How long did it take you to finish basic skills?
A long time considering I'm a teenager. It took me a year and a half of going to group lessons once a week. Then I started practicing, got private lessons and new skates, and immediately zoomed to doing doubles about six months later.
How long before you did spins?
I was working on my one-foot spin about a year into skating. I competed with it and placed badly. After skating for two years, I'm working on scratch, backspin, sit, camel, back sit, back camel, pancake, layback and change-foot spins. None of them are good.
How long before you started jumps?
I was doing tiny waltz and toes probably six months, a year, into skating? At the year and half point, I was working on very tiny waltz, toe and salchow. Right now I am working on axel, lutz, double loop and loop combos.
Doubles?
Two years after beginning skating, but only 5 months after beginning privates. I'm working on double loop and will probably start double sal soon. I landed my single loop less than three months before I began the double, so doubles have come very quickly for me.
MITF?
Right now, even though I am in privates, I never get taught things like brackets and twizzles. I am working on my Pre-pre and prelim MITF. I tend to pick up MITF quickly.
Competition: At 4 months of skating, I competed in Basic 2. It was stuff like snowplow stops, alternating half swizzles, etc. At a year of skating, I competed in Basic 5- back crossovers, one foot spin etc. At two years of skating, I competed Freeskate 2, but was only in that level because of my spins. When I competed, I had already landed flip and loop and started on axel a couple weeks later. Freeskate 2 is backspin, toeloop, waltz-side toe-waltz, chasses etc. At 2 years, 4 months of skating, I hope to compete in Pre-preliminary. (axel, sit/camel.)
The only competition I haven't placed last in was the Basic 2 one, in which I tied for first.
I do not know how quickly I would have progressed had I practiced, and had the right skates, right off the bat.
I skate twice a week for a total of 3 hours and 30 minutes. I hope to increase it to 4 hour 30 min. I take one half hour private per week and a group lesson, too, which is taught by my private coach and only has a few freestyle skaters, so it is actually quite beneficial even at my level. I practice very hard and never, ever fool around or chat.
You skate quite a bit more than me (jealous) and take more lesson time, so you will probably progress through basic skills much faster. But since you are an adult, you may slow down quite a bit when it comes to jumps, spins and doubles. Adults cannot afford an injury, because they have to work and drive. This tends to hang around in their subconscious when they jump.
Didn't Yuna come from South Korea? Correct me if I'm wrong.