Preparing to test pre-bronze

I had a skating lesson this morning and my single Salchow, Toeloop, and waltz-toe combinations are all consistent and good. My sit spin and scratch spin are great, and my back scratch spin is coming along nicely. I've learned a program for my test date, and my moves-in-the-field items are pretty good as well. I just need to polish my backwards inside edges a bit, but even as things stand, I'll pass my pre bronze moves test. I'm very excited about that!

The Pre-Bronze test is on the USFSA Adult Track and for moves, it involves:

1. Forward Perimeter Stroking


2. Basic Consecutive Edges

3. Forward and Backward Crossovers

4. Waltz Eight

5. Forward Three-Turns


So far...everything is coming along!

Blade in the Breast...and no it isn't a euphemism

Well...where to begin.

Oh yeah...a blade in my boob!

Last night at syncro practice, we were working on a section of the program where we break from a circle of 12 into a pyramid of 3 lines. My line goes to the back. The leader of the line, however, did not cut straight back and did some sort of pull-a-round with our line. The coach said she saw it in slow motion and knew that it would end badly. Indeed it did. I ended up on the ice sobbing. Someone's blade went into my breast, thankfully it did not cut, just made a big freaking bruise. My whole body just aches. I feel like I got runover by a truck when in reality I got runover by a "hot mess"

I was frustrated at practice last night anyway, and this incident did not help things at all. bad times. Bad times

And down I go

So, last night was our performance as part of the winter ice show for the Park District. It was um...special. I had some unexpected visitors in the audience, so I was extra nervous and a little emotional and when someone nudged me the wrong way, I fell. I was terribly disappointed to be the one to fall during a program. I did get right back up and right back into the program and finished without further incident, but it was a tough night and a rough skate for me.