I went to a party yesterday! yay

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Just a suggestion - last week's thread goes to the 21st - so let's wait till the 22 for this one - other wise we have two threads for the same day.

j

I have a problem with the name of this thread, because I'm not much of a partyer and I think that staying is a good thing...

Anyway...dance lesson today. We worked on Rhythm Blues which I am competing (against the book) in two weeks and we had to fix the timing AGAIN on the second progressive. I can't seem to get it. But I've been keeping my feet neat.

Then mohawks and they were not terrible. We worked on the intro to the Swing and I had it pretty good. She told me to practice it to music once before I left. Well, I tried doing it without the music. I can do the mohawk in the intro but in the middle of the dance, forget about it.

j

partying even before I've skated... today, I'm skating for nearly 4 hours!!! (to be precise, 3h 45m) yay it's going to be great!

for the purposes of this post, partying is good and staying in is bad... or you can think of it as your elements/skating being out and about, or staying in and hiding so you can't do them...

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Haha, I might think of my elements as partying wildly somewhere far away from where I am, vs. the better-behaved elements that stay in close by me .

jskater49, what do you do for the intro to the Swing? I've been taught a three step intro: LFI, RFO 3-turn, LBO swing roll, then the dance starts with the RB chasse. (The man, lucky devil, gets a real easy intro: RFO, LFI, RFO swing roll.) The first two steps of the intro are 2 counts each, and the swing roll is 4 counts.

Well I am staying in...might have a lot to do with the fact I am still walking with 2 canes. Even though everyone in the state of Colorado should be warned that I will be driving early Thursday morning just a few days before I am supposed to, but I have to run a test session. Will hopefully be on the ice in January and off canes in 3 weeks, walking 2 miles a day and tormenting my pets.

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When I first learned it, I did it with the 3 turn, but since I struggle with the mohawk and since I have to do a mohawk for the end pattern, now my intro is left edge, right inside mohawk, left back edge, swing roll, ect...this way I can warm up the mohawk in the intro...

j

Young person POV

This is more my way of looking at it. My mohawk has gone off partyng and left me to swing without it!

I haven't skated this week- so I have nothing to add yet, but last week's thread confused me too- I kept thinking "bright eyed" was good, and "bushy tailed" was bad...

(I'm more of a staying in kind of person too... but I can see how partying COULD be a good thing.)

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oopsie double.

Staying in
all of this week, got absolutely no time to skate, nor party neither. At least my master's thesis subject was preliminary approved, but that still leaves 3 deadlines this week and 2 next week (with the assignments only clear since the end of last week), so I'm sitting behind my laptop nonstop for the next 10 days or so. I really hate how the workload fluctuates.


Partying, sorta:
Though my backspin on the spin trainer was dramatically better this morning, can't wait to try it on ice. Might hit the gym tomorrow night with a friend too.

The other kind of partying:
The sorta party one of my roomies, M., threw last night which didn't let anybody get much sleep. A lot of the other roomies agreed that we're giving him one REALLY last warning (he's had like a dozen last warnings from us already), and we're filing an official complaint after this with the landlord. We've also spent most of last night documenting all the stuff we really hate about him, like the stuff he calls girls and what friends of his called one of our roomies just because he walks funny, etc, cuz we don't expect him to listen to our last warning.
No sleep makes me really grumpy.

Glad to read that your surgery went well (I just went to your blog). Sounds like you'll be out partying very soon, if not already!

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Well, this morning I was going to party by practicing my FS program, but my rear driver side tires got NAILED (yup! flat tire!) and I had to stay in. Luckily for me, my home is up the block from a auto repair shop so I didn't need to be towed to a shop. I just drove in with my flat tire a 1/4 miles. Even better, I didn't even need to replace the tires either! They took the nail out, patched and reinflate the tires! Only cost me $33.80 and an hours wait at the shop!

Lesson for all of you guys... if you have AAA Membership service, get auto-enrollment! If you don't have AAA membership, GET IT!!! It can be worth its weight in gold in terms of hassle factor! (Lucky for me this time I didn't need to get towed!)

Too bad for me, I have to get up EARLY again the next morning to get in my practice. Gawd, I hope I'm awake then!!!

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Staying In: If only, I have a cold.

Yesterday for the second time the brattiest of bratty skating kids kept flipping out whenever the adults would get in her way. This was a public session! Soon I speak to her mom. If that kid rolled her eyes at me one more time they would have gotten stuck - then the exaggerated sighing and the flailing arms...is it evil to really dislike an 11 year old (or thereabouts)? Someone needs to deal with that kid.

My program was poor this a.m. partially due to not feeling well and two footed every loop!

Partying: But, my toe loop is much improved (thanks Alexei), double 3 turn and rest of footwork was pretty good, 8 step mohawk was good yesterday.

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Sucks about the shot practice session Jazz.

& best wishes to everybody in recovery from injuries, surgeries, and that sorta stuffs.

The typical American intro freaks me out! Here we just do the normal LFO, RFO, LFO3, RBO, and then usually the long 4-beat edge that is the last step of the dance.

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Hey Jazzpants, I thought I saw something at some point that said you were in Portland OR???

I'm in Portland too and I don't think we know each other??? Would love to meet you if you are local...

Let me know!

LSkater (located in Vancouver, but skate pretty much all over the Portland area)

I did!?!?!? If I did, let me correct that now! Sorry to say, I skate in San Francisco Bay Area. But I might have mentioned about skating at this coming year's Adult Sectionals which IS in Portland, OR. But... it doesn't look hopeful for that either given my budget. I'm just going to AN this year. (Lake Plastic is WAAAAY too expensive....)

Oh, icedancer2. Where are you? I know YOU skate in the Portland OR area. I think one other guy skates here too. Can't remember his ID but his first name is Gordon.

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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!!!

Partying: Counted 19 revs for one spin this morning. It wasn't particularly fast, but went on forever.

Staying In: It was easy to count those loops in the ice in a traveling spin.

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Finally started working out off ice again last night. Now my arms hurt. lol
Going to try and get to Coffee Club again tomorrow, I think.

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Partying: inspired by all you skaters, I took myself over to lunchtime skate today. Crossovers, edges, FO 3-turns, felt pretty good. Getting the to-be-free foot off the ice faster seems to reduce the scraping of the to-be-skating foot; I don't know if this is proper or just coincidence, but it was nice to have a few not-very-scrapy mohawks.

Staying in: FI on both sides again, unfortunately they're FI Skids rather than 3-turns. FO 3-turns curve on a small radius, which is going to make the Waltz Eight awfully hard, but I'm not sure how to change it.

In-between: Don't know why I never noticed it so strongly before, but this rink is very different from my lesson rink. It's very cold hockey ice over concrete, instead of lesson rink's general-purpose ice over sand. The beams weep a lot -- lots of rows of ice-droplet bumps! It's bigger than lesson rink which is fun for doing loooooooots of patterns down-ice.

I just passed the Silver Moves test. I was happy with how I skated, and especially happy that I wasn't very nervous. The judges all passed me with room to spare. Surprisingly, the one who gave me the highest marks also gave me the most corrections (all completely valid).

Johanna, feeling deeply tired and in no hurry at all to start work on brackets

partying (which BTW is always a good thing... just accept it!!! lol)
everything.... aka:
waltz jumps
waltz jumps the wrong way for me!
toeloops
salchows
loops
scratch spins
sitspin attempts (ok they were not good, but fun!)
Y spiral
Catchfoot spiral

etc etc just, everything was good today!!

staying in
ouch I managed to fall on my tailbone again(I really need to get tailbone pads...) on a Y spiral.
somehow pulled my shoulder?? ow

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Congrats on passing your test My suggestion...put off brackets as long as you can...they are one of my least favorite patterns...as I struggle with the back outside brackets on the Brackets in the Field pattern from Standard Track Intermediate...(the pattern is on both the Adult Gold and Standard Track Intermediate tests).

First, CONGRATULATIONS for passing Silver moves!

Second, what's your secret for not getting nervous? I had terrible nerves on my last test. Each new test level became worse for me and I'm in awe of anyone who doesn't get nervous.

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