Okay, just a fun little thread... (answer whatever applies, and feel free to add to this)

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything)
2. Jump
3. Spin
4. Dance
5. Move in the field
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's)
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink
8. Story you've heard about skating
9. Time of day to skate
10. Clothing to wear while skating

Here are my answers:
1. Spirals
2. Flip
3. Sit spin
4. I've never done dance
5. Power circles from Intermediate MIF. I've never done them, but they look like fun!!!
6. Tie: Matt Savoie's short program to Barber's Adagio for Strings or Shen/Zhao Turandot
7. A coach drew a fabulous teapot on the ice for some of her students recently.
8. GaryC's story about getting his skate caught in his jacket zipper. If it nearly brought tears to my eyes from laughing when I first read about it on this board a long time ago, it must have been even funnier to be there!
9. Morning on the weekend
10. My favorite item is a purple velvet skirt I bought recently up in PA...Skate@Delaware has seen it. I luurve the color.

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1. Right forward inside spiral
2. Flip
3. Flying camel
4. Fiesta Tango (though I haven't done it in 8 yrs!)
5. Backwards crossovers to backward outside edges from Bronze
6. My FS4 program to Terminator/Hudson Hawk
7. Bielmann spin
8. Various indescretions of elite skaters
9. Mid-morning/early afternoon
10. Practice dress/skirt & t-shirt with tights

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I've got mad salchow disease!

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything)
Forward cross-rolls, I think. Or perhaps changes of edge. Next Day: Oh no it isn't, of course, I'm dim - my absolute favourite is our lift, when it works!

2. Jump
3-jump. Can't really do any others!

3. Spin
The spin we do at the start of our free dance

4. Dance
Swing Dance or Prelim Waltz, not sure which.

5. Move in the field
Back cross-rolls, now I can nearly do them! Otherwise changes-of-edge.

6. Skating program (yours or someone else's)
Mine, Jake the Peg! Other adult: Axel Rinaldi's last year's Interpretive (mad housewife, skated to La Boheme). Elite: Phillipa Towler-Green & Philip Poole's Grease

7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink
My coach and young friends doing teapots and deliberately seeing who could slide furthest on their bottoms

8. Story you've heard about skating
One my first coach told me, of a man who took up skating to help his arthritis, and within a few months was moving far more freely. Then he had to give up to look after a sick wife - and within six months was in a wheelchair.

9. Time of day to skate
Early morning

10. Clothing to wear while skating
T-shirt, practice-skirt, tights, boot-covers. If it's cold I wear leggings, though.

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1. Skating move (anything)
Dont have any favourites just happy when I can stay on my feet

2. Jump
Salchow

3. Spin
Camel to sit (when it works!)

4. Dance
Samba (great to watch, rubbish at it myself)

5. Move in the field
Anything backwards, seems to move faster than forwards.

6. Skating program (yours or someone else's)
My old pairs programme - Annie Lennox's Vamire.

7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink
In the old days one of the mums accidentally took a mouse home from the rink in her handbag, guess it crept in and found some tasty morsel in there.

8. Story you've heard about skating
Many but unrepeatable

9. Time of day to skate
Morning only for me if I can help it.

10. Clothing to wear while skating
Any old top and my 5 year old practice skirt, I was devastated the other day when I left it at the rink, but one of the coaches recognised it and kept it for me, whew! That's the next worst thing to putting my left boot on first

1. Skating move = Spread eagle followed by a single axel, then an Ina Bauer (sp?)
2. Jump = Axel with raised arms
3. Spin = Beilmann
4. Dance = Dutch Waltz?
5. Move in the field = Back cross cuts
6. Skating program = Evgeni Plushenko: Tribute to Vaclav Nijinsky
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink = 12 year old girl doing a triple toe and double axel.
8. Story you've heard about skating = Once upon a time there was a person, and that person had a dream. It's never too late to live the dream in ice skating, no matter how old you are.
9. Time of day to skate = Early morning patch: 6am on a saturday.
10. Clothing to wear while skating = Practice skirt (Or sometimes pants), tights, tshirt, pullover fleece and gloves.

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<Melrozina>Once upon a time there was a person, and that person had a dream. It's never too late to live the dream in ice skating, no matter how old you are.

Awh thats the best story yet

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1. Skating move - ina bauer...if I can ever do one
2. Jump- Axel when I land it, and lutz
3. Spin- change sit spin
4. Dance- Swing and Ten Fox
5. Move in the field- spirals
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's)- all of Sale and Pelletier's programs! lol
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink- some really tiny kid did a double lutz! It was really cool
8. Story you've heard about skating- well...I don't think my dance coach would appreciated me repeating this story!
9. Time of day to skate- Saturday mornings
10. Clothing to wear while skating- practice skirt, tights, t-shirt and pullover sweater

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything) Ina Bauer, yes I can do them well
2. Jump Toe loops. I love toe loops
3. Spin Can't do any of them well but I love camel-change-camel
4. Dance Baby Blues or Fiesta Tango, it's all about the change edge swing roll
5. Move in the field Flying choctaws, if only I could do them both ways
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's) Kurt Browning's Nyah
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink This guy, over and over, attempting triple axel, getting the foot down and then falling on his butt, huge determination and we were wincing watching, no he never got it that day, and we wondered if he'd be able to walk after.
8. Story you've heard about skating Lots of sex related ones which I won't repeat because I finally figured that they're mostly made up. Skating is like high school.
9. Time of day to skate After work. I hate mornings
10. Clothing to wear while skatingTights, skirt, club fleece

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything): Counter clockwise running back 3s --Wheeee!
2. Jump: Tie between loop and flip
3. Spin: Um none, blah I hate spinning.
5. Move in the field: I like working on those forward/back 3 turns on the silver test, even though I can't do back inside very well at all. They are fun to play with.
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's): My winning performance to "American Beauty" at the Bronze level at a local event.
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink: This coach at my rink did an awesome 2/2/2.
8. Story you've heard about skating: Anything fun and gossipy about the elites.
9. Time of day to skate: Evening maybe? No strong preference.
10. Clothing to wear while skating: Yoga pants with an activewear type t-shirt (wicking type).

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything):spread eagle or somthing
2. Jump:loop
3. Spin:scratch
4. Dance: i dont dance
5. Move in the field:chinese spirals
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's): 5 year old's program with singing in the rain
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink: watching a little girl do her program with a raincoat and umbrella. ( the program above) IT WAS SO CUTE.
8. Story you've heard about skating:i've heard that my rink used to be a bowling alley. nothing too exciting
9. Time of day to skate: i skate in the afternoon, but i would LOVE. to skate in the morning or late at night
10. Clothing to wear while skating: sweater, velvet black skirt and tights.

1. Skating move - spirals, because I can do them even when everything else sucks.
2. Jump- I can only do a waltz right now (but am working on the rest...)
3. Spin- scratch
4. Dance- Dutch Waltz, it's very relaxing and not too hard!
5. Move in the field- 3-turns or edges
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's)- one of our kids did a cute routine at a competition-he was so cute (especially when his music had a malfunction at the beginning and he yelled for his mom!)
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink- I like to see couples skate holding hands!
8. Story you've heard about skating- just the one on the radio about the drunk zamboni driver!?!
9. Time of day to skate- middle of the day
10. Clothing to wear while skating- leggings (sometimes skirts), layers (lots!), a fleece vest or sweater, fleece jacket, gloves!

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What is your favorite...
1. Skating move: spiral
2. Jump: double flip
3. Spin: camel/layback/back sit combo
4. Dance: n/a
5. Move in the field: rocker choctaws or brackets
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's): ryan jahnke's 2004 season's long program
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink: pair lifts. any kind.
8. Story you've heard about skating: any that have to do with kids who don't come from rich families but who work hard on the ice and love the sport and work hard to reach their dreams. i know of a few kids in that type of situation and their stories always stand out to me.
9. Time of day to skate: early mornings
10. Clothing to wear while skating: gk dresses (sooo comfy for practice!) and sharene's for competition/test sessions. black leggings are a fav for practice too.

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything) Twizzles
2. Jump Double Lutz
3. Spin Flying Camel
4. Dance Starlight Waltz... close second: yankee polka
5. Move in the field I may be crazy, but quick brackets (from the novice test)
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's) Tanith and Ben's Free dance this season
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink The little ones landing their axel for the first time
8. Story you've heard about skatingUmm... none that are appropriate for this setting!
9. Time of day to skate practice: early morning competition: mid afternoon
10. Clothing to wear while skating My velvet jazz pants, a comfy t-shirt, and my white/black feather fleece jacket

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What is your favorite...

1. Skating move (anything) - Death spiral or 'Old Man's Death Spiral' (I've attempted the first - badly - but the second was one of our 'signature' moves In case you're wondering (probably not ) he's holding my left foot in his left hand, I'm in a kind of split while he does a pivot).



2. Jump - 2loop

3. Spin - Cross toe/scratch

4. Dance - Starlight or Rocker

5. Move in the field - urgh, urm, probably back cross cuts

6. Skating program (yours or someone else's) - one of the kids (not a kid any more) did a programme to the Lion King music, it was absolutely awesome My programme had to be my 'Angel' programme which I did for my UK Prelim Free. Anything by Robin Cousins, Dorothy Hamill, Denise Biellman in fact any of the 'old school'.

7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink - back flip The guy who was Robbie Williams' skating double on his 'She's The One' vid is a fantastic skater and does a great back flip

8. Story you've heard about skating - me being pregnant with twins to my coach! It wasn't true and I have no idea where they got it from but every time I fell over all the kids would come rushing over to see if I was ok

9. Time of day to skate - early mornings, we used to start at about 6.30am (6am if we were up to it) and it was a really good start to the day especially when you had time to go for a bacon and mushroom butty at the local caff afterwards

10. Clothing to wear while skating - lycra of course My favourite dress is a simple, elegant sparkly number with long sleeves which come down to a point (with a loop on your finger) and a deep cut back with a fancy cut out and illusion fabric. The first time I wore it (for a test) one of the kids broke the zipper on their dress. I loaned them mine and as they were skating first they got to 'christen' it.

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1. Skating move (anything) - I like most, but I guess BO power 3's

2. Jump - Lutz

3. Spin - Camel-Layback

4. Dance - American Waltz

5. Move in the field - Slow rocker-choctaw from Novice

6. Skating program (yours or someone else's) - A girl at my rink skated to the Hidalgo soundtrack. The music was gorgeous, suited perfectly for her and it was so well choreographed.

7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink - when a skater gets a jump they've been working on for a long time. A girl I've known since she was 8 (and now just graduated HS) started landing her double axel this year after working on it for about 2 years and was so close - all of a sudden it was really clean and steady, and consistent too. It was awesome! I also like watching the skaters who I skate with who have really good technique on their jumps.

8. Story you've heard about skating - I've heard so many I couldn't pick. ITA with HC about gossipy stuff about elites.

9. Time of day to skate - 2pm during the school year. Early enough for most kids to still be in school, but the higher level ones can get out so it makes for a nice session of 6-7 people, all Intermediate/Novice/Junior level

10. Clothing to wear while skating - black dress and t-shirt. I'm always sooooo cold in my competition dresses.

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything) I can't do: Combination spins involving a camel, sit, and some sort of backspin. I can do: back shoot-the-duck entry into a scratch spin
2. Jump Flip
3. Spin Scratch
4. Dance N/A
5. Move in the field Twizzles
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's) Joubert's "Time" program
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink Quad jumps (I think they were quads, maybe just really high and fast triples)
8. Story you've heard about skating Accomplishing doubles within a year from starting
9. Time of day to skate Evenings, I wish I could use the ice all night after the rink closes
10. Clothing to wear while skating Black jazz pants, thin stretchy black Champion C9 long sleeve shirt

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1. Skating move = Change edge back spiral
2. Jump = loop (big single)
3. Spin = any sort of back camel and/or layback variation or combo
4. Dance = ChaCha
5. Move in the field = forward cross cuts
6. Skating program = T&D Bolero
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink = Teen skater started in a Beilmann spin pose and layed back w/o releasing the leg. It was amazing. Her coach was apparently developing the spin as a unique skill.
8. Story you've heard about skating = I knew a woman who survived 3 types of cancer. She became an avid adult skater.
9. Time of day to skate = Mid to late morning or whenever I can get ice these days.
10. Clothing to wear while skating = Rinks are usually cold, so stretch fleece leggings + fleece sweatshirt.

Kay

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1. Skating move = spread eagle
2. Jump = double salchow
3. Spin = camel sit back camel back sit combo
4. Dance = 14 step
5. Move in the field = Novice spirals
6. Skating program = Gordeeva and Grinkov's Moonlight Sonata from the 94 Olympics
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink = cool hydroblades
8. Story you've heard about skating = any of the adult skaters who have so much more to do than just skate - balancing career, family, other sports and skating
9. Time of day to skate = the earlier the better
10. Clothing to wear while skating = a skating dress with a t-shirt or turtleneck depending on how cold the rink it and time of year. It's hard to find good pants when you're short!

Pedonskates

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything): Probably spiral. I can't do anything else!
2. Jump: Waltz! It's the most reliable of ANY of my jumps!
3. Spin: Oh, tough one... it would probably be my sit.
4. Dance: I can't dance... I can't talk... only thing about me is the way that I walk... (But for curiosity sake, I am learning the Dutch Waltz pattern.)
5. Move in the field: Perimeter forward crossovers from Bronze Move
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's): Sarah Hughes Olympic Free Skate program! She skated for the joy of it -- and since she was going really against the odds of winning a medal -- she skated with nothing to lose and everything to win!
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink: Boitano doing his trademark triple 'Tano lutz at a coffee club session. I also saw the program that Renee and Gorsha did in person a couple of months before it was aired on TV!
8. Story you've heard about skating: Ummm... I've heard stories about various things happening in the men's room at the rink, but I'm too much of a lady to repeat them.
9. Time of day to skate: Afternoon/Early evenings
10. Clothing to wear while skating: T-shirt to go with...what else???... stretchy JAZZPANTS!!!

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What is your favorite...
1. Skating move - probably the FO to BO spiral sequence, when I don't botch it of course...

2. Jump - lutz, because I'm learning to respect it and trust myself doing it

3. Spin - camel, because I'm learning to do it well and snapped off a good one the other day

4. Dance - Fiesta Tango, because other than the basic 3, it's the only other one I know how to do from synchro practice

5. Move in the field - 8 step mohawk from Silver MIF and slide chasse from Gold

6. Skating program - last year's freestyle 3 program to Greig's "Morning Suite". I never made a mistake and never lost with it and I competed it 4 times.

7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink - two of the most amazing things to see up close and personal is a triple jump in individual skating, and a throw jump in pairs

8. Story you've heard about skating - I think the stereotype of men in this sport as wusses is a myth. Nowhere else are you going to see such explosive and precise power.

9. Time of day to skate - morning, noon, night... whenever. The only time I don't like is crack o' dawn.

10. Clothing to wear while skating - in the summer, I'm a dress and tights girl but winter I'm a leggings and sweatshirt wearer.

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1. Skating move (anything): Blues Choctaw

2. Jump: I don't jump...

3. Spin: I don't really spin anymore either

4. Dance: Starlight Waltz or Paso Doble

5. Move in the field: of the ones I've played around with, probably back cross-rolls or the 5-step mohawk sequence

6. Skating program (yours or someone else's): Torvill & Dean's Bolero

7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink: my coach doing the Midnight Blues solo for fun (male steps)

8. Story you've heard about skating: Can't think of any that are memorable or clean enough to mention

9. Time of day to skate: early in the morning (6:30AM), especially in the non-summer months.

10. Clothing to wear while skating: Black stretch fleece leggings

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Q: How many coaches does it take to fix Jen's Dance Intro-3 Problems
A: 5 and counting...

I keep wanting to change mine! I've already edited my favourite skating move to read our dance lift!

And now I think I'll change (but I can't be bothered to go back and edit my previous post) my favourite thing I've seen someone doing at the rink to watching two elite male dancers doing the steps to the Golden Waltz in unison round the rink! Everybody stopped to watch that one!

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1. Skating move (anything) Ina Bauer
2. Jump I can't choose between a loop and toe-loop
3. Spin Sit spin
4. Dance Don't do ice dance and so I don't know anything about it
5. Move in the field UK Inter-bronze exercise - consecutive forward outside three turns. I don't enjoy the bronze ones I'm working on right now. They're so hard!
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's) I love my current programme, but also the one I had two years ago. Can't choose between them.
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink During our Christmas show some years back, my former coach's husband Chris Howarth performed as the dame and during the interval he set up a ladder to the balcony seats. In the second half of the show he climbed the ladder - in full dame gear and skates, and threw a custand pie in the face of our rink's owner/top man!
8. Story you've heard about skating I've heard stuff about coaches and ex-coaches that I can't repeat here!
9. Time of day to skate Morning
10. Clothing to wear while skating Practice dress and tights. To think in the beginning I was horrified at the thought of wearing a dress. Now I wear one all the time. I find it easier to skate in and comfortable.

Nicki

What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything)~shoot the ducks/ spread eagle
2. Jump~Flip / axel (when I can land it)
3. Spin~sit spin
4. Dance~Dutch waltz
5. Move in the field~spirals on the lobes
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's)~Sasha Cohen's Nutcracker program
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink~This guy doing a really nice flying camel
8. Story you've heard about skating~none really
9. Time of day to skate~ public skating in the summer when you have the rink to yourself!
10. Clothing to wear while skating~ stretch pants/ practice outfit

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What is your favorite...
1. Skating move (anything):hydrobllading00> hopefully someday i can do it
2. Jump:double flip
3. Spin:sit spin
4. Dance: Starlight
5. Move in the field:arg....dont reallly like any of them
6. Skating program (yours or someone else's):bourne and kraatz's cell block tango, or micheal jackson program
7. Thing you've seen someone do at the rink:beilman
8. Story you've heard about skating:none that are appropriate for hre
9. Time of day to skate:moring
10. Clothing to wear while skating:yoga pants, tank top, layed over t-shirt and long sleeved shirt, all under a sip up hoodie