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Well, here it is! The video quality is grainy because it was taken on a phone, but I did buy the professional DVD to get a better version. I almost decided not to post this and wait for the better version, but I figured I may as well post what I have right now, even if it’s tiny.
I can barely watch the video (I’m watching with one eye closed and through my fingers) because I know I can do better and I see where I messed up. I felt pretty slow on the ice but my legs were shaky so I probably couldn’t have handled much more speed. I feel okay about my jumps, but my spins! Ack! That sit spin is barely even a crouch and I fell out of the combo at the end. Also, I tilted out of my ending pose so I barely hit the position before I had to step out of it. Ha.
I continue to feel that the half loop is a weird, weird jump and don’t like the way it looks in that sequence. I’m sort of hopping it to begin with, but even when it IS done well it looks awkward. The only thing I can do is work on getting each jump in the sequence higher and more secure, to clean it up a little.
Coach A and I haven’t talked yet about testing Bronze freestyle (we’re going to work on the Bronze moves test next), but I’m assuming we’ll tweak this program to fulfill the test requirements. (Maybe swapping out the waltz-half loop sequence for a waltz-toe, and backspin instead of camel combo.) It’ll be simpler, but I think it’ll give me a chance to polish it up to be higher quality all around.
Sarah on Ice 
Way to go, Sarah! I love your dress! Nice work on the combination jump. The half loop is always going to feel weird because it is a single jump that lands on the other leg. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Bronze moves is a great next goal!
Thanks! You’re right, that jump is just going to be awkward – just gotta smooth it out as much as I possibly can. I’m looking forward to moving on to moves after doing program for a while – been working on bronze in the meantime but it’ll take some work to get test-ready!
Well done on your achievements!
Very interesting to read your blog too 🙂
Thanks Tatiana!
You look as if you started as a child, I’m impressed to read that you didn’t start until you were an adult. You don’t have that super-cautious way of skating that a lot of adults do. That’s must part of the reason you’ve made such good progress. Now to get you some elbow pads from Skating Safe (I just wear the knee pads– but your elbows look like they need it).
That’s such a compliment, thank you Mary! I wear the Skating Safe knee pads too, all the time (without fail, the day I don’t wear them is the day I land on my knees), but the elbows are starting to take a beating. I’ll have to look into that!
I hate looking at myself on vid too. The one thing I have learned from watching video is it never looks like how it felt when you skated it! For example I can remeber feeling awful when I was skating but the video looks good, the reverse is also true 😦
Your second loop was better than the very first one ( had more speed) and I agree with the half loops comments, don’t worry about it, it will take care of itself.
Good program, now go get lots of mileage on it!