Now - working on a new double toe drill from another coach at our rink which totally whigs me out. She got it from another coach at another rink and it's helped one of her skaters improve her 2T take off. I am trying it but it's.....odd.

Other than getting motivated?
Backward layback
Leaning back sit spin

Kay

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I just started skating in January so I'm not doing anything overly complicated...but inside 3 turns should die a painful death.

Keep the free leg tucked and not in front of you.

staying on my feet ...

Scratch spin....can't seem to pull my free leg in!

3-turns went to crap. I started focusing on jumps and seemed to have lost my 3 turns. I can do them, they're just a horrible scratchy mess, especially the LFO3, which was my best before...

On a positive note, I finally got the rhythm of a toeloop! And discovered I can do salchows both in the same day.

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Hmm. . . The LFO 3-turn is the basis for the scratch spin, so you might get them both back once you figure out the problem. You might just be rushing the edge.
I remember when I was first learning the scratch spin, I would try to pull my free leg in against all that centrifugal force and I pulled my groin muscle several times. I finally found out I was rushing the entrance edge and trying to bring my free leg to the front too soon. My coach made me do it from a T position on a line and make a small half circle with entrance edge so that I came back to the line before I brought the free leg to the front and initiated the spin. Looking at my tracings, I was kind of shocked that I wasn't really coming back to the line when I thought I was, but once I got that down, it completely fixed my scratch spin. You might want to try it.

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I'm gonna say double salchow or double loop.. or axel. And back camel.

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so did it help and what is it?

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Hardest thing right now is new choreography. What I HAVE to put in doesn't fit with the music and what fits I can't do.

WOW.. you sound like me. At the rink on Wednesday, my coach was showing me some footwork.. and another skater came by and said "Don't look so skeptical... you'll be able to do what she's doing." And all I could think was "First I have to figure out what she's doing, then I'll figure out if I can do it or not." But as a good friend told me, we WILL get it... eventually. That's why we're working on it now.. not just a week before a test or competition.

I have to change mine to the 3-turn patterns in silver moves! yeesh. I look like a contortionist out there

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Then they should just go ahead and pass you up through senior! They all look like contortionists

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Ha! I have to make it look like I'm doing it on purpose (I'm now perfecting the "looplover shoulder variation")

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Another vote here for brackets on the Gold moves test. I no longer consider them spawn of the devil, though, now that I can actually turn some of them and even have an exit edge. A close second is centering spins, a multi-year journey. (Pun intended.)

Johanna

Salchow

SO not happening.

my double lutz & double toe( that jump is impossible). and my pre juv and juvenille moves.

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