Precisely!

Still nothin!

My issue still has not shown up!!

Something tells me we got it and my husband and/or the dog hid it!!

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Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

People please! Before you nail me to the......(NO REFERENCE TO THE CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY)

Just trying to bring some levity here. I thought the article was very well done. I did find some irony in the TIMING of the article.

As a fairly new competitor it was nice to have some things cleared up about who to speak to and when.

I like to think of my self as a big supporter of adult skating. I am sorry if my glib comment caused some of you to be offended. It honestly was not my intent.

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I, too, liked that article about prepping for adult competitions.

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

Hmm - for whatever weird reason, mine stil has not come!!

What gives?????????

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Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

East coast here - I got mine yesterday.

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Hmm, I wonder if the mailings are done alphabetically club name? Or alphabetically by state? My club's name starts with the letter C; my state's name starts with the letter M.

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Can't be alphabetically by club name, I got mine a week ago last Friday and my club starts with a W. USFSA number?

My USFSA number starts with 15 (mine is 7 digits long).

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STILL don't have my SKATING magazine!!!

ETA: I typically don't get mine 'til about 2.5-3 weeks after everyone else anyway, so I'm NOT surprised with the delay.

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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!!!

I don't think so. My coach's USFSA number is way before mine and he got his magazine later. And we live in the same city. I think there is honestly no system whatsoever!

Had to go back and read the original post after seeing that quoted. . . Now I see you didn't mean *that* kind of "adult."

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I don't have the latest issue but I just moved so i don't expect to ever see that one , However I see that someone mentioned the issue on Adult skating . Its true we do have to educate our coaches at times on procedures and rules regarding adult skating , after all there in business to make money as well as have fun and most of there income comes from regular track skaters.. . I am fortunate that my coach spends a lot of time researching this stuff and often comes up with whats required without me having to look things up . ( Maybe because she knows Im to lazy to do it ) However she keeps me on the strait and narrow with the regs etc. but still allows me to be creative and entertaining . We are a good match and her creative talents have been a blessing to enhancing my ability on the ice.. Id like to get her featured in the Magazine at some point but I have no idea how I would go about doing this .
Any clues...?

Usual procedures for bulk mailing is delivery is at the descretion of the post office where you live, but has to be done within 2 weeks of the intended delivery date. A magazine tech gets in the Chicago suburbs may arrive on March 15, and black sheep's, closer to the city where there may be more mail, may not get delivered until March 30.

BTW, I got mine three days ago in West Michigan.

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Wang chung!

I still haven't got mine.

I also liked the article for the adults. It only seems reasonable that we know the rules be prepared and leave the referee alone as they do have a large job to do. It does seem like common sense but the fact that it had to be said also says a lot...

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Me neither! Then again, I haven't checked my mail today. But wouldn't it be ironic if I don't even get this issue of SKATING 'til AFTER I'm back from Adult Nationals.

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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!!!

I FINALLY got mine yesterday. The article about Adults was good especially after having seen what happens at Sectionals (nothing bad, just observationally).

also very nice article about Gary Visconti in the "Where are They Now?" section - this is the 2nd month in a row that someone I know (or knew) was in Skating Magazine!!

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Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

I JUST got my SKATING magazine THIS MORNING!!! SHEESH!! About TIME!!!

Yeah, it's true that you have to rely on yourself to be informed of the rules, especially since your coach may have a million and one things to think about. I mean they're only human. (Plus from my experience, a lot of the coaches out there DO NOT know anything about adult skating... especially if their students are pre-dominantly kids...) It's really up to you to know the rules yourself. (I've had times where I had to remind my primary coach of stuff too. He's only human here...)

I don't know if seeking out the judges after an event is a great idea at times. I mean... they may have done tons of events at that point and I would think that s/he probably wouldn't even remember you or your program at that point....

WOW, doubletoe! Your primary coach looks VERY GOOD for a guy who's 64!!! (Must be the ice... )

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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!!!

Last name: "G"
Club name: "C" - although I started the season as an independent member.
State name: "N"
USFSA number: 48... (It's six digits long, assigned in the early 1980's.)

LOL - maybe it's by FIRST name. My first initial is "L"

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Sorry to tell 'ya but given that Black Sheep had gotten hers a while back and her first initial's a "D", that shots the first initials theory.

I personally think that given this is sent Bulk Mail that it depends on how efficient your Bulk Mail postal service is in your area. It would explain everything for me.

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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!!!

Just a thought! Maybe the USFSA sends stuff in reverse order?

I don't know because our Canadian skating mag is done online and is emailed to your if you subscribe to it.

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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 think Mel's right on the bulk mail and it woule explain why all the family mags show up pretty much on the same day

LOL! Now that would make for an interesting interpretive program...

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I like what they said about the skaters wanting exceptions to the rules. There's been a lot of that at AN's lately. Also good were the suggestions for after the event. I still remember at one AN, a skater won the event and was actually crouched down in a corner sobbing hysterically. He was followed by a bevy of other skaters.

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