I passed!

[jay]

After three years of being plateaued at Freestyle 1, this morning I successfully demonstrated my required maneuvers and did a 2.5 minute program to music, in front of a panel of three judges, my coach and patgreene, tenacious_snail and cyan_blue.

It was IMO an 80% performance, I was surprisingly stiff and jittery at first and actually fell once while doing maneuvers... but I recovered, maintained my composure and then skated a good program to put me over the pass/fail edge. :)

And on a completely unrelated note, today is the 25th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch... I remember watching it from the Senior House lounge at MIT.

Comments

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

Cool! Congradulations!

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!

[deedeebythebay.livejournal.com]

Hurray!

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[starsail.livejournal.com]

Most awesome!! Congrats!!!

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! It was great to watch you, and see your focus and intensity. You combine art-and-science in your skating in a way that I find really cool.

By way of side note, we couldn't hear your music, and we all wondered how it would be to watch you skate to a different song (as it turns out, it wasn't too jarring-- during the maneuvers, "All I Want to Do Is Have Some Fun" was playing and I giggled to myself at the notion of what a routine to that would look like.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Ironically, the program music was Spanish... a soft, slow guitar ballad for the first minute or so, followed by an upbeat flamenquin piece (it started with the funny tapping footwork, when I nearly stumbled ;).

[geekchick]

Congratulations!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Sorry that I missed you, last night. But the additional practice time helped. =)

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

congrats. lots of hugs T

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

It was lovely to watch your grace and strength... You made moves look fluid that I know must have taken a lot of careful control, and you were beautiful out there.

It was lovely as well to be there together with patgreene and tenacious_snail, sharing pride in you and love for you and concern for you.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Awww... (blush). One bit of feedback from the judges was that I ought to use more upper-body coordination, I tend to use my leg and hip strength to muscle-through maneuvers, burning more energy than I'd need if my arms and shoulders were more engaged. At further-advanced levels, I'll have to learn to do that, in order to continue to improve my skating.

I felt warm and loved and supported to see the three of you waving me on, together there by the window. :)

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

WOO HOO! Congrats! :)

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Excellent :-) !