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Buying an adult figure skating costume (gulp) | Sarah on Ice
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Adult figure skater. Barely. Buying an adult figure skating costume (gulp). Asymp; 12 Comments. With the holiday show on the schedule, I’ve been looking to acquire my first figure skating costume. Eek! Just not gonna work on adult hips, no way. Having never done dance or any sort of performance art, I was totally in over my head on this one, and didn’t really know where to start. As with most things, I turned to the internet. It’s one of the things I’m struggling with in the program — f...With that in mi...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: Look down, look down, don't look them in the eye
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Saturday, 2 March 2013. Look down, look down, don't look them in the eye. No actually, don't. I am supposed. To look at the audience. I just couldn't resist throwing that line in from Les Mis. So after the jump landing with nice checking arms, I promptly drop my arms and go into thinking mode. Coach now wants me to have default thinking mode with arms up. My brain can't handle so many things at once! 3 March 2013 at 21:59. Got to respond t...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: March 2013
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Friday, 29 March 2013. I've yet to learn the back x-overs to back edge.). Oh my, it is difficult. Coach told me that no matter what, do not flap around as I will lose all of the little speed I have. Naturally, I flap. I can barely get up to three quarters of the circle, it's such a big circle! I don't have a very strong opinion on whether or not figures should still be around. All I know is that if it was. We're very tentatively aiming to ...
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Work in progress: Sit spin | Sarah on Ice
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Adult figure skater. Barely. Work in progress: Sit spin. Asymp; 3 Comments. Sit spins, here we go:. About the captions – the “4 months later” etc means 4 months after the first video clip, not 4 months from the clip immediately preceding. It’s a little confusing. I haven’t figured out the best way to label the time jumps.). And sit spins always FEEL so much lower than they really are, so I’d bust my butt getting as low as I possibly could, only to hear, “Lower! At this point you can see that I’m le...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: Awesome coach
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Thursday, 25 April 2013. My coach is awesome! My private coach, not the group coach, though she's awesome too). So the story is that I'm working on my five-step mohawk for the bronze MITF, and I realize I'm doing the third step of the sequence for my left and right side differently! I'm a lucky skater : ). 25 April 2013 at 17:06. So glad you found the perfect coach for you. It is pretty amazing how a good coach can notice the tiniest l...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: October 2012
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Wednesday, 31 October 2012. Practicing those pre-bronze MITFs is slowly crumbling my confidence I'd gained from being good at learning jumps. I'm so slow at doing the basic things! That "plan" my private coach J had set at the beginning, had me good to go for the test by September, yet here is the end of October and I'm still working on it. I now have less than one month when I'm actually going to be doing the test on 11/27! Practicing bas...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: Skates progression
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Here are the skates I've owned throughout my figure skating progress:. 1 Reebok recreational skates. 2 GAM Horizon (stock Mark IV blades): 2012 Jan - 2012 Sep. 3 GAM Select with Ultima Legacy blades: 2012 Oct -. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Photo from BBC Sport. Figure skating and me. Skating blogs to visit. The Ice Doesn't Care. The PSA Loves the Ice Doesn't Care! WALTZ JUMP Figure Skating Over 50. Post Traumatic Turkey Syndrome.
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: December 2012
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Sunday, 23 December 2012. This is my last post for the year, my first full year of skating. I won't do a 2012-look-back here, since I just did in November on my skating anniversary. But come 2013 and I'll write about my skating resolutions for the new year. I'll be off-ice for almost two weeks, I hope I don't forget any skills, or lose any muscles! Happy holidays to everyone, and a happy new year : ). Saturday, 22 December 2012. Full rotat...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: September 2012
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Friday, 28 September 2012. GAM Select's first outing. So I skated in them today and I luuuuuuurve the Ultima Legacy blades! The edges grabbed the ice so well I just felt really solid on the ice. It seemed to do the turns for me almost. The bigger toe picks still scare me a bit, so I'm a little timid of jumping, but they definitely help, I could feel it when doing my toe loop. So equipment stuff aside, I have a bit of skating news. She thin...
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Jumps & falls of an adult figure skater: First skating performance
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Jumps and falls of an adult figure skater. Life on the ice at 25. Monday, 11 March 2013. My first ever skating performance was at our rink's seasonal recital yesterday evening. I was nervous, but honestly, not as much as I expected. Certainly a lot less than when I tested. When you test, one mistake (if it's minor) you get to reskate, one more mistake and you're gone. Whereas in a recital, honestly, so what if I fall? My highest goal for the day was to not fall, so I totally achieved that. How do you do ...
