very difficult.

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Q: How many coaches does it take to fix Jen's Dance Intro-3 Problems
A: 5 and counting...

Shopping: Well, finally a synchro practice wherre I didn't feel like throwing in the towel. Apparently, I'm skating better than I thought I was, LOL! I'm still not hitting the 1/2 flip as a jump (sometimes not even on the toepicks, yikes!) or the tap and cross in the circle footwork, but I am turning them both at the right time and ending the moves in the correct position, just not getting into the air, LOL! I step right into the next part of the footwork fine, so mmy fakes are fooling the coach -- and she WAS watching, LOL! So I am confident that, provided I get into the straight line and circle, I won't be the one looking out of place... I'm hitting the scary fast mohawk about 50% of the time, but I think that if we get one more team member it won't be a problem because I won't be as worried about getting into the pinwheels (that's why I've been miffing the mohawk).

Dropping: I'm still not doing crossovers into the barn door passthrough or in the pinwheels. It's because I'm terrified of the passthrough and the person I connect to in the pinwheels stumbles on a regular basis and doesn't give much support. On video, you can actually see me leaning into her like mad and she's actually leaning AWAY from the center of the pinwheel. Argh!

I went skating first time after 2,5 weeks. It went okay. No backspins for now, but this season was shot anyway. I put together a programme for the club competition in march, that is, put together pieces I "stole" from programmes people posted on youtube. Apparently I can do a lot more types of steps than I thought I could.
However, spins weren't going well.
MISSING:

REWARD $30 IF FOUND

Sissy, that is a riot!

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Dropping: My last lesson for this semester

Shopping: Since I passed pre-pre fs last week and this was my last lesson with her for about 2 months, my coach decided to just go for broke....we started sit spins (no big deal) and then we moved onto camel spins.....omg I have never even attempted a camel before. I have attempted sit spins, they haven't been pretty but they exist.

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Hmm. . . Sessy's camel AND Ibreakhearts' camel *both* missing? I'll bet they're playing hookey together! Just knock before entering, because you never know what two camels might be doing when they think they're alone. . .
MISSING:

REWARD $30 IF FOUND

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I would gladly adopt any baby camels that result!

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DROPPED! The whole @$#% session! A blizzard rolled in early this morning and I didn't even get to the rink

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(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

LOL! I don't think my camel is quite old enough to be procreating!


Maybe sk8tegirl borrowed them


I don't get it, where it went. I thought they were easy... I guess I'll take a camera with me on monday afternoon, that session's usually empty for the first half hour. I'm kinda guessing it's the entry edge. All my spin problems come from that.

There's a whole herd of them somewhere - Husband's has obviously joined them..... wonders whether male camels have harems....

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Are you building a rink in your back garden again this winter?

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I had started to but got side-tracked into a different project. Being in a rural area with the WORST dial-up Internet imaginable I got REALLY PO'ed and decided to do something about it. I put up a 68 foot tower and brought in wireless Internet from a community 12 miles away. I have established an Access Point and begun distributing Wireless Internet service to my neighbours on a Co-Op basis. With the construction (the tower), and having to learn a lot of new stuff (like programming routers and radios) I didn't have time to get the rink together before the ground froze. So this year, no, I don't have my backyard rink. I am also fighting the urge to move it to the north side of my house and make it a full size NHL rink

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(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

Dropping:

Ugh, won't get to the rink tonight because of a big snow storm...plus, someone side swiped my car as I was driving home to get out of the snow and then they left the scene of the accident.... AND...I just had the car fixed from when someone else hit me...I'm not happy right now...That also means that I'm probably going to miss my lesson tomorrow with my coach...again....not happy....not happy at all....

Sorry to hear about everyone's weather problems. And everyone's camel problems. If I see any sitting around I'll send them your way. Don't have any extra myself unfortunately. Only have ones that are 2-3 revs.

Shopping - Tuesday spins. Centered, fast. Lovely.

Dropping - Thursday spins. Traveling like crazy. What gives?

Sessy: that is WAAAAAY too funny!!! LMAO!!!! (And if someone found mine, please return it back to me too!!!)

Shopping:

Primary coach changed my footwork today so I can get into the thing faster. So hopefully I will have a bit more time to get into that loop jump and actually land it clean!

Dropping:

Unfortunately, *I* don't think it's any faster. If anything, I like my old one better...

Furthermore, it's actually more difficult towards the end. All you guys who did the Rhythm Blues dance in the prelim Dances know exactly what I go thru when I have to learn to do this cross behind step chasse thingie on a FO edge. It's deceptively tricky to do but I did eventually started getting the hang of it. And if that's not enough, I then had to step right into this one foot turn thingie. (It looks like a twizzle... but he didn't call it a twizzle. )

Lower back not cooperating. I almost killed myself trying to do a clean landing on the loop today. And I had to leave the rink early anyway b/c I had a meeting (which I found out when I got to the office that it was CANCELLED, so I actually didn't have to rush back... )

This is the last lesson I'll have with primary coach this year. I won't have one 'til next year... 3 weeks!!! But I'll be in very good capable hands that belongs to my NYC coach! (Praying that my bracket exercise will still be there when I see him...)

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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!!!

Trust me I did not borrow anybody's camel spins (Not today anyway.) I was spinning on one foot but other than that there is no way these resembled camels at all. I am not used to spinning without being completely upright (scratch and sit) having to actually look at the ice while spinning is very strange. I'm just very excited to have even attempted a camel, considering last year at this point is was in gamma/delta isi levels.

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Well, just re,member, a big sheet of ice like that is just an open invitation for wild animals like bears, who think they might do a little ice fishing on your property. Here's a useful excerpt from my arctic wilderness survival guide. . .

"To catch an intruding bear, you will need a saw and a bag of frozen peas (preferably Birds-Eye, but any brand will do). Using the saw, cut a large hole in the ice, then spread the peas around the outside of the opening, making sure to cover the entire circumfrence of the circle. Now hide behind a tree. When the bear comes to take a pea, kick him in the ice hole."

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

Don't look at the ice on your camel.. that will pitch you up on your toe pick and stop your rotation. Ask me how I know... and how many lessons and $$$ it took for me to at least be conscious of it....

That's true. Coach E. has made me paranoide, she kept yelling "CHIN UP!" with her harsh nasal voice when our class was doing camels to the point that now when I do a camel, a little nagging nasal voice inside of me keeps screaming "CHIN UP!"
It's scary how she gets into my head.

BTW I think I know where they went!