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Title: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Neverdull44 on February 28, 2015, 05:45:41 PM
Here's my figure skating bucket list:

1. Footwork lessons from Kurt Browning or Scott Hamilton, (or together both on the same ice would be just totally awesome . . . . !)

2.  Skate on a frozen lake, where I can see the underwater items. (like this clear . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBqX7MSqWw)

3.  Meet my childhood idol, Linda Fratianne.

4.  One day, do a delayed axel and a change of edge spins. (dream big)

5.  Be skating still when I'm 80 years old.

What's in your skating bucket list?
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: sk8lady on February 28, 2015, 06:52:34 PM
1. Skate at Rockefeller Center in NYC; Sculpture Garden in DC; and Millennium Park in Chicago.

2. Do a flying camel.

3.Do a Lutz.

4. Do something that makes people say, "You 're so close to getting that Axel!"

5. Medal at AN.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Bill_S on February 28, 2015, 07:23:08 PM
1. Skate with Peggy Fleming (Oh, wait, I'm too old for that stuff!).

2. Skate once again on the frozen lake where I started in 1965, at night, with a bonfire.

3. Skate more at a rink where there are many adult skaters.

4. Keep skating once I retire and have more time.

5. Win the lottery and donate enough to our local rink to support year-round ice.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: axelwylie on February 28, 2015, 08:01:26 PM
1. Land some legit doubles (salchow, toe loop, loop)
2. Have a legit layback spin
3. Medal in the championship gold ladies event at AN
4. Take a lesson with my idol and screen name inspiration, Paul Wylie
5. Keep skating, way beyond retirement and into my 80s
6. Be able to do a completely horizontal split jump and Russian split jump
7. This one is a bit of a stretch, but I would love to pass senior moves and potentially intermediate freestyle
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: JSM on March 01, 2015, 09:31:02 AM
My number one goal was always to do a double axel.  As a youngster my axel was really good and I may have had a shot.  As an adult, not so much.  It's consistent but U-G-L-Y.  Also, I haven't landed a clean double harder than the toe loop since the mid 90s...


Otherwise -

1) Pass Senior MITF
2) Pass Gold Dances (I'm only on silver, so this is a long term list item)
3) Do a butterfly
4) Skate in Lake Placid
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: ice.idk on March 01, 2015, 10:47:14 AM
1. Get new boots and blades  :WS:

2. Get a new coach that I connect with and like the way they teach

3. Get up to my double axel

4. Pass Juvenile and Intermediate Moves In The Field Test

5. Improve flexibility

6. Have a program that I love

7. Go to regionals

8. get a full russian split jump 

9. Long term - compete novice and go to nationals place third or higher  :laugh: dream big
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: AgnesNitt on March 01, 2015, 06:06:33 PM
My coach is convinced I can do foot work. Meh. I'm not convinced.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: ChristyRN on March 01, 2015, 06:20:37 PM
1. Scratch spin, then a gorgeous lay back.

2. All my single jumps, up to and including axel.

3. Quiet, upright skating.

4. Adult nationals. Possible Obersdorf. I can talk hubby into it after he retires.

5. I'd love to get all the way to gold moves, but since my coach won't let me use the "mature" exemption, I'll probably never get there. Working on bronze that I was supposed to test in November before I bashed my skull open.  :o

6. Skating until I'm too infirm to walk.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: ls99 on March 01, 2015, 08:15:40 PM
Do a perfect waltz jump.

 Hopefully in another three years, at age 70. And that is the only jump I am interested in.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: PhysicsOnIce on March 02, 2015, 06:02:25 AM
1. Have a consistent Double Axel and at least two Triples
2. Have a level 3/4 Bielleman/Layback
3. Compete at Spanish National at the senior level (Medaling would be the icing on the cake)
4. Be a good role model to the younger skaters
5. Skate until I am too OLD and fragile tie my own skates
6. Get proposed to on the ice ( or have my "first dance" on the ice) - This was is really specially because my boyfriend and I started dating on the ice.
7. Make my career skating related.  (Still now sure how to do this one, yet , but I'd like to combine my research career with skating)
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: robinsnest on March 03, 2015, 09:11:09 PM

1. AN

So many other thoughts about levels and axels and really beautiful free dances but mostly I just want to keep skating.  Sky's the limit!   :WS:


Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: karne on March 04, 2015, 01:50:23 AM
1. Private lesson with Ilia Kulik. With a bit of luck, this might actually happen next year.


2. Axel.


3. Adult Nationals.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Loops on March 04, 2015, 07:35:05 AM
A Belita style axel.  If I can achieve that, I will die happy.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: alejeather on March 04, 2015, 09:20:20 AM
1. Qualify to compete in the championship gold event at Adult Nationals.
2. Compete at Oberstdorf
3. Get a double flip
4. Skate a program that moves people
5. Pass through Senior Moves
6. Maybe compete in dance with a partner?
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Live2Sk8 on March 04, 2015, 09:52:13 AM
Great thread!  I've had a figure skating bucket list for awhile.

1.  Pass Bronze FS test  (and yay, it happened recently!)
2.  Go to Adult Nationals once.
3.  Do a dance lift where partner twirls me around in stag jump position (not in an actual performance, just for fun).
4.  Get camel spin 3+ revolutions.
5.  Learn loop-loop jump.
6.  Double salchow - most likely an out-of-reach goal!
7.  Pass Silver MIF - most likely an out-of-reach goal!

It's a fairly modest list but items 4-7 will be real challenges for me.  I thought #1 might never happen, too, though.  #3 just depends on finding a willing person to do the lift. 


I guess it's a fairly modest list. 
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Laneybug7 on March 08, 2015, 07:27:58 PM
1. A delayed, floating effortless axel would be nice
2. Compete at National Showcase
3. Medal at National Showcase
4. Coach Artistry in Motion because that sounds like fun
5. Get the attention of this skater guy that I have a crush on
6. A duet with skater guy I have a crush on...(yea right he can do a back tuck on the ice)
7. Become a well known choreographer;)
8. Super floaty doubles would be nice too
9. Go to ANs at least once.
10. An illusion spin or some kind of incredible looking spin(yea right, I need the flexibility first)
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: figureskatehockeylove on March 09, 2015, 12:11:42 PM
Do an axel and Russian split jump and eventually try ice dance:)
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: nicklaszlo on March 10, 2015, 08:29:56 AM
#3 just depends on finding a willing person to do the lift. 
I volunteer.  (hint: it's not hard)
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: figureskatehockeylove on March 16, 2015, 02:14:41 PM
Haha really? lol ok
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: PinkLaces on March 16, 2015, 11:37:59 PM
I really want one of those gold medalist jackets. That means I have to get through Silver Moves and Gold.

I also want to got back to AN and place higher than last like I did last time. That is not really in the cards for a couple of years though.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Doubletoe on March 17, 2015, 08:12:55 PM
Thinking about this made me realize I'd already achieved a number of my bucket list items:
1. Axel
2. Landing a clean double jump in competition (2S)
3. Getting a level 4 element called at Adult Nationals
4. Medaling in Championship Gold at Adult Nationals.

Unfortunately, I never did land my dream jump, the double flip, and at 50 years old, I have no intention of banging myself up working on double jumps anymore.  Buuuuut. . .  Here's a bucket list item I'm going to go for for the first time this year:

5.  Ending a program in a split on the ice (without falling over and/or needing to be carried off in a stretcher)
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: celia on March 17, 2015, 09:55:29 PM
1. Be able to do an axel again, not pre-rotated please.
2. Be able to do a double salchow again, more than 75% consistent, please.
3. Land any other double jump, even once counts if it's clean :)
4. Be able to do solo scratch/sit/camel spins both forwards and back.
5. While I'm at it, get a layback spin.
6. Get a spiral higher than hip level, both sides.
7. Straight line Ina Bauer.
8. Pass Adult Gold Moves and Freestyle.
9. As a special extra reach item, someday pass Senior Moves.
10. As an extra special I can only dream item, pass my Second Figure Test.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: nicklaszlo on March 17, 2015, 11:35:21 PM
Haha really? lol ok

Yes.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: nicklaszlo on March 17, 2015, 11:36:19 PM
3. Getting a level 4 element called at Adult Nationals

I still wish they had leveled step sequences.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: ChristyRN on March 18, 2015, 09:07:13 PM
I really want one of those gold medalist jackets. That means I have to get through Silver Moves and Gold.



One of our teen age skaters got hers last year and told me she'd make sure I got one when I pass gold.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: Doubletoe on March 19, 2015, 02:20:02 PM
I still wish they had leveled step sequences.

Yeah. . . and I wish there were still leveled spiral sequences!  I got so many points on that thing. . . Sigh.
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: saje on March 20, 2015, 08:57:58 AM
Fun to think about...:)

1. Have giant, floaty single jumps.
2. Have fully rotated doubles (w/nice air position) through double flip.
3. Pass Senior MITF.
4. Have a really pretty classic layback with 8+ revolutions.
5. Be able to continue skating, even after my husband and I decide to have children. 
6. Reach Item: Have an outside edge spread eagle (not sure if I will ever have the turn out for this).
Title: Re: Figure Skating Bucket Lists
Post by: justamoose on March 23, 2015, 12:15:20 AM
I've been thinking about this lately!

1. Back scratch spin
2. Sit spin
3. Waltz jump
4. Be able to do backwards crossovers forever and ever, across the whole rink, as long as I want  :blush:
5. Inspire someone else to start figure skating