I'm so bored....

So what music piece are you guys doing?

Me, I'm not sure yet

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Freestyle: overture to Mamma Mia!
Interp: Goldfinger (from the Bond film--complete with gold lame bodysuit--if you're a straight guy, please come watch! )

Next year, both programs will be _very_ different, but I think I want to keep them a surprise for a bit of time....

You don't know what you're skating to at NATIONALS??????? It's in a few weeks! How do you do runthroughs? Don't you pick a piece and choreograph it and really work at it? How can you have a program consistent for Nationals if you haven't picked music yet? I'm just

Well, anyways...I'm doing my Silver I program to Classical Gas by Vanessa Mae. I've used it many times with great results.

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Haven't you learned yet not to do a competition on the fly? According to your online journal, you swear after every disappointing skate that you'll change your ways and never, never wait until the last minute again.

I know that's my biggest problem in skating. I get too tired very quickly with my music pieces. It is hard to pick a 1 minute and 40 second program. Any suggestions?

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I love that piece. When do you skate Stormy?

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I know.... I decided on Theme from Out of Africa, but it doesn't have a good bang at the end.

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Hey Skaternum, when do you skate?

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ok, i would freak out if i didn' t have my program done by the summer. and use the year to get comfortable! I though november/decmber was late to get our pairs program...yikes!

i skate to the theme from the rock for singles
jurassic park for pairs
sorry can't divulge the interp number ...by order of the coach

I love that vanessa mae version, what level do you skate and when are you competing in kansas?

You must have missed my 13 posts saying I wasn't skating. I'm just coming for the party!

LOL, skaternum. Oh, I can't wait for Kansas! We have much scheming to do ...

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yeh, sorry, I must have missed it

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I'm skating to Rachmaninoff's Vocalise for silver II freestyle, and this will only be my second time competing with this program!

And Return of the King for silver pairs.

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Bronze free - YYZ by Rush
INterp - Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway

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Wang chung!

WOW!!! That's a ROCKIN' song!!!! How did you managed to get your coach to let you do HEAVY rock guitar piece like that??? I'm jealous!!!

My secondary coach would have a COW and tell my primary coach to "deal with jazzpants" if I bring in something like THAT!!! Of course, I would have loved to have brought that in last Wed when we were picking out artistic music for me just so I can see the look on her face when she hears it!

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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!!!

OK, I am new here, so I have a question about the differences in levels. Do you think that someone could fill me in some more details about the levels? When you say GOLD, do you mean GOLD as in Senior level (Gold FS test being needing a double lutz and 4:10 minute program) or does it mean something else? Also what do these other levels signify? Bronze, Masters???

Also, what is Interp? Is that where they play a piece of music and you habe to create a program on the fly or does it mean something else now?

If someone could explain this to me, I'd really appreciate it! For some details on me, I passed my 4th figure and my Novice FS test about 20 years ago...

Thanx a bunch!

Gold level in this case is Adult Gold FS level. This is the equivalent FS test-wise to probably a Juv level skater. Here are the test elements on the Adult Track to Adult Gold.
http://www.sk8stuff.com/f_rules/sing...ents_adult.htm

And here are the competition requirements:
http://www.sk8stuff.com/f_rules/adul...ligibility.htm

From Adult Gold on, you do the standard track from Int. Moves/FS on and be considered a Masters level skater. In your case, since you've passed the Novice FS test, you would be a Master's Novice level skater.

Interp is nothing more than an artistic program.

Hope that helps!

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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!!!

Actually, you skate a level up in Adults once you hit Masters. So if you passed Novice you skate Junior.

Actually ... it's either! You can do Masters Novice if you've passed your Intermediate and no higher than (but including) your Novice, and you can do Masters Junior of you've passed your Novice and no higher than your Junior. Masters Senior is at least the Junior test. So each Masters level offers the option of skating up or not.

my Missouri coach encouraged me to cover the spectrum when it came to musical interpretation. She lets me pick the music and she edits and choreographs. Somehow I knew you'd like it.

But my choices are not without advisement or thought. She wanted something that would make me push on the ice and go faster. I tend to skate slow to softer pieces.

Also, since I knew I was going to compete in my first AN, I wanted a little piece of my husband out there with me, and Rush is his favorite rock band. I PROMISE not to play air drums or air guitar during my skate, but I can't promise I won't throw some rock festival arms in the air in triumph when I am done skating.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for FS and Kung FU FIghting for Interp

-"Harlem Nocturne" (blues guitar version) for silver I men

-selections from "Return of the King" (awesomely and seamlessly cut by Loops!) for silver pairs

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I love that program! Good luck!

The Movie Ballet and the Automobile ( both written in 1938) fun stuff. As for my Interp .....Well some of you have seen it but Ill keep it a suprize from most of you. You will just have to see. Masters interp II.
Hint. ( " I joined the Circus like i wanted too, when I was a kid") well not really I was 26 when I did that .....

The Bacchanal from Samson and Delilah for FS (second year - although we've made some choreography changes since Lake Placid - and even since Mids). I love this music - I will retire it after this year, but I could listen to this music forever.

God Bless the USA for interp - I'm a veteran and this is my first ever interp program, which my Mom (a former coach) and I put together after AN last year. It's my tribute to the men and women in the military - when I was in, we used to sing this song at the very top of our lungs in the military clubs. I would guess that they still do.

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