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Offline FigureSpins

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What's your worst on-ice habit?
« on: October 09, 2012, 09:06:03 AM »
What is your worst on-ice habit?  Do you hang out and chat too much?  Look down at the tracings without finishing the move?  Never perform more than one element at a time, ie. no connecting steps?
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2012, 10:00:09 AM »
I look down a lot. Last time I competed, I was given the goal to look at the judges 3 times during my program :) Coach #1 was also picking on my version of "public skating." Before I start a move for my moves in the field, I transfer my weight back and forth several times before becoming still and then as I push to begin I sweep my left arm in front of me.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2012, 11:11:42 AM »
Hunching forward.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2012, 01:47:23 PM »
Leaning like the tower of Pisa  :sweat
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2012, 02:11:15 PM »
Failing to bend knees.  :(
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2012, 02:15:15 PM »
Looking at the ice while failing to bend knees. 
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2012, 02:39:50 PM »
When I was skating for myself, it was working on the things I liked best and not the ones that really needed the practice...
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2012, 03:15:00 PM »
Dropping my left hip/foot, etc., leaning out of the circle, not being over my right hip.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2012, 05:17:24 PM »
By far, dropping my free hip!  It effects everything...

But the one I get corrected for more than that is looking at spin tracings.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2012, 05:53:19 PM »
Man, you got me. I check my tracings--except for power threes.

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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2012, 05:59:33 PM »
I look down at my spin tracings and hunch up my shoulders on jumps.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2012, 06:32:41 PM »
Looking down at the ice (I want to see it before I hit it!).  Bailing too quickly if it doesn't feel right--maybe if I'd finish, I'd figure out what I'm doing wrong, even if I fall. Leaning too far forward so that I'm on my toe picks.  And in that line, add trying to grip the ice with my toes.  If I catch myself doing it and let go, I get off my toe picks.

And, my coach has pointed out that I hold my breath when I do anything.  Ah, the bad habits that new coaches will discover you are doing... :o
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2012, 10:14:37 PM »
Quote from: ChristyRN on October 09, 2012, 06:32:41 PM
And, my coach has pointed out that I hold my breath when I do anything.

Ditto. Coach #2 tries to remind me to breathe as I do my moves, but the 2.5 LI twizzle and the CW flying Mohawks (or flying squirrels as we call them) are too unpredictable for me and I get nervous for them. Between that and my posture and inability to sit back in the FI/BO/FI chowcaw at the end, I swear Coach #2 is just going to beat me one of these days :)
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2012, 03:31:29 AM »
Forward lean and looking at my feet.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2012, 08:40:55 AM »
Over-thinking is my main one. It often leads to me pulling out of things that I could have managed ok.

Also eyes looking in the wrong place... My head is not pointing down anymore during dances but my eyes are still staring down at the ice! ??? I also look upwards in spins which people seem to find amusing! 88) Both look very odd apparently.

Left hip does its own thing all too often too... :blush:
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2012, 08:50:20 AM »
Quote from: taka on October 10, 2012, 08:40:55 AM
Also eyes looking in the wrong place... My head is not pointing down anymore during dances but my eyes are still staring down at the ice! ???

Yeah, I do that, too.  In all my pictures it looks like my eyes are closed.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2012, 01:50:22 PM »
Add me to the not breathing club!

Also, getting into my own head if something isn't working quite as well as it should on a particular day. For example, I have a loop in one of my programs. It's a super easy jump for me and I don't have to even think about doing it. But the other day I was skating and it was just slightly off. Even though logically I know it was just the day (and the antibiotics I was on) I still started getting into my own head.

How can I change it? Do I need to change the edge? Do I need to hold it longer? Then I start trying to hard, it gets worse, and I get more frustrated. I've learned if something isn't working I simply cannot keep doing it. I have to step away completely, do something else, and then maybe come back to it later.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2012, 02:11:23 PM »
Raise your hand if coach had to scream "breathe!" during your program run through :)
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2012, 04:21:39 PM »
Quote from: jjane45 on October 10, 2012, 02:11:23 PM
Raise your hand if coach had to scream "breathe!" during your program run through :)

Raises hand.  Also sadly on those Moves that are difficult for me like the 3 turn patterns.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2012, 04:49:53 PM »
Losing control of turns, sometimes.   :blush:
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2012, 07:57:10 PM »
Quote from: jjane45 on October 10, 2012, 02:11:23 PM
Raise your hand if coach had to scream "breathe!" during your program run through :)
Me!  And on difficult MIF when I am first learning them (like when the bracket-3-bracket was first on Novice and the power pull/rockers on Junior).  Actually, program-wise, coach started giving me specific breathing spots in choreography.  :love:
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2012, 09:24:09 AM »
I look down way to often. Self confidence issue.  :P
On jumps I tend to lean forward too much so I double foot them the first few days of learning a new one. I always go through a couple weeks of double footing a double jump, then something just clicks and I've got it.  ;D
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #22 on: October 11, 2012, 03:11:32 PM »
Same with me: looking down and flailing my arms on jumps.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #23 on: October 11, 2012, 04:40:27 PM »
I rush through everything.
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Re: What's your worst on-ice habit?
« Reply #24 on: October 11, 2012, 08:01:53 PM »
I am a chatter.  I am a stay at home mom so skating is also my social time...that is my excuse and I am sticking to it.  :)
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