In the non-skating area, they were talking about Christmas wishes. If you could choose any one (or more) skating wishes, what would they be? (Realistic or unrealistic apply.)

For me, they would be:

• To get 2-3 solid doubles by the next AN
• One of my adult skating friends gets her crossovers
• Another adult skating friend gets her lutz
• One of my kid skating friends gets her axel
• My coach achieves his next skating goal
• To go to the Mountain Cup

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown

I want to go to the Mountain Cup with you Sk8er1964! My friends and I have talked about it for years. That and Skate Aloha every spring.

My wish is simple...just a nice camel spin. That's all I've ever wanted

Let's see...I would like...

• a faster camel spin
• my layback spin to come back
• power threes on the right foot that don't suck
• a flying camel to return
• get some courage back to try some more advanced jumps

I've been out of the freestyle loop for a few months, having focused on my moves for the most part. Next session, though, I get to start on some of the Silver moves. Yay.

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All that glitters has a high refractive index.

What a great question! Let's see, without asking for a miracle, maybe St. Nicholas will bring me:

∙ The return of my jumps, including the axel.
∙ More extension on my layback spin.

That's enough. There's no star in the east tonight, so I won't ask for doubles.

For Christmas I want:

- all my doubles up to lutz consistent
-land, or have good attempts, at double axel in the next year
-compete regionals
-make it to Jr Nationals as an intermediate and have all my doubles. I'd say 'and have a triple too', but i know that is asking Santa for way too much

Lofty goals(wishes), i know, but hey, thats what christmas is for- wishing for the unordinary and far-fetched stuff!

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"I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?"

Great topic!!! Let's see now....

Dear Santa,

I've been an angel all year. Could you please bring me all the elements needed so I could pass my Bronze Moves and Bronze FS (so I would be eligible for AN?) Pretty please with sugar on top?

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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!!!

To have all my doubles (maybe not the axel) by the end of the spring season...and I wish them to be consistant!! I really have to work hard on that!

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1. A Biellman spin.
2. A Russian split jump.
3. A flying sit that actually tucks and gets up off the ice.
4. Consistent double-toe and double-loop jumps.
5. Intermediate MIF patterns that test judges would be happy to pass me on.

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

Dear Santa:

I would love to have for Christmas:

1) My toeloop which is currently being most evasive

2) My one foot spin and not look like a drunken Flamingo
doing it.

3) My back crossovers, especially more speed and more grace.

4) Knocking about 30 years off my age. 28 would be nice.

5) Some day getting it all together so I can try AN at least
once.

I have been a good boy all year and have eatern all my Spinach and Brussel Sprouts.

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Keeping School Figures Alive!!

I would like:
~Land my Axel and Doubles solidly~
~Pass my Preliminary skills~
~Let my younger friend get her canskate stage 4~

Dear Santa,

For Christmas I would like the ability to shut my brain off (and the negative dialog that goes with it) at competition and just skate the program from my heart.

Please, Santa, help skaters everywhere understand that competition is about being the best you can be and fulfilling the potential in each of us individually and that the real winners at competitions are not always those who win the trinkets, but are the skaters who dig down inside and rise up to their personal best.

Finally Santa, remind us all that sucess in life, and skating comes in very measured, small doses. Encourage us to celebrate all the good things we have learned and to appreciate their importance in the big picture. Beautiful programs, grand jumps and spins start by mastering simple edges.

It's Christmas everyday when your a skater!

If I could only choose one thing for Christmas, I would ask for a scratch spin. Other things I wouldn't turn down would be to have all my jumps up to lutz consistent, to be working on the axel (and successful with it), to be having regular lessons again and be making obvious progress, to be a good spinner, to be able to move like Oksana Baiul on the ice, to get back into ice dance again, etc etc etc. Pretty please, Santa? I want a scratch spin

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"It’s never too late to skate at any age." - Alexei Mishin.

Dear Santa,
All year long, you have probably been watching from the North Pole as I struggle for a clean, consistent loop jump, and more complete undercuts on my backcrossovers. That's all I want for Christmas this year, as they are the critical isssues on passing my Adult Bronze MIF and FS tests!
Wait, I forgot one thing- we have started a new club down here in Southern VA and we are eliglible to apply for USFSA provisional status on December 26th! Can you help us on that one please? We need help with negotiating club ice- management has been a little uncooperative with us! Thanks!

- Better prelim moves
- An uncheated axel

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- Ashley

To stop bottling out of everything!
A decent spin
3-turns that actually cover the ice
To win a dance competition against half-decent opposition
To meet up with Elsy2 and Sk8r1964 at the Mountain Cup (by the way, if either or both of you two would like to join the Mountain Cup Yahoo Group, let me know; ditto if you haven't seen this year's schedules, which are now out).

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

A loop jump
A camel spin
Backward inside and outside 3's please.

with only one more lesson before christmas I can't see me getting them. Maybe I'll have to settle for christmas 2004!!!

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'skating is not just a sport - it is an obsession'

I want all of the things everyone else has already wished for, but I'd settle for a decent right front outside edge.

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Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau

Ok, Santa, please keep in mind I've been very, very good this year. I'm training super hard and I'm probably getting two A's and a B in school this semester.

I'd like a partner, first and foremost. It'd be really nice if he were hot and single too, but as long as he's a guy my level willing to skate with me I'd settle for that.

I'd like to get my Novice moves going a little better. I really should get someone to just teach them to me, but I don't have enough lesson time right now to do anything but work on my dances.

I'd like to finish my Silver dances, if you could come up with some way for me to actually be able to test them without having my coach be away or working and without a stupid snowstorm coming up. If the best you can do is send someone else to test them with me if necessary, I could deal with that. (Especially if he's young, hot, and... ok, I'm getting greedy here. Never mind. )

I'd love to get one Pre-Gold passed by this time next year.

I suppose everyone else is asking for things for other people too... so Santa, please let my best friends skate well at Nationals and maybe get an international this year. I know that's probably more than they're hoping for, but they're my best friends and they deserve it, b/c they help me out a lot and they're the best friends I could ask for. And please let everyone from the rink skate well at Nationals and Worlds.

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Dear Santa, well, as you know I am finally 25 and can go to AN, so I am asking for a nice consistent axel so I can be competitive in Silver.
I'd also like to pass my Intermediate moves within the next couple months since I have been working so hard on them all year.
I'd like to pass my Gold moves by summertime.
And last, I'd like to make final round in Silver I at AN in April.

My MAJOR wish is to be able to get back on the ice again.

If that happens.............I want to head to Skate Aloha with Elsy2 (wasn't our original dream to go in '04?) then Mountain Cup with her and Sk8er1964 with my Silver program that is still waiting to be debuted.

Dear Santa,

This year, I would like to find a couple of nice fast Tango Romantica backwards twizzles, the sort of twizzles that might make testing a possibility.

The opportunity to upgrade some of my "pretend" double jumps to "real" double jumps would also be appreciated.

I have some nice home made biscotti to put out for you this year.

• land double flip
• layback spin
• flying camel
• double lutz
• outside spread eagle!!!

Dear Santa:
I have been very good all year and you've been good to me already during Christmas in July with a consistent double sal and toe, but for Christmas I'd really like a double loop and flip (in the program, too) and the strength to finish my program the way I start it at Mids and AN's.

Dear Santa,
I would love to have my skaters be the best that they can be. I would love for my Junior/Senior lady to get at least two triple consistent. For her to make it to Mids. I would also like my two Intermediate's lady's to make it to final round at Regionals. And for everyone to get all there double consistent and have fast spins.

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Dear Santa, I'd really like to get a consistent axel back this year. I would also like to improve my stamina so I can make it through my program and the Novice Moves test. I would like to pass my Silver dances by the summer.