GROAN! That is SO bad!

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

yeah I don't actually get that...

That's too funny about all the missing "camels."

As for me, it was all Shopping in my lesson today. I did backward crossovers! My coach was holding my hands, but I did them fine and they were moving quite fast, so much better than the forward xovers. He was quite surprised but very happy! My ankle bends just enough to allow me to do clockwise back crossovers, but it is really at the current limit of my ankle's flexibility. Still, it was good enough for me! Also we did forward and backward inside and outside edges. My left back outside edge was better than my right back outside edge, just like before the left ankle was broken. My coach was holding onto me through all this as it was a moderately crazy session. It was kinda like dancing with him since we were in a Killian-type of hold for all the forward edges. It was WAY cool!

Also got to see some more people that I hadn't seen in a year, including one of the older coaches who hadn't realized that I'd broken my ankle, and that was nice, too. This one coach was very gracious in welcoming me back, so again, it was really nice. All in all, a nice and great lesson!

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August 22, back on the ice!

I didn't get it until you quoted the punchline. lol Awful.

I left my coaching business card for the pro shop guy because I really, really need him to adjust my right blade and he's not returning emails/calls. I didn't think this was a busy season. I might take a crack at it myself if he doesn't get back to me soon.

While I'm cutting competition music for the twins, I might just cut music for a Prelim Free program for moi. When they're ready to take the Pre-Prel MITF test, I'm going to take my Prel MITF and maybe the Pre-Bronze Moves & FS. If I feel strong enough by then, I might take a chance on scheduling the Prel FS, maybe not. I think I prefer not having the "contingency" testing hanging over my head. Still, it would be fun to skate again. (The Adult Synchro coach approached me last night, but I'm not ready to have others depend on my skating. lol)

Still rooting for you, sk8pics. Good work.

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perhaps they are busy starring in various nativities at this time of year??

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Level one Field Moves......PASSED 05.06.08
Level one Free dance.....PASSED 02.10.08

GOALS FOR 2009

• Level One Compulsary dances.......PASSED 19.02.09
• Level One Elements.....................PASSED 10.07.09
• Level Two Free dance.................PASSED 19.02.09
• Level One Free...........................
• Level Two compulsory dances.......

Loving it, Loving it, Loving it!!!!!

Ah, could be, could well be....

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

Shopping -
I don't know where they came from but all of a sudden I had the ability to do back outside 3's on both feet at speed.
Scratch spins were centered and fast for me.

Dropping -
Someone has run away with my jumps.

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Happily defying the laws of physics when I skate...and not in a good way

If I could meet ole Axel Paulsen, I would kick him in the teeth

President and Founding member of the I hate Toe-Loops Club

Still a member, but trying to get out of the Pre-bronze peanut gallery.

Visit my skating journal

Dropping: (Actually too cold to drop anything - it would shatter!) DAMNED cold in the rink today (-34C outside ) - BURRRR! - did about 20 minutes warm-up on the ice and then went to sit in the lobby with one of the coaches with my skates over the heat vent to warm up my frozen toes!

Shopping: After 10 minutes of baking the boots in the lobby, my feet were fine for the rest of the session

Upright spins were really cooking this morning! Sit spins - so-so. Reverse spins - coming slowly. Waltz jump, Toe Loop, and Waltz/Toe combination - all progressing slowly (which is pretty good for an old broad who's half frozen!). Really thrilled about the combination jump - never though I would have one at my age

Gave my coach a Tim Horton's gift certificate for her birthday, which she claimed to have forgotten about! - glad I reminded her that she is a year older

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

You could be right ....

Finally! A decent skating workout. It feels like months since I've skated well. I impulsively took a long lunch and went to the twin-surface ice rink, planning to skate their late freestyle. The cashier was having problems ringing up the fee because I was a walk-in. (new software) I suddenly realized that (a) I did have cash money in my wallet; and (b) the public session was completely empty! Saved myself four dollars, had the ice to myself, and skated a much longer time! yay!

Shopping:
Spins were excellent, I even took some videos because they were working so well. My first backspin was centered, huge circles, but centered. *relieved* Even did a few good camels, but couldn't combine them with anything else. Layback and sit spins were excellent, as was the forward scratch. (Not as fast as I would like, though.)

Jumps were very good, not high, but still okay. Did a bunch of mazurkas, THEN tried the toe loop. Success! Need more punch and rotation on the flip and loop.

MITF - Prelim moves were pretty good, even the nasty *(&^&*( threes-on-the-line. My new trick is to turn my shoulders parallel to the wall after the turn. I think I've been "overchecking" my shoulders, which is why I couldn't bring my feet back together.

Started working on Pre-Juv moves; this is going to require a coach. Not pretty at all.

Dropping:
I was very dizzy throughout my skating. Don't know why, but now I feel really tired. Worst of all, I forgot my cell phone at home, so I couldn't contact my older DD when it was time to pick her up. (Why she can't just come out of the school and look for my car, I shall never know.)

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This one made me crack up!!!! LOL you are too funny. "Old Broad who's half frozen"??? That was an instant classic. Congrats on the combination jump.


BlackManSkating

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Proud to be one of the few black men out on the ice

Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

Sessy, not only do your posts kill me, but your TAG LINES have me ROLLING sometimes!!!!!!! "what's left of your unit"?????? ROFLOL!!!!!!!!

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

LOL! I'll PM you the explanation, Sessy

Sorry about the awful joke, everyone, but that was me practicing my sense of humor in anticipation of my possible third retry on this test today!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

OOOOOH!!! I get it now!!! <<<Cymbal crash here...>>> That is REALLY BAD!!!

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Cheers,
jazzpants

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!!!

Dropping:
My oxygen levels are not very good. I've been to the doctor because I was having pain my chest and back even after my sickness cleared up. Last week I had to play some very complicated music on flute and recorder for my church's music minister (He's a music teacher and very high level professional pianist who sometimes travels for huge gigs with his band.). He has us doing pieces you'd hear the Philharmonic play like "A Classical Christmas (Hallelujah, Amen!, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring{I have a big Recorder solo in this and it's at the speed of light.} and For Unto Us a Child Is Born arranged by Dave Williamson)", "Mary Had a Baby (with Wonderful Counselor also arranged by Dave Williamson)" and "Season Of Joy (with Joy to the World and yes again arranged by Dave Williamson)" which is again at hyper speed. Anyway, I played ever ounce of air out of me and somehow got the notes out but when I was done, I was in horrible pain with my chest and back all tight. As soon as I was done I headed to the clinic only to find out that I may have to get my asthma medication changed because my oxygen levels were very low when they tested me. The doc wanted me to try taking my rescue inhaler 6 times a day to see if that would help but as far as skating and playing my woodwind instruments go, I'm not getting enough air to get through a whole song or my freeskate program. I die half way through. Looks like I'm going to have to see about getting those asthma meds changed.

I've also noticed that in the last month my skating has slid down a slippery slope in quality. I still can get into my spins but I feel very dizzy and out of breath when I'm doing them. I also notice that I can't seem to centre like I use to do before the lack of oxygen.

My waltz, toe and salchow jumps aren't getting as high off of the ice as they use to either. Splits have split, flips rotate but seem to be done on the ice as I have no get up and go. And the lutz, well, that's very funny as I can get into the right position to take off, rotate it all the way around but don't have the energy to stay on the right side to land it clean. This too is height deprived because of the lack of energy because of the lack of oxygen.

I've tried taking double doses of my rescue inhaler before skating but it's not doing anything. And I've not missed a dose of my preventative either. I've got to get this fixed before tomorrow at 10 AM when I have my lesson with my primary coach. I also got to get my lungs working because I have a huge dress rehearsal with the choir and band for this Sundays musical performance in which as I've stated in above paragraph that I'm playing my flute and recorder but not only that I'm also singing the high soprano parts when I'm not playing flute or recorder on those mentioned above pieces and others not listed here. I need the oxygen.

I tell you, it's that Mr. Al Gore that has let all of the oxygen escape into space, just so that he could write his book. It's his fault. Just kidding. LOL Got ya!

Shopping:
Got some edited and remastering paying jobs from one of the coaches at my rink. As it stands, I've done 5 of the 11 jobs given to me done but some of these take more than an hour or so. I'm really picky with sound quality. I've still one to collect tomorrow which will boost the 11 to 12. It's the one that really kills my ears every time I hear it. But hey, I'll be getting real cash for this. So far the coach who employed my services really loves my work.

Dreaming of Gifts:
Now if only I could get my skating to be as good as my music performances, editing and remastering! Then, I could medal at Adult Canadians and pass a few FS tests.

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I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008.

http://eastcastlemusic.tripod.com

Singerskates Sports Music Editing

Oh. How'd it go?

(btw your pm box is full)

I got it off a blog of somebody who'd collected the funniest lines from army instructions.

There were a few others, like:
-"Cluster bombings from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to hit the ground." (USAF Ammo Troop)
-"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed." (US Air Force Manual)
-"Any ship can be a minesweeper... once."
-"You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me." (US Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.)
-"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." (anonymous)
-"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." (old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan)

lol love you comment.

this whole thread has me cracking up (i bow because nothing has been able to make me smile lately)

ok so
shopping
did some REALLY nice axels. thats still a big deal for me because they STILL mess with my head.

coach also told me that i had a really nice camel. she wanted me to demonstrate for one her students, and i didn't do any very good ones (camel was still missing) but i guess she still learned. my coach told her how i get my speed by bringing my arm around and up. i was like "is that bad?" and she said "no, you have a beautiful camel" =D

she also said i have really good split jumps and split falling leafs!

i also found out that the part of my double toe that i was concerned about (the skid on my take-off edge) isn't a bad thing!

ok aaaand...drum roll please....

I STARTED TRIPLE LOOPS!!!!!! (see "my coach has gone crazy" thread lol)

the was still plenty of dropping
my jumps weren't as great as they had been. it took me longer to do a 2toe in my lesson than i would have like. my coach hadn't really slept in 2 days and you could tell. she started singing along to "it's been a while" but made up lyrics along the lines of "it's been a while since i saw sarah land a jump on foot" and various comments. she gets frustrated when i have a jump landed and put my foot down, but i told her that i only do it as a special treat for her. they're always fine when i'm not in lesson! she knows that tho. we were just having fun

double flips. ugh. by the end it was getting better. coach had a field day with that one too. she was demonstrating proper prep for the three turn and stuff and started dancing like one of those cane dances.

...still over-rotating

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shopping - skated almost 2 hours in a crowded public this afternoon. It was hard to find room to jump, and impossible to work the dance-step sequence, but I didn't care. The freestyles are so lonely. I never thought I'd get to feeling that way, but there it is. I liked showing off. Salchow and toe loop were both good, and I practiced some transitions from my program.

dropping - gaining some weight back, and it shows in tight skating clothes

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It's all about the dress!

Just a Camel Comment: when was the last time you all had your skates sharpened? Maybe you're due...

Shopping:
Back spins were great, for some strange reason. I nailed everyone of them.
Sit and forward scratch spins were good.
Prel MITF were fine, my "Parallel Arms" trick on the Alt Threes is working! Yay!!!
Finally figured out the Pre-Juv MITF pattern that had me baffled yesterday- it only took two days. lol

Dropping:
Jumps were okay, but I didn't do many of them because my knees are stiff from skating yesterday.

The 3T-Mohawk patterns that circle the center are intimidating.
The skaters can't watch where they're going and they need to do them at speed, so it's dangerous on a busy session.

Shopped and then Dropped:
Saved a loop landing (just barely) after kicking myself in the skate laces with the heel of the free foot.
Bad because I was lucky to land it - you could see the flat edge and the 'bounce' trace.
Good because it meant my free foot was in front! Finally!

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Hmm funny, I was thinking my blades seemed a little dull on thursday. Guess I'll have em sharpened on monday... Must've been that walk I took guardless through the dressing room.

Shopping:
-spirals getting better, but not back to pre-injury form yet
-did 8-step mohawk pattern at speed (will ignore the scratchiness for now )
-sit spins a little better than last time
-did more consistent backspins than I did last week
-cross strokes were good
-3 turns were okay - did them in pattern today
-taught some newbies how to stop and encouraged a boy who told me he wants to skate pairs

Dropping:
-dances weren't cooperating
-power pulls are still bad
-tried camels for the first time since I've been back. Not so good. I did 1 or 2 decent ones out of about 10. I either overshot the entrance, or fell onto a deep inside edge. Probably a combination of technique issues and a not-strong-enough ankle to hold my weight up.
-sit-backsit didn't happen
-rink was FREEEEZING. I had to wear my parka-like coat until I warmed up, and my toes were so numb I couldn't feel the bottoms of my skates. Plus the rink parking lot was on the verge of being flooded from all the rain/icy stuff.

Definitely need a sharpening. Backward outside crossrolls were gone too, and I do those to warm up.

Strangely, the camel was *kinda* back.

Shopping:
Yesterday I finally had my blades mounted to my new boots and today I skated in them for the first time. By the end of the hour, I was able to do all of the Intermediate MIF (except the back power 3's, which I didn't try). I also did my spiral sequence and threw in a salchow and a backspin as the zamboni was coming out. The boots fit perfectly, the mounting is just right and the skates function great. And I always appreciate it when new boots don't make my ankle bones feel like they're being smashed between two 2x4's. Heat molding rocks!
I was also lucky to end up on a very sparsely populated freestyle session (which would have been even better if a pairs team hadn't shown up). I later found out that the rink I normally go to on Sundays was really crowded, so I was glad I'd decided at the last minute to go to this one instead!

Dropping:
I kind of miss my old boots, which were autographed by Daisuke Takahashi and Miki Ando.
My arches were achy for the entire hour, so I got off the ice after the first hour instead of skating two hours like I normally do on Sundays. I hope this goes away before too long. I can skate in them as long as I have to, but my arches don't really appreciate it.

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Shopping

We had our holiday Gala tonight and I was in an adult number to "It's the MOst Fattening TIme of the YEar"...during the warm up, I felt like my waltz jump, toe tap, half flip was just too much turning around and out of control so I just did a waltz toe loop and I really jumped big.

Dropping.
I fell DOING NOTHING BUT SKATING FORWARD. Yea right before they went into spirals going two different directions in two different circles...we were the third number after the ice make and the ice was slippery so I slid and didn't get up so fast and was terrified I was going to get run over!

Shopping
I got up, found my place and finished the routine without further incident.

Then at the end of the show, all the skaters just skate around and wave to "Auld Lang Syne" and the adult grabbed hands - with me end the end and yes, I was able to hold on and keep up as we went around the corner. Then they got funny and played crack the whip and I still kept up. One thing I can do is skate fast.

DD did a very sultry number to "What are you doing New Year's Eve" --she's 17. Got a few comments from folks about how that was a different side of her. "Better to get it out on the ice than somewhere else" is what I say

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