CONGRATULATIONS!

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Delicious:
Started my Interp program today- I love it so far!!
It's finally dawned on me that I've found the "sweet spot" on my new blades for the forward spins!


Disgusting:
My coach has me reliving the good ole days of slaving over the alt 3's for Pre Bronze MIF, as she has put them in my program! Actually, surprised myself by doing them pretty well!
It was COLD in the rink today.
May not have a lesson next week, 'cause my lessons are on Thursdays and next Thursday is Thanksgiving- coach is looking at possible openings for me, though!

[QUOTE=sk8er1964]Thanks. Your axel is good enough to be able to do that combo, so you can have it! (Hopefully, someday, that single sal in mine will be a double).

Happy birthday! And what a great idea! Axel-mazurka-double sal! I have an axel and a double sal (well, most of the time) so maybe I'll see if I can give that to myself for my 40th birthday present, LOL (it's coming up soon)!

[QUOTE=doubletoe]Uh oh - giving away my secrets!

One of my mom's students when I was a kid skating did a flip and 1/2 into a double toe. That was a cool move too.

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A very brief session this morning as I was expecting a visitor - no less than our very own JenLyon60, who is staying with us for a week. Ran through our Artistic Pairs routine, but there wasn't time to do it to the music; it would have been better if I hadn't been focussing on Husband's steps rather than my own (which fault I was told off for in my lesson on Wednesday!).....

Hopefully Jen and I are going this afternoon to skate the teatime patch and meet some of the folk there - my coach and some of his skaters are all in Paris watching the Trophée Eric Bompard, but there will be plenty of folk there, all the same.

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Annabel and I went to Streatham this late afternoon. I mostly just skated around a bit enough to recover from the plane trip and the seemingly endless security line at the airport yesterday.

And yes, I had my skates inside my suitcase and everything arrived in tip-top shape.

Don't worry, that secret is safe with you, LOL! I'd probably kill myself trying it!

By the way, I had never noticed a flip and a half (or was it a salchow and a half?) until I saw Michael Weiss do one--with one arm up in the air--in his most recent program at the NHK Trophy. I had taped it, so I said, "What the HECK was that?!" and re-wounded it and replayed it frame by frame! I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen!

By the way, I wonder how judges would score a jump like that?? It's not a single. . . or a double. . .

Delicious:

I had a rather longish lesson today, that's the good part, also I got a compliment on my crossovers. Finally, they've been a year in the making and finally they are no longer toe-pick-ish.

I also played with my arms on pulling into spins. When you pull in hard, you sure go fast!

Disgusting:

Anything involving dance. I'm testing next week and everything I thought was going good, is gone. I'm hoping that a bad practice means a good test.

This is for yesterday afternoon:

Delicious:
The scratch spin is still centered!!!

Disgusting:
Jumps have been off all week and I don't know why!
Was working on the footwork sequence for my freeskate program when Mr. Toepick showed up at the wrong time- causing me to bellyflop onto the ice! My left knee and right elbow took a hit too and now the knee is bruised and swollen and my tummy a little sore!
It was apparently a painful fall to watch, as everyone came over as I hit the ice!

There is no ice for me all weekend, so time to recover!

Thanks!

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Ouch! I hope you feel better soon, Terri!

Delicious: Went skating on Thursday for the first time in 2 weeks. I just practiced - no lesson. I'm not sure if I want to compete or not, but I figure if I want to do New Year's, I better not take too much time off. I actually did OK - landed the first loop I tried. I even started getting creative and trying a loop-toe. My spins weren't great, but they never are.

Disgusting: Ran through the Bronze moves. Maybe I won't compete Bronze MIF at New Year's - my power 3's were definitely not presentable.


This particular rink has high school hockey games right after the FS sessions on Thursdays, so for the last half of the session, I had a small audience of some players that arrived early for the game. Oh, did I mention I was the only one on the ice? Actually, they were very quiet - no banging sticks or anything - they were probably wondering what an adult was doing out there - lol!

Thanks for the well wishes Debbie! Actually I'm just a little banged up but well enough to go shopping at the mall after getting my car it's yearly state inspection yesterday!

Coach e-mailed me this morning and I have a lesson on Tuesday !! WHOO HOO!

My coach was away, so no lesson for us, but Jenlyon60 had a lesson with one of the other coaches.

The ice was disgusting, which was so not the fault of the Zamboni driver, who tried several times to get a decent surface (he had to skate on it himself!), but to no avail - the blade is blunt, and the ice is very hard just now.

We ran through our programme, but Husband gracefully lowered himself to my feet during our hydroblade! It would have been in character with the programme if I'd trod on him, but in fact he made a great recovery! Worked on most of my own elements and on back cross rolls with Jen, who is also working on them.

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!