Meet Mia!

[Isk8NYC]

Here's a link to the American Girl Doll of the Year, Mia, who is a figure skater!

http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/static/miadoll.jsf/title/Mia/saleGroupId/0/uniqueId/525/nodeId/11/webMenuId/5/LeftMenu/TRUE

(I haven't figured out how to skate on HER RINK (http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/html/ProductPage.jsf/itemId/115911/itemType/FG/webTemplateId/3/uniqueId/538/cxl/Y/XcellId/TRUE) as yet!?!?)

[SynchroSk8r114]

How cute! But I find it ironic that her practice skirt is almost the same price as a regular one at $34, LOL! Oh well, even if her rink isn't accurate, at least the expenses of skate wear are!

[Isk8NYC]

On another forum, they've been critiquing the book. I can't see it, but the skates on the cover are apparently *not* figure-skating quality and there's some storyline about a 10 year old teaching a Tot class on her own. :roll:

[ibreakhearts66]

How cute! But I find it ironic that her practice skirt is almost the same price as a regular one at $34, LOL! Oh well, even if her rink isn't accurate, at least the expenses of skate wear are!

that's the price for a real one. its the same version as the one she wears, but for girls

[ice_godess]

On another forum, they've been critiquing the book. I can't see it, but the skates on the cover are apparently *not* figure-skating quality and there's some storyline about a 10 year old teaching a Tot class on her own. :roll:

:P It may be a storyline that some find stretching it a bit - but I was a 10-year old working with not just tots but beginners on the learn-to-skate sessions. I had all my gold medals and novice competitive freeskate by then - so I actually knew what I was doing! :P However, my skates were a bit more advanced than Mia's (Harlick Finalist and Gold Seal blades !!!)

[flippet]

.........*I* want one! Forget about my daughter! :lol:

[Skittl1321]

.........*I* want one! Forget about my daughter! :lol:

I was set to order her on the 1st!!! but I can't decide if I want to a) just get the doll, b) get almost all of it (I'm not a fan of the 2 in 1 outfit- who skates, and plays hockey, in a jean skirt?) or c) just get the books, because I don't have room for another doll. So I'm waiting for awhile.

I love American Girl dolls and while her stories might have some holes in them- I bet they aren't TOO far off, the writers research like crazy.

Could it be the skates on the cover are her "pond" skates? She has two pairs because she doesn't want to ruin her good ones! That detail alone tells me they did some looking into the care of figure skates.

[Skittl1321]

I finally got my Mia! The cutest part is her sweater has the thumbholes in it.

I read her book this weekend, and there wasn't TOO much to pick at- we have young girls (not 8, but maybe 11?) who help with LTS- though insurance wouldn't allow them to sub a whole class like that.

The unbelievable part of the story for me- she was working on a axel-double toe combination, and a double lutz, at our rink that's a pretty advanced skater, but this was her FIRST EVER program, and her brothers seemed to question whether she was a good figure skater at all or if she should be a hockey player. Most kids seem to have programs (for the rink show) by the time they get a waltz jump or in a basic skills competition without any jumps at all. I don't know anyone who hasn't done SOME program by the time they get a double lutz! Maybe at a major training center this combo and jump aren't big deals and the skater wouldn't be considered "good" at all, but to me, that's pretty good. We don't see a ton of that at our rink.

[Morgail]

I just got the books too:) Haven't read them yet though.
I soooo want the doll...she could stand next to my Samantha doll:lol: (You're never too old for dolls!)

[Sessy]

The unbelievable part of the story for me- she was working on a axel-double toe combination, and a double lutz, at our rink that's a pretty advanced skater, but this was her FIRST EVER program, and her brothers seemed to question whether she was a good figure skater at all or if she should be a hockey player.

Well, at our rink it does sometimes happen that an adult/teenage skater's first coach-created programme is one with an axel or a double toe attempt. Before that they're kind of like "oh, just make your own programme!" and you have to really push to get a programme and it doesn't always succeed. But then our coaches make the programmes for free so maybe that's why.
One girl has a consistent axel and is trying (almost there, sometimes lands) double toe, double sal and double loop. She doesn't even have skating clothes yet, she trains in slacks. She's just ordered a dress so she can test and - if she passes - compete in it next season.

At any rate, certainly you're not going to have a programme with a waltz jump at our rink (well, LOL I did but that was injury related and I had to make the programme myself if I wanted to do a comp). Our club doesn't even let you compete outside of our own ice arena if you in practice don't have all three basic spins and all the jumps up to the loop at the very least.