I hit the boards on the just STROKING. Those back crossovers from pre-juv that are used for Intermediate and Novice? Yeah, crashes straight into the boards on my test

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I hit the boards (rather gracefully) at the end of the power 3s on my Bronze Moves test. And at least once a month or so, I hit the boards (and splat ungracefully) on the first BO-FI double 3 on Gold Moves. I've also hit the boards coming out of lutzes when I hang on to the leading edge too long. I like to say that I'm just making sure I'm using ALL the ice suface

vesperholly, I definitely agree...coach is a stickler for the back stroking hitting the 90...and I start my first outside rocker to get into the pattern is usually following the circle with the first rocker/choctaw at the dot....I also hit the boards/hugged the boards when I skated in Milwaukee at the Pettit Center...and that rink is LONGER! Oh well...

ibreakhearts66 - yes, everything comes back to haunt you!! which is good because that shows that the skills build on each other!! However, the prospect of doing the power circles again on Junior is not appealing if I want to try to get my moves tests in before they all change...I did my intermediate ones very similar to the Junior ones with my exit not following the circle like others do...I did mine with the straighter exit as I was going WAY fast...((and crashed once....hard....almost hit the boards with my head and I fell going top speed at about the beginning of the hockey circle...that's how fast I was going))

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After I passed Novice moves, one of the judges actually came up to me and complimented me on doing a truly perpendicular inside edge on that transition. He said he sees very few people do the step correctly.

I definitely still hit the boards on that move, though.