What's your worst on-ice habit?

[FigureSpins]

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?

[Kim to the Max]

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.

[jjane45]

Hunching forward.

[Janie]

Leaning like the tower of Pisa 

[tazsk8s]

Failing to bend knees. 

[Live2Sk8]

Looking at the ice while failing to bend knees. 

[MimiG]

When I was skating for myself, it was working on the things I liked best and not the ones that really needed the practice...

[icedancer]

Dropping my left hip/foot, etc., leaning out of the circle, not being over my right hip.

[sarahspins]

By far, dropping my free hip!  It effects everything...

But the one I get corrected for more than that is looking at spin tracings.

[AgnesNitt]

Man, you got me. I check my tracings--except for power threes.

[PinkLaces]

I look down at my spin tracings and hunch up my shoulders on jumps.

[ChristyRN]

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...

[Kim to the Max]

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

[supra]

Forward lean and looking at my feet.

[taka]

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! Both look very odd apparently.

Left hip does its own thing all too often too...

[Clarice]

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.

[TreSk8sAZ]

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.

[jjane45]

Raise your hand if coach had to scream "breathe!" during your program run through

[PinkLaces]

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.

[iomoon]

Losing control of turns, sometimes.   

[techskater]

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. 

[RosiePosie.iskates]

I look down way to often. Self confidence issue. 
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. 

[Icicle]

Same with me: looking down and flailing my arms on jumps.

[Sushi]

I rush through everything.

[SynchKat]

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.