Congratulations. I saw both the first and third place medalists skate at Sectionals, and they had very strong skates. Glad to hear that things went well for you. Great job!

Congrats to everyone who has skated so far! And kudos to the LOC and icenetwork for getting results up so quickly!!

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I had a wicked hard group in my artistic events, Beth Delano, Sherry Dowlen, Cynthia Jacobsen and Shannon Keeler just to name a few and I was absolutely floored to come in 3rd. Utterly unexpected, I have managed 4th at the masters level artistic once but it has been a very long time, it was very fun and everyone skate well in our group.

Leslie

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Congratulations!!!! That is a hard group. I'm glad it went so well for you and that everyone had fun.

I can't wait until the footage comes out on icenetwork on down the road, so that I can watch everyone's events.

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Congrats! Great skate!!!!

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Congrats coskater!

I came in 5th in Silver Men IV/V FS last night. However one judge gave me first place ordinals!!!

It was great group, and pretty happy with how I skated. I think it would have been a little better if I hadn't left out my last jump!!!

Now off to warmup for Silver Pairs. There are only 3 teams this year.

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...11804428&hl=en
Results:
http://web.icenetwork.com/events/detail.jsp?id=34667

Oh and I met FigureSkates at registration yesterday.

Rob

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This is exciting to read! Congrats to those who skated and good luck to those coming up!!

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Congratulations to everyone who has skated so far! I hope to get my bronze tests eventually to join in on the fun!

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3:40 - 4:00 ~ Warmup/Practice
I felt on fire and landed all my jump attempts. My spins werent as bad as I expected it to be (like yesterday).
I was a little intimidated with the axels flying all over the place, but Joe stopped me before I start obsessing.

6:10 ~ Competition skate
I took my time preparing and tried to be calm and remained focused. My warmup was just as awesome as my warmup/practice. I felt ready to go and had no negative thoughts heading into my skate.

I took my opening position (changed it at the last second), I felt the music right away and just charged through;
Lutz/Loop,
Lutz,
Flying Camel-BLECH!! no spin and just messy,
1/2-Straight line footwork - as best as I could have done that day,
Flip/Loop,
Spin Combination - travelled on the camel and just lost control of it,
Ena-baur into Salchow/Toe-Loop - my legs werent up to doing the flip (I should have pushed through it though), not having the flip probably cost me 1 tiny bit,
Scratch spin - UGH!!!!

I didnt know how I would place, as usual I hoped it was good enough. Following me was Ken Ho, a newcomer and he had a lot of difficult elements including two axels. Then Jeremy followed with an awesome performance. I didnt watch Stephen and Akira skate so I had no idea on how things would be placed. Joe predicted that I would end up 3rd or 4th.
I just felt so disappointed that I didnt start early enough to prepare the axel and really pushed hard to work on spins. And I have nobody to blame but myself for it.

So the dreaded ordinals came up, we were all confused because the placements were not up. Joe proceeded to do the math and had me in 3rd. It wasnt official at the time but I just nearly dropped. And when it did:

1. Ken Ho 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7/1
2. Stephen Trzaska 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 6/3
3. Tim David 3 4 2 4 2 4 2 4/3 TOM 9
4. Jeremy Balcom 5 3 4 2 5 2 3 4/3 TOM 10
5. Akira Kondo 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 7/5
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I knew I was being complacent. I thought my artistry would make up the lack of technical element I needed. I was certainly just hoped for the best. This enough makes me mad and really strive to come back strong next season and have all my technical elements solid and in place so there will be no question at the end. I knew something like this had to happen for me to get moving.

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Well done everybody - you're all fantastic. I see that Jazzpants was not last in her group, which is a great result for your first time, and I am very thrilled to see that my coach's pupil (yes, my coach has sent a pupil to the American Adult Nationals! She's over here for a bit and training with us) won her group and am about to text my coach to tell him so.

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Ken used to live in my area. He is an awesome skater, and a very nice guy, and I'm so happy for him! He's doing his medical residency, so I imagine he doesn't have a lot of time for practice.

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Just wishing lots of luck to all of my skating friends at this competition:] Wish I was there with everyone - hope to be back next year...

Cheers and keep the reports coming!

I'm taking the "bar" comment of your interp program to heart and drinking right now!

I was happy with my singles program, especially since I totally forgot the last 15 seconds of my program and had to improvise!
I didn't get to watch any of the other men except for 30 seconds of Jeremy. I used to skate with Ken Ho at the Cabin John rink in Rockville, Md., way back in 2004. I actually told him that I hoped I didn't have to compete against him since he was so good, with nice moves. Fast forward 3+ years!

Tara and I took first in gold pairs. We had to wait an excruciatingly long time from when the pair team skating beofre us got off the ice, their scores were tallied/read (for IJS programs this year, they announce your technical and PCS marks right after you complete your program), and when they annoucned our name. That was a bit nerve-wracking. But it gave me a chance to skate around the rink and look for ruts and holes and to clear the ice of any debris/rhinestones!

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Congratulations, NoVa! And congratulations also to Lovepairs and Pairman on their silver medal!

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D'oh! Well done.

Yay!!!! Can't wait to see the video.

congrats Nova !!!!!!!

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Stephen and Tara did a really nice job. Also events from this morning Liz McG won M Nov 3. Yvonne Dowlen came in 3rd in her group and did a very nice lutz. I was the runner for the IJS events but it was the first year they tallied the scores and announced where you placed at that moment. I liked that just like Odorf and MC, they did a nice job mixing groups this year and put age as the priority on the masters events so instead of having Nov 4 & 5 they would put Nov & jr 4 together so they were all the same age this worked well. IMHO.
I am off to the hot tub and the "bar" later on! See ya there NoVa!!

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Hmm, I noticed that Icenetwork is a little confused about the pairs events. They should have identified the one listed first as "Championship Pairs" with have the start orders listed and the event further down as "Gold Pairs" with the results from today. Instead they've got them both identified as "Gold Pairs," and they have today's results listed where they should have start orders for the championship event (and vice versa).

It is a great time seeing all these adult skaters!

I met Jazzpants and Mel on Ice today.

Great people!!!

Since I am only at the pre- lead level, I can't compete yet but I am having an absolute blast!!

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Congrats to you and Tara!
I'm sure you have PLENTY of vodka nips to keep you going til Saturday!!

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Becca pre-emptively gave me vodka nips (on Wednesday)!

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Congratulations, flo, on your silver medal in your artistic/dramatic interp event! I hope the sore knee held up!

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*obsessively watching DVD of performance*
ETA: YouTubed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGbcFgtB1PA

Well, I fell on my axel. Buuut, at least this time I got it in the warm-up. I'm pretty happy with how I skated, disappointed about missing the podium (one more judge and I'd have been fourth!). I did get a 1st place ordinal - thank you, judge number 3!! My ordinals were 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7. A majority of judges had me medaling! But the ordinals were all over the place.

I think to be more competitive, besides standing up the $@# axel, I needed a change-foot spin and more combinations. My only combo was lutz-loop, and didn't do the sal-loop, back sit part of the combo spin or the inside-outside spiral (just outside) because I was so far behind the music. I ended after the music, too. From what I heard of the group, there were lots of axels from everyone and it was a difficult event. I'm just glad I held my own and didn't die at the end of my program. Reading my sports psychology book helped lots. The silver medalist in our group paid me the ultimate compliment today - she said she was scared of competing against me after seeing me practice!

So, I now know what everyone says when they say it's hard to leave ANs early!! I just got home and I was very sad to leave. I went to the rink today just to get a sweatshirt, ended up staying way later than I intended. Watched Masters with fabulous TreSk8AZ, and chit chatted with some other awesome new people. I can't wait to tie for gold with all my Silver 1 gals next year in Gold 1! (There were TWO people in Gold 1 this year, why did I not test up?!) I am also exceedingly proud of my BFF and national bronze medalist Stormy, who kicked bootay in Silver II with TWO axels and fabulous camel spins!

Next year, I'm staying the whole time!!

Ahh, was that you with the "thinking" program?? People were still talking about that today! Excellent concept!