Skating Fridays
First Time Competition Judge While I have been a Gold level test judge for about 10 months, I have never judged a competition. Because I…
Skating Fridays
Win By Default Last weekend, I competed my updated free skate program. I had been feeling very strong and confident leading up to the event.…
Skating Fridays
Judging My First Competition! My home rink’s annual competition is coming up next week, and the chief referee assigned me as one of the judges…
Skating Fridays
Getting Stronger I have been doing double runthroughs whenever I’m at the rink to practice. Funny enough, the second runthrough has been stronger and better…
Skating Fridays
Double Runthroughs I am tired. Not like a regular, I didn’t get enough sleep kind of tired, but just plain exhausted. Let m goe explain.…
Skating Fridays
Tweaked Program A few weeks ago, the Adult Skating Committee within US Figure Skating revised the requirements for singles programs. This impacts me in a…
Skating Fridays
Finish Him! As I alluded to in this post, my pairs partner and I had a Mortal Kombat-like “fight” at the end of our program…