In last Saturday’s performance class we got back to normal after the Easter show and subsequent holidays. We did some clapping and kicking exercises to work on our timing first.


Then we did a wheel - I’m getting more comfortable with going faster as I’m usually close to the outside.


Then we had a choice, on ice exercises or go off and put a routine together - myself and 2 friends chose the latter! The routine had to have a spin, a spiral and a jump (done by different people) and a portion of synchronised skating. What we put together was very well received by the group coach.


Then yesterday I had a private lesson, to start work on my artistic routine for June’s competition. This went well, we both love the music and the choreography has some of my favourite stuff in it.


This Saturday I’ll be back at performance class and my regular small group so that’ll be a lot of skating this week.

My heel area was constantly in pain. I figured if I try this produce maybe my feet would be happier. So I ordered and expected the item to take its usual 2-4 weeks, because I live in Hawaii. To my surprise, not only was shipping free, the item was at my home on the promised dated. Since I have worn my new shoes, my heels are no longer in pain! I needed orthofeet shoes

The Altrincham synchro club usually does a camp every year.  Their web site is http://altrinchamsynchroclub.com/

If you contact the coach Sam Ozard I'm sure she will advise.

EDIT: sorry misread the word comp as camp. 

My coach was sick today so I just ran my jumps as was. Then one of the elite skaters asked me to show her my attempts at Axel (which are abysmal and sad) and then went on to bring me some absolutely amazing revelations about how to think about the jump better. She then went on to get me off ice practising exercises to help getting better at it. I landed funny on my ankle at one point and it's nothing serious but I'll definitely feel it in the morning

The only bad news (from my training perspective) about the rest of the day was I got so excited to catch up with one of my rink friends that I haven't seen in a month that I totally failed to prepare myself for the patch session after the public he was on, so I ended up skipping it, which means I'm behind on practise, oops!

In other news, on today's public, I saw blood on the ice for the first time when a rental skate wearing ice tourist visited the rink and smacked her temple on the ice and spent a considerable amount of time being looked after by the rink first aiders while still on the ice After they got her off the ice some 20-30 minutes later then they coned off the blood and directed everyone off the ice so they could chip the blood off and resurface that bit. Very alarming!

I passed level 7
I have now lost one whole stone in weight

Way to go!  That's brilliant!   

AND more importantly, I got a "I was impressed with your 3 turns tonight mom" off mini me!

Winning at life, Florence. 

I've been looking up Skate Uk Star Ice Dancing and a lot of it means very little to me! I wish you could get a translator app for skating.
Does anyone know of any links where it explains what each ?element entails please? I am guessing one of them is barrel rolls but not sure.

Try reading each part of the element separately, whilst balancing on the required foot and approximating the movement.  You'll be amazed how it becomes almost understandable!     Of course, it does help if you know exactly what goes into a Left Forward Outside Closed Mohawk and where your free leg and foot end up, so you can then see how that links to cross in front on to a Left Backward Inside edge before you step forward onto the Right Forward Inside edge to prepare to start the movement all over again...  What would be really nice is if there were handy little YouTube videos of each element, but I suspect NISA won't allow that...