I love love love how the company did the video! I love how they show a bit of the warmup, and list the starting orders etc.

Wish I could say I enjoyed my skating. Ugh, I look like a hippo on blades...so awkward and messy, bent knees, arms flailing. Ugh. I've worked so hard on my presentation too to avoid having this very reaction when I see the video. Makes me want to quit every year when I watch that year's video!

Which probably means my AN video will be coming in soon too! I ordered the final round for Bronze II... Yeah, scopin' out the competition for next year and all...

I'll bet it's not THAT bad, manleywoman...

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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!!!

You do not!!!!! LOL!

The only complaint I have about the videos is that the camera is so far down toward the end of the rink so you don't see it from the POV you choreographed it for (i.e., view from the Judges' or audiences' POV). But it's nice that they put the skating order in the beginning!

Rubbish! Mind you, we never do look as good as we think we do, but you certainly look a lot better than that!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Since I don't compete, the only videos I have seen of myself were taken by friends.

I have one video of me skating in a green sweatshirt and I looked like some kind of demented praying mantis...and I was sooooo slow. You think it was the first time I have ever been in figure skates!!

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Keeping School Figures Alive!!

I like to watch my videos to see what i can inprove on but when i do i say some of the things you said and i dont feel like i look that way when iam skating. But you tape probaly isnt that bad. by the way what is A/N?

Adults National

Edited to add: Where is my VIDEO, guys!?!

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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!!!

Umm, somewhere with mine? Was there a tornado or something that grabbed them?

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"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary." -- Vidal Sasson

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown

I have received neither video (in fact, DVD) nor the dress I ordered at AN. The latter was allegedly posted on Monday 2.... I suppose it's got lost in the post and will never come now.... sigh....

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

My DVD's have not arrived either

I just got my DVD on Wednesday, so hang tight everyone, they're probably on the way. You should call the company if you don't get them by next week.

Received my DVD in the mail yesterday, but there is one problem?
I forgot to tell the video folks that I wanted a VHS tape, so they sent me the DVD. I'm embarrassed to say that I'm behind the times and will need to buy a DVD player . Any good suggestions as to whether I should buy a DVD player by itself and work it with the VCR I do have or buy a combo DVD/VCR? What's good out there that will not cost $$$, but will not break so quickly?

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Well, I'm going to (at some point in the near future) buy a combo player - just b/c I have so many VHS tapes of various things (mostly skating) and I want to be able to watch them - and my VCR is kind of old anyway and could use replacing. I remember seeing some at CompUSA, of all places, when I was buying computer stuff, and I think they were all bet $100 and $200. They were the standard brands - Sony, JVC, Panasonic. You probably could get a better deal at Best Buy, though. As for quality, I have no idea - maybe there's a Consumer Reports evaluation on them recently?

How'd you go about ordering the video? What are they charging?

You can buy a DVD player very cheaply these days, and they take up very little room. DVD recorders are more expensive, mind. We have both DVD and video, as do my parents and many other people - no need to upgrade your video player unless you want to!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Got mine today!

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown

I called, I'm supposed to get mine this Wednesday.

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Champagne in 2005, 2008, 2009 - who's next out of the pre-bronze club...?

Wang chung!

Terri, do you have a friend who has a DVD/VCR combo that can make a copy for you in the meantime so you don't have to get a machine right away. (Of course, being the techie I am, I recommend getting one. They're really cheap these days...)

http://www.circuitcity.com/rpsm/catO...ategorylist.do

I didn't get my DVD today! *GRUMBLE*

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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!!!

I got mine on Friday! Unfortunately, the Masters Interp IIA doesn't work which is the one I really wanted to see. My Gold II works just fine so I got to re-live that disaster all over again. The part where I forget my program is the best...I just start wiping my nose....just lovely

Mine came Saturday. Yippee . I got to see myself "sleep-skate". I looked like I'd rather be anywhere but there, and looked like I was in a daze or drunk or both. Oh well, there's always next year. But, I agree - they did a nice job of packaging it, and it was nice to see a bit of the warmup.

Doesn't work??

I can view the first 2 skaters in the group then it stops, just freezes the frame, then it will go a couple more seconds and stop again...and again...and again. I took it out and restarted it several times with the same result. I'm sure they will send me another copy as soon as I call them.

AHA!!! My DVD is at the post office and I'll have to pick it up (or stay around home 'til the postman tries to deliver them again today...)

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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!!!

I got mine on Tuesday. Had to intercept the postman at his truck to do it though.

I've already started "checking out the competition..." (i.e. watching Bronze II (soon to be III) Ladies final round) and feeling more like (to those skaters) and ("Yeah, right! Like I could do THAT!!! NOT!!!")

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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!!!

I Lost my receipt and haven't gotten my video yet. Can anyone help me to get contact info. I would appreciate it. Thanks