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08-21-2007, 09:28 AM
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#77
08-21-2007, 11:07 AM
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Uncut Ice: Well, basically the rink I usually skate at. They have eliminated all of the early morning freestyle sessions and are sellling them to hockey. This doesn't affect me directly because I go to a later session (a "freestyle" that flows into a public morning sessions) BUT it will affect my coach who is one of the only coaches who teaches on these sessions (which is why the attendance is so low - there are only so many lessons she can teach in one morning!), and it will affect the Dance teams and competitive skaters getting ready for Regional and Adult Sectionals/Nationals who take lessons from her and/or train there.
So now the rink is becoming the true hockey rink it wants to be. The telltale signs have been coming for a while - the bathrooms are a mess (who needs to clean when it's just grubby hockey-people and their grubby parents? [no offense to hockey parents/people on this list, I am being sarcastic because, well, why wouldn't they want clean bathrooms?]), the ice has gotten crappier and the general atmosphere is just guys and sticks and smelly locker rooms. Not that it was ever nice - it is just an old hockey rink after all... With a past that including figure skating, and lots of it. Oh and now the rumor is that they are also eliminating the Thursday night club session which has been in existence since the rink opened in the '60's and is the major source for the LTS skaters. If this happens there really won't be any LTS because the other group lessons at the rink don't really feed into the figure skating program/coaches - they are mostly for recreational skaters. Arrggh. It is sad, really, but not unexpected. Cut ice: Had a good lesson with my dance coach (at another rink) where we spent most of our time talking or just skating the dances together. It's been a long time since we had a lesson - I like it when we haven't skated together for some time because we usually end up working on partnering stuff and I don't have to do any solo stuff, which I am not liking these days...
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08-21-2007, 11:56 AM
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YAAAAY, je!!! Congrats on your backspin and landing flow on a loop. (I'm still working on both of actually...
 ) And speaking of which...icedancer2: I'm fearful of one of our Bay Area rinks turning into a hockey rink as well -- it got bought recently by the Sharks and at least ONE very high caliber coach has since left that rink to teach somewhere else b/c of the ownership issue and how it might impact the figure skating program there. Cut Ice:
Loop and flip disappeared at the end. Which is just as well... I was starting to feel "heavy" again. I almost killed myself on practicing my straightline footwork for my FS program trying to get the edge to curve even more so it would look "bigger." (Ice was crap towards the end.)
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#79
08-21-2007, 01:25 PM
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Cut Ice: Backspin is getting really good. I can hold my leg out for like 8 rotations before I have to pull it in and that used to be my record for the total backspin. My spirals are fantastic and nearly a split position. I'm so proud.
 Uncut Ice: I'm so used to doing camel-sit that my lone camel spin has suffered. I can get barely 5 rotations out when I do it alone. I can't seem to hold the edge and I wobble to the inside edge. Here's a video from yesterday: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SvRhGX2RLY Can anyone help with my camel issue?
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08-21-2007, 03:18 PM
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Uncut ice: What we skated on tonight. Haven't skated on ice that slow for ages, but needs must as there's hockey school so no morning ice all week.
Cut ice: Did a fairly good Riverside Rhumba. Skated better than I expected to, as wasn't feeling very well.
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08-21-2007, 06:38 PM
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Haven't posted since I competed last weekend, so I'm catchin' up.
Cut Ice: Had a great time at the competition and got the best of both worlds, the kids and parents from my rink and the adult skaters that I rarely get to see. I was able to catch up on two years worth of gossip. Oh and the results: First in Bronze CM and third in Pre Bronze free. Had first lesson with Primary Coach since the Stone Age (well a little over a month!) Uncut Ice: At first I didn't understand why I got third, except that my spins were crap if there at all. But my coach talked to a judge and I need more speed and height on jumps and uh yeah, have to get that sitspin lower. So we started on that today. Coach drilled me on kicking the free leg up on the waltz jumps and the salchow, as well as holding the second half of the three before taking off for the sal. Also really, really started working on camel- this is my "fraidy cat" spin. But the best part was Coach getting me to do the power circles. Yes those power circles that are on the Gold moves test. At first I was nervous, but after a bit I was like "Whee- get out of my way or I'll run you over!"
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08-21-2007, 07:53 PM
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 I remember when I placed lower than I expected in a competition back when I was in Bronze and I finally found out it was because I was just skating really slowly that day. It was a big surprise because I hadn't even realized how slow I was. Your coach is brilliant to start you on those power circles. They work wonders!
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08-22-2007, 07:05 AM
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 ) CONGRATULATIONS! Any tips you'd like to share?
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08-22-2007, 07:07 AM
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08-22-2007, 08:40 AM
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Not entirely related to my skating but this makes me smile anyway:
My mom's complaining the spins make her dizzy and the salchow scares her! (She's taking skating class too nowadays, she used to ice dance back in the times your skates reached to almost your knees, LOL!). This makes me go all "AWWW" *melt* 
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#86
08-22-2007, 03:01 PM
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Cut Ice:
Secondary coach did work on my getting my "show stop" Tried to get me to lean into the edge but it was quite scary doing it. Tried to learn a hockey stop to get me to lean more into the edge, which was also impossible... but it DID finally get me closer to getting the "show stop." (Gotta keep practicing it though... I want it in my program!!!)Did land a couple of loops on the warm-up. I'm happy to be getting back my "timing" again. Uncut Ice: Showed off the beginning of my artistic program to satisfy secondary coach's curiosity.
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#87
08-22-2007, 04:56 PM
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Uncut Ice
I skated during public ice at noon today because club ice doesn't start till next week. I hate skating in the afternoon - my feet are swollen and my skates are too tight. Give me 6 am ice. And these moronic hockey guys that think making a lot of noise with their blades actually impresses anyone. I had a lesson and we just went through my program without music since I am competing in September. First thing she said was that even though my head is up, I'm sticking my butt out and leaning forward so she has me do the first half all over ahead sticking my pelvis forward and then says she wishes she had a video of before and after because I looked like a different person. I have a section where I do two - basically the perimeter back crossovers from Bronze with arm movements and I'm having trouble on the left one so she had me concentrate on bending the knee and keeping my hips square. This move is tricky with two coaches because she is a strong believer in keeping your hips square and using your knees ... and dance coach and former coach more emphasize a twisting motion. DD had the same trouble when she went back to old coach to work on novice moves. Worked on the waltz toe loop, mostly using my arms more effectively. Finallly accomplished something she was satisfied with. Half flip - I do a half lutz, 3 turn, mazurka, then half flip and I am supposed to be working on a short two foot glide after the mazurka, then pushing on one foot and holding the glide, stretching and then doing the 3 turn for the half flip. I tend to muscle the whole thing. The 3 turn was still very twisty but at least I'm holding the glide better. Cut Ice: My edge entry into the scratch spin is good enough that now we are working on using my arm more to snap into the spin and even try to get my leg in front. Tuck behind for cha cha - just from working on keeping my feet together on the ice for awhile I have much more courage to pick up the foot and set it down again. Enormous progress. And I got a call about one of my daughter's freestyle dresses I've been trying to sell. I brought five of them for her to look at and SHE BOUGHT ALL FIVE OF THEM and paid cash. That was very nice. j
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08-22-2007, 05:30 PM
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08-22-2007, 06:38 PM
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Uncut Ice
The weather outside the rink today was horrible- very distracting to watch it get darker and greener outside the HUGE rink windows. Cut Ice Great lesson today. Got the PB Freeskate settled. Worked on one foot spins and two foot spins. Decided on waltz jump, and then either toe loop or salchow- to be determined the practice before, so I'll work on both. Then we did a bunch of half lutzes in both directions, and some split jumps (hahaha). Then waltz 3s (CCW made me so dizzy) and coach showed me two figures- wow figures are hard!
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08-22-2007, 06:51 PM
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Cut Ice:
Getting lower on the sitspin and more comfortable with camel. I've noticed that I actually like power circles- now if the rink were empty so I could really do them. Made more progress on improving salchow. Uncut Ice: My loop- ugh! I'll have coach look at tomorrow.
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#91
08-23-2007, 07:37 PM
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Cut Ice:
- Landed several clean double salchows (3 in a row, actually!) in my program - and they were in my harder of the two parts in the program to land! - Decent layback spins - Several good, strong run-throughs of the Paso - Good combination spin with at least 4 revolutions/foot - Flowing, powerful Starlight where I fixed step #9's edge Uncut Ice: - Lots of little kids on the ice - Had a flying camel that - um...accidently didn't fly and I overly stretched my hip muscle. Fine now though (thank God!)
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#92
08-23-2007, 10:00 PM
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Had good suspects for double toe, double loop, axel-doubletoe-loop Landed one double salchow out of back 3 -turn mohawk back 3 -turn!!!... now the footwork into double salchow doesn't seem quite so impossible anymore I think/hope I am FINAlly getting the idea on how to do crossovers... there is the break forward pose vs the bend but SIT pose. The sit one being hopefully the more correct one. I just really want my coach around to confirm it. Had two attempts at layback-sidelay-catchfoot-beilmann with the last two in either one rotation or less each hahahah but its a start. I seem to have alot of problems maintaing my center from side lay to catch foot. that transition is usually where i lose it. and then i seem to always toe pick into the beilmann which leaves for no speed... Uncut: I need the tape for my knee... I seem to be straining everything else excessively to baby my knees. so now my whole leg aches... and I can't even half tell if its a ache from a pain from a whatever pain it is now... its so complicated... I'm so used to dealing with pain and my physio asks me so how does it feel? I find myself trying to cross analyze how I feel way in advance before I see her.
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08-23-2007, 10:14 PM
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08-23-2007, 11:53 PM
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Uncut Ice:
I was late getting to the rink and only had half an hour on the ice, because I'm still getting better from my illness and my meds kept me sleeping way too long. Second session was taken up by a Test Session in which I wasn't testing. Must remember to start yelling out while doing my program with my music playing, "excuse me, coming through" so the kids and coaches move out of my way, so I don't have to detour and leave things out (I left out my footwork today.) Didn't do my flip today because I was too pleased with my loop. Cut Ice: Made good use of the little time I had to practice. Because my skates are fitting better and I'm feeling better, things were really starting to click. I've finally got my corkscrew proper with my free leg crossed tightly at the ankles while spinning (got 12 revs easy out of it including infront of my coach). Strong jumps: waltz, toe loop, toe/toe combo, salchow. Finally landed again after not doing so for more than two years on one foot: Loop (just have to remember to not lean forward and to bend my landing knee more so that I can run the landing out and not do a backspin instead) Spirals were having a good time. But the RFO spiral, of the RFO/RFI CE spiral, didn't want to end and it made my RFI Spiral too short.
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08-24-2007, 12:11 AM
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08-24-2007, 12:13 AM
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- I haven't skated since last friday! - I haven't accomplished all of my summer goals, nor did I follow my practice plan at all! - I've been getting dizzy really easily, and considering that I hardly spin, it's bad! I even have been getting dizzy while driving at night. Someone thought maybe i'm fighting a head cold. I hope they're right, cause I've been feeling more congested than usual too... - 20 year old me is definitely not as flexible as 12 year old me was lol Cut: - Test day at group lessons - I was happy with the results. I was a bit nervous at first, but I managed to deal with that somehow (My nerves + physical activity always = disaster, except in skating, it seems) The only skills that were weak for me were the edge rolls in delta (which I can do perfectly 50% of the time, it seems) and the right mohawk in gamma (where my three wobbly mohawks were the only times i have even attempted it since my return to skating) Considering that i favor the right side and had been practicing the left mohawk, i'm not too worried about that. So after an 8 year hiatus from skating, I'm just about ready to work on FS1. I'm relatively happy about that, considering that it only took 2 months of group lesson (and minimal practice it seems) to get me there. Last edited by littlerain; 08-24-2007 at 12:16 AM. Reason: my inability to finish sentences lol
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08-24-2007, 05:31 AM
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Uncut: Evening ice! But it wasn't nearly as bad as on Tuesday.
Husband, soloing an American waltz, looked more as if he were playing football (meow!). And his foxtrot is not good. Have forgotten how to skate the Rhythm Blues. Have discovered that, even when you know what you're doing, Cut: It was good to see people from dance club who I've not seen for awhile. Realised that Husband's issues with his spin and, arguably with our lift, are probably due to the orthotics in his skates that have thrown his balance slightly off. Did some good work on our free dance in the patch and then had fun dancing together in the club.
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08-24-2007, 07:41 AM
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Last night was the last club session of the summer with a two-week break until the start of the fall/winter schedule. Ordinarily, I would be sad about the break and hunting for ice time at other rinks to fill the gap. This year, though, I'm actually glad for the break. My Achilles tendonitis is not improving, even with extensive PT and mega-doses of Advil. While skating (dance only, no jumping or spinning) hasn't seemed to make the pain worse, I will be interested to see if not skating at all helps.
As fo last night, well, it started with the fact that, after working the canasta extensively on Tuesday, I forgot the Dutch waltz steps and kept doing a chasse on the first progressive.  It took me a good half-hour to get the canasta (aka "The Nasty Tango") out of my head and get the Dutch (aka the "Ditch" as in "throw this dance into a ditch and bury it!") correct again. And then I could not get the canasta back. So I spent the rest of the session alternating between practicing progressive on the hockey circles, watching two of the advanced kids working on their doubles, and playing CDs for the skaters who wanted to do programs. Which was just fine by me. So here's hoping that when I get back from the break I won't be in pain anymore. I'm really tired of it.
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#99
08-24-2007, 12:09 PM
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Cut ice
I passed my preliminary moves test!! yay!
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them with your peformance then blind them with sequins www.youtube.com/iskatee4life <-- videos of my skating
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#100
08-24-2007, 12:18 PM
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(Why is congrats! too short of a message to post?)
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