GOOD LUCK!!!

I remember when I was taking pre-juv moves. The day before the test session, I face-planted on the three turn pattern. It was painful. But I managed to pass the next day.

Best of luck sk8tegirl06 and FlyAndCrash!!

Trust that you can do it....your coach wouldn't have had to sign up if you weren't ready...and don't do what I do and have a complete meltdown It was so bad right before my Novice Moves that I couldn't do any of them Luckily, I pulled it together and passed!

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"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

It could have been worse. You could have broken your elbow. I've done that before. Do go to a doctor and get that elbow looked after. It needs antibotics and dressing.

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"It's not age that determines but the heart." "Skating is not just a sport for the young but it's a passion for the soul of the young at heart." Brigitte Laskowski

I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008.

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I didn't skate at all this past week. I couldn't afford to start Summer Skating School when it began in July and so I had to wait until it was half done. I start up on Monday. I'll be skating the StarSkate 2 sessions 4 days a week.

Hope the blade/boot issue on my right foot gets fixed soon. I want to be getting my deep outside edges back so that I get the backspin, loop, flip, lutz and camel back. And then I'd like to get back to playing and flirting with Axel and 2 Salchow. I'd love to pass freeskate tests from Prelim to Senior Bronze but until these are right, it's a pipe dream.

It would be cool to be competing in Adult Gold.

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"It's not age that determines but the heart." "Skating is not just a sport for the young but it's a passion for the soul of the young at heart." Brigitte Laskowski

I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008.

http://eastcastlemusic.tripod.com

Singerskates Sports Music Editing

Broken? Seriously? Ouch. It's not a very big wound, just a very disgusting looking one. It's infected, but at least it's dry now. Being good with antiseptic. I think it'll heal well. Will get it checked by a doctor though - when I go check out my cough from monday

I could have skated today. Nope, it's National Day for Singapore - rink will be crowded. I would skate tomorrow - nope, it's make-up holiday for today. I really want to skate!

singerskates- hope your skates will feel great soon!

Fighting: Not skating yet, the schedule for the rink has just been posted. I've got my microbiology class on Mondays & Wednesdays 4-7pm....and I'm also working
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the skating academy classes are now being held on Saturday mornings (when I'm working) and all of the ice show practices are held
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Mondays & Wednesdays at 6pm.

I can't switch class to a daytime slot (yet) because it's full-I was lucky enough to get this slot. So, it looks like no ice show for me-maybe I'll just work on moves this year & take that daggone test this time!

GRRRRRR!!!!!

Still waiting for the freestyle schedule-that will determine when & where I will get coaching from my coach. If freestyle ice isn't looking good at my rink, I will drive to Easton (1hr away) for their 2-hour session. That is no different than last year.

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

So our rink got sold and the new owner is doing away with freestyle contracts...instead we are using a punch card system effective 2 weeks from now...

$125 for 10 1 hour punches, plus the 11th one free

Walk ons are $16 (!!) for 1 hour, $8 for half hour.

I skate 1 1/2 hours on Saturdays (1 hour private lesson, 1/2 practice by myself), so what will happen is ill have to keep paying $8 every week at the counter to buy the extra half hour...just gotta make sure I have $32 cash in my zuca every month.

also reportedly he wants to renovate the upstairs and put up a bar/grill, and then a workout room.

As far as skating, my leftside for the waltz 8 and the left side of the "wacky 3 turn pattern" for my pre-bronze moves (the banes of my existence) have really improved.

Fighting: Still haven't landed my loop! I'm jumping and still only 1/2 rotating and land two footed.

Our freestyle sessions were $12/45 minutes (and that's with the club disount). Normally, they are $15/45minutes. We officially have no "club ice" this coming season-it will all be punch cards and you can "float" to whichever session suits your needs-but they haven't ADDED any additional sessions so most people can't make them (c'mon who can attend a freestyle at 3-3:45 pm when school is in session?)

Sounds like your rink is getting an UPGRADE!!!!

And stick with the loop-it will come when it's ready; most likely when you least expect it-that's how mine was (altho I'm still landing it on the wrong foot....)

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

[Fighting]
Me and my ankle...I am about 2 weeks out from the original sprain and while it's much, much, much better than when I first hurt it, I am getting really impatient for the lingering soreness and stiffness to go away. I have the majority of my range of motion back and basic movements are fine (walking, going up and down stairs, etc. although, things can still get a little stiff occasionally), but the strength has not come back quickly and quick twisting and deep knee bend still gives that twinge of pain/achy-ness

This not jumping bologna is getting really old...I can feel myself starting to feel blah from not really exercising. While it is important to work on moves, I'm getting sick of only being able to do moves

[Dancing]
Temporary coach and I have been working on getting my moves better...today was outside rockers and power pulls....power pulls are getting better, I just need to work on the turns part

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"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

That's what ours are. Our rink is the most expensive in the area.

I'm going to take a minute to complain. We got the ice contract in the mail. No more coupons - so if we want to do walk ons we have to pay $16 instead $14 when you purchase 6 coupons. Also, we used to get a discount for X number of sessions contracted. DD and I could put our sessions together to get a bigger discount. We used to have enough to get 20% off. Now we can only get discounts for our individual session 5% for me and 10% for her. Plus, we have to take a class to get the discount. I was thinking about adding 1 more session to DD's package so she could get a 20% discount on her own, but I'd have to add another class and that eats all my savings.

Ugh! I hated that pattern.

Eventually, it will come together! Do you do these off-ice? That might help.

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

I do...it's frustrating because I can do it off ice with enough height but I just feel like a load of bricks when I'm on the ice ! Are there any weight machines in the gym that can help me develop more strength? I already use the two leg curl kind ones and I saw that there is a calf extension machine....i'm wondering if that'll help...

Now that I think about it I think the punch card is better because I was informed that they don't expire and can be carried over.....with the contracts I have to really check out my upcoming schedule to make sure I don't buy ice on the days that I might be going out late on a Friday night, or if hubby and I plan to go out on a weekend trip or something...only because we can't transfer the missed ice to the following session. We can make it up only in the current session and as an adult I can't make any ice before 6 pm during the week because of my job, they dont have anything later than that during the week. So I end up eating that loss.

The cost of the "punches" also come out a few bucks cheaper than what it used to be with the contract.

Now as long as the new management doesnt mess with the 6 am - 8 am freestyle ice on Saturday mornings otherwise im screwed.

Hi

Dancing: started to remember the program devised by coach, just needed more rhythm so as to make the whole thing look more graceful. My spirals were getting there, change foot spins not too bad either. I like the variation spin very much (it is very similar to the layback spin).

Also remembered the dance steps of ISI level 2.

Fighting: needed more work on sit spin, cannot get low enough yet. Coach trying to correct the posture at the moment, rather than me getting low.

Nearly crashed into a little girl whilst doing the program during the lesson. The little girl's coach nearly got a heart attack. Luckily my coach shouted "watch out" just in time to stop the crash from happening.

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