Mrs. Redboots, Steve Kline is a baseball player for the St. Louis (STL) Cardinals.

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Wang chung!

I've seen them practice this program and Mel's right, it is a riot. Also technically challenging.

It will be fun to see the final outcome.

Yawn.... Dragged my sorry bum out of bed Saturday to get on the ice at 7AM for synchro -- only had 6 people there so it became a regular freestyle. We played the music we're considering for our program while skating. It was nice to skate to music. Because our rink in in a mall, it's not easy to hear music during public sessions and there's none playing on freestyles unless someone's rehearsing a program.

Then I had a lesson at 9. Still no progress on 3 Turns. Instructor says I clearly understand what's supposed to happen and that I'm pretty much doing it correctly, but that I just need to stop bailing on the turn. We did a circular exercise 3-turn, mohawk, 3-turn, mohawk to see if we were rotating completely and I was rotating well, just not on one foot. Sigh... I just know that one of these days this will click and I'll not even be able to imagine how much I struggled.

The good news is that I can apprently do mohawks and choctaws without thinking.

Forward edges are still coming along nicely and getting a good, relaxed rhythm. YAY!!

I'm making up a lesson tomorrow night. Wonder who is teaching it? I'll be gone from Wednesday until the following Wednesday, but I'm taking my skates with me. Perhaps a change of venue will help me get these turns?

Adios and good luck with the week!!!

Been away on a sort of training camp with my club so lots of Smiles!

First of all: Learned to do toeloop and salchow! Always thought I would have months and months of worries about them, but half an hour of private lesson did the trick. They feel easy as long as I don't chicken out, and coach says the length is v. good. Wohoo! ... Am v. happy.

Also seems to be getting the one-foot-spin right. Yay! Well that certainly took months and months of worries...

Just sad I can't go skating again before the rink opens in September.

gary, are you going to be around for the competition? Hubby won't be, he just told me he has to go to traffic school. That's what you get for trying to show up a bunch of hot-rodding teenagers in a speed trap.

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Wang chung!

Sorry Mel, but I won't be there. Susan and I took a mini vacation this past weekend and I'm going camping/fishing from the 24th to the 27th. Next weekend will be full of all the chores I didn't do this weekend and prepping the trailer for camping.

If anyone videos for you, I would like to see your final production.

Well, what practice I got today was all . I just got my blades sharpened and was trying to stop, hut a rut and went down backward. My wrist really hurt, but I shook it off.... until about 10 minutes later when I couldn't move my hand. My coach & a friend rushed me to the ER and, sure enough, I broke my left wrist. While still at the rink and crying, first words out of my mouth were: I have a competition in 2 weeks!!! Not anymore. Can't even skate for 3-8 weeks. I'm miserable, in pain, and BORED!

The only was the support that everyone on my session gave. They were really great and got me calmed down, got everything of mine together, and wished me luck. You do get to be a great family in figure skating clubs!

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Oh, what a bummer . I hope you heal up really fast!

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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

Oh, poor you, what a miserable thing to happen! Are you sure you can't skate - I know neither Tashakat nor DBNY felt able to while their respective wrists were in plaster, but I also know a young lady who broke hers one Tuesday and only took about 2 days off before she was back skating with her cast, which slowed her down not at all! Mind you, she is a dancer, not a free skater.....

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Thanks sk8er1964 and Mrs Redboots!

As to skating, I'm freestyle and ice dancing, but the doctor AND my coach have banned me from the rink, so I don't have much of a choice. Plus, if I fall again I'd be out for longer. I'm just not chancing that! It's bad enough I may still have the cast when my University starts up again, but not skating for longer than 8 weeks would just drive me more insane!!!!

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^^I'm not positive, but this past season I broke my wrist, and had a cast on it...the doctor just taught me how to fall with teh cast on so if I fell i wouldn't hurt myself even more. This was smack in the middle of competition season and I couldn't stop skating..so we talked it out..haha actually, the day that I got my cast I went and skated two hours on my way home from the hopital!! However, i COMPLETELY understand if you don't want to risk it..just letting you know there might be more options

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.:* Your feet can learn the steps, but only your heart can skate them. *:.

Of course, if both her doctor AND her coach banned her from the rink... ummm... there's no "talking it out!"

TreSk8sAZ, I hope you'll get well really soon... Do exactly what the doctor tells you and you might be surprised how fast you'll be back on 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!!!

TreSk8sAZ-- I hope you get better REALLY soon!!! And hopefully you will be able to get back on ice sooner than expected!

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"winning isn't everything... wanting to is."

" the only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary"

"It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at pracitce that counts; it's what you put into the practice."

Thanks guys! I have my next appointment tomorrow to get the cast (i'm in a splint right now) and see how long I'm off ice. Hopefully it'll be no more than the 3 weeks they set as the minimum!

Thanks for the thoughts!
~ Tre

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Big Daddy Frown

Armed with the video of my Prelim program (have decided to resurrect that in order to actually 'skate' rather than just piddle around with elements) I went straight to the rink from work. I had been doing the Adult Classes as a 'get my confidence back' exercise and they're letting us have the ice for a 'nominal' fee until the courses restart as otherwise it will be empty. Except that they're charging £5 for 45 minutes for ice that hasn't even been cleaned! It may not sound much to a lot of people here but when you think that the 45 minutes with 1/2 hours tuition usually costs only £7 it is clearly a case of a rip-off. It's NOT that I couldn't afford it but on principle I told them to stuff it (I could, after all, go to a patch for 2.25 hours for the same price!). Grrrrr. Why is it that some rinks are only out to make as much money from the regulars without any improvement in service (our patch prices went up 4 times in 18 months and then did a massive leap of 40% last year!). We don't even have a proper Zamboni at the moment.

Anyway ..... I have two free passes so I'll just use them for the next couple of weeks.

Hope to be able to talk about my SKATING next week

x

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What is it with London rinks and Zambonis? Nor do we.... Perhaps it's the weather?

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