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Congratulations to IceT!
...who passed her Cha-Cha with flying colors today! And three days before she will be competing in Silver FS to boot!
Congrats to my skating hero -- you are a Skating Superwoman! |
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congratulations IceT! And best of luck in the Orange Blossom this weekend! Flutzilla- are you competing?
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I'm not sure what Cha-Cha is. But I still say CONGRATULATIONS TO TERESA!!!!!
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WAY TO GO!!!!!!
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Cha Cha
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The Cha Cha is a preliminary solo dance. 1lutz2klutz: Yep I'll be there competing, but I honestly have no clue how I will do on the ice re: my program. I've only had this program for 3 weeks (well, only 5 days if you count the extensive changes my coach made last weekend!) My biggest fear is that no one will applaud b/c it will be so bad, and someone will yell "ha ha" like that kid on the Simpsons. Oh well. At least I will get to see Ice T skate! Will you be there too? |
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We call it the Canadian Cha-Cha, and it's not part of our test structure, but it's a lovely dance! Many congratulations, IceT.
Perhaps you can answer a question for me: we are working on it for the various internationals, as it's one of the selected dances for this year, and I find it very hard not to come round too far on the inside chasse and then be very flat on what one dancer I know describes as the "double whammy" edge before the slalom. Any ideas as to how to make that a good edge - I partly blame Robert for pushing me on to a flat, but it's not entirely him, just largely!
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YAAAAY, IceT!!!
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Cheers, 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!!! |
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WOW!! Thanks everyone!!
Wednesday was quite a day! I passed my Cha-Cha by all three judges, and with more points than I needed. On top of that, because it was just prior to our competition, my panel was made up of National level judges. I was so amazed by all of that. On top of it all, earlier that morning, a news crew came to our rink and personally interviewed me and my coach, and then filmed me skating. I saw the clip this morning and it was so awesome!! Mrs. Redboots -- your question about the Cha-Cha. When you do the inside chasse, make sure the last step it is a nice solid inside edge on your left foot forcing you to curve to the right, then bend the skating knee and make a big push onto your right foot, skating a diagonal line from the center of the ice toward the boards, putting your right foot on the outside edge. Then you do the slalom. Does that make sense? |
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Wow CONGRATS!!! :d
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mrs Redboots
[B]Please don't take this wrong, I really, truly don't mean to belittle your accomplishment or anything like that, but sometimes it's easier to get better marks, if you're a low-level skater, if you have high-level judges! Mrs. Redboots, I'm sorry, but I do take that as a belittlement. You don't know how well I skate. I only just started dance last fall at YOUR suggestion (do you remember that?). So that's why I am at a lower level. Why would you say that to me? That was kind of rude. That does take away from my accomplishment. |
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Congrats IceT. I can't wait to see you at Orange Blossoms. Looks like we will be warming up at the same time but I will hopefully have time to watch you skate. Are you competiing at all in Dance this weekend?
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hehebebury: Yes, I think we will be on the same warm up. No, I'm not competing in dance. Just the freeskate.
Good luck on Saturday!! I look forward to seeing you skate again! |
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I'm generalizing, but: Lower level judges seem to judge a skater's mistakes. High level judges seem to judge a skater's skating. A vast difference in the way they look at a program and a skater. They don't get to be high level judges by only finding errors. As a low level skater, I would much prefer to test with high level judges. In your case, you should be very proud because these high level judges graded "your skating" as excellent!!! |
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Thanks, Gary. That is exactly what I meant - higher level judges do seem a lot less focussed on mistakes. As, so I'm told, do people who have judged for some years, compared to those who have only just reached a certain level. The more experienced judges have learnt to look at the dance, or programme, or whatever, as a whole.
And, incidentally "Low level" was intended simply as a statement of fact, not in any sense pejoratively; perhaps "elementary" would have been a better choice of words? Edited to add: I've just realised why I used the words "Low level": our test structure no longer uses the terms "Novice", "Preliminary", "Pre-Bronze", etc, but says "Level 1", "Level 2", "Level 3", etc, up to and including Level 9 or even Level 10. So we who are what in the USA would be pre-Bronze, which is level 3-4 here, tend to refer to ourselves as "Low-level", and the dances we are comfortable with as "Low-level dances" simply as a matter of fact, with no reflection on or ability. My apologies if it was read the other way.
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