My first programme had:

sit spin
three jump
loop
forward spiral
flip
salchow
mini step sequence
toe loop
upright spin

I remember I was so excited my coach let me start a programme. I think its best just to do what you do best - quality easier elements rather than scrappy difficult elements.

For my first-ever competition in February of 2005, I had a nicely choreographed program to "The Impossible Dream" that contained lots of edges, mohawks and spirals, with a couple of one foot spins and waltz jumps thrown in for elements.

I skated out to my starting point and took my starting position, the music began and.... I drew a complete blank! I could not remember a single thing I was supposed to do! The solo was just plain gone! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak So I just made it up as I went along.

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My first solo program was in 1992 at the ISI Delta level. I skated to the theme song from Hill Street Blues.

At my 1st competition, I fell right at the end of my program, then got off the ice and bawled my eyes out. I still got 1st place, though

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I've got mad salchow disease!

I'm still trying to get my coach to let me ditch my very-crappy-almost-unrecognizable sitspin in my program. I'd rather end with my nice 2-foot or 1-foot spin or even a lunge.
My sitspin really, really, sucks..... it's very bad (it's the end of my program too)

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

Pre-Bronze, Fantasie Impromptu, and I was in a black dress with a white mock turtleneck collar, white stripe down the middle, and white band on the sleeves. What did I do?

alternating outside 3s
lunge
one foot spin (in flamingo leg position!)
waltz/tap toe/waltz combination
half lutz/toe loop
back spiral to forward spiral
falling leaf
waltz 3's into a salchow/mohwak/salchow
2 foot spin.

I came in 8th out of 9. I was just happy I didn't throw up.

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Champagne in 2005, 2008, 2009 - who's next out of the pre-bronze club...?

Wang chung!

My first program/competition was also ISI FS 1. I hated those BI edges too! I skated to Yanni's "One man's dream". I remember the big element being the waltz jump. I used the same music for ISI FS 2 & 3 and then my Bronze FS test. I was so sick of it by the time I was done with it.

From the time I started, I could not wait to have a program. It was kind of a life long dream to skate a program to music. I started bugging my coach about it the 2nd week that I had private lessons with her.

NOW you know why I'm NOT competing!!! I'm sick of MY "Yanni" piece (ironically off the same album, called "Until the Last Moment.") But I am doing it one more time for my Bronze FS test.

Okay, maybe I'll consider PattyP's old piece too... that was one of my other choices too!!! (You still have your tape/CD from Bronze FS, PattyP? Maybe I can "reuse" it for my next number!!! )

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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!!!

I skated to the music from ET. It was a trainwreck and a half. I had some serious bad habits that were not corrected by my then coach. I always used to wonder why I always seemed to come in next to last. Looking back, I think I get it.

It was a Basic Skills program.

Guess what?! I managed to get in Freestyle!! My first "program":

2 Waltz Jumps
Scratch Spin/One foot spin
Half Flip
Step Sequence (kinda mini)
1 Salchow and waltz/salchow combo
Lunge
Biellman (A new spiral thingy I learned <3)
The Ugliest Camel Spin You've Ever Seen
Forward and backward arabesque spiral

and some extra things.

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Whatever you do, you’ll never be wrong
As long as you reach for it
When you reach for it, nothings to far
And its never to long, as long as you reach for it
You can dream on it, everywhere its there

- "Reach" by Caleigh Peters

That was 7-8 years ago! No CD. I found only one tape labled Adult Bronze, unfortunately I don't have a tape player to play it on. I'll take it to the rink next week. It's either Yanni or Cats. Unfortunately I lost a lot of my early music as I have had my skate bag stolen not just once but twice. The first time was durning my Bronze days...in fact, I had to cancel my first test as I had no skates.

My first solo program was for my ISI freestyle 4 test a couple of months ago...my former rink in NJ didn't make us test programs, which I now know was bad and did nothing to help me in this sport. Kind of makes me mad, actually, because there's no way you should get to flips and loops and still have to deal with being freaked out by doing a program for the first time!

I had a slight fracture to my shoulder and passed it anyway despite the nerves but have yet to do it again. Hope to compete in ISI in the fall. Want to join USFSA if I can seriously increase my income somehow

Can you do a two foot lunge ( CCW FLO infront deep knee bend 90 degrees or less and FRI extended behind )? If so, this can fix your sitspin. Use this two foot lunge to go into your sitspin. Remember to push off of your right inside edge before bringing both your right arm and leg together at the same time around you to be infront of you. You'll have an awesome sit if you can master this. Plus, it's worth extra GOE points on your sit and on the components mark as well. I have it in my newest program so that I know I will be 90 degrees or lower in my sit so that it counts as a sit under the CPC rules (even if we still will be using 6.0 again for AdultSkate here in Canada the judges are still thinking CPC in their heads now.).

singerskates

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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.

http://eastcastlemusic.tripod.com

Singerskates Sports Music Editing

When I started to do skate programs I didnt really care what I did at all. I loved just being out there

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Doug: "Hey, hold on! What to do with these uh,claws up here?"
Anton: "Is toe-pick."
Doug: "Toe-pick? Let me guess....it has something to do with personal hygiene?"

My first program was from the movie Bladerunner (the very cool end titles by Vangelis) and had a 2 foot spin, waltz jump, lots of lunges and poses, a spiral into a toe loop, a tiny loop, a salchow and a scratch spin that I could barely do. But doing the arm motions with my cross overs, and having to swoop down and reach up, and connecting all these elements together with music took my skating to a whole other level. I later exchanged some elements and used the program for my bronze test.

FIRST solo? Good lord, do you know how LONG ago that was??? LOL!!!

Try 1967, to "Love Is Blue" - LOL!!! - exhibition Freeskate - I was 18 and had been skating seriously for four years. (I grew up in a "backwater area" - no official testing, no judges without travel.) I was fast and strong so the program had a LOT of jumps and jump combinations. My spins were FAST but would fall apart if I held too many rotations so it was "fast in, fast rotation, and fast out" (nobody needs to know your spins fall apart if you keep them short!). Footwork was good and I enjoyed it. (I wrecked the following year pushing my jumps and did in my knees.)

Thirty-six years later (January this year) and a LOT heavier I started to re-learn skating. The "power" is starting to come back but I doubt I will ever have the speed I did before and I don't know if I will ever jump again (depends on how well the knees hold up). I'll be satisfied with a Pre-Introductory Interpretive ("edges & turns") for the first program of my "return to ice".

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

That is my music for this season! For my free dance.

And our Couple No 3's music, too, for theirs - I noticed you had the same!

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

And there's me thinking I'd found something new and original!

I do like it a lot though. Shame I didn't see them skate it to see how someone else used the music!

You'll see it at the British Adults, I dare say. Not sure whether they are doing Bristol - I don't think they are.

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

I don't know how I found this thread but oh well...

salchow/loop combo
just salchow and loop
waltz jump/loop
half flip
scratch spin/back spin
"sit" spin
forward spiral into back spiral
some footwork

Just started my first programme.

So far it's got some stepping on toepicks stuff, two edges with more stepping on toepicks stuff, a sitspin...

[and I won't find out anymore for at least a week as I'm off sick]


S xxx

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So far, mine has a RF swing roll, change of edge, LBO to RFO mohawk, RFO to LBI choctaw, Cross front,
Two crossovers into my almost-a-scratch spin,
RBO to LFO mohawk, LFO 3 to back crossovers, 1/2 loop, 1/2 flip combo.

I'm choreographing myself for an ISI FS 2-ish program. So I need to include 1/2 lutz, two foot spin, ballet jump, forward spirals and the dance step sequence. I got the hard stuff out of the way in the beginning.

If my waltz jump ever becomes more than a glorified 3-turn, I'll add that. And if my salchow or toe loop happen any time soon, I'll add those, too.

We'll see.....

I was 9 and it was to PacMan Fever. Our ice show was called, "Music Skates." I had a bright orange/yellow dress and a big bow in my hair (which I hated). I remember my coach yelling at me telling me that I had one more chance to do a lutz and if I didn't get it, then she was taking it out of my program. She also told me that if I couldn't do a spread eagle she would put me down with the "baby skaters." I remember being scared of her so I did the following:

• lutz
• loop
• flip
• waltz jump/toe loop
• spirals
• one foot spin
• two foot spin
• spread eagle

I stopped skating when I was 11 and didn't compete again until I was 24 to some piano music my coach picked out.

Now I pick my own music with help from loops.