Hey NoVa, the Emmy nominations were last week and the Oscar nominations won't be for awhile! Can you lay off the drama, please?

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Gotcha back... as long as we understand each other's dilemmas. (Sound interesting actually!!! )

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I agree with Terri on this one. Although Davin is awesome you're a pretty awesome spinner yourself. Think about it. You have a great camel, a good low sit, the Toller-esque catch leg upright, the half-Biellman, flying-camel catch-foot and all with good speed. And that's just the stuff that I happen to have seen. Don't sell yourself short! It's bad kharma (and a little too Dawson's Creek-ish if you ask me. )

Frank

Meow! Pot -- kettle -- black!

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Nope, that dress is only available in a size petite! At 5'7" that won't work for me...

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Dude,I don't think so! I had a real dilemma about Peach until last week, and most people on the board (including you and Loops) knew about it! Hissss!!!!

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Okay, so at least we tried that!

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Oh well. After listening to your music, I'd wear something a little more sophisticated. I sent loops a photo of a dress she's welcome to borrow 'till yours are ready. It's copper and black - and has the requisite sequins.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13...rnationals.jpg

It also has good fortune - a silver in masters pairs at AN, and a 5th in silver finals at AN.

Thanks, flo. We might just take you up on that offer. Apparently, we're getting fitted for outfits this weekend. <<crosses fingers>>

(And my coach and I choreographed my entire singles program this morning ... I got lost on the rocker/choctaw step , but I'm sure the program will be changed 100 times from now until year's end.)

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Hey - I've got that dress! I wear it over a black T-shirt, though (long-sleeved in winter), as I don't get my upper arms out (and I need a bra with straps if I'm to skate with no discomfort). I only didn't bring it to wear at the dance session at Adult Nationals as I'd bought a dress the previous day which packed smaller! I often wear the red-and-black to dance clubs, and plan to wear it to RIDL matches in future - the dress I have been wearing is suddenly a bit big and needs pinned, which is a pain in the you-know-where when you need to go to the loo!

Anyway, the point is, I can vouch for that dress, it's lovely!

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Someone describe that move, pretty please?

I don't understand the "Signature of Club Officer" - we never have that on competitions here, you just have to give your NISA number. Obviously we get someone to sign when we are doing forms for Mountain Cup, etc, but it's considered very unusual (and no, although Husband is a club officer of both the Figure and Dance clubs, he likes administration, can you imagine, he doesn't sign mine!).

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So you are competing in singles this season, I presume?

Where are you going for your pair outfits, by the way? Is he/she in the DC area?

Competing this season in singles? ... well, eventually. I've learned that the only way to prevent my coach from getting me to work on gold moves is to work on my program.

Our designer is a silver-level adult female skater. We've seen examples of her work worn by other adult skaters (and some who frequent this forum). She is in the DC area ... well, outside of the DC area (~20 miles north of Leesburg, Va.).

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Inside Slide Chasse sequence...RFI-LBI mohawk, RBO3, LFI slip step to RFI, slip step to LFI-RBI mohawk, LBO3, RFI, LFI, RFI-LBI <starts the repeat>. The slip steps are not just "put the other foot down" but should have some power generation with them. There should be a rip or growl of the edges on the FI-FI-FI steps, as well as even flow, good posture and body alignment over curving edges and an even cadence.

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

Boy, you SUUUUUURE hate those forward crossovers on the power circles, doncha??? (I hate my back crossovers too, but like it or not, I gotta do them for my tests...)

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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!!!

To quote my coach this morning: "Ok, let's maybe do forward crossovers to an Ina Bauer ... No, wait! We want to minimize the number of forward crossovers. Actually, you probably shouldn't do any at all."

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Thanks. Sounds eminently do-able, with the possible exception of the BO 3s.....

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Nova,
Do back crossovers into a bauer. We did them as a pair - backward X down the length and just as you hit the corner, go into pair outside bauers.

That's what I'm doing ... (but this is for my singles program).

And Loops only allows me to do one 'me' moment in the pairs program--that's on a back catch-foot spiral!

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If you do it together it's a wee moment! Ha ha ha.
Sorry no coffee yet.

That being said, just answer the $20,000 question:
Are you going to Peach?

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Maybe. (And I thought it was "the $64,000 question?" Hmmm ... inflation at work?)

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I don't understand the "Signature of Club Officer" - we never have that on competitions here, you just have to give your NISA number. QUOTE]


That's because, speaking from my 20 year administration of my club's Open, people LIE.

Supposedly the club officer's signature means that the information on the entry form is correct, the skater is indeed a member in good stand (i.e. doesn't owe outrageous sums of money) and is not competiting below their test level (i.e. cheating). In reality, some officiers sign the form before it's filled out or don't even read the information on it and have no clue what the skater's standing or test level is. Basically, the signature then means that the skater has the club's permission to enter that event, no more.

And 99% of the time, that's fine and nothing more comes of it. In my club's dinky little open, we get people who put in the wrong birthdate which puts the skater in an "easier" flight, or the wrong event level ("No, you cannot enter Pre-Juvenile if you've passed Intermediate."), gender ("Is Jordan male or female? You checked both."), club ("Which 'CFSC' are you a member of?"), discipline ("You need more than one skater to be a team."), etc. Most of the time the mistakes get caught before the competition but every year, there's one or two who show up to skate in what is obviously the wrong group - a girl in a Boy's FS, a ten-year-old in a flight full of teenagers, - or as in happened a while ago - a skater who had tested up TWO levels over the one she had entered, recognized because TWO of the judges on the panel had judged her test and remembered her. It's amazing and appalling what some people will do to get their name on the top of the results sheet.

The last few years, we've required the coach to sign the form as well as the club, just to cut down on the post-schedule phone calls to change skaters put in the "wrong" event. And we charge a fee to switch a skater to an event that's different from the one on the form.

Now that USFSA has on-line registration for qualifying events, the signature isn't as important (I liked it because it let me, as president, keep track of who was entering what) but it's still up to the club to contact Headquarters and let them know who has outstanding bills. The country's just too big with too many members to keep tabs on.

Thank you for that.

I think our club system is very different to yours; clubs really only matter for matches - Southern League, Team Challenge, etc, where you skate for your club rather than as an individual. We skate for our club - and for another club - in two Recreational Dance Leagues, but other than that, it is the rinks that provide teaching ice, etc, often by selling it to the teachers, who have to recoup their costs from their skaters.

Our coaches have to sign our test forms - and provide their NISA numbers, so that NISA can check they are qualified teachers and that you are a member in good standing, and pass that information back to the test chair, but not competition forms. Even for those competitions where you may only enter if you are taught by one of the teachers at the rink, they don't have to sign, but the club would check if the competition secretary didn't recognise who you were!

But, as you say, your skating community is rather larger than ours!

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Well, you've got less than 24 hours to make up your mind!

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