Goal #1: Stop getting injured! (and I mean off-ice) so that I can actually skate

Goal #2: I'd love to do an interp... I have sooooooooo many ideas bursting in my head (thanks to waaaaay too many years of dance recitals and a ballet teacher who, twice a year, makes us work on choreography) and I'm dying to actually try them on the ice in front of other people!

Goal #3: Start really learning MITF. Really. Not picking it up by drips and drabs from various sources...

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When asked what his "secret" to success was, Wayne Gretsky said: "Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it has been."
Is the figure skating version of this: Skate as if you're doing an axel and not just learning how to hop?

I plan to be back on the ice in a few weeks and get that Foxtrot mohawk under control..........as well as the rest of the dance, but the mohawk is the major problem area at the moment. I'm also planning to start working on my gold moves (adult) again, and try to get my spins back. That should keep me busy.

This sprng, eh next month, I will be on The Mission From God:
PASS THE BRONZE FREESTYLE TEST!!!
This will be my fifth try, as I had taken and failed the test four times between January 2001/ 2002. I'm not allowing myself to think about those last four tries. I want to think that I've become a stronger skater since then.

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Adult Nationals, 2009 "The Time of My Life"

Holy cow, I clicked a whole bunch.

Other - Break in new skates
Take a test - Novice MIF anyone?
Refine basics - as always
Learn a new program - 2 actually. Music is cut for both FS and Interp and I am just ready to go and have a lot of ideas of what both have to contain for ME. I want to do most of the layout myself and have my coach clean it up.
Learn a new maneouver or element - since my coach just got back from TS school, L4 combo spin seems to be on my radar to be working on with the hope of settling in to a L2 or 3 for the season along with all the other "good" stuff for IJS trying to get everything beyond the jumps to L2 minimum. Also, a Masters Man friend of mine is helping me clean up my double toe loop (last 1/4 turn) which is finally going into the program. Double loop is the next one to clean up and get consistent. Also, land a couple more double flips past the 5 I landed between December and February.
Classes/camp/etc - we usually have a summer class with my coach on Monday nights, which I am hoping will continue this year.

My goals:

*Place in the top 4 at my upcoming competition.
*Have my double Salchow consistant by the end of the summer.
*Hopefully land another double or at least work on one.
*Test in Pre Juvenile Freestyle in the summer.
*Test the Swing Dance in the summer.
*Improve my layback and flying camel.
*Improve my footwork.

~these are alot of goals and I am hoping to achieve at least half of them.

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Skating is suppose to be fun , no PRESSURE at all

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

My skating goals for the summer:

*Consistently land all my singles up to the lutz
*Manage a consistent scratch and camel spin
*Begin working on a biellman spiral

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Happily defying the laws of physics when I skate...and not in a good way

If I could meet ole Axel Paulsen, I would kick him in the teeth

President and Founding member of the I hate Toe-Loops Club

Still a member, but trying to get out of the Pre-bronze peanut gallery.

Visit my skating journal

I'm pretty sure that by writing my goals out in a public place I may actually push myself to a little more achieve these goals... we'll see... Hopefully someone will bump this back to the top of the list and we can all celebrate how we went even further than we had hoped!

I started skating last August (no prior experience), so my summer goals are also my year's goals. Initially, I was obsessed and made great progress, but over time I slacked off. My summer goal is to fan my flame and really get going again. I want to get a decent flip and loop. I want to make my scratch spin pretty and get an acceptable back spin. I'm starting privates with a coach I'm very, very excited about , so I'm feeling positive! I'm thinking this will also help me strengthen my basics- I really want to "skate pretty" in generaland this seems to be his forte.

If I'm able to meet these- the next year's goals will include a program and competition. Yay!!

#1 -- stay injury free
#2 -- land my double loop
#3 -- get that double toe at least 50% consistent
#4 -- get that double salchow and axel 80% (strong landings) consistent!!
#5 -- increase speed across all spins and to get that consistent too
#6 -- get the beilmann spin
#7 -- make my I/split spin consistent
#8 -- make my change edge spins faster and more consistent
#9 -- continue working on edges, speed and power (try to join a stroking class)
#10 -- get that 3 second hold beilmann spiral consistent

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Tidesong

Here are my goals:

-a 6-rev camel
-3-rev sit - 3-rev back sit
-3-rev camel - 3-rev sit
-a consistent lutz
-a flip-loop combination
-a consistent loop-loop combination
-power pulls that don't lose steam
-consistent back 3s without breaking at the waist
-no more hitting my toepicks on back cross rolls
-the ability to count the Canasta and the Rhythm Blues to any music, any time, even in my sleep

I'm hoping to test Silver Moves sometime next fall And retest the Canasta and Rhythm Blues.

Good luck to everyone!!

I am going to take it easy this summer. I am no longer taking private lessons at this time but I do plan on taking a group jump and spin class for a month or two just to keep up on technique.

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

pff, I miss 4 lessons now for Florida and also a competition I've got to do, and then another 6/7 lessons for the summer. It's so stupid!!! Although I will love going to Florida, and also to my grandparents for the summer, I'm going to miss skating soo much...

OTOH, I will dedicate the summer to working on my flexibility and strength. Every day, Maxiflex (when I order it) and stretching and swimming hard in the sea etc.

lol... I just can't bear to miss it! I mean, I spend 3 hours a week skating. so I'll miss like 18 to 21 hours!!! bleurghhhhjfkghsligd

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Think of it this way: the earlier tests were just PRACTICE, a way to get feedback from judges and to get used to test nerves/situations. THIS will be your REAL test.

What off-season? Over here, it's the start of the competition season, not the end of it. Here, competitions happen when hockey doesn't, and our competition season runs from about now until the end of October. We have already had one competition, and the children have had a couple of Opens already, but it is very early in the season for non-elite skaters!

But this last winter we worked very hard on our basic skating techniques, and it has seriously paid off in terms of speed over the ice and confidence. I hope people who watch our dances at Tallinn and at the Mountain Cup (and, indeed, at the UK competitions) will notice an improvement.

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I plan to go to camp this summer for two sessions. I am still working on Figures 1 and not quite at the point where it is testable.

Also want to continue persuing the Bronze requirements which have been temporarily put on hold with my broken little left toe which makes any kind of jump painful at the moment.

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Keeping School Figures Alive!!

I plan to continue to assist with LTS tots the next 8 weeks and help coach my synchro team through the summer. Believe it or not, the team likes having two coaches after our rather dismal showing at ISI Nationals.

With the pregnancy, I have no real plans for my own skating except to just get out there until I no longer feel comfortable on the ice so that coming back doesn't suck so much, LOL! I'm basically skating laps and gently working edges and crossovers right now.

When I get back, I'm interested in maybe starting to test dances. The pre-bronze dances are all easily within my reach and my timing and presentation skills are good, so I think this may be a better avenue for ME as a skater than freestyle. Mostly because I'm a chicken-weenie about jumps, LOL!

Why do you have to miss lessons when you go to Florida? Take your skates with you and arrange lessons where you are going.

I will be working on a couple of MITF tests, as well as creating a new program, and trying to land the axel and a double(or two )

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Prepare for a test = novice moves, more pre-gold dances

Spring/Summer goal: Find a new (and temporary) coach. My coach is leaving next month to go to Cornell in NY for grad school. I thought about following her, but that might be too much like stalking, so I gave that idea up pretty quick.

Goals:

• get Pre-Juv MITF good enough to test by the end of August (darn 5-step mohawk and powerpulls - I can do the rest!)
  land axel
  land 2sal
  start on 2toe
  Medal in Pre-Preliminary Freestyle
  consistant camel-sit
  even lower sitspin
  sit-change sit
  Faster layback

Hopefully I'll be able to do this. I have only one competition planned for this summer but my MITF coach will not be coaching at my rink again till end of August so I'll just have to work harder with my primary coach. I had my last lesson till August with her tonight.

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Working on:
NOVICE! MIF
Juvenile FS
Bronze Dances

Test Jr moves, finish pre silver dances.
Get back axel, 2 sow, 2 toe, would love to get back r spiral any way I can so I can revive my flying camel, even though flying upright is getting good reviews.

Have fun and keep getting stronger so 2nd hip surgery is less difficult.

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Who me? Couldn't be....
http://www.youtube.com/bouldersk8r

Return to skating. I've been off since 1st of March due to knee surgery on right knee. Had hoped to return to skating middle of last month but orthopod said to wait another month. Then I had a minor set-back/flare up of pain in PT the other week while doing single leg mini-squats on the squishy foam pad.

In the meantime, the stationary bike has become my best friend I think.

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American Waltz... Once, Twice, ???? ...

Q: How many coaches does it take to fix Jen's Dance Intro-3 Problems
A: 5 and counting...

Hopefully I'll have passed my pre-bronze MIF and freestyle(if I can ever get the hang of the one foot spin) by the end of the summer, and be working on my Bronze MIF.

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http://ilove2skate.livejournal.com/

http://www.myspace.com/sk8fabulous

One goal I have that others haven't mentioned (but probably will be doing as well) is to improve my musculature and movement style for skating. In particular, this will probably mean taking up pilates and maybe ballet.

I skate for fun, and have firmly relied on a "just skate" mentality, without doing anything off-ice. I'm noticing that I just don't have the core strength I need. I try to go into a spin and I can't keep my pelvis stabilized. *sigh* So I'm going to have to put some *work* into this after all.

Work (n): Anything done off ice.

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Me, on skating. Me, on me.
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." ~ Tolstoy, via JWeir.
"I am not a pretty girl. That is not what I do." ~ Ani DiFranco

Yea if I pass my bronze moves I'm going to have to face this because there is NO WAY I am ever going to be able to do a sit spin (required for bronze fs) without off ice work. Right now I'm just not sure I want to do that. I'm pretty comfy in the prebronze for life club right now.

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