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Old 01-24-2006, 07:51 AM
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Skating pro or tottering celebrity (Practice Thread 23-29 January 2006)

In honour of Dancing on Ice or Skating with the Stars!

Skating Pro: Couples lesson today. Drills weren't working very well in warm-up, so we asked the coach to look at our hold when Husband is going backwards and I'm going forwards. That's the worst, since I have a slight tendency to cut inside Husband, and he has a slight tendency to pull me inside! Worked out that it was possibly due to the fact that his RBO edge is a lot stronger than his LBO one, so he pulls round more towards the centre of the rink. Coach said I really need to push at him, which wasn't exactly helpful - what does the man think I'm trying to do? He did fix the problem in the end, though, but I can't remember how!

Step sequence is beginning to happen now, I think. And coach was even vaguely complimentary about the side pattern of our Swing Dance.

In solo work, I did one length of the best cross-cuts I'd ever done, but then couldn't repeat it! Ah well. And had a good time playing with a potential Interp - I think I'll cut it on to a CD and then we can see tomorrow. May not do it, but you never know....

Tottering Celebrity: He said there was no way in the universe I'd be able to do butterflies. Well, I thought not, but didn't want to hear it....

In the Swing Dance, coach just didn't seem to understand why I was having problems doing my Mohawk. I kept telling him I was in the wrong place on the ice, and couldn't get in the right place, and he kept telling me to push - which I was doing, if I pushed any harder I'd have a baby! I think we finally got the problem sorted after the lesson - coach did, eventually, see what I was saying and I think sort-of understood the problem, and then I realised, later, where I needed Husband to be in order to do it better.

Left skate still a bit skiddy but not too bad. Think I'll get coach's sharpener to have another look at it, though.
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Old 01-24-2006, 10:44 AM
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Ha Ha, these titles are sooo funny!!!

Skating Pro: I felt like one yesterday, we worked on our Dutch Waltz pattern and I left hubby in my dust....he got a little pissy about it tho. I had to remind him that I did this last year and did remember the pattern. So, in the name of skating relationships, I had to sloooow down and walk him through the pattern. By the time I got done, he was really mad (mostly at himself that he couldn't get it).

Tottering Celebrity: Sunday was adult skate and I had trouble working on the loop. I'm still having problems getting over onto that edge. Then I started thinking if maybe (yeah, another excuse) maybe my blade needs to be skooched over just a bit more? Something to consider when I get my new blades in and get them mounted. I will mention it to the guy. I almost get it. Anyway, I'm getting 3/4 of the way around. That's something. I guess. Back to the ice today. 2 runthroughs of my program and jumps.

Just a few more weeks to my first competition and I've got to get into the groove. I'm also going to do some more off-ice loop stuff. So far, the off-ice sit spin exercises are working nicely
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Old 01-24-2006, 12:51 PM
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Skating Pro: Have had a small revelation on my problem step in the Kilian & now the edge is starting to come around as it should & I'm much more balanced over it. Yay! Of course, it was something coach told me about 6 weeks ago, but my brain finally caught up to that part & now I can finally implement it. If only what we hear could be instantly transferred into our bodies for on-the-spot corrections, we'd all be fabulous!

Tottering Celebrity:
1. Tried skating on public sessions the last 3 days in an effort to save money. Useless!! Horrible chopped up ice & little kids everywhere. I did manage to get a few patterns in yesterday, but not up to speed, so I don't have a good sense yet if I can hold my new correction in the heat of the moment when I'm really flying down the ice.

2. Partner bailed on our practice this weekend, basically because he didn't feel like it, so I decided to have a private lesson this week & skip the team lesson, since I couldn't affort both & I really want coach to see where I am. Didn't think partner would care a bit anyway, since he's pretty off & on again in general. So emailed him to cancel, & get a note back: "no problem, maybe I'll come in anyway just to skate!!" WTH?? If he does indeed come in it will be the first time he's skated on his own in the 5 months I've known him. I refuse to feel bad about it however, since this is the only time I've cancelled on him, & I'll still be skating, just not with him.
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Old 01-24-2006, 02:40 PM
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Mrs. Redboots: I love the titles you come up with!

Skating Pro: My coach and choreographer complimented my mastering of my new program quickly. Good thing, b/c NYI is next weekend - eek! I also landed the loop each time I ran through the program, and my backspin was pretty consistent too - except for the time where I completed the spin but gut stuck on my toe pick on the exit.

My Klingbeils arrived yesterday - I had taken them to Nats and talked to the guy who was there. I tried them on for him, he made some notes, re-measured my feet, and took them back to NYC for adjustments. Now, the next step is to get the blades mounted. I'm hoping to take care of that this weekend. Then, after NYI, I can start breaking them in.


Tottering Celebrity: Messed up the scratch spin in each run through. My loop jump also needs to take off more from an edge, and I need to be quicker (less telegraphing) with the takeoff. I also need to get the footwork looking smoother. I can do the steps slowly, but when the music's playing.... And I still need more extension and hold on the first push on my back crossovers - that applies to moves and freestyle.

I'm still feeling a few effects from my fall on Sat, so I skipped jump class yesterday and used the hour break (there is a group lesson hour bet the rink FS and club FS) to try on the Klingbeils, which I had in the box in the car.
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Old 01-24-2006, 05:54 PM
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This is for yesterday:
Skating pro:
Had a near perfect runthrough of my freeskate, sans the ending backscratch.
"Practiced" a 5 minute warm up then waited a few minutes then took off sweater and gloves off for program.

Tottering celebrity:
Other than the program runthrough, I couldn't spin to save my life! Too many beginners on freestyle and coaches!

Neither one:
Coach was sick and cancelled lesson. At least I've preserved the life of my private lesson punchcard a little longer!
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Old 01-24-2006, 06:09 PM
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Okay, I'll play this week! (I liked the title, heh heh).

Pro - This morning at 7:00am, I landed the lutz-loop-axel in my program for the first time! I was particularly pleased, since it's more than 2 minutes into the program and my thighs have been known to get a little rubbery by then. I even managed to transition from the landing right into the new steps I just put in to connect me to my combination spin (which I completed nicely).

Celeb - I missed the double salchow and the sit/sit immediately afterward because I was feeling so furious at the coach who wouldn't move out of the way for me when I was trying to get into my flying camel (which was another element that can be added to my "celeb" list, I suppose).
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Old 01-24-2006, 06:11 PM
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I skipped jump class yesterday and used the hour break (there is a group lesson hour bet the rink FS and club FS) to try on the Klingbeils, which I had in the box in the car.
So. . . (drum roll). . . Did they fit?
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Old 01-24-2006, 07:09 PM
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tottering celebrity: Laced up new skates all the way to the top. Had 4 lessons in 3 sessions and boy was I tired. FM, FS and 2 dance coaches at once, they made me bend my knees, and it hurt.

skating pro: Jumps are coming back nicely w/ the new boots, spins doing okay still travel more than I like but footwork and field moves are doing much better.
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Old 01-24-2006, 07:43 PM
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Skating Pro:
  • Was practicing doing FI mohawk at faster speeds Monday night per my lesson with secondary coach last Wednesday morning. SCARY SCARY, but somehow I managed it!!! (Thank you God for keeping me safe!!!)
  • Managed a couple of wimpy (position wise) camels. Tried to get to a sit position and only managed a wimpy one rev sit. But it's better than nothing!!!
  • Saw video that hubby filmed of me skating around... and oh, my!!! I AM getting faster and more aggressive. Same with the speed of the sit too.
Tottering celebrity:
  • Yup! That's how I felt about my loop and flip jump last night!!! Can't land them w/o toe tapping to save my @$$!!!
  • Still have a ways to go on making my speed looked controlled and steady instead of looking like a.... "tottering celebrity!!!"
Debbie S... Inquiring minds wanna know if your Klingbeil fits now!!!
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Old 01-24-2006, 07:51 PM
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Last week including Friday
Tottering Celeb:

Jumps, haven't been there since my surgery. NO strength yet.
Spins, I have to slow my spins down so I can get out of them as my head is not quite with it yet. It sure is something how the drugs they give you to put you under during surgery can last for so long and make you wimpy and spaced out. ROTFLOL It was an experience.

Skating Pro:
Got my freeskate music done http://clubtecumseh.tripod.com/siteb...ternative3.mp3 . I call it Narnia Suite. I made it up of several pieces of the score.

Had it choreographed by my friend Hazel in an half hour lesson from top to bottom. Just needs some details worked on like the footwork section. We left it but now seeing how the coach I was counting on to have the footwork worked out with might not be available until the spring, I may get Hazel to do it. Hazel said I was a fast learner and was stunned on how quick I learned the program.

I've been practicing the program off-ice in my living room so that I will feel where everthing goes when I'm on the ice this weekend and Mon. and Tues.
I skate tomorrow and hopefully, my club ice will let me run through my programs and not over the kids who don't move.

I now have to work on getting my stamina and strength up so I can do the loop, flip and lutz again never mind try to learn the axel and relearn the double sal.

As it stands at this point, I only have one combination in my program. But I have room for two more. I have 8 jumping passes in my 2 min and 15 sec program. I've got a camel/sit/back catching foot upright spin combo, a sit into broken sit and a corkscrew(scratch) spin, RFO change edge to RFI spiral to LBI catch footspiral that I use to take off on a salchow/toe combo.

The first time on Friday when I got all the way through it, I had to lie down on the ice afterwards I was so tired.

I've got 3 weeks to get it ready for competition.

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Old 01-24-2006, 08:20 PM
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Skating Pro: That's what I felt like today at drop-in when there was a tour of little kids....I was lacing up my skates and the teacher with the kids said, "Oh good-we can watch you skate" I waited until the zamboni was done, paid my money, then had no excuse (this was not a cheap session)...

Then I felt like the Tottering Celebrity as I did a few very shaky scratch spins, waltz jumps and salchows for the kids. They were a rough bunch of 3-5 year olds because they started yelling for "MORE TRICKS!!!" I did a spiral and was saved my our much younger 17-year-old skating instructor, who did some very high waltz's and flips, then some nice sit spins.

Then they left and I got to run through my program twice. And work on my loop, which still suckssssss!!! I'm giving it the same time-line as my salchow, so I will get it next year
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Old 01-24-2006, 10:09 PM
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Debbie S... Inquiring minds wanna know if your Klingbeil fits now!!!
LOL! Yes, they seem to - not perfect but I guess nothing is, right? It doesn't feel like they did that much to them, but there's less room in the toe box, which was the main problem. The weird thing I noticed was that the outside ankle bone on my right foot felt really squeezed, but I guess that's just b/c they're new and need to be broken in - they were punched out a little so I worry they were punched in the wrong place, but I imagine a little skating will take care of that.

The one thing I definitely notice is that the sole feels differently than my SP-Teris - there's a rise in the arch area, so it feels like my arches are being held high up - as opposed to being flat in my current skates - does that make sense? I guess it'll take some getting used to.
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Old 01-25-2006, 05:33 AM
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Skating Pro: Good skate this morning, although the rink was freezing cold. So you had to keep moving, or you'd have frozen to the spot. Actually managed to outskate the Husband, who was gasping for breath after 3 1/2 laps of warm-up drills, and demanding a breather before we went into runs round the circle! Yaaay! Worked on the level 4 dances; things are getting easier, slowly. Managed to get round the Mohawk in the Swing Dance, still a bit rushed, but we got the pattern in the right place, for once. And if I can get low enough in the knees, I can manage the end pattern of the Fiesta far better.

Coach approves of my new Interp music, but we worked mostly on drills this morning. Dance moves still not testable, but are improving - I need to be able to hold the edges more, and get down in the knees. Back outside and inside edges okay, but swing rolls less good. Mohawk & 3-turn exercises, too. Still can't hold the entry edge on the LFI 3. Coach rudely said he hadn't noticed I was getting any lower in the knees, but when I said the front of my legs had been aching, he conceded that perhaps I had. Variable-speed F X-rolls really, really really good! Even coach said so! Changes-of-edge okay-ish.

Left skate still inclined to skid, so have left them to be sharpened again, not that they really need it, but let's see if that will stop the skidding. I think there must be a "flat spot" since I got that kick on New Year's Eve.

Tottering Celeb: Basically just the temperature in the rink. I literally couldn't feel my big toes when I took my skates off, and had to stamp around in my shoes for several minutes before enough feeling came back in them that I could drive home!
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Old 01-25-2006, 09:12 AM
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It's been forever since I've posted here, probably because I've been working to regain all the ground I lost being off the ice to have Milo...

Skating Pro: I'm working on my spins again, finally. Forward scratch would be OK, but I keep tapping my free foot down just as I pop into the spin, then picking it up into the right position. I have started to get it bending towards my supporting leg and am simply amazed at how much speed one picks up by just starting to pull in. I have no idea what it will feel like when I actually DO pull in.

My coach has also started me on the backspin as, in my former life as a dancer, my backwards turns were much better than my forwards. She thinks I may be more comfortable getting into the backspin because I can leave my free foot on the ice a little longer into the spin. She may be right -- my back spin was about as good as my forward. That's not really saying much because they both stink, ha!

I'm *thisclose* to really, really having the footwork in our synchro program. Two mohawks are freaking me out right now because the team is moving faster than I'm comfortable doing them, but I sort of two-foot my way through and still get turned around at the same time as the rest of the team. I'm a little closer each time... The twizzle we added, however, I totally rock at and actually have to skid a bit coming out of because I'm maintaining more speed through the turn than the rest of my line. Surprise! Of course, it's the "backspin" twizzle -- CCW on the right foot, so it's very comfortable for me. Who knew??

I've started working back threes and find that I have a really wimpy double three LFO-LBI. Somehow, that's easier to do than the LBI three alone -- I'm probably not checking the turn very well so it's easier to turn again than to hold the edge.

My power skating class totally rocks. I LOVE this class. My crossovers are so much better (except forward clockwise -- they are still a little steppy if I don't think really hard). We're working swing rolls with a change of edge and slide chasses and I love these drills! There's only two of us in the class, so it's basically another private lesson. The other skater is another adult from my synchro team. We've both been skating about the same amount of time. It's really interesting to see how we're progressing. She has less fear than I do, but doesn't have any polish. I look pretty, but am terrified, LOL!

And, I totally felt like a skating celebrity on Saturday. I was practicing and was approached by another adult skater who skates this particular freestyle most weeks that I'm there. She is a little older than me and is also a beginner. I was working on the entrance to my forward scratch spin (like I can really say I have this spin, ha!) and she said that she can really see a lot of improvement and wanted to know how long I'd been skating. She was so complimentary and concluded the conversation with "So there's hope for me after all!" I was truly flattered. Sometimes, on a public session I'll get a compliment from a public skater -- usually about how fast I skate (that's a laugh), but I know it's really only because I'm not waring rental skates and do crossovers around the end of the rink, but I've never been someone else's goal before. It's amazing how such a short conversation really made my week!

Tottering Celebrity: That being said, I'm still lacking some speed and power since before the pregnancy -- mostly because I haven't done a very good job losing baby weight. Working on it!

I hate being a chicken. I completely panic during one of the passthroughs in our synchro program. And I hate that I'm not comfortable with the mohawks in the program, grr.. If I wasn't such a dork, I wouldn't be afraid to actually pop into my scratch spin on one foot and I might have a spin then. And I would be eager to attempt the waltz jump as an actual jump instead of a glorified and self-important three turn.

Someday... I never thought I'd be able to do back chasses without scraping, but I did that on Saturday, so I'll eventually surprise myself with a real spin or jump. Someday….
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Old 01-25-2006, 10:08 AM
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Skating Pro: SO glad I opted for my own lesson today instead of w/ my partner! I really needed that. Coach said Kilian has definitely improved, and didn't tell me once that I needed to bend my knees more (though did scowl about no toe point). And at the very end, put on the music (!) and chased me through three (!!) patterns counting to keep me on the beat--and I did it! Terrible, flat patterns, but I kept up with the music and was balanced the whole way through and not panicking at all. WOW! I've worked really hard these last 2 weeks when I had no lessons, and I'm so happy so see it's helped.

Tottering Celeb: The new correction, while definitely working, does indeed get lost for the most part when I'm up to speed (thus the flat pattern), but at least I'm thinking about it. I think it will work as I get more comfortable with the tempo, and I also think that it's still better than it was.
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Old 01-25-2006, 02:56 PM
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The one thing I definitely notice is that the sole feels differently than my SP-Teris - there's a rise in the arch area, so it feels like my arches are being held high up - as opposed to being flat in my current skates - does that make sense? I guess it'll take some getting used to.
If it does hurt to spin or just skate after a while, bring it back! I have low arches! High arches boots makes my skating life a living hell! I have to have my boots custom partly b/c of that very reason.

No Skating Pro story... at least I'm not the skating pro in this case!!!

Tottering celeb:
GRRRR!!! I did the same drill this morning that I did last week's lesson and I hestitated going into the FI mohawk at that fast a speed!!! (The exercise is to go stroking around the rink as fast as you can for a lap and toward the end of the lap, do a mohawk and do a lap of alt. back crossovers (Yes, the Bronze Move!!!) And of course I have to do it against a couple of skaters. One skater slightly ahead of me in general... probably could compete at Bronze if she wanted to... and 2) IS a Bronze lady skater!!! Yup! Of course, I was MAJORLY creamed!!!

And if that's not enough, after that lap, she was disapointed b/c "all those weeks of drills on back crossovers went straight out the window" when I was trying to go "as fast as I can" She threatened to bring out the medicine ball to make me go do back crossovers correctly again... I told her that's NOT the problem... went out and did perfectly good back crossovers around the hockey circle with knees bent and me looking behind me.. Came back and she was like "What happened?" I said it's partly me getting used to doing them TO the pattern and partly due to me thinking that I have to do them as fast as I can instead of doing them at a manageable speed. And then I went and did the alt. back crossovers pattern at a okay to good speed (for me anyway) with my head turned and knees bent. Poor secondary coach is probably going "Hmmmmm....?"

The only time I got to "relax" was probably when secondary coach got me to start on power pulls. (Or in my case, "wiggle pulls!!!") We'll see what I get out of her on power pulls, I guess, since primary coach occasionally wants to see me do those too.
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Old 01-25-2006, 03:35 PM
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Skating Pro Sadly there's not too much to comment about here since I'm sick but I DID go to my lesson today anyway. Yay me!

Celebrity My coach decided that I should do the adult track instead of the standard track because she feels like once I start testing I'm going to want to compete. I'm not going to argue with her - I mean, she could be right. I don't care, I just want to improve.

My forwards crossovers were bad today. I don't mean bad like, not up to snuff, I mean BAD as in you would never know that I could skate at ALL based on how they looked. The forward crossover pattern is something I'm going to have to give a LOT of concentration to. I'll also need to work on the crossovers for the end pattern of the perimeter stroking.

The 3 turn pattern isn't so bad, I just really need to get my body under control. Insides were much better than outsides which was a shock. We didn't cover the waltz-8 - I think we both kind of forgot about it since she was sick too. I wish I had though since I won't see her again until next week since I have to miss group lessons this week due to work. Stupid work!!!

Beth is really being patient with my waltz jump - it's making small improvements but it's very frustrating to know that I once could do a beautiful waltz jump and now I'm just afraid so I'm holding back. NO idea what I'm afraid of, since I don't care about falling. I fall all the time! I did finally do two decent waltz jumps that made Beth happy but I know I can do much, much better. We then moved on to salchows and she had me try one from a mohawk and....STRANGE. But - doing it that way convinced me that I was using the 3 turn momentum to assist the jump so...I'm going to work on it from a mohawk to try to get the 3 turn under control.

My coach feels that I can pass pre-bronze no problem in a couple of months. Hopefully she's right but I don't just want to pass, I want to feel confident that I know what I'm doing and right now my pre-bronze moves make me feel nothing of the sort. Stupid forward crossovers!
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Old 01-25-2006, 03:45 PM
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My coach decided that I should do the adult track instead of the standard track because she feels like once I start testing I'm going to want to compete.
Remember that it is possible with the new rules to test moves on the standard track and cross over to the adult track for FS testing. However, to take Pre-Bronze FS, you would have to pass both Pre-Preliminary MIF and Preliminary MIF instead of just Pre-Bronze MIF - for Bronze FS, you would need to pass Pre-Juvenile MIF.

I think either track would be fine, b/c as I posted in the other thread, there aren't many moves that the adult track skips, and you can always learn the moves even if you aren't testing them. For example, my coach had me work on an exercise that was basically the waltz 8, to help with my power 3's.
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Old 01-25-2006, 04:07 PM
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Skating pro: worked on more of the choreography for the pairs program.

Celeb: Since it's without my partner, I'm making sure to get my and his steps learned!
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Old 01-25-2006, 06:53 PM
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Skating pro:
Had another near perfect runthrough of the freeskate today. Did a nice fast sitspin toward the end of the session.
Coach was impressed with the footwork that I put together for my Interp- this time it's the 5 step mohawk in opposite directions.

Tottering Celebrity:
The sitspin, was the bail- out in program element of the day.
Hey, the celebrities don't have to dodge oblivious little kids and coaches during their program runthroughs! I wanted sooo badly today to declare a moratorium on freestyle etiquitte!
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Old 01-26-2006, 04:21 AM
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Wednesday is lesson day!

Tottering Celebrity: Discovered I'm not centering ANY of my spins. BAH. I knew my layback was all funky, but I wasn't even centering scratch spins. They were tight, but like a little curlicue across the ice. I was focusing more on the position in the layback, and said to my coach I wanted people to be impressed with the position. She says, yeah, but they'll be more impressed that you can actually hold a position while traveling all over the place!

Skating pro: Axels looking good. Takeoffs were consistently the same, I was getting better kick through and good rotation. I just keep wussing out and opening up too early. A few even had enough rotation but I put my free foot down!

Also, Since I couldn't test for Adult Nationals in time this year , I am very tenatively considering going to Mountain Cup. I could live without a trip to Dallas, but I would LOVE to go to France. The area around Villard-de-Lans looks gorgeous, I could take a few days and go to Paris... Paris in the springtime!! It's all a very embryonic dream at the moment. Depends on if my tax refund is big and Stormy's game!!

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Tottering Celebrity: Did 2 program run-throughs; they were ok; although my shoulders have been hunched up (musclespasms!!!) so I really, really need to get my massage scheduled (mom's never have time).

Backspins: I'm not getting it (what's new?) so we tried it (again) from a 2-foot spin and coach discovered some "errors" that were preventing or hindering it: left hip creeping to the front, left shoulder also, left foot too far in front messing up my balance.

Loop: Fear of getting on that edge is holding me back, so she had me try something new--waltz-loop! And, guess what? It was mucho better!!! So, that's my homework. I'm to stop when it gets sloppy, though (my philosophy also).

Sit spin: I'm getting lower, but bailing out of it when my balance starts to go-I'm not trusting myself to find balance once it gets wonky...

There was a BIG problem with the ice last night-everyone was falling (myself included-i fell 4 times)!!! My daughter fell right on her knee and it swelled up a lot; her lesson was cut short because of it. She went to school but may have to go to the nurse for more ice treatments!
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Hi! It's me again!! After waking up with a migraine, I thought I would still go skating after work (my short day).

Just tottering: Went to public session for some more torture (practice). Worked on: back pivots for program; waltz-loop (finally clicked after a while of doing waltz-loops and loops) but still not 100% (ok, not 50% either but it's more than 25%); sit spin (ugh!!) I'm all over my blade on that-I know it's a balance issue but it's going to take tons of trying to get feeling comfy.

Left early to visit the people at motor vehicle department to re-do my van (it passed). Have to lose my plate frame, tho' as it covers the sticker
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Friday morning

Husband has a cold, so went to the rink alone this morning.

Tottering Celebrity: Seemed to take simply forever to get going, and I'm sure I must have spent most of the first hour propping up the barrier! Yet I do know I did almost all my exercises, although perhaps not very much of some of them!

Would have liked Husband there to warm up with! If nothing else, our warm-up drills really do get us moving on the ice.

Later, I ran through my new Interpretive, but it's not very good. I mean, I'm not very good! It's fun, but I'm all too aware of how infinitely better I skate with a partner..... it's just not much fun to do when I know I'm so awful. Maybe I'll not bother this year.

The ice wasn't great this morning - it was okay, but it's been better. And not a sign of any celebrity, tottering or otherwise, all week. And the manager, who we all thought had been sacked, is back, and nobody is happy about that, either!

Skating Pro: My skates, having been resharpened, are so much better and the "skiddiness" of my left skate has almost completely gone. To my relief!
I suspect that's partly why I felt so slow and clunky today - they were very sharp, to the point that I nearly cut myself when I took them off!

And even though I'm moaning away, I still had fun and stayed a full two hours, so.... and did enjoy all my favourite exercises!
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