A chronicle of my attempt at the world of "Adult Figure Skating since 2012"
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Run Day - Lessons
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Happy New Year 2022 !
First day back on the ice today. Skipped my Monday practice and trying to cram it all into a short session. I was pretty tired - PHFS ? Post Holiday Fatigue Syndrome ! My stamina really bites right now. A run of my solo free dance threw my heart rate up to 164 today. I never even leave the ice except for a couple of hops. Gotta work on that.
Fourteen Step: Getting better on the pattern but still cannot skate to tempo without coach Vitali. I sped up the video to 1.25% of the speed and it nearly matched the music.
Foxtrot: Also getting better and I am thinking this is probably my favorite of the three evil Pre-Silver Dances! Just need a nicer Closed Mohawk and more power to get the 2nd pattern in the proper place
European Waltz: My nemesis. I am trying so hard to not wide step. Someday somebody’s words will click with me and I will find a way to make them clean.
Solo Free Dance: Looks pretty sloppy all throughout. I plan to really attack this one since there is a possibility I will try and compete with it at Adult Sectionals (non-qual) event in March of 2022. I also plan to use this program as a test: Adult Juvenile Solo Free Dance sometime. I need to clean up my twizzles. Coach would like to see a triple vs a double on both of them. Me too but I lack the confidence and don’t have good form. My counter and my chocktaw need improvements. Most of all my overall extension, hands, head, body need a lot of work to make this a performance skate. Nothing like a video playback to show you the TRUTH!
On The Road Again ….
Last skate and lesson before my summer hiatus. We had an hour on clean ice to work on all the Pre-Gold Dances including a surprise introd...

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I took my Adult Silver Moves In The Field test today and passed! That's the good news. The interesting thing that happened was that t...
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I was here December 5, 2011 to order my new custom boots and blades. They should be arriving soon. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas...