The only advice I can offer is making sure that you take off before your right leg (or left leg if you jump CW) swings through getting into your backspin postion in the air.

ok thnx!

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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."

I will be 16 in a month

I'm 15 and in intermediate, working on double axel. I've been skating since I was 5, but I started private lessons at 8/9-ish.

sweet do u have all ur other double jumps consistently?

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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."

Beks - alpha, beta, etc are the very beginning learn-to-skate levels that come before you get as far as pre-Preliminary.

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

ohhh the program we use b4 all that is called canskate levels like one two three so on

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beks~
"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."

Well, they're not REALLY consistent....it depends on the day and how crowded the session is lol. I have trouble with popping but when I do rotate, I almost always land them.

sweet!

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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."

So are ours in UKSkate, as I think it's now called; I just know the USA ones through long membership of fora like this one!

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

I'm working on double loops and not going to say my age!

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Sk8er1964.........if you are old as dirt where does that put garyc254 and me (I'm 49 also)? LOL!!!! I know, older than dirt!!!! I've been skating......let me see, pond as a kid, 1 session of LTS at 16, back on the ice at 25 to finish LTS (2 years), then back again at 45............wow, 6 years and a few months now.

I'm working on staying out of a body cast at the moment.

Lump me in with the dirt crowd: a big 4-0 and counting. I share the goals of trying to stay vertical and out of a body cast.

-- wannask8

Well, lets see, I'm new here (under this name anyways...) but I'm an 18 yr old Novice who's been skating since I was 12. I've had all my doubles for awhile, but the axel is very inconsistent. Working on triples, but mainly focusing on college now and getting into coaching. Went to JN's a few years back as an intermediate. Just want to test out now. I will say, I have a ton of respect for any adult skater. I gotta give you guys props for going out there and giving it the old fashioned 'college try'. You guys rock. As far as my skating, my body gave out unfortunately. Oh well!! On to coaching!!!

Nice to finally be back!!!

*HP*

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I'm close to being in the "old as dirt" group as well. I'll hopefully be debuting at next year's Sectionals and Nationals (in Lake Placid...YAAAY!!!) as a Bronze II lady!!! (Yeap! Going to another age group next year. WAAAAH!!! But better than trying to keep up with "dem young'ums" in Group I!!! )

But now I have to work on my Bronze Moves tests, which still SUCKS, but they're sucking less and less!!! (Forward power 3's are , but even THAT is sucking less and less now. It's gone from "LOL!!! Are you kidding me!??!?!" to "Can do them to a certain extend!!!")

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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'm 19, have been skating for 2 years, once a week (at a rink an hour's drive away, and since it closed a month ago my new rink is at least an hour and a half away). Have landed loop and flip but not consistent yet, salchow and toe loop are practically consistent now. Also do dance, and am working on scratch spins in both directions My friend reckons I'm "very graceful"

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"It’s never too late to skate at any age." - Alexei Mishin.

To put a different perspective on the age thing - I think I get the gold at 56.

My coach keeps telling me I'm really a Silver skater (I do have nice F and B cross strokes and a few other goodies), but I still can't pass either pre-Pre moves or pre-Bronze. The waltz-8 in one case, and the FI threes in the other are my stumbling blocks. I really need to nail that one foot spin with proper wind up, but I don't think I'll be jumping if the knees and hips have anything to say about it.

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I'm 29 and I've been skating off and on for a few years. Never competed as a kid. I just started competing this year and I've got all my single jumps except the axel (Grrr.) I'm competing in ISI FS3 level. Our rink doesn't have a USFSA club, so I haven't competed in USFSA yet. I imagine I'm probably at a USFSA Adult Bronze or Silver level. My spins are a little inconsistent (ie. camel & back spin). When my spins are good, they're nice, when they're bad, they're terrible. Ech.

I'm `16 and I have everything up to and including a double axel. I've stood up on 3 loop, sal, and lutz but nothing spectacular so far in the 'triple department' lol. Keep up the great skating everyone!!
-Sarah

Hope it's not too personal, but HOLY SMOKES!!! How does a young man at age 18 get to the point where "my body gave out?" Were you doing pairs too?

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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'm 28, been skating 7 years and I compete both in adult events and the regular novice events.

I'm 39...dangerously close to the big 4-0. I'm currenly Adult Silver and hoping to take my Gold test this summer. I have a clean axel and a badly cheated 2-sal, I hope to fix that soon. I'm working on my 2-toe and 2 Loop but without much success. I HATE toe-loops.

ANYONE who is older than, oh, 40 (and that is not quite me yet, but closer than I care to think about - only because my Aunt Betty who is 4 years older than me is going to GET me with pranks.....) who has the guts and drive to stand up on those thin blades.......

OVER 40 RULES!!!!!

Hey, I know a lady who is over 70, who trains with Joe Mero (an elite coach at Ann Arbor) who was worried because her arthritis might keep her from doing death spirals. I want to be her when I grow up.

Me too!!! That's awsome!

I'm 14 and in Beta (Basic 5 or 6)
I'm the only one probably who can't jump.
I just want to ice dance

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