Well, I'm not a member of any of the previously mentioned Falling Down clubs -- because I'm the president of the Too Chicken to Try Anything Club.

Also a member of the Tripped by Another Synchro Skater Club. Once with fall, once with "chopping broccoli feet" save.

I'm a member of the Sasha Split Spiral Off-Ice-ONLY Club. On ice... nope.

I'm a lifetime member of the Cheated 3-Turn Club. Do they really HAVE to be entirely on one foot?

chopping broccoli :::snicker:::

I'm a member of the caught on video while trying to demonstrate club which was having a meeting the same time as the toepick club, giving me membership in both.

Stepping on to the ice with guards on...flat on my a** for competition warm up Club- yes there was a decent sized crowd to witness that.

Toe pick, belly flop, slide into the boards Club.

Clink of death (at Adult Nationals during competition) sprain my ankle, get carried off the ice (major drama!) get back on 2 minutes later to finish and win the event Club.

Skate backwards into the boards during compeition Club. Duh!

As you can see my "greatest" moments in skating seem to happen at compeition.

I'm used to be a member of the Dunk Your Skirt in the Toilet Because You're Not Used to Wearing a Skating Dress.

Now, on what special occasion might one wear a skating dress? That's correct -- a competition or a test. I did this twice before I started wearing dresses for everyday practice.

Hey Skaternum,
Didn't you start the "Yes, you can win a Silver Ladies Event without a axel club" last weekend in DC???

Why, yes I did. I'm their poster girl. So I'm a member of 2 clubs now!

The "more than a year to get your axel" club!

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Member of the:

"I Really Miss Competitive Skating Club" (I'm away at college)
"Wrecked Knees Club" (I hear that it's not brackets that wreck the knees, but ina bouers, ask a ballerina).
"Need a New Interpretive Program Club"
"Put in a Dance Test Without Learning the Dance First Club"
"Failed Every Dance Considered a Foxtrot At Least Once Club"
"Wish I Was an Olympic Champion Club"
"Made Up a Pairs Program WHILE Competiting Club"

Kortney

The "Got At Least 1 Retry on the European Waltz" Club

Yep. Forgot all about that one. How could I? Especially if I counted up all the lesson time, ice time, and test costs for that darn dance. Easily a several-thousand-dollar dance.

Hey - I landed my first real flip that way!! I was doing that safety tap at the end. Then once, I tapped the top of my landing foot! It actually helped me out!

Card carrying member of the:
Fractured a rib while belly flopping club
Headbanging trying an inner back 3 club - my second week skating ;-)
Former roller skating club
No longer needs balloons in the front club ;-)

I'm a lifetime member of the "click of death" club. Earned it on the Intermediate MIF power circles (and sadistic coach gleefully reminded me, after passing the Intermediate test, that I get them again at Junior ).

I'm also a member of:

• The "slam into the boards" club (power circles, once again);
• the "forget part of your program in competition" club;
• the "pitch sideways off of your blade doing footwork" club;
• and last, but not least, the "fall over for no real reason" club.

Isn't skating fun?

Sk8er1964 - lifetime member of the "I am so addicted to the best sport in the world" club

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown

IHNTC - I Have No Turnout Club

CSBS - Can't Stop Backwards Society

BFTRSAACAHNSAFOSDRA - Broke Front Tooth Recreationally Skating as a Child and Have Now Spent a Fortune On Successive Dental Restorations Association

AOSSSOC - Adult Onset Skating Syndrome Sufferers of Canada

I recently joined LSOTIWOGO: Let's Step On the Ice With Our Guards On.

umm i am the member of the
1) Spiral and fall flat on your stomach club
2) Ankle twisting club
3) The fall in the middle of a layback/y-spin etc because of trying to bend/stretch too much club
4) Fall while just standing on the ice club

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Tidesong

Ooh, also joining the "Falling on the Dutch Waltz" club!

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I am a member of the "Post Olympic Athlete Club." I go to the Olympic ice venues to "skate my program" long after the Games have taken place there. Maybe that's why I always miss the awards ceremony!

How about the, "I landed on my own foot while attempting a loop and cut a hole in my boot, through the skin, and partway through the tendon" club

And the "I fell demonstrating a back outside three-turn while teaching group lessons" club

Can't forget the "It took me WAY more than a year to finally land and axel" club

The "I fell on the optional intro steps during my intermediate MIF test" club

My clubs...

• Besides the "I have stepped on the ice with my skate guards on" club....
• "Coach's favorite punching bag" club. (Coaches LOVE to pick on me since I do just about EVERYTHING that skaters AREN'T supposed to do technique-wise. It drives the coaches NUTS!!!)
• "Slowest progress on Bronze moves" club (but, by golly... I WILL test either in April or May.)
• Also a member of the "Too Chicken to Try Anything" club, though I'm getting out of that club only b/c my secondary coach showed me just how scary it is to be in this club compared to the "You pissed coach off b/c you won't try anything" club.
• Also a member of the "I have no turnout" club too, though again, said secondary coach proved me wrong by promptly putting me again the hockey box and holding my spreadeagle position against the wall. (Fellow skater said "You have no turnout??? HA!!!")
• The "I want to protest the USFSA's rules for skating dresses for women" club. If men could wear pants, why can't we?
• The "women in black figure skates" club
• The "Clockwise Skater" club
• "Backspins Anonymous" club.
• "Frequent Mileage on Scratch Spin" card carrier

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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!!!

I am now a member of the "I fell doing the 3 turn BEFORE the salchow club. Ouch! I landed on my back and I can tell my neck is going to be sore tomorrow as I hurt now! :-(

Oh well, I am sure I will be back on the ice tomorrow ;-) On a more practical note - Gary should I take a jaccuzzi bath or not? I don't have a real specific place to ice, but the base of my neck hurts a little like whiplash.

Hugs!
Danielle

Ouch, Dani! I hope you feel better soon. I fell doing a LFI 3 turn last week - I was doing the lobe pattern on the pre-Bronze moves test.

I am now a member of the Fell on Back Crossovers in Front of a Judge During a Moves Critique Club. See my post in the Question for Wash Club members thread. I guess/hope the judge has seen worse.

Dani - I hope you feel better quick! Gee, it never occurred to me I could fall before the salchow. I always figured I'd fall trying to stop the turn from whipping around into the jump too much.

Anyway, I'm now a member of the "I did the wrong ending to my program" club. Oh well, it was pretty funny actually.

Pat

As my coach is forever telling me, and his other pupils, the judges don't know what you were planning to do, so if you go wrong, just wing it! They don't know it wasn't exactly what you planned.

For me, right now, I'm a member of the "Off ice due to minor illness" club, and very bored with it I am, too.

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