Less than two weeks til I move on up and out to college, so I thought it was appropriate!

Moving on Up: I skated this morning and I landed most everything!!! 2/3 of my on-the-pattern 2sal, both axel seq, lutzes, flips, and loops. YAY!!!

Falling Back Down: My spins sucked. I had a really off transition from the front sit to the back sit and I was literally falling down.

Holding Steady: I'm testing tonight!!!

Good luck with your test!!!

GOOD LUCK TONIGHT!

I need to skate. Plans are on for tomorrow night, whether or not anyone joins me! (A public session's better than nothing, right?)

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Good luck with your test tonight!

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good lucK! you'll be great

moving on up: my doubles were pretty good today!

falling back: spins were not.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2eG6-DhPRSw from practice

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I passed!!!

Congratulations! Which test was this?

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ISI FS 6. I've been working towards it all summer.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! That's a fairly challenging test, isn't it? What were the required elements?

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Moving on up: The cashier let me in for free on Sunday. Skating always feels better when you don't have to pay for it I worked through some double toe and sal problems.

Falling back down: I've been having trouble with toes and sals. My axel has totally deserted me. Actually it's still there, but I just can't pull the trigger. I haven't been able to do it since a really hard fall a couple weeks ago.

Congrats, FlyAndCrash!!!

Falling Back Down:
I had a few bad camels and sit spins today... Camel didn't spin much and sit spin was not low enough.

Moving on Up:
I did get better on the camel once I remembered that I was supposed to "slap someone across the face" on the spin entry. I thought of someone who definitely deserves it.

All jumps seems to be in tact, though kinda wimpy by my standards.

• Waltz - check
• toe loop... meh... I'll let my secondary coach look at it.
• Salchow - check.
• Loop - check (and at faster speeds too!!!)
• loop-loop - check
• flip - check
• flip-loop - check (but it's still scary for me to land those!!!)
• lutz - half check (flutz entry, but fully rotated and cleanly landed!)

kander: Yes, skating is always good when it's free. (I've had a few freebie sessions before...)

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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!!!

Congrats FlyAndCrash!!!!! I'm thinking about taking that test. I haven't tested ISI in years, but would like to move up in their levels. ISI FS tests are HARD! The FS 10 test is way harder than the Senior test.

Moving on Up
-All of my forward rockers were good today
-Jumps all had nice height and landings. I only went through 2loop as my knee was bothering me, but they still felt good
-We were working on flying camels into donuts or catch camels. I always have a hard time grabbing my blade on the back camel as my hamstring tends to cramp just as I reach my blade. Well, this time I reached my blade, but my brain was going "Ok, what now," but my coach was applauding and said I was almost in a donut position.
-My homework last week from my secondary coach was to look up with my eyes as I do my axels. I'm getting better about it. It helps a ton with the height, but is a scary feeling.

Falling down
-Painful/slightly scary/slightly amusing incident with my right knee today. We were doing forward sit->pancake to back sit->back pancake. I started to rise out of my back pancake when my right knee locked up. My coach came to try to help me unjam it. She was pressing down on my leg up near my hip while I was manipulating the knee. All of a sudden it unlocked, and apparently my coach could feel it up near my hip. I turn to ask if she could feel it and she goes "EWWW I felt that all the way up here!"

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CONGRATULATIONS!!! That's a really tough one!

Congratulations!!

Moving on up:
-just passed the swing dance, and on to bronze dances!
-one more test today and hoping to pass it as well.

Falling down:
-havent worked on double salchows in awhile.
-novice moves will be the end of me!

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~*Courage*~*Confidence*~*Consistance*~

YAY!! Congratulations!!
And, have fun in college!!

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Thanks everyone.

FS6 had a 2sal, axel-1/2loop-flip, sit-sit-sit- or layback or crossfoot spin, combo spin w/ change of position and foot, split jump, split falling leaf, and serpentine step seq. w/ a rocker, counter, two brackets, and lots a twisty (as in twisty in the core, not twisty on the ice) steps at the very end...

YAY!!! I'M DONE!

CONGRATS CUTIES8ER on your swing dance!

WOW that's a tough one!!! Congratulations!!!!!!

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Revised Official 2010 Goals checklist
Skate __
New boots __
(lowering the bar for 2010 as I haven't skated in a year)

Wow! Great achievement. (Sigh for what might have been)

Congrats and more good luck!

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(Writing on DH's Crackberry so I'll fix the format later.)

Congrats, Cutiesk8er43!!! WHOO HOOO!!!

Movin:
First runthru of interp went swimmingly well

Fallin:
Literally... during warmup. Nothing bad. Just weird that I end up falling in front of choreographer going into a spin again right at the beginning of the session. (Which really tells me I need to really get my skates sharpen!!!)

At least NOW I have a second coach besides secondary coach who can tell my primary coach that I DO FALL on the ice

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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!!!

Moving on Up:
My Bronze program now looks like and feels like a program. I skated it for the first time for Secondary Coach today on lesson. Not a bad runthrough given that the session was busy and there was a celebrity skater coaching on the session.....Ryan Bradley!!! . Will go to the rink's show on Friday night to see him skate.

Falling Back Down:
Secondary Coach tried and tried to change my loop to the traditional back entry. He even enlisted the help of another one of the guest coaches (not Ryan thank God- I would've had heart failure!) and well once he saw that I was better at the RFI3 takeoff for the loop, he decided to let me keep it.

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Adult Nationals, 2009 "The Time of My Life"

Tuesday
Moving on Up:
Realized and finally fixed my orthotics for my skates. Found the reason why I've been leaning to much on my inside edge even when I'm trying to be on my outside edges. I've also found the reason to my spiral sequence problems with this too. What was wrong with my orthotics was that the back part behind the ball of the foot to the heel was made to wide and was curving upward on the outside edges of both orthotics. This was tearing up my muscles in my hips and knees. I was always wondering why I was locking at my knees and hips. Picture yourself, trying to lean on to an outside edge and feeling your orthotic pushing your body to move to the inside. You end up a twisted mess tearing muscles. I got out the original footbeds for my Jackson Elite Plus (have finally started to get creases in them) and compared them to my orthotics and saw how much extra footbed the orthotic had. I think the orthotic guy used a hockey skate to try making the orthotics. In any case, I marked what needed to be trimmed away and cut it away. Now my orthotics finally fit properly inside my skate boots and I'm able to get our outside edges easily. I'm also able to do my inside ce outside spiral in my spiral sequence.

Falling Back Down:
My hips is still sore from last Friday but at least my knees have calmed down. I'm not tearing my hip muscles anymore but I hope the two weeks before Albert Viviani is enough for my hips to heal.

Had to retrain myself for my spins and jumps because my weight in my skates is different now.

Moving UP:
My jump landings are more curvier and run out better since fixing the orthotics. Hopefully I'll get the loop, flip and lutz fixed. Otherwise, I'll move the flip to the end wher the lutz is now and replace the flip/toe a waltz/toe so that I have more clean jumps windows in my freeskate.
My scratch spin centered itself today (circles on top of each other for a change not travelling at all).

My sitspin was not exactly centered but it was better than my coaches (I think he made is bad on purpose to make me feel good because on the very next session he was doing perfectly centered backscratches to show a student what he wanted although I'm not so sure about his spirals because when I did my left outside spiral, he said that he couldn't touch mine.).

Falling Back Down:
Both my coach and I didn't notice that we grabbed the wrong version of my US interpretive (artistic show number) and so, I wondered why was having trouble getting through it. It wasn't until I got to the car that I noticed that it was 45 seconds longer. Even my coach thought that it was longer than 2 minutes because he skated to my music just for the fun of it. The correct length and the original length CDs were next to each other in the CD case. I've moved the wrong length CD away from my FS music and put the correct length next to my FS music. Not going to happen again.

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I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008.

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thanks everyone!
and congrats FlyandCrash!

Moving on up:
passed the other test as well.

Falling back down:
now i have to be able to get through a two minute freestyle program without throwing up

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~*Courage*~*Confidence*~*Consistance*~

Join the club....those counters just won't go right for me....but, I just keep thinking to myself...at least I am not still stuck in Intermediate H-E-double hockey sticks....

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"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Sounds like you're having a really good end-of-summer!