Okay, I think it's close enough to the end of 2012 for me to report on my final progress on the goals I made in September for the end of the year.
... I am working on pre-bronze freeskate. ... I think maybe I'd like to perform in some venue before the end of the year, a small, local competition, or an exhibition or an ice show. Or maybe another test?
I passed my pre-bronze FS on December 1st, and then I performed in the spins recital. The recital wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I mentioned performing, but it really was my first time performing in front of an audience, so I'll go with it.
I'd like to put together a program, but here are my new goals for the remaining 4 months of 2012:
1. Get pre-bronze dances ready to test (depending on test dates, may not actually test them this year)
2. A scratch spin I can be proud of
3. Get comfortable with loop jump
1. Dance Coach says cha-cha is ready. The others aren't, but I haven't been working on them too much. Other things took precedence.
2. I will say I'm very proud of the progress I've made on my scratch spin. I'm actually spinning now, more balanced, more centered, more able to recover from a bad entry, often getting my foot crossed. But as it is with all things skating, my measuring stick has moved. I can't push my foot down, they're not as consistent as I'd like, I seem to always top out at about 7 revs, etc. etc. etc. I'm going to declare this goal met, but also carry it on into the new year as it applies to ways I'd like to improve my spin.
3. Loop jump. Yes. Never imagined I'd get them to where they are now. They're even pretty big (but pretty ugly
) and I'm landing the occasional loop-loop.