You can recognise me from my Myspace link piccie, although that's a half decent pic and I wear glasses! Think check in time is usually around 2pm in most hotels but imagine Nicki and I will probably be there around the same time as you.

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Checked the hotels website and it says that rooms are available from midday, so no worrys there.

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I am in silver too! Seems to be a big group - should be a lot of fun. I am really looking forward to it

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Im in bronze!! Can't wait to meet you guys! A week to go.....getting REALLY excited now!! x

Is there a final time we're all meeting at the hotel then? I think a few of us were talking about meeting earlier then the time the evening event starts.

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I can be best recognized by a huge photo camera bag that is almost the size of my skating bag...
Don't know what time I will make it to Sheffield on Sunday, but I'm in Etap too. I'm in Bronze.
BTW, this camp is a present for my birthday which is today!

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Happy birthday! What a cool present!

Happy Birthday!!! hope you're haivng a brilliant day, you definitelly have the weather for it!

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I think Nicki and I will be there around 4 ish........ if the M1 behaves itself anyway. Am I the only one who hasn't packed yet?!

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I am not packed either! I am nursing a very sprained ankle - thank you change foot sit on a thursday morning! I had to spend about £100 on cabs and physio appointment last min. Have been doing anything and everything in my power to get it to recover so that I can get on the ice on monday. Fingers crossed!!!

Oh yes, also had to get a last minute train ticket just so that my ankle gets all the possible rest and hence no driving for me! *sigh*

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Oh no! Hope the ankle improves dramatically. What a nuisance!

Anyway I'm all packed and ready to go! See you all there later.

Nicki

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Anyone else aching as much as I am???

Hope you all got home ok, it was really good to meet you all; hope you had as much fun as I did.

Jen

Yep.......... was in absolute agony today when I went to the rink this morning!

Was great to see you all. Had a brill time and hopefully there will be something like this again on a yearly basis.

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I was aching more yesterday but am pretty shattered! Had a total blast though - was great to meet up with you all and like Tigger says, hope they do something like this again and with longer ice sessions!

Nicki

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Well if we don't get an annual camp we can always organise our own one

It was really great to meet you guys - I hope to be seeing some of you on Sunday as my ankle is better - although still swollen and has issues bending forward it still has 2 days to sort itself out!!!

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It's great to see so much excitement about the camp! I really wanted to go this year, but couldn't take any time off since I'm a teacher and it's exam time Could any of the people who went tell me what it was like? What did you learn? How many attended? etc I think there may be other skaters out there keen to get some feedback too!

I think it very much depended on what your level was as to how good it was - I really enjoyed it but I've only been skating for 6 months so I had a lot to learn! There were 40 in total and we were split into groups according to ability - I was in the bronze group, which was the biggest group by far - each ability was then split into dance and free, and there was quite an uneven spread in our group so I switched to dance on the second day as there were only 7 in that group and they then split us into those who knew the dances and those who didn't so we were 4 and 3 which was amazing! I think the biggest complaint was that there wasn't enough ice time and that the off ice training wasn't as good as it could have been but I was aching quite enough from what we did! Also the groupings were based on what we'd said on our application forms and a few people weren't happy with their groupings. The coaches were fantastic though, and there were a lot of really nice people. I would definitely go back again though if they do it again next year.

Well I had some torn tendons in my ankle so did very little. But the groups were a mess, there were people in every group clearly below the required level and sometimes above. The coaching was great in my opinion as were the fascilities, but there was far too little ice time and very little off ice training. I personally skate more at home then I did at camp. I think if they sorted out the groups properly and gave us more time on ice (even the coaches said it was not enough) it would be great.

Overall, I found that the very beginners found it was great (by that I mean people landing 2-3 jumps), those of us who have a few more jumps under our belt were frustrated a lot with the lack of training time both on and off ice; there were no jump classes, no ballet, no stretch classes no pilates. It felt a bit more like a holiday then a training camp to me and I know a few people felt the same way. Don't think I will be going back next year - not unless they make a few changes - although I did make some great friends and we're hoping to maybe go to one of the american camps next year

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