My health insurance only found ONE CMT in San Francisco that my insurance would cover!!! You would THINK that they have at least a good handful more out of the THOUSANDS of CMT's out there in San Francisco!!! Geez!!!

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jazzpants

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!!!

Be careful of terminology! A 1/2" Radius Of Hollow is sometimes referred to as a 1" sharpening (but it shouldn't be!) I suspect your 1" is actually 1/2" ROH. (I have never heard of skates sharpened to a 1" ROH - that wouldn't have much bite at all!)

A smaller ROH will have more bite on the ice, which means the blade will want to go its own way more than a larger ROH which will make spins harder (and stops!)

I like deep edges so I skate on a 7/16" ROH. I don't do spins yet but after a sharpening my beautiful one-foot stops go right out the window!

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

A 1" ROH is a patch grind. I doubt someone did that as very few sharpeners even know what patch IS!!!

Delusions: Didn't sleep well last night so I thought I would skip the rink session today and skate at home. I didn't do as good a job clearing the snow off the rink as I should have and the remaining dusting of snow came up rough after the flood. So, instead of skating, I waited and did another flood. By then I realized I was tired enough to be cranky and short-tempered so I watched Canadians instead. At lest some people were "on their game" today

Dreams: Maybe tonight . . . .

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

The "standard" is 1/2" so you might want to try that...but be prepared for an adjustment period. You might want to talk to your coach about it also.

I have tried several ROH's from 5/8" (didn't like-no edges at all) to the 7/16" that I really like. I have been at 1/2" for several years but harder ice has given me reason to switch.

Dreams: Almost one-footed the loop landing!!!!! After working on some of the elements of my program (and working on "more flow") and tweaking the ballet-jump (see below) we worked on the elusive loop. I can almost taste it but my fear of crashing hard is holding me back. I did several backspins to get the feel of rotation and I did manage to land some with the left foot barely down!!!!! I am so much closer than I was in September.....

as I said, I ran through my program elements and from the 1/2 lutz to the 1/2 toe walley, my coach was happy with a few that I did-good flow and speed!!! especially going into the toe-walley!!!

Delusions: no good scratch spins today (when will I ever have any???). Ballet jump has been bugging me; coach figured out why:
-looking in the wrong direction
-foot turned UP instead of kept sideways
-need to bend deeper, pick back further and get some airtime
-lead with the heel
-try to keep the leg even with the body, not in front or behind
everything else with it is good (as if there is anything else)

Also need to work on: getting better flow on mohawk sequence (drunken sailor) on spiral segment....it's much better than before but could look smoother. Also tweaked some "pushes" so I get more power!!!!

PS MORE DREAMS: My rink has added the job of Music Monitor AND required skaters in program to wear an orange. This was met with some looks at first but has now become a very good thing. Before your music starts, your name is announced along with a request to give way. Now skaters look for the skater in the orange vest. It's been a great thing to see skaters giving way! So far, we haven't even had any near-collisions! Hopefully this will continue.

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Heh! I remember colliding with a youngster at the OSU rink doing her program when she was clearly wearing her orange vest. I was visiting the rink that day and did I feel sheepish after the tangle! They must have wondered who the hillbilly skater was who didn't seem to have a clue.

Dreams: Falling snow today made for a light public session at my home rink. I tried to make the 1pm session, but couldn't get enough traction to motor up the hill in front of our house. The snow truck came by later and I made the 3:30 public session. Spins, jumps -- all frowned upon officially during public sessions -- were ignored by the bored rink guards today.

Delusions: Like last week, this coming week (and weekend) will be too busy to take advantage of much freestyle time. Darned job keeps getting in the way of skating fun!

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Bill Schneider

There's a solution to that Bill!

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

It would be accompanied by abject poverty.

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Bill Schneider

Urgh- we had lots of snow today and had to shovel for about an hour (although, husband did most of it) to get to the rink- I got there and the first hour had been canceled for hockey. THEN they didn't cut the ice before the session started, so I didn't end up skating.

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