I have two coaches - Winter and Summer. My regular coach takes a long vacation June through Sept, till Rockefeller Center opens. She gave me a referral so I could keep working over the summer. They are both great, but different, which is cool. I love having a change in perspective for a while.

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It's all about the dress!

I think I've had three, but I'm about to have four.

I still work with the first coach I ever had, and I kind of picked her at random, so I'm glad that it ended up working out so well. I later, at her suggestion, added a dance coach, who I suppose I still have, but he's never around. He's an elite coach and a technical specialist and he's fabulous but he's just, sadly, never around. So I recently took on coach X, lovely man, so that I'd have a partner during a test, and I liked him so much that I'm still working with him. However, he now tells me he's (damn it) moving back to Europe in March, so I suppose I'm shopping. There is this coach at one of my rinks who I had for a class, and I really like his style. If he has space available, I'm thinking I'd like to work with him, but I need to talk to coach #1 first.

I'm on my second coach and expect to stay with her unless one of us moves. I loved my first coach, but we grew apart as I progressed, and a traumatic incident with her forced me fire her and move on. It took me a year and half to find my current coach.

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I put down "multiple" as that's my current situation: I've got a coach and a back-up/bonus coach. Let's call them B and C. My son and I started with coach A and skated with her from low LTS private lessons until she retired. After a gap, I started taking dance lessons with B, who recommended C when I needed extra time. Luckily for me, they work well together, and it's been a happy arrangement for the past 13 months, since C got added to the team. Next week, for instance, main coach B will be at Nationals, so the usual lesson has been scheduled with C. Given that we haven't been able to fit in an extra lesson this month and I haven't had a lesson with her since 28 December, I'm looking forward to it. I've also had a few lessons with two other coaches, primarily as a result of schedule issues, but neither was expected to be a long-term arrangement.

Now, my son is a little more complicated, as he had A, like me, then picked up his primary coach after that gap. Since then he's added dance under my coach B, and has had had some dance lessons with my coach C as a result of B's schedule. That gives him 3 (or perhaps 2.5) at the moment, and 4 total...

Rob

I'm LOL at this paragraph - it reminds me of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" using the little cats to clean up The Spot.

My twins are on their third private coach. The first one decided that Sundays were too much and we couldn't find an agreeable time. The second one was good until we moved too far away. They really like their new coach, as do I, and they've been making consistent progress already.

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11 coaches

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Overachiever!

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Its called Nicole Bobek syndrom. I always thought that "the magic and the drive" will come with the right coach. Since I have NO motivation to do anything at all during off season. I only get the drive to work when there is only 3 weeks-2 weeks- the week of competition

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Because I have taken ice dance in addition to FS, I have worked with many different ice dance coaches (mostly men) here in the Detroit area & the turnover rate can be fairly high. Some of the changes were due to me moving to the other end of the city. Sometimes I had to stop working with a coach because they were unreliable. One time, a coach had a baby & retired from coaching. Other times, I had to swap coaches because I felt the coach-student relationship wasn't as strong as I wanted it to be.

I guess we have all had to change coaches at one time or another to find the best fit for our situations.

Well, i probably broke the record, because i have lost count. A lot of it was not me, it was the fact that our rink was near a major university and a lot of coaches were going for their master's degrees, etc. Then for a while i couldn't even get a lesson for lack of coaches and had to travel to another state!

I currently have one main one, but have others i pull from as time permits. I've had one work alongside the other for choreography, and i still travel occasionally to another a few hours away because he is so technically strong, plus he has a pole harness.

I'll really have to think about this, but it's probably close to 10!if not more!

Almost Overachiever!

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