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09-30-2006, 02:55 PM
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Had a nice relaxed nearly empty session today and skated with Skate@Delaware and sk8pdx. Moves and backspin felt great.
However, I think I overdid it a little while doing sitpin excercises off ice yesterday at the gym, because my right thigh was screaming during practice. No decent sitspin attempts today. Need to get back in the habit of doing my program.
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09-30-2006, 03:33 PM
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09-30-2006, 04:06 PM
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09-30-2006, 04:28 PM
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Sk8pdx, Skate@Delaware and Terri: Very cool that you got to meet and skate together! Glad it was fun!
Injured: Wednesday and Thursdays were just weird days for me. My one footed spins got all toe picky again, I was doing something really strange with my arms in waltz jumps and I just felt slightly off centered in most everything I tried. I feel really pushed in the bridge program and it makes me low grade anxious or something. giggle. Ballet was torture this week. I kept thinking it would never end! It finally did but I question what I am really getting from that class for the time and energy it takes during my work week. I think I am getting pouty about it. The salchow is barely recognizable. I have been practicing off ice and I seem to be doing the same under rotation off ice as on ice. It just is not happening! I spent 20 minutes of my private lesson on it and saw no improvement. I have only completed one successfully and that was last week. My coach insisted that I actually did complete it many times last week but I think she is forgetting that I am under rotated by 1/4 and am having a problem landing on the toe. Healthy: By Friday I felt back in the game. We had a sub for FS LTS class. He is an ice dancer and I felt like he had great suggestions for power pulls, cross rolls and even the waltz jump which is not his speciality. My private lesson went pretty well too with the exception of the salchow. The coach feels I am ready to start work on pre bronze in both moves in the field and freestyle. I asked to wait until January as the holiday season is going to be so busy but will start some of the elements while completing more ISI testing. I will have two cruise vacations rapidly approaching and worried that I will not have the consistency in practice that I now have. Waltz is showing some improvement last night and again this afternoon which makes me hopeful. 1/2 flip, 1/2 lutz looking better all the time. Spins started toe picky but finally got better at end of today's session. My bridge coach had told me to go back to starting the one footed with a two footed since I am well centered on two and then just pick up the foot to remind me of center for the one footed when it gets too far up. It worked after a while. A young (maybe 11) came on the ice when nearly over today. Never seen her before but she had obviously had years of training and ballet. Her moves were better than even that of the coaches. I felt inspired to stick with ballet! Still in love with my tights! And totally in love with my crash pads!
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09-30-2006, 06:07 PM
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09-30-2006, 09:46 PM
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Healthy: (well, sort of!) I saw the physiotherapist again yesterday and asked if I should keep skating or quit when my ankle gets sore or swollen. She said there is no risk of increased damage (no more than there is to an uninjured ankle) - GOOD! I can keep skating!
I booked my room for the 2007 Canadian Adult Nationals - one more step toward my first competition  - and there has definitely been a shift in direction of late with my coach changing the focus from simply learning basics to working toward competition. Baring the unforseen, it looks like it is going to happen!Thankfully my ankle survived the full two hours with no major discomfort or swelling! Injured: ?? I suppose I could find something to complain about if I tried, but I don't feel like it 
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09-30-2006, 09:59 PM
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Healthy: My axels and double flips are really starting to work with my legs crossed in the air
Injured: I can't seem to do a flying camel lately....and completely messed it up in competition!!!! Last edited by skate_star; 10-01-2006 at 01:46 PM.
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09-30-2006, 10:47 PM
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GOOOOOO, sk8pics!!! Go KICK SOME ICE BOOTAAAAYS!!!
Injured: No loops yet! I tried doubletoe's suggestion of thinking of doing a loop-toelooop instead of just a loop and it's a bit better. The weight is now at least over the landing foot and I am landing with a slight tap. NOW I just have to lift that free foot a bit! I OD'ed on jumps after the session.  Had to do a LOT of back stretches, hip flexor stretched, slow hula hoops, etc... to get my lower back to a point where it can managed the long drive home.Healthy: I had one scary flip landing where I landed on my toe and couldn't glide out and one CLEAN landing flip! Okay, so now I definitely have to get a LOT more speed. I also found the spot on the toe and how far back I have to reach... so now I have to practice being consistent about it and I should be able to improve the cleanly land/toe tap ratio. All my spins I've done today are pretty good. Bad part is... I didn't try for the camel b/c there were so many clueless skaters around that I was afraid to use my "Ginzu knife" on someone's forehead! I had two older college age skaters with really nice form on their jumps to also give me motivation to push myself harder! (You know how it is... you see a few skaters who are not just good skaters but very nice people as well and the positive energy just starts floating around the rink.) Add in an encouraging word from a skating mom saying that I have "pretty good spins" and well, I'm happy about my spin progress.
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10-01-2006, 02:00 PM
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Injured: my shoulders still ache from the drive yesterday to Chesapeake...and I'm still very tired. I'll catch up on my sleep eventually, though.
Today was auditions for the ice show. Here's how it works: everyone who wants a part skates as music from the Nutcracker plays. You try to skate to the music, as though you are doing a routine. Every so often, skaters are asked to stand off to the side and groups of skaters are asked to skate "follow-the-leader" style behind a coach while music plays. This process repeats for a whole hour. Skaters ranged from Learn-to-Skate through our better skaters (a few who can do doubles), munchkin size through adult (oldest one is 72). It was freezing cold in the rink this morning (duh, I know it's a rink but it was way colder than normal!!!!) I think they had a hockey game last night and someone forgot to flip a switch. All the little munchkins were turning blue!!! My program run-through got this look from my coach when she mentioned the drunken sailors......I told her I bailed on them because I was having trouble with them. And I fell out of my scratch spin, which was weird (I can usually "save" a spin-I don't know what happened). She also said my arms are too high and I need to lower them below my shoulder level.Healthy: After surviving auditions, it was club ice time. I was already warmed up so I just messed around. My coach tried out these bands...they are scary! One part hooks to your skate while the other has a loop you hold on to. The idea is to have constant tension on the bands while you skate. We did crossovers (fwd & bkwd); spirals (fwd & bkwd); and tried it on the backspin (which was scariest of all). The spiral one was neat...we tried different arm positioning which was really cool!!! Then it was the program run-through time in which she noticed that I didn't do the drunken sailor part (yeah been bailin' on those)...so we worked on mohawks in both directions AT SPEED and I think I'm getting it in the ccw direction (the toughest direction)...just need more work, that's all. I finally managed one really, really good scratch spin today and was finally able to bring my crossed leg all the way down and exit properly....I wonder if using the bands had anything to do with it??? (helping to make my shoulders less hunched?) Did a variation on a waltz jump...put my arms over my head when I jumped. It was cool. Off-ice dance class was good-ran through the Canasta Tango and Rhythm Blues and it's finally making sense.....tomorrow we do them on-ice to music. I dropped my skates off to be sharpened so I hope they are done in time, I hate dancing in rentals
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10-01-2006, 05:54 PM
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Injured: Went to public session last night and it was the most crowded ever! Not sure what was going on to make it so packed but left no possiblity to practice anything. Spent the entire time helping kids in the middle that were attempting spins and a few that just wanted to skate forward!
Went to my step class early to have benefit of the mirrors in attempting to see what the deal was with the salchow. I did about a million attempts but all looked about the same as on ice...under rotated. I even got a small sprain feeling in one ankle! eeeek. Healthy: Went to a public session this afternoon. I guess everyone skated last night because it really was not too bad! The woman I met last week who is Silver was there and again asked if I wanted to skate with her....Sure! She is working hard to return to the Adult nationals and just skates so well. She was instrumental in describing and even demonstrating why I was unable to rotate properly. After that I was doing several fully rotated salchows ...and get this! ....in a row!!!! They are not high nor pretty but I love that they get around and actually look like what I am attempting to do! Worked on spins again...still some toe stuff happening on one footed especially after backward co enter. I was so thrilled by the salchow progress that I hardly minded. Slightly ill: Just before leaving I decided to put up my skates and try on the rental ones to see if a different blade would make any difference in my left inside 3-turn on an axis. Since right is no problem, I thought it might be a slight misalignment of my blade on the left boot but I am only able to do one if I just stepped on to that foot. Otherwise I have to do a light touch down with the other foot to grab the correct edge. I am worried as I have all my edges down and will soon start the pre bronze mif. Needed to know for sure as I hate to drill additional holes in my boot. Alas...it is not my blade but ME! I find 3-turns so easy now that I was convinced it was my new blades! Going to have to figure out what happens to me! Having some continued reservations about learning the loop next week. So many on this board report difficulty with it! I am anticipating it to be as troublesome as the salchow for me....
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10-01-2006, 06:04 PM
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10-01-2006, 09:55 PM
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Landed about 10 doubles in my practice today!  I landed 3 perfect double salchows in a row, which I haven't done for quite awhile. I checked my landing marks to make sure they were all fully rotated and they were, and with good outflow. Then I went to attack my double toeloop mental block and ended up making lots of progress! The first 3 I landed were landed in spite of awful air position (bent legs and hunched over) but then I gradually got them better, to the point where the last 2 were perfect, including straight legs and body in the air. Now I'm just thinking, "Land!" as soon as I'm up in the air. The hip snap and pulling in part just became the first part of the "landing", and somehow that approach worked a lot better for me than thinking of doing the rotation and then landing. Go figure.Injured: Nothing in particular was awful today, and I'm just going to enjoy that. 
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10-01-2006, 11:10 PM
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Couldn't land any more loops after the two that I landed. Still  ... but I'll take what I got!!!  Other notes: NoVa Sk8r: I happened to be in downtown SF tonight and stopped by Beard Papa's for what was the last batch of the vanilla bean cream puffs for the night! Waited about 20 minutes for that batch. Errrr... it was okay but I don't get what all the hype was about. Too much sugar on the filling and way too much butter flavoring on the puff shell!!! And just to make sure I'm not crazy, I had hubby risk his dairy allergy to try the cream puffs too. He took a couple of bites, said it was "okay but not worth the hype and he wouldn't get another one again." (But the good part is that it didn't set off his dairy allergy.) 
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10-01-2006, 11:10 PM
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hmmmmmmmm, well I've started back doing little jumps after taking 4 months off for bad knee - didn't hurt too much until I got home. Most fun lately is that I'm actually getting the hang of 2 foot deep powerpulls into any and all turns. Could never do eg. BI brackets on 1 foot but with 2 feet I can even try to get some flow out of each turn. Also encouraged a passle of kids today. Injured: well looks like R knee needs scope and scrape - I'll wait until after the Christmas show though and just limp along with what I can do. Looks like my wife will need the same, sigh. Still haven't got backspin back after changin radius with new blades but it is coming, no really it is a little! Lyle
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10-01-2006, 11:32 PM
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Oh, I also enjoyed eating at Oola in SF and Celadon in Napa. Loops and I decided not to skate at Halloween Classic. Best of luck to the pair teams. And we might be reviving an old program (for possible testing purposes)--so I might get to wear the flap one last time!
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10-01-2006, 11:49 PM
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WELL. . . Clearly, I MUST try the cream puffs and/or eclairs at Beard Papa! There is one here in L.A. which opened up right next to the little Japanese grocery store where I regularly shop. I have loved cream puffs and eclairs since growing up with them in Japan, so I'll have to try theirs! (Do I get to be the tie-breaker?).
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10-01-2006, 11:53 PM
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Here, 2-footed slaloms with rockers are one of our Silver Field Moves, they are harder than they look. Well worth playing with! Sorry about your knees.... Take glucosamine sulphate - it helps about 4 out of 5 people if they take _enough_, at least 1,000 mg a day. We take it, and find we notice when we don't take it.
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10-02-2006, 09:38 AM
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10-02-2006, 09:41 AM
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Just want to quickly welcome another one of our RSSIR alumni, Team Arthritis!!! (Love the pairs team name... ROTFLMAO!!! I'm sure a lot of people here on skatingforums would have love to have thought of that name for themselves too, yours truly included!)
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Almost packed now - these regulations are so annoying, as I can't put my washing kit in my hand luggage so can't close my suitcase tonight!
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10-02-2006, 08:50 PM
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-Skated Sunday! Yep! Hip feeling good. I was out of town this weekend, so what does anyone with AOSS do when out of town? Bring the skates along and go to a local rink! Thought I might as well get in some stroking and such to see how my hip flexor/sartorius felt after 3 weeks off, and I felt no pain or aching at all. Plus--the session was not very crowded (about 20 people, and only 3 were "I am a male hockey player so let me see how fast I can go" crazies). So I started running through all the pre-bronze MITF to see how they went. Also the half-flip is coming along. i think I get about 1/2 inch of air. . . -Another adult woman was on the ice, skating with her daughter and practicing some of the same moves as me. Yay for adult skaters! -There were four young Asian girls (ages maybe 7 to 12ish, two sets of sisters, I think) who were doing all kinds of nifty stuff. A beautiful axel from one, super cool footwork from another. Mainly it was fun to just see them playing--one was goofing around with a spread eagle/besti squat, others were trying different spin positions. How often do we goal-oriented people lose the sense of playing just because it's fun to do so? Injured: -Fell hard on right rear end. Ouch!! And i don't think I was even doing anything terribly adventurous. -Delaware: Drunken sailors is a perfect description of some of my moves. This was the first time I'd really tried the PB three-turn pattern and the waltz eight. All over the place!!
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10-03-2006, 07:34 AM
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had a really enjoyable skate today. Although I had to get off after 10 minutes to get my boots off as they were just killing my feet I managed to get them back on in time for my lesson and it went really well. Ran through Inter-bronze field moves and coach gave me a good exercise for practising the back 3's by incorporating them in the waltz 3's exercise that I really enjoy doing. We did 3 jump (waltz) both sides, and salchow both sides and toe-loops both sides. I know I'm doing OK if I can't remember which is my 'good' side by the time I get to the end! I'd landed a loop and a flip before coach arrived and often they only show up once in a session. However this time he got me to do loops in the waltz 3's pattern so you do a loop jump then waltz 3 on the 'wrong' side and then a loop and another waltz 3 etc the length of the rink - and I did it!!!!! first time ever I landed all the loops for 2 complete lengths of rink. Then he asked for the same with the flip and I did that too - coach was pretty amazed and so was I  Injured: just that I had to get off after my lesson
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10-03-2006, 07:52 AM
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Injured: I called out yesterday because i had a headache....either a small migraine or dehydration. Couldn't tell which it was. After drinking a gallon (really, I did!) of liquid (water and green tea) I felt better. Just putzed around the house a bit, played on the computer, watched a movie. I have to watch out with that, I don't sweat like normal people (because of my meds) so I can't tell how bad it gets until it gets really bad.
My upper back is very, very sore. I think it's a combination of the drive on Saturday to Chesapeake, VA and from using those power cords in lesson on Sunday! They were cool but my arms were sore right after using them! Healthy: skates returned from the sharpener, so I got on the ice 30 minutes prior to dance class. Which was a good thing, as they seemed sharper than normal (yeah, I ran them on the plastic in the hockey box-shhhh!!!). I don't think he honed the edge...I had a hard time stopping (which doesn't happen when he hones). Anyway, moves were back in time for class, which was moves instead of dance (after one run-through of the rhythm blues, which I am slowly getting). We ran through edges, which I have neglected (especially the back inside, which were sloppy). We didn't do 3 turns unless you count the waltz-8 pattern. Mine was pretty good, as I have been working on that one. I need to dedicate some time during my practices to edges and moves, probably after HC. I need to polish them for testing. Time is running together for a lot of things, however. HC, Ice Show (in less than 10 weeks), Skate Annapolis, the adult thing at The Pond. I need a clone! LilJen: Sometimes our girls just mess around on the ice, doing "follow-the-leader" which is pretty cool to watch (and sometime join in). I've been doing that turn-out exercise...to help me with my left mohawks. My right mohawks are good, it's the left side in which there is virtually no turn-out. My coach thinks it's really weird until she remembers I have some hip problem. ETA: just added to my vitamin regimen: glucosamine!!!! The stupid left knee still aches from when I landed wrong the other week.....
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