GROOVY: Just got back from competiton where I placed first in both footwork and compulsory dance.

GRIM: Am absolutely exhausted and don't even want to think about skating tomorrow. Actually, I'm looking forward to skating, I just don't want to think about actually working on the ice- or going to school. But with another competition in less than two weeks, I have a feeling I'll persuade myself to go.

__________________
Shae-Lynn and Victor: We knew you were champions, and on 3/28/03 the whole WORLD found out! Thank you for twelve wonderful years!

Congratulations!!

Very well done! Which dance or dances, and was it solo or did you have a partner?

__________________
Mrs Redboots
~~~~~~~~
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Congrats to CanAmSk8ter!

wannask8 -- I understand TOTALLY about your husband getting everything faster, so did mine while we were taking lessons together. He was just less afraid than I am. He took the most awful thumping falls and didn't seem to mind, whearas I'm so conservative I haven't fallen in a year.

Groovy: My four-step mohawk prep for the waltz jump is looking beautiful!

but...

Grim: There is no waltz jump. Nor a half-flip. I'm a chicken. Brawk, brawk, brawk... or in my case balk, balk, balk.

Quarkiki2, I've been meaning to ask... what do you mean by "four-step mohawk?" Hang in there and you'll get over your fear of jumping. It took me a long time, and I regressed once after having it, but now I love doing waltz jumps anywhere on the ice. It was a matter of repetitions for me, and seeing that I really could land and hold the landing even if it wasn't the best jump.

Pat

Four step mohawk: RFI to LBI step onto RBO to LFO to waltz jump

Thanks for the encouragement!

I call mine the waltz step and the half-step.

Same fear here!!!!

GRIM: I learned that I cannot as yet do a Rocker. There was a dent in the ice on Saturday to prove it. Fortunately, I fell on my wallet, so nothing broke, however the shock of the feet-above-the-head fall jarred every muscle in my body.

Ah, the wonders of ibuprofin in massive quantities.


GROOVY: I did kind of do a Choctaw though.

Congratulations, CanAmSk8ter!

Yikes, Gary, be careful! I used to do all the one foot turns on roller skates, and can do a very nice FI bracket/BO three sequence at the boards, but I really don't enjoy that feet-above-the-head fall or the straight-down onto-my-hip fall either, not to mention the straight-down-onto-my hand-broken-wrist fall.

__________________

Level 6 Solo- American Waltz (my favorite- NOT! I can't wait to pass that one. Keeping my fingers crossed for October).

__________________
Shae-Lynn and Victor: We knew you were champions, and on 3/28/03 the whole WORLD found out! Thank you for twelve wonderful years!

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!

ICK! I just started the American and I don't like it either. It's not so much the awkwardness of it, as it is the boring factor. Can't wait till I'm through with that one!

I can't do the American yet, but my husband is at the stage of playing with it at Dance Club. Last week I seriously wondered how many goals he was going to score - you would have thought he was playing football out there (aren't I mean!!! )

__________________
Mrs Redboots
~~~~~~~~
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!