Have a wonderful time, everybody.

Now, don't forget - you can't control what the other skaters do, and you can't control what the judges think. All you can do is go out there, skate to the best of your ability, and have fun! And tell us all about it when you get back.

Clean ice and sharp blades to you all!

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Well, fancy that. I'll be the one in the turquoise dress with the look of abject terror on my face. So far, so good, though. Due to my work schedule, it hasn't really clicked that I'm skating tomorrow. Hopefully I remember to wake up on time, because Saturdays are usually my sleep-in days! That could be bad.

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Soooo...you'll have lots of things in common to chat about! Color choices, managing fear, SkatingForums!

Make sure to give us some results or gossip. We like gossip. LOL

*Isk8NYC goes to put up the SPOILER notice in the Thread Title *

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I didn't go; I had to choose between AN and sectionals, and I chose AN.

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Champagne in 2005, 2008, 2009 - who's next out of the pre-bronze club...?

Wang chung!

Ooops!!!

Well, I still wouldn't mind hearing about Bronze Ladies FS III when you get to AN. (You ready for AN??? I'll bet you're in prime fighting form!!!)

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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!!!

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THE PAIR TEAMS TODAY!!!

sorry no results because I don't really know anyone.... but I skated the older group of Pre-Bronze and skated the best I have ever done in a competition. Waltz jumps could have been better and I left my best lunge on the warm up but I really had good spins, I wasn't nervous and my daughter says I did really good. My back spiral got shakey and I just kept holding it telling myself I wasn't putting my leg down until I got it up as high as it would go.

And the fun thing is that there were only 4 of us and they give out pewter medals and I got a medal. AND ONE JUDGE PUT ME THIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This the first time I haven't received all last places in freestyle (even the no test people did harder stuff than me) So I'm happy. My daughter was a really good coach.

On to dance in a few hours.

j

A big congrats to you on your Pewter Medal!!! Sounds like you had a really gr8skate. Best of luck with Dance...let us know how it turns out!

Champ gold ladies winner was Cindy C., two newcomers in second and third and Shannon K. in 4th .

Ordinals for 4-8 were pretty much all over the place, with almost everyone receiving a qualifying ordinal -- tells me it was a pretty darn close event for those of us in the middle.

Paul and Judy won champ pairs, and I can't remember the rest.

Larry H. was totally awesome winning champ masters men with a beautiful triple sal and double axel. There was some seriously good skates in that event.

Chris W. won champ gold men - he did a totally huge double sal right at the end of his program.

A couple of our skatingforums own qualified today , but I don't know if they want to be identified on line. Maybe they'll identify themselves, or PM me so I can spill the beans. YAY to them!!!

Special shout out to coskater64 - you were totally beautiful out there today. You rock, girl!

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Huge Congrats to Judy and Paul for Championship Pairs!!!

Can somebody post the results of Championship Masters Ladies and Men please. Thank you!

Because my day was so broken up I really didn't get to watch as much skating here as I'd hoped but I did get to see this event and it was wonderful. Chris (I only know his name because that's who I sent my practice request to) had such beatiful flow and every time he did something well he would just beam - we could see his smile from the top floor we were watching from.

There was a guy with a tie (that flopped around and I feared it would distract him) that did a back spiral that lasted longer than I have ever seen any senior man or woman on TV hold...and awesome spins.

I know Burton from Des Moines and he was disappointed with his jumps but he looked really good. ANd there was a guy who skated in jeans who's jumps were just amazing. I think if I only got to watch one event - this was a good one.

And the gold pairs skated just before my dance and they were both amazing.

j

Okay so my dance event

My practice went really well -- my daughter really enjoyed coaching me there because as she said "I have done everything wrong you can do in dance and now I can fix anything"

So in the warm up for the Rhythm Blues they played a different song than the one at practice, it was music I'd never heard before and I was freaking out but my daughter said my timing was fine. Then for the competition they played the same music they did in the practice. And they did that for every dance except the cha-cha- played different music in the warm up than the comp and frankly I think that's kind of a dirty trick but whatever.

So I totally muffed up one of the step behinds in the Rhythm & Blues but it was good otherwise. My cha-cha wasn't as edgey or big as I managed in practice but my daughter said I was fast. And I really enjoyed it and frankly I think I put some attitude in it. No question about the results - 4th out 4 in Rhythm Blues (yay- pewter for me) and 6th out of 6 in the Cha Cha, but wonder of wonders, one judge put me 5th.

The top two in both dances were way and above everyone else but frankly, (and no offense if anyone in question is reading this), I think it was my non-step behinds that put me last. I believe I'd have done better if could do a freaking step behind. So that should motivate me because I think I could own the cha cha.

All in all, I had a lot of fun, I'm glad I didn't scratch the cha cha and I had a great time.

j

Qualifying results are up:

http://www.usfigureskating.org/event...s.asp?id=34945


Congratulations!

Hmmm - normally they play one tune in the warm-up, and then alternate the other 5 tunes one per skater, so you never know what you're going to get, it depends on the draw order.


Isn't it just amazing when that happens! It's just the greatest feeling. And just wait until you get your very first first place ordinal! I wondered what the judge could have been on when it happened to us! But it has happened since, too....

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[QUOTE=Mrs Redboots;314067]Hmmm - normally they play one tune in the warm-up, and then alternate the other 5 tunes one per skater, so you never know what you're going to get, it depends on the draw order.
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Really??? I have never seen that. Every solo dance comp I've been to (and I've seen a lot with my daughter)--it's the same music for everyone and they play the same song in the warm up so you get a chance to hear it.

j

I just looked at the results and realized I was watching Masters championship, not gold and the person I thought was Chris Williams is not ...so I don't know who he was...but it was a good event

j

Sounds like Charnell Evans, the silver medalist.
Here he is at the Star of Texas competition, held 2 months ago:
http://cnsphotos.dynalias.com/Star_O...vans/index.htm

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Charnell was awesome too!

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Hey all.

Well, I didn't qualify (probably a good thing because that Championship Masters group is nerve-wracking), but I had a BLAST.

I missed my double toe-double toe and had to deal with just a single toe at the end, and my second double toe did this 1.5 rotation thing where I just landed forward, confused. Never done that before so I have no idea what happened (usually I just rotate 2 times and fall on my butt if it's an issue).

BUT I nailed my double loop, double sal, and axel, and my spins were pretty good. By the end of the program, I actually had fun. My coach seemed happy about the program, too, except she did say we're adding my double flip back into the program for AN. . .eep.

Wish I could report on the rest of the Championship Masters group, but I skated dead last, so I didn't even get to see any of the others. Luckily, I purchased a DVD, so if anyone really wants to know how things went, I can post play-by-plays once the DVD arrives. Let me know.

It was nice to meet all you sweet people. I was the girl checking people in at the ice monitor station from 3:30-7:30p.m. You all looked wonderful and inspire me! Hope to see you at AN next month!!

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I'm so excited that my synchro teammate qualified for Championship Master Ladies! She got 2nd!

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That's really awesome! I seriously can't wait to get the DVD and watch. Seriously, of the entire 45 minute event, I only saw 1 person do a double flip as I walked by to check where we were in the group, and then I saw one person fall on a jump right before I took my turn. My coach always bemoans the fact that they can't have a Gold part 2 level for me. She thinks I'm way above what most Gold Ladies do, but I just don't have the speed, poise, and flow as other Masters Ladies. I told her that's why they created open events that actually have level restrictions. Masters Novice is my friend.

The only sad thing about the Masters event was that no MN skater qualified out of the ladies group to my knowledge. Would've been nice to get at least one local skater through. Maybe next year.

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Yup. That's who I was talking about.

j

I really have to send out kudos to the organizers of this event. I have nothing bad to say about the way it was run. They did this whole thing in one day and my 4:00 event started right on time. I've been to lots of competions and they are usually behind by the end of the day. I was even impressed with the goody bags.

j

Perhaps USFSA has different rules; NISA does it the way the ISU does it for major competitions.

Glad you had a great time!

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