I was sitting here making a list of things for my daughter to work on tomorrow at the rink. (always seems like i cant think of things when we get there).

And i thought.. How fun..

What is the hardest thing right now you are working on that is just driving you nuts??

For my DD its the mohawk.

Preliminary alternating threes on the line. They are getting better, but still quite

There are technically more difficult things that I've got already, but these threes are the hardest for me.

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My axel! I have been working on them for what feels like forever....I couldn't land that jump for the life of me when I was 14, and now I have been working on it again, and it's so close, but not landed yet...a couple of the coaches have commented that we need to have a party when I finally land it because I work so hard on them...they are now further around and I'm pulling in a lot better, but I am just so with them...

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Skating Dreams

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

The diagonal patterns on the junior MIF test (goal is to test in July).

Improving twizzles and loops for use in step sequences in freestyle program.

And I just started freestyle again this year for the first time since I was a kid, so getting my axel back and improving spins so I can be competitive in silver.

Gold MIF. Brackets. Ugh.

I feel your pain!! I complained about those and when I finally passed by Intermediate moves, the first thing out of my mouth was "I don't ever have to do brackets again!" But then, at synchro tryouts last night we were supposed to be doing 3-turns in the field and I so wanted to do the brackets in the field because I had been doing those for months!! oops

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Skating Dreams

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

double axel. NEVER gonna be able to land one, i'm convinced.

LFO rockers are too

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Youtube Videos

I actually like the brackets, but when you (I) fall....splat!

Probably double sal when I get back to it.

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All of my "in-between" skating at the moment are my element right now!!! (Meaning proper crossovers where it's more of a progressive than an actual crossover, mohawks and 3turns at speed, etc.) But DAMMIT...I am determined to get it right!!!

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Cheers,
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!!!

Salchow. I seem to get no speed into it so I run out of juice. I did land a couple yesterday for the first time but they were clumpy and ugly and probably looked nothing like a Salchow whatsoever!

The three banes of my life at the moment are:

Turns at speed (fast 3-turns and mohawks): I posted about this a couple of months ago, and still giving me a headache. Getting a bit faster, but it is taking soooooo long!
Double Twizzles: Just cannot get my weight in the right place to do the second one.
Backward inside 3-turn: Less said about them, the better!

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Amanda

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance . . . "

My Skating Journal

Right now I'm working on healing so that I can get back on the ice. A freak accident three weeks ago left me with badly torn hamstings and damaged abductor muscles on one leg. I'm having regular physio to help promote the healing and now the injury site is improving but I have problems with my knee and tightness in my calf muscle as a result of the damage done.

Nicki

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Oh Nicki, how awful! Will you be all right in time for Bracknell?

I'm struggling with presentation at the moment - my main issue is "free leg creep", where my free leg doesn't stay where I put it! Also pointing my toes.

And the rocker-bracket that I really do want in our free dance, and right now isn't happening.

For Husband, it is loop jump, flip jump and camel spin!

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

Trying to land a good axel in my program. I have no trouble doing an axel by itself, but when that music is playing . . .arghhh!. I moved it from the end of the program to the beginning, and it's working much better, but we'll see if it actually happens in the competition next Saturday.

oh, so many things...

Flip. I just do not understand this mental block I have with this jump! GRR
Camel. I have to try it again with my newly-sharpened skates.
Power pulls.
RBI 3-turn to passing standard in silver moves -that's a toughie for me. I think the LBI one will be better but I haven't done this pattern in front of my coach yet.

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Revised Official 2010 Goals checklist
Skate __
New boots __
(lowering the bar for 2010 as I haven't skated in a year)

I'm actually enjoying learning this stuff. I'm getting ideas for my next footwork pattern for my next program!

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This space has been put on hiatus for retuning....

Thanks Annabel
I'm really not sure. I'm sure I'll be back on the ice by then, but not sure if I'll be back by the closing date and I know I won't be able to go straight into a competition after weeks off with little preparation, especially with the degree of the damage I've done - my physio said she's never seen bruising like it. It's a case of wait and see but I'm feeling positive that I'll be back on the ice before too long, even if I have to keep it at a slow pace to ease myself back in.

Nicki

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Hardest is kind of a weird word. The most difficult skill I'm working on right now is probably a camel. The things I've been working on longest (and therefore the hardest for me) is a two foot turn at synchro speed and a right to left inside mohawk at synchro speed.

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

axel, silver moves, not getting all scrunchy on the lutz

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

Wang chung!

Getting my axel and double sal NOT to be two-footed! Grr. Also, getting used to new blades!

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"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" ~ Frederick Douglass

Technically the hardest thing I am working on is double lutz, but I find double loop harder.

Double sal-double loop and double sal-double toe. I'm landing 'em, but the second double's always cheated.

getting back ON the ice! Since my surgery I wasn't allowed. I've been released and given the green light "with caution" i.e. common sense....but i can't seem to get going (plus it's a 1.5 hr drive each way depending on the traffic).

Maybe my chicken feathers are showing... but I'm a little more tentative lately...

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Getting the double toe to not be pimpy small, especially in the program.

Getting the double loop back and working on the double flip.

B-3-B on the dang Novice moves (all the rest of the moves are progressing nicely and could be test ready in a month, but the second set of the four B-3-B suck)

Trying to find my foot on the back camel.

Any freaking jump beyond a salchow or toe loop.

I'm working on a back outside hydroblade but it's mostly a question of having the time to do it when I'm not working on dance or the FREAKING JUMPS. )