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momof3chicks
07-30-2009, 09:04 AM
A double toe loop- as you know she is 8 years old. She is close on the double salchow too!
Mrs Redboots
07-30-2009, 01:15 PM
Well done her! I bet she was pleased with herself.
momof3chicks
07-30-2009, 01:27 PM
Well done her! I bet she was pleased with herself.


Very! I thought a few months ago, next summer she'd be skating pre-pre and it looks more like it may be pre by then!
cazzie
07-30-2009, 04:46 PM
Wow - and so unusual for that to be a first double - I have it on good authority of my daughter that its the most "difficult" of all the doubles. (Double toe is my daughters "splat" jump). Reckon all the others will come quickly if she's landing that one! Amazing for her age.
aussieskater
07-30-2009, 05:02 PM
Congratulations to her!
FigureSk8Dad
07-30-2009, 08:20 PM
Congrats to her! That one is so frustrating for my dd. :frus:
momof3chicks
07-31-2009, 10:49 AM
Wow - and so unusual for that to be a first double - I have it on good authority of my daughter that its the most "difficult" of all the doubles. (Double toe is my daughters "splat" jump). Reckon all the others will come quickly if she's landing that one! Amazing for her age.

That is interesting- for some reason she finds the toe loop easy she says. Her first axel combination was axel toe loop too.

She hates salchow- single AND double.
sk8tmum
07-31-2009, 12:22 PM
Some kids find toe-assisted jumps easier than edge, and vice versa. It's often a factor of the quality of the underlying single jump as well.

Look on the bright side. Often the jumps that come hardest end up being the best ones: the need to drill and refine technique, work on the actual jump and focus on every aspect means that they end up being well done.

My kid has a phenomenal axel - now. It was got and lost 4 times, then it went away for almost 2 years :(. During that 2 years, his coach drilled and focussed on every aspect of the jump: entry, check out on landing, air position, upper body, leg position. Now, it's the best jump in the entire arsenal, clean, consistent, perfectly positioned in the air with great height and ice coverage, reliable in combination, (and is on the way to being a 2A). Similarly with the 2T and the 2F. Couldn't get them - same routine on acquisition. Now, they're perfectly rotated, etc, and the 2T is definitely NOT a toe-axel :). Whereas the 2S, which came easier, is NOT as good a jump and they've had to go back and rework it, which is harder because they have to "fix" rather than create. The 2L, same thing ...

Sooo ... patience can be rewarded. It's just hard to stick it out sometimes for the kids.