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06-04-2008, 06:37 PM
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Summer Sun:
Had some nice spins today during lesson with Secondary Coach- even the camel was so nice that she asked me to try a (gulp!) camel sit. Was told to continue to work on this. Also learned new footwork for my program. Spring Showers: The other rink in town is closed until August and we now have what seems like a ton of little ones on our freestyle ice. And it always seems that Secondary Coach and I tend to work on choreography when the rink is a mob scene and the ice is chewed. Add to that that the session ended 30 minutes earlier, giving me only a hour skating time. How in heaven's name am I going to get my "Bronze Lady" homework done, along with working on basic skating with little ice time?
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06-04-2008, 07:00 PM
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Summer Sun:
Done with jury duty after only one day!!! I get to practice tomorrow and have my lesson on Friday. Spring Showers: Public schools are out tomorrow, so sessions will be crowded.
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06-04-2008, 07:06 PM
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spring showers - I've missed so much skating this month. Today was my last lesson with Winter Coach till October. Sniff.
summer sun - I had a lovely zen-like dawn practice yesterday, and a good lesson today. Last lesson, three weeks ago, I actually pulled off a couple of BO3s. I can't wait to get good at these, I love the whole "forwards, backwards, doesn't matter to me" look when they are done well.
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06-05-2008, 01:56 AM
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Unlike Casey, I perfer the Summer Sun over Spring Showers as cold damp rains bother me.
Spring Showers: my 5 day a week sessions have come to an end since spring skating school is over. Never got to test my Prelim Creative Dance since we had no idea who would be the judge and if they were going to be the right judge for the job. With less than 2 and half weeks before test day, I had to switch to relearning the Baby Blues for test day which meant I had to drop the Fiesta Tango to concentrate on the Baby Blues. My practice rink was much much bigger than the test rink. Because of this on test day half of the pattern of my Baby Blues was curvingly huge and the other half was small and flat. This happened because I was so use to pushing harder for my practice rink. A matter a fact, one day I was pushing so hard that I just about toppled over my coach who was partnering the dance with me while doing a left swing roll in the Baby Blues. He was taken by surprise. The only time I had the dance partnered on the smaller rink was once around about 10 minutes before I took the test. I have to re-edit my freeskate music to make it smoother because my coach doesn't think the editing I did for myself is up to par with the work I've done for all the other skaters including his other students. (It's getting there.) Summer Sun: Now the good news; I passed the Baby Blues last Friday even though I haven't worked on it for 4 years or more until 3 weeks ago from today. This means I'm officially done testing the Preliminary Dances and can move on officially to the Junior Bronze Dances. At present if the powers that be could have all things updated to this moment, I would have listed on the back of my Skate Canada membership for tests passed ; Introductory Interpretive Singles and Preliminary Dance (which for me includes Dutch Waltz, Canasta Tango and Baby Blues). I can add my Creative Prelim Dance later when I feel like it and it won't affect my status at all. I've only one issue to address in my Fiesta Tango and that is my crossing over while backwards with my left over the right foot before stepping forward onto my right foot. The problem lies between my ears as I have no problem doing this move when I freeskate, so what gives? I'll be starting to learn the Swing Dance in the summer to test it in the fall. And in the fall I'll learn my last dance until I can't jump anymore; the Willow. I've started having my freeskate choreographed. I've got from the opening pose to my sit spin, with edges, turns, a hydro plane, a loop and a spiral squence sandwiched in between the opening and the sitspin to the music of Ever After A Cinderella Story written by George Fenton. Forcast: I hope to be able to test my prelim FS this summer after getting my camel, loop and flip clean. I know that I may get dinged on the backspin but I'm going to try to get that back as well. If I can get my lutz back, I'll throw that in my program. I'm also hoping to try competing at the Adult Silver level in a US competition if all things come clean upto the lutz and backspin. I don't think there will be much competition at the St. Clair Shores competition so I have a chance of doing an OK job. Even if I get my Junior Bronze Freeskate by January 15, 2009, I will be keeping my music length as our Adult Canadian times are also Max times like the US Adult Nationals. I'm not going to add more time for one more spin and jump because for this past year, I actually had to really slow down to kill time with only having 4 jumping passes, 2 spins and a spiral sequence at 2:03. A Summer's Dream: Passing my Junior Bronze freeskate (Adult Silver freeskate in competition), all three Junior Bronze dances (that's a combo of preBronze and Bronze dances in the US) and somehow pass my Prelim and Junior Bronze Skills (move patterns set to music with procise timing, power and procision(sp) that usually take up the whole ice.) Next summer I'd start getting my coaching certificate to become a skating coach to one day become a choreographer. Ah, a girl can dream..........
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06-05-2008, 02:49 AM
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06-05-2008, 08:35 AM
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Only lots of warm summer sunshine today,
I passed my level one field moves test  ! sooooooooo happy!
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Level one Field Moves......PASSED 05.06.08 Level one Free dance.....PASSED 02.10.08 GOALS FOR 2009
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06-05-2008, 12:21 PM
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Congrats Singerskates and Sk8_4fun!
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06-05-2008, 03:17 PM
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this is for yesterday:
Summer Sun: -made some progress on fixing overall jumping technique -did great camels -most moves were decent -had fun with axel prep Spring Showers: -double 3-turns were sllooooooow. When will I learn that 3s don't work so well when you're barely moving? Anyway, trying to turn at nearly a standstill, I fell and stabbed the inside of my right thigh with the back of my left blade. It's two tiny cuts (looks like a baby vampire bit me) with a gigantic bruise. And it HURTS. My coach keeps telling me I need more push on those...I guess now I know why  -lutz disappeared for a bit, but returned by the end of the session, even though it wasn't very pretty -cha cha was slow, probably because I waited until the end of the session to do it
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06-05-2008, 03:43 PM
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Congrats to singerskate and sk8_4fun on passing your respective tests!!! WOO HOO!!!
 Spring Shower: Geez, that primary coach of mine. All these little details about when to extend my free leg, when to push, etc. I think I drove my primary coach   Summer Sun: But I think I finally got the pattern, b/c he says "See? I KNOW you can do THIS!!! WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG TO DO THIS!?!?!?!"  Also a "derivative" from the "3turns at speed (aka I need a sports psychologist) thread" I did a bunch MORE forward crossovers, FI mohawks to back crossovers, BO mohawks to MORE forward crossover, alternating sides, AT SPEED!!! Trust me, it's NOT a fun drill to do but he wants it done FAST AND smooth! He didn't whine that it was still TOO SLOW so that's progress!  Last but certainly not least, but OT... I'm finally resting 'til Saturday and I will kick off the relaxing with a NICE LONG 90-minute relaxing massage with a WONDERFUL masseuse!!! AHHHHH!!! BLISS!!!
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06-05-2008, 06:01 PM
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Summer Sun:
Did some good spins for Primary Coach today, including a sit/ backscratch and a secret combo that I've been sworn to secrecy over. Jumps, including the newbie flip are back! Spring Showers: Session was crowded again today and I did have a bit of a collision with another skater. I took the fall, but am okay. Cannot wait until tomorrow when I can go to the rink across the bay for a quiet (I hope!) morning session. I'll really be delving into my "Bronze Lady homework" there!
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06-06-2008, 01:00 AM
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Spring Showers: Had a so-so lesson. Wiped out on 5 loops. Axels were subpar. Took me too many tries to land the toe loop.
Summer Sun: Manged to rotate and almost land the 5 loops I wiped out on. Did my best ever salchow in a lesson. Several people saw it and gave me an ovation 
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06-06-2008, 02:48 AM
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Ooohhhhhh! I'm JEALOUS!! And you deserve this treat after all your recent hard work. Enjoy completely!
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06-06-2008, 02:56 AM
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06-06-2008, 03:56 AM
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Congratulations on tests passed!
Cold Shower: I am only 2 weeks in to a 5 week lay-off and already going NUTS! To keep my mind off skating, I am doing 'odd jobs' around home - BOY am I getting a LOT done - LOL! But I keep waking up by 4 a.m. - some habits are hard to break.
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06-06-2008, 05:32 AM
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After writing back pinch yourself and then do the happy dance. LOL
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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
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06-06-2008, 05:38 AM
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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
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06-06-2008, 06:24 AM
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I passed the forward and backward power circles on the passing average by all 3 judges; on the forward double 3s was on the average with one, 1 10th over with the second, and 1 10th under with the 3rd; same situation with the back double 3s; passed the slide chasses by all 3, 1 10th over by 2 of them; and had a reskate on one of my brackets, after which 1 judge put me on the passing average and the other 2 had me 1 10th under. Ended up right on the passing average overall from all 3. I guess the moral is that if they feel the overall test is passing, they can put extra points in some places to make up for deficits in others - so never give up, even if you think one move went badly! Next I'll go back to pass standard Juvenile MIF, because there are moves on it I've never officially passed. I had passed through standard Pre-Juv MIF before the adult Moves existed, and then was grandfathered to Silver level, so this Gold test was the first Adult MIF test I've ever taken. I'll also start working on my 1st Figure Test, and hope to finish my Pre-Bronze dances.
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06-06-2008, 08:18 AM
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Summer sun:
I started out with a few double sal-double loops, which I wasn't quite committing to, of course. Mainly the issue comes from the landing of the double sal, which I have trouble keeping my left arm in front. After several sucky double loops, I finally landed a cheated double sal-double loop. I got in on tape--barely. From there I moved on to spins, which consisted of one combo spin (camel-sit-back sit), one 8 revolution layback, and about four or five flying camels, which felt damn good! I was easily getting 7-8 revolutions on each and they didn't really look all that bad either. My biellmanns have definitely improved. They no longer look awkward. Spring showers I still need to get my hips forward on my spread eagle, but they've gotten better. I can't say the same for my flying sit attempts, if you even want to call them an attempt. Basically, I fly...and then nothing. Perhaps I need to jump more straight up rather than out... I ended with some double toes, which sucked. Hittin' the brickwall again, as Coach E would say.
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06-06-2008, 08:25 AM
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Congratulations, Clarice!
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I hope to be working on the Gold moves soon. I've practiced the forward double 3's and I tried the slide chasses last Sunday, and nearly collided with another skater. I think I'll wait for the supervision of my coach before attempting those again - lol. 
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