Oddly enough 3 turns were, and still are, my obsession in skating. That was what drew me into figure skating, seeing a girl fly down the ice at seemingly a gazillion miles an hour, and do a 3 turn and then a jump or something after, and continue flying. I just thought it was amazing, and I was totally baffled to how they were done, and it just became my obsession to learn the 3 turn, I first started in hockey skates, and then got figure skates. But it all started from 3 turns. Now what I'd like to learn to do is learn to power through the turns or go into them with enough speed, so I can do a row of 3 turns down the ice, I can only cover like half of a hockey circle going forward to backward and forward again on 3s. Hardest one to figure out has been left inside to left back outside. Oh man, and then there's brackets after, ooh joy.
Honestly compulsory figures looks really fun, too. The only problem with compulsories is they're for better or worse about as interesting to watch as golf.
Sometimes I wish I could do that, I remember when I first was trying to learn edges there were times I'd just time myself skating in a hockey circle for 5 or more minutes at a time. Maybe that's why people think I'm nuts, but how else am I supposed to learn those edges?
My "coach" though, was just super duper adamant about edges, my forward edges are decent but my backward ones for the most part suck. But it seems edges are what make skaters good, I remember when I was watching the ISU Championships with me, she was surprised that Patrick Chan won, and not...what's his name with the Matrix routine. Sure, Matrix guy did more jumps, but Patrick Chan simply flowed a LOT better.
But 3 turns are the best, though.