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?
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.
Hunching forward.
Leaning like the tower of Pisa :sweat
Failing to bend knees. :(
Looking at the ice while failing to bend knees.
When I was skating for myself, it was working on the things I liked best and not the ones that really needed the practice...
Dropping my left hip/foot, etc., leaning out of the circle, not being over my right hip.
By far, dropping my free hip! It effects everything...
But the one I get corrected for more than that is looking at spin tracings.
Man, you got me. I check my tracings--except for power threes.
I look down at my spin tracings and hunch up my shoulders on jumps.
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
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 :)
Forward lean and looking at my feet.
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:
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.
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.
Raise your hand if coach had to scream "breathe!" during your program run through :)
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.
Losing control of turns, sometimes. :blush:
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:
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
Same with me: looking down and flailing my arms on jumps.
I rush through everything.
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. :)
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*
And then I hold my breath in competition anyway and stumble off the ice at the end to collapse. If I ever get further than a 1:40 program I'm totally screwed.
I do this really weird shoulder shrug before I start anything (jumps, footwork, crossovers, whatever). It reminds me of this skater from the 80s when I just started watching skating. I think her name was Holly Cook; she used to do the same thing.
I also look down, fail to breathe, don't bend my knees enough, ride my toe picks, bail on anything that doesn't feel right, only practice the MIF that I like, two-foot things when it doesn't feel right, talk to much, complain, cuss out loud, flap my arms and never practice enough.
How do I pick just one? I go get water when I really don't need it just to put off doing another of whatever I don't want to practice, I stop breathing during programs, I usually do just do one element at a time with no connecting steps, I overthink, I daydream and almost run into people...
But I guess my worst habit, the one I've been trying to break for two years, that keeps showing up in photos and that my coach keeps mentioning, is looking down. Especially after spins. I've really been trying to work on this lately. My coach says even when my head is up, my eyes are still down on the ice. It doesn't help that we have kids in freestyle sessions who are two feet shorter than me, so looking down is sometimes necessary for safety.