Foggy or fair: 24-30 October 2005 - Page 3

Skate@Delaware · #51 10-30-2005, 10:11 AM

We had show rehearsal this morning and worked on our "synchro" routine, with the usual suspects missing (work obilgations). Turned out ok except the typical: forgetting which way the line was supposed to turn to, our pinwheel was crooked, and we were going so fast on our circle the littles girls couldn't grab in...I'm sure they were scared to as we were going too fast!

Then we had time left over and I worked on some spins....managed several that were good: although they weren't really centered, the traveling wasn't too bad; I was able to cross my free leg; my skating leg was straight. I only had to bail out of one. We'll see if I can repeat the success later today at adult's only skate (in which we lose 1/3 the rink to broomball)

although they are only going to charge us 1/2 price because of it. At least they didn't give it to hockey (yet).

slusher · #52 10-30-2005, 08:03 PM

Skate@Delaware, I just watched your videos (delay due to old computer, and they're still a bit jerky) and wanted to comment on your spins. You're doing the same thing that I was "educated" about in video lesson earlier this week.Your video looked remarkably similar to mine! On a forward scratch spin, the weight has to be all over the skating foot, if there's any weight to the free foot side, your free foot just wants, desires, to put down and exit the spin. I couldn't figure out why I had hit a limit on my spin rotations and could see it clear as day on video, that free food would creep out after three revs and I was no longered centered over the spin. It only takes a little bit of the foot falling out to do it. This doesn't mean that your feet have to be crossed, mine aren't and I am working on that, it's more of a subtle change in the relaxation of the spin and ooops, time to exit! Your spins look nice and smooth, but committing to the skating side might get you more rotations - or so my coach says, if y'all want to believe third party long distance coaching.

You're brave to display video, the whole video thing makes me cringe but I'm happy to view yours.

jazzpants · #53 10-30-2005, 09:16 PM

Fair:

Landed about 4 loops in a row at one point again at my weekend rink. Weird.
Landed a couple of flips today
Salchow is really high today!!! WHOA!!!
Footwork on my program is back to shape again (thank God!!!)
Spins are okay.

Foggy:

Couldn't land any loop after about the 6th one. Don't know what's going on but feeling a bit too tired to keep my back straight is the culprit.
Ditto for flips. Too tired.
Couldn't practice moves. It's getting a bit too crowded with all these KIDS crawling around.
I want a higher Chinese spiral!!! It looks funky according to the glass reflection.

frvanilla · #54 10-31-2005, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dbny

I'm sure you didin't mean any harm, but you just SPOILED the Skate Canada results for some of us who plan to watch it when it's broadcast! Please NO SPOILERS!

Oops... Sorry...
I didn't mean it.

jazzpants · #55 10-31-2005, 01:45 AM

Foggy:

Didn't go to weekend rink and won't be for a while for Saturdays. The public sessions have been quite crowded. (This weekend was definitely no exception. They had SEVER b-day parties that day!!!

) Must change my skating hours soon...

I ended up at my alternate weekend rink, which is not much better either short of the fact that I don't have that much of a drive (about 20-30 minutes... no toll.) There was just no place to practice moves...

Couldn't land ANY loops or flips!!! And it's not just b/c of the crowd either. I don't know if there's something weird where I couldn't land any (but could land a bunch of them at my first weekend rink or my home rink.) *sigh* Spins sucked too!!! EEEEEK!!!

Fair:

Went home to sleep!!! Had a good nights restaurant with the extra hour from DAYLIGHT SAVINGS time! AHHHHH!!!

Skate@Delaware · #56 10-31-2005, 07:04 AM

This is for yesterday's practice session, which was held during the Adult Skate time. Usually, we get the whole rink, but 1/3 was given to BROOMBALLERS-weird sport....However, it was 1/2 price @ $2.50 so I'm not complaining, considering they still let us play our music, and there won't BE an Adult skate come January (poor attendance, maybe because they don't advertise???)

Foggy: Couldn't spin this session....they were absolute cr*p.... Loop is only 1/2 way around (weird jump, that one). Not sure what I'm doing wrong,perhaps not trusting and not pushing up enough, etc.... and I think this cold is affecting my balance a bit, as I felt "weird" doing crossovers and got a bit light-headed.....but I did remember to puff my inhaler at least an hour before the session so I wouldn't get the "shakes" while on the ice...

Fair: Salchow!!! Managed a few really good ones with a bit more height, one of my skating friends watched a few and said they were higher than the ones last week! Of course, high for me is anything 2" above the ice

And of course, spirals were good, even on my right foot (although I can't get my left leg up as high).

Casey · #57 11-01-2005, 04:05 AM

First thing bright and early Monday morning, I went to the rink to skate on the first session. The rink was open, but there was nobody about to sign in with. Didn't figure it was much staffed in the mornings, no worries about that. About 6:15 I got on the ice and had it all to myself for about 40 minutes, at which point I got off for a break, noticing some other skaters that had arrived for the next session, and then one of the ladies that works there told me I wasn't actually supposed to get on the ice before 6am, because they could get in trouble.

OH NO!!!

I hadn't changed my clock for daylight savings time, I'd been skating since 5:15am! I was quite embarassed, but they said it wasn't any big deal.

To make matters a bit better, I got my rule book that finally came in that I accidentally left there on Friday. Nothing else really of note.

batikat · #58 11-01-2005, 06:20 AM

Foggy:I went in for my lesson on patch ice at 9.30am to find the ice had not been cut and it was in a terrible state - huge holes and ruts and very, very rough. It is due for a cut at 9am each morning for the 9.30-10.30 patch. By the time we finally found someone to cut it time was passing and then they decided to refill the zam and actually went on to do the cut at 9.50am. They finished by 10 but it was still a pretty rough cut and my 1 hour patch became a 30min patch all taken up with lesson.

Fair: Did a nice 3 jump with good height and landed a beautiful 3 jump- loop jump combo. Also a 17 rev scratch spin! Not as well centred as it could have been but the advantage of that was that I could count the loops! 13 revs was my previous maximum. I think my week off may have improved things - it was half term last week so I didnt skate, apart from a nearly 2 solid hour practice for the adult number in the ice panto. That was hard work as for a change we had a small group that can all skate reasonably well, so we got to do jumps and spins and back crosovers and a backwards wheel which the coach now wants to be be a moving one - that is a lot harder to do than it looks - I have more respect for synchro skaters now having tried that.

still foggy: interbronze field moves - urrggghhhh!

Skate@Delaware · #59 11-01-2005, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slusher

Skate@Delaware, I just watched your videos (delay due to old computer, and they're still a bit jerky) and wanted to comment on your spins. You're doing the same thing that I was "educated" about in video lesson earlier this week.Your video looked remarkably similar to mine! On a forward scratch spin, the weight has to be all over the skating foot, if there's any weight to the free foot side, your free foot just wants, desires, to put down and exit the spin. I couldn't figure out why I had hit a limit on my spin rotations and could see it clear as day on video, that free food would creep out after three revs and I was no longered centered over the spin. It only takes a little bit of the foot falling out to do it. This doesn't mean that your feet have to be crossed, mine aren't and I am working on that, it's more of a subtle change in the relaxation of the spin and ooops, time to exit! Your spins look nice and smooth, but committing to the skating side might get you more rotations - or so my coach says, if y'all want to believe third party long distance coaching.

You're brave to display video, the whole video thing makes me cringe but I'm happy to view yours.

It's either bravery or stupidity

-sometimes I video because there may be no one at the rink who can critique me! Thanks for the critique! I think the jerkiness in the video might actually be the fault of my "old" computer-I'm way overdue for a new one anyway and working out some details (robbing a bank for some $$$ since I'm not lucky at lotto).

I think getting all the weight over the skating foot is why my coach wants me to straighten that spinnin leg all the way (scary though). I will work on remembering that though. I think my hip slips sometimes when I forget what I'm supposed to be doing?????

and I actually start to speed up sometimes and go so fast that I get scared and bail out!

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