Congratulations, Jazzpants!!! - Page 3

tidesong · #51 08-07-2006, 12:01 PM

Congratz Jazzpants !!!

dbny · #52 08-07-2006, 03:49 PM

What great news to see on my return from camping!

CONGRATULATIONS JAZZ!

MissIndigo · #53 08-07-2006, 07:17 PM

Congratulations! I know this has been a long time coming for you!!!

And the butterflies you said you had earlier...I'll freeze some of them on film later this week as I'm perusing Yerba Buena Gardens!!

DallasSkater · #54 08-07-2006, 09:13 PM

Jazz: I am so delighted to learn that you passed. You have really been persistent and deserve the title. A big congrats to you! I bet you will breeze through the fs title after completing that!

icedancer2 · #55 08-07-2006, 11:48 PM

Jazz --

Now that I am done seething with jealousy I would like to congratulate you on your BRILLIANT pass!!

Yea -- and now you have inspired me!! Thank you!

Raye · #56 08-08-2006, 01:05 AM

Awesome!!! I knew you could do it!! YOU GO GIRL

Party on Dudette! you've earned it

Mrs Redboots · #57 08-08-2006, 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazzpants

12 minutes at my rink and yes, true up to a point! Though if I have to take any FS tests, I'd rather take it at a test session that doesn't have a lot of skaters, since I would not have that much of a wait between the early morning warm-up before the test session starts and when my test actually is. At my rink the way the test sessions are organized is dances, then moves, then FS! This could take 20 minutes if the session is very quiet, or this could take 1.5 hr to 2 hrs, so you have to keep yourself warm off-ice the entire time. I hate it... but it's necessary!!!

Do you not get, as our skaters do, a 3-minute warm-up before their test? Our tests start very early in the morning anyway, to allow time for the judge to get to work (we only need more than one judge if the skater is skating higher than level 6), so there's seldom time to skate much beforehand. But each group of skaters gets a warm-up before their actual test, so the sort of warm-up you need to do beforehand is more like that done before a competition.

jazzpants · #58 08-08-2006, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrs Redboots

Do you not get, as our skaters do, a 3-minute warm-up before their test? Our tests start very early in the morning anyway, to allow time for the judge to get to work (we only need more than one judge if the skater is skating higher than level 6), so there's seldom time to skate much beforehand. But each group of skaters gets a warm-up before their actual test, so the sort of warm-up you need to do beforehand is more like that done before a competition.

It's 5 minutes warmup right before the test itself and for a skater who has nerves problem are stiff muscles and lower back problems (sciatica), it becomes quite agonizing for the nerves and for the lower leg. It's hard to bend your knee when you're not warm up. You have to stay warm and run, jump around the entire time off ice and my lower back does NOT like jumping/hopping motions for long periods of time (over 20 minutes.) And of course, since you have to be at the BEGINNING of the test session even though you're scheduled for 2 hours down, b/c you never know when skaters either drop out of the test session or whatever and you would have to be there ready to take the test then! (This happened to me in 2004 when I walked in 45 minutes earlier than I was scheduled to test and I walked in to find that I was supposed to be in my dress ready to warm up! Needless to say, both Jay nor I were

about this!)

coskater64 · #59 08-08-2006, 11:20 AM

Congratulations! Keep up the good work!

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