Ok my fellow skaters!!!! Time to tell me what your goals are as a skater for the year 2009. I'll start. I'm a Learn to skate skater,and my goals are to become a better skater and get to the Rink more. Anyone else?

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FSWer

FSWers: Do you mind I have hijack the thread slightly to also ask people to include their achievements for 2008 too?

I will also post the list from last year for reference:

http://www.skatingforums.com/showthread.php?t=25335

2008 achievements:

Well, I thought that I got at least the loop consistent... until I skated LAST WEEKEND with my technical program!!! GEEZ!!! When am I ever gonna land a loop CLEANLY on my technical program at SKate SF??? I mean, I landed the loop cleanly on the artistic program later on that day. And of course, after the competition I can land that stupid loop cleanly at will...
I landed my first LUTZ cleanly this year and landed my first lutz at competition just last week!!!

I guess my biggest achievement this year -- making it to Adults National at LONG LAST!!! For those of you who have never been there, it's defintely a GREAT experience for an adult skater to have!!! And yes, thank you to EVERYONE for welcoming me to my very FIRST AN and making it a great experience for me...

Unfortunately after AN was when it was a diappointing year. I came back armed with knowledge on what I have to work on for this year... only to find myself losing my old job end of July, having a new job that has a LOOOONG commute (and cutting MORE of my ice time!), not having ice for a good portion of Sept. I worked very hard May thru August trying to get my in-between skating going but I realize that I have A LOT MORE work to do. It's gonna be a very LOOOOONG, arduous, painful and frustrating experience to get to the point where I feel I will skate well enough to get out of the cellar in the standings. Meaning that I will be spending a lot of time working on my "basic skating" (i.e. crossovers, mohawks, 3turns, etc...)

2009 Goals:
Same as last year, with the add of "working on my in-between skating" and my Silver Moves. As for jumps, it'll happen when it happens.

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Cheers,
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 didn't make my 2008 season goals - to pass FS3, switch to USFSA track and test pre-bronze. Work commitments kept me from skating enough, and I stuck on that darn change-foot spin.

On the upside this time last year I was struggling with the salchow and now it is my favorite jump, I've progressed pretty well, and having fun learning more advanced things and my basic skating is pretty good, I've even got all 4 back 3turns.

So, for 2009 season I've got the same goals, plus ambitions on having a loop and flip, and a proto-lutz. Sitspin and camel spin, a backspin that won't hold me back like it is now. I'd like to be doing the waltz-backspin axel drill.

Not for next season, but the things I think are really cool and would love to have - rockers, counters, flying camel, layback, axel

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It's all about the dress!

So for 2008

1. Pass Bronze moves

2. 3 revolution spin with my foot IN FRONT from back crossovers.

4. Pass the Swing Dance...and cha cha.

Well I accomplished the BIGGIE - I passed my bronze moves. I can do 3 revolution spin from back crossovers but not with my foot in front

I haven't passed the Swing dance but I'm very close but not for the Cha cha because I still can't do the step behind.

But I'd like to review other accomplishments because I've made a LOT of improvements

Can do mohawks and outside 3 turns easily while moving. Because I've improved my 3 turns, myhalf flip has improved 100%...I actually jump every time I do a waltz jump. So interesting that my jumps have improved when I said in my goals I didn't care about jumps....I think a jumps class I took for summer camp and power class (where we do a lot of hopping) improved them without me even thinking about it. My posture has improved and I'm a smoother skater.

So new goals for 2009 with the idea that my priorities can always change

1.Pass the Swing dance - but since it's hard to get regular dance lessons, that's about all I'm going to hope for in dance

2. Backward 3 turns

3. Improve over all basic skating esepecially back crossovers.

4 - keep working on the scratch spin -but I've grown to hate it so much because of the slow progress I don't even want it to be a goal. Just making working on it a goal is enough.

j

I can't believe I didn't list my '08 goals, and I need to severely amend what I can do in '09. I may have to amend this list depending.

GOALS
see if I can cobble something together for Mids, depending...
get my lutz and lutz sequence back (brain screams "baby!" when I prepare to pick)
get my camel and camel comb back (morning sickness plus changing body geography rendered it gone on the eve of Buckeye)
Silver MITF
Silver free
find time for me or at least appreciate what will be diminished me time
persuade my yet-to-be-gender-determined child that a skating rink is a fun place to play

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

Wang chung!

My goals from 2008:

1. Have a recognizable backspin Well it's recognizable, but it's not good
2. Have a 3+ revolution sit spin in position Guess it depends what you call a sit spin. My leg isn't far enough down, but I can do what looks like I might be trying to do a sitspin for 3 revolutions. My knee injury has prevented me from working much on this.
3. Be able to do a change edge spiral Nope- haven't really even tried, though we do go from a flat going forward to a flat going sideways in synchro
4. Pass Bronze Moves in the Field YES
5. Fix my toe loop so it is no longer a toe waltz No
6. Increase my general strength and flexibility I think this might actually have gotten worse.

My goals for 2009
1. Have a 5 revolution, pulled in, foot crossed backspin.
2. Have a 3+ revolution camel, that doesn't fall onto the inside edge (skipping the sitspin here)
3. Make reasonable progress towards testing Silver Moves
4. Be able to attempt a loop while moving.
5. Stop toe waltzing.
6. Increase flexibility, working towards a Y-spiral.

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

In 2008:
I have passed level 1 program, level 2 and 3 field moves and hopefully I will still manage to pass level 2 elements.

I got my loop consistent, back spin much improved, learned sit spin and flip.


In 2009:
I would like to pass level 2 elements (if I don't manage that in December), level 3 elements, level 2 (and maybe 3) program, and level 4 field moves.

I would like to get flip consistent, start doing jump combo, learn parallel spin and learn lutz.

Ok, I'm mystified. How do you skate sideways on a flat?

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It's all about the dress!

Goals for 2008 were
A more consistently centred upright spin yes
A cross-toe spin yes
A sit spin. sadly not, not really made any progress on this at all

Level one in as many disciplines as I can, but hopefully at least dances and field moves. passed field moves, and free dance

Higher jumps and possibly to land a loop. yes, although loop is still small and quite stationary

Maybe??? To compete at an open dance competition. not quite but got second place in a club comp

Back 3-turns on both feet. oooh, not that good! one foot is getting there but I have a way to go to get the left foot sorted

Improvement in all the dances I’ve learned so far.

I also achieved a few things I didn't expect. spins overall are alot faster and more centred, Parallel spin is coming along and level 2 free dance will be testing in february. I'm working on level 1 elements and free, and level 1 compulsory dances.

Goals for 2009 are to pass the above and compete at bracknell adult open.
To work on that sit spin and possibly start learning flip. To get a backspin that goes round more than once would be nice too.

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Level one Field Moves......PASSED 05.06.08
Level one Free dance.....PASSED 02.10.08

GOALS FOR 2009

• Level One Compulsary dances.......PASSED 19.02.09
• Level One Elements.....................PASSED 10.07.09
• Level Two Free dance.................PASSED 19.02.09
• Level One Free...........................
• Level Two compulsory dances.......

Loving it, Loving it, Loving it!!!!!

In 2008 I skated my first ever Freeskate at (Canadian) Adult Nationals after 2.5 years of skating and brought home a Bronze.

(AGE has got to have SOME advantages LOL! The lady who took Silver is an absolute sweetheart and I love her dearly. The Gold medalist went on to take Gold at Obersdorf so I can't complain.)

In 2009 I want to go back and do the same program at Nationals again, do it better, and get MORE POINTS for it!

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

Well we turn onto an edge to get back onto the flat, so it's not really a change edge spiral, but it's a change direction (from the long axis of the rink to the short axis of the rink).

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

I should finish what I call Granma Delta by December. I'm *this* >< close to FI 3 turns--I can do everything else well execpt that 'hop'. I don't care if I don't get a badge--I'm not doing a bunny hop. 57 is just too old to be learning how to leave the ice for any reason. I'm crossing my fingers that ISI will cut me some slack when I go into figures and not insist I have passed formal Delta.
2009 Backwards 3 turns, forwards brackets, rockers, and counters. Or at least three of them. Coach wants me to do spins--no-no-no.

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Great forum quotes:
On Falling: '...it doesn't matter, it's what you do AFTER you fall that's more important' ISK8NYC

I didn't post my 2008 goals (although some of them are in my siggy). But I guess I'll go over my acheivments.

-I got all of my doubles consistent. In 2007, I only had through double loop consistent, and that wasn't even quite consistent enough to count on landing in a program.
-I got back into testing! I had tested my pre-preliminary moves and FS in March of 2004, quit in 2005, returned in August of 2007, then finally started testing again in June of 2008! So far, in 2008, I have passed my Preliminary and Pre-juv moves and FS. But I'm testing my Juvenile Moves (but not FS, test session is too short ) in December, so I have time for one more acheivement!
-I really, REALLY improved my back sit. I saw it in a video and vowed to fix, and now I'm pretty happy with it.
-I landed a little more than 1/4 turncheated double axels! I had said at one point that I would be happy with landing a 1/2 turn cheated double axel. I'm not happy with it NOW, but I did say that was a goal, so I suppose it's worth mentioning.

OK, 2009 goals.

-Pass my preliminary and pre-bronze dances
-Test through junior in moves and novice in FS
-Compete at Regionals in the Novice level.
-Get my double axel consistent
-Get two triples consistent
-Improve the overall quality of my skating. My confidence, speed, presentation, all that crap
-Improve my flying spins

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A very good goal Dianne.

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FSWer

Okay, here we go:

Goals for 2008:
-Compete at Sectionals at NOT come in last or next-to-last! WOOHOO! 2nd is definitely NOT last! Also, I came in 2d at Halloween Classic and won my 1st gold in spins at HC
-Land that axel in competition! 2, actually!
-Start landing some clean double salchows and toesnot clean yet, but I still have a month and a half, and I'm getting close!
-Get a Bielman or I spin or Y spin, depending on which way my body wants to bend first!I can get into the Y spin, but can't always rotate, and it's not pretty!
-Learn the pancake spinabandoning this in favor of the back camel
-Pass INT and Novice MIFpassed INT in June, just really starting on Novice b/c of the HC competition- but making good progress!!
-Maybe be brave and move up to Gold next year? okay..maybe THIS year!


2009 Goals: (it actuallly hurts to write "2009")
-Start landing double salchows and double toes
-Pass Novice MIF this school year
-Learn Junior MIF
-Pass Gold FS
-Get really good at the Y spin and back camel
-Have a really awesome spiral sequence
-Keep working on speed and presentation
-Build up my stamina to get through the longer program and novice MIF!

I think that's it... Good luck to everyone on reaching for their goals!

It's still November, and I am still going to keep myself under the illusion that I will be able to land my axel clean in a month and a half...I will give an update closer to the first of the year

Although, coach thinks that I am going to land double sal/double toe way before an axel...and I'm pretty sure she is right...

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Skating Dreams

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

2008 goals:
1. Live through 2nd hip surgery.-done
2. Learn to skate...for the 3rd time.-done
3. Pass all 4 levels of adult field moves.-done
4. Finish pre silver dance level.-done
5. Compete in fs get score of 20+ w/ all singles-done
6. Pass Intermediate Free dance-done

2009 goals:
1. Don't destroy new hip.
2. Pass Jr Moves
3. Pass Silver dances-adult-done
4. Pass Pre gold dances-adult-1 so far
5. Compete FS get score of 20-30 pts
6. Get 2 of 3 spins level 2+
7. Goal of 1 axel and one double and one 1/2 or 2/1 combo
8. Pass Novice Free Dance

Stop jumping every year July 1 - Oct 1. Give sychro a try.

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Who me? Couldn't be....
http://www.youtube.com/bouldersk8r

For anyone with Synchro. as a goal. I will offer some links for help.

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FSWer

My main goal in 2008 was to get the axel back, which I did, but then proceeded to lose it.

2009:

1) Stay healthy
2) Maintain weight
3) Get axel (again)
4) Get more consistent on the doubles
5) Impress the ladies

Wow... this is kind of depressing to look at.

2008 Goals:
-- Pass Silver FS (Did that 11/07)
-- Take and pass (and I consider those two separate events ) Juvenile MITF Still working on them, but they are getting closer. New goal is to take and pass them during spring/summer of 2009.
-- 6+ revs. on camel spin consistently Getting 4 most of the time now.
-- Sit/backsit in good position on both spins Positions are worse but I'm blaming it all on the torn cartilage in my left knee and not being able to practice the backsit to improve it until a couple weeks ago.
-- Do real FI & FO single twizzles FIs are actually looking like twizzles, haven't even worked on FOs.
-- Lutz/loop combination so it looks like it was intentional Wasn't able to even work on lutz, let alone lutz/loop until 2 weeks ago.. so obviously this is a no-go as well.

2009 Goals: (some of this will sound VERY familiar!)
--Take and pass Juvenile MITF Test
-- 6+ revs on camel spin consistently
--Sit/backsit in good position on both spins
--Lutz/loop combination so it looks like a real lutz/loop (not a "what was she trying to do?")
--FO single twizzles
--Work on good backspin, aim for 4+ revs in strong position
--MAYBE work on brackets, possibly a layback, perhaps work on a dramatic/artistic interp. program for AN 2010

No pun intended but...FIGURES!!!

You don't quite have it right -- your jump prowess won't impress the ladies (unless we're talking "ladies" under the age of 10! ) To impress the ladies you need to flash those greens so that people see you're rich enough to support her so she wouldn't need to work and spend all her time at the rink!!! LOL!!!

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Cheers,
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 don't remember what my 08 goals were, but I only have 2 goals for 09:

1. Pass Silver moves
2. Pass Silver freestyle

I decided that I will not be competing in freestyle until those happen, but I will still do interp & compulsory-style events.

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I've got mad salchow disease!

Let's see:

I did pass both my prejuv moves and free. And next month, I will be testing my juv. moves! I'm excited to be done with them but nervous at the same time. I have a semi-consistant double sal and a non-existant double loop (I gave up on the loop to concentrate more on the sal and haven't had time to go back to it). My axel has height, but it still lacks a real kick-through. And about the layback, I haven't done that many of them lately, so I guess that one is a bust.

2009 Goals:
Place in at least one comp (UDel, UPenn, and/or (hopefully if we go) nationals) - I got third in my first and only comp so far last month, and want to do as well or improve!

Test Int. Moves - Hopefully I will pass my juv moves next month. My school is hosting a test session in March, and the coach here wants me to test then. At the very least, I know my coach back home will want theses tested by the end of summer...

Test Juv. Free - I know that I can do everything, but I can't test up now because all the juv spots are full on the team, and the fact that I'm placing well in pre-juv. But hopefully I can take the test over the summer.

Get a better flying camel, back camel, and back sit - I can kinda do these, but I really want to be able to have them much more consistant.

Re-learn and work on my flying sit - I have been ignoring this spin for so long!

Consistant Double Sal - It is getting so close!

Work on and achieve semi-consistant double loop - I've done them before...

2008 - 14th Adult Nationals, 10th national medal. Met some new friends and had a great time. I had the chance to skate to something very different this year and I loved it. I've started skating with a new partner and we've competed at one event.

2009 - 15th ?!!? Nationals. I've picked my music - something very simple, and hope to learn some new edges and play with new footwork. Having fun with pairs - picking out music for a new program.

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1. Have 2 spins each with 9 revolutions and fast. Land all doubles, Entertain , Entertain, Entertain.
2. Applause ( Medal optional)
3. Showing up comes to mind too..