I've never really been one to be embarrassed by falls at all. If anything I'm proud of 'em.

What embarasses me are when people clap and cheer at something...I mean come on...I'm not that good...unfortunately I am quite often the best person on the public sessions I attend. I find it relieving when there's somebody better, but for some reason they never get the cheering punishment...I don't get it. Fortunately it's not that common.

Anyways so this afternoon after skating for about 45 minutes, during an ice resurface I was sitting on a bench idly watching the Zamboni, and I heard some figure skating teenage girl and her father have a small conversation about whether they should ask somebody for their autograph or not...so then I look over to the side and the girl squeals and whispers to her father, "oh, there he is!!". Ummmmmmmm....what? *avoid eye contact...idly walk away in random direction...*

That, was really embarassing, and they don't even know I heard them...

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"What matters is not experience per se but 'effortful study'."
"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable" ~ Christopher Reeve

well today I went to my first patch session and i won't be going back ever, because i was soo rubbish to everyone else i just sat out most of it and waited to pay for the normal session

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Eh, that's how it feels at first, but keep at it. Having the better skaters around can actually be really stimulating and help you if you let it. Just remember they don't mean to be mean or cold as they might seem nor do they necessarily think anything poorly of you, they're just focused on their skating. My first freestyle session or two was awful too, but if I could afford it I'd go to them constantly.

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"What matters is not experience per se but 'effortful study'."
"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable" ~ Christopher Reeve

ROTFLOL AnneBell that has to be the MOST original excuse I've EVER heard!
Lyle

True, though! I thought at first my blade had come loose, so went over to the barrier to get the Husband, with whom I was about to skate our "Waltzing Cats" routine, to have a quick look, and he found the jelly-baby and removed it! After which, I could skate - but it didn't do us much good, as I don't think we came anywhere....

Oh, and the next time we competed that particular routine, I tripped on my toe-rake and went splat, but luckily managed to disguise it so that most people (but probably not the judges) thought I'd meant to. Came off the ice swearing a blue streak as my knee was sore!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I have two, which in the time I have been skating is a little embarassing!

The first one was only my second week in, and I fell over getting OFF of the ice! I mean getting off! Oh the shame.

The second was last week, during my skate UK 1 test. It was the first time wearing my new skates, which is no excuse I know. As you are probably aware, part of the test is that you have to sit down on the ice, and get up again. Well I got down ok, then fell over trying to get up! So I had another go, and succeeded in getting stuck bending over! Whoops!!

Been there, done that!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Been there, done that, too. I was in a competition where every skater before me had fallen at least once. When it was my turn to skate, I kept telling myself "don't fall, don't fall" and I didn't--on the ice anyway. When I got off the ice, I caught my toe pick in a hole in the rubber mat and went cartwheeling down the mat before crashing into a trashcan. The audience was very entertained, and my friends couldn't stop laughing.

Another time I was skating outside at the Sculpture Gardens in Washington, DC, when a film crew came and set up their cameras. I was the only person there who was doing jumps and spins, and the crew asked if they could film me for a background scene in their movie. When they started filming, I promptly fell on my butt.

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"May the wind be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars."

This reminds me of an episode that took place at our rink last year. Our elite ice-dancers were being interviewed by the BBC about their hopes for the European Championships. The team had set up the cameras on the ice, and the dancers and their coach were standing and chatting to the crew, when the oldest regular skater at our rink, a man in his mid-70s, suddenly tripped and landed flat on his back, sliding into shot. He wasn't hurt - but, as the woman from the BBC said, what a great pity they hadn't actually been filming at the time, or that would have been perfect for one of those "out-take" programmes and they would have paid him a fee....

I have to admit that I, who had got off the ice by then, was laughing so hard I could barely see.....

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I was coaching my teen synchro team working on our line that traveled across the ice with two sets of Russian stroking (forward step, cross hold) into a twizzle then other footwork. I was in front of the line when we all went into the twizzle except I stepped on my heel on the way out, fell and hit my head with the line right behind me. Needless to say, everyone stopped and surrounded me while I was flat on my back clutching my head. On top of it all, the I couldn't stop the tears from the shock of falling. It was soooooo embarassing. One of the parents went to get me a bag of ice while I kept coaching. It's not that it even hurt that bad -- just the shock of hitting your head while twizzling at a pretty good clip. My shoulders were sore for a few days afterwards.

Plushenko did that too in his 2004 Worlds LP! You're in good company

I was once on a dance interval, doing the simplest dance (the one that is basically just forward crossovers/swing rolls), and was going a bit too fast when the corner came up so I tried to do it at a tighter angle than normal, but caught an edge (or my toepick, cant remember) and splatted. It was embarrasing mainly because there were lots of people watching, it was the easiest dance, and because all the 10-year-olds near me stopped to ask if I was ok...

Another time, I'd had a really good lesson and was skating well, and when going back onto the ice, because I was in a good mood, I decided to jump onto the ice instead of stepping on. I obviously didn't think much about what I was doing because I landed onto the flat of my blade and immediately my feet went out from under me! There were quite a few people at the sides who saw me, and my bum really hurt...!

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Wearing highly embarrassing costumes – a head to toe snowman suit, a catsuit, black curly whig – not all at once though. There is no way that I would agree to any of that now! Ooh and wearing that absolutely horrendous Can Can dress! Words cannot describe that hideous garment. Kateskate was part of that routine too.

During a group number in a Christmas show all of the skaters had to make a train and do a spiral. I flung my leg up and kicked the person behind me in the shin (who happened to be my skating teacher at the time) really hard with the heel of my skate! This was during the performance!

Sometimes skating tests are really embarrassing! A few years ago I failed a dance moves test and had to do a compulsory dance test straight after. I was forced on to the ice and skated the second test whilst crying uncontrollably, I was such a state – I failed the second test too and the judge wrote on my paper ‘a little nervous’ – you don’t say! What was even more embarrassing was that for months after people kept referring to that test and I met new people and they said that they had seen me at the rink before – the day of the test. It makes me cringe just thinking about it.

I have also had my fair share of embarrassing falls – one where I was attempting a biellman position in a spiral and tripped over my toe pick with my arms still holding my blade. It was horrible as I hit the ice without my hands to break my fall – I was very bruised and sore for days.

well I did the one thing i swore I would never do....this thursday I came back from the coffee break (I always fetch my coffee back to the barrier as I get cold and can't skate if I sit down in the cafe to drink it) I was miles away working out what i was going to practice on the almost empty ice, put down my drink, got on the ice and realised as I was mid-fall, that I still had my skate guards on...... Luckily it was a gentle fall, side ways, straight onto my butt. I felt so ashamed, after all I would never be so stupid as to do that..........

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Level one Field Moves......PASSED 05.06.08
Level one Free dance.....PASSED 02.10.08

GOALS FOR 2009

• Level One Compulsary dances.......PASSED 19.02.09
• Level One Elements.....................PASSED 10.07.09
• Level Two Free dance.................PASSED 19.02.09
• Level One Free...........................
• Level Two compulsory dances.......

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