Figure Skating Bucket Lists

[Neverdull44]

Here's my figure skating bucket list:

1. Footwork lessons from Kurt Browning or Scott Hamilton, (or together both on the same ice would be just totally awesome . . . . !)

2.  Skate on a frozen lake, where I can see the underwater items. (like this clear . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBqX7MSqWw)

3.  Meet my childhood idol, Linda Fratianne.

4.  One day, do a delayed axel and a change of edge spins. (dream big)

5.  Be skating still when I'm 80 years old.

What's in your skating bucket list?

[sk8lady]

1. Skate at Rockefeller Center in NYC; Sculpture Garden in DC; and Millennium Park in Chicago.

2. Do a flying camel.

3.Do a Lutz.

4. Do something that makes people say, "You 're so close to getting that Axel!"

5. Medal at AN.

[Bill_S]

1. Skate with Peggy Fleming (Oh, wait, I'm too old for that stuff!).

2. Skate once again on the frozen lake where I started in 1965, at night, with a bonfire.

3. Skate more at a rink where there are many adult skaters.

4. Keep skating once I retire and have more time.

5. Win the lottery and donate enough to our local rink to support year-round ice.

[axelwylie]

1. Land some legit doubles (salchow, toe loop, loop)
2. Have a legit layback spin
3. Medal in the championship gold ladies event at AN
4. Take a lesson with my idol and screen name inspiration, Paul Wylie
5. Keep skating, way beyond retirement and into my 80s
6. Be able to do a completely horizontal split jump and Russian split jump
7. This one is a bit of a stretch, but I would love to pass senior moves and potentially intermediate freestyle

[JSM]

My number one goal was always to do a double axel.  As a youngster my axel was really good and I may have had a shot.  As an adult, not so much.  It's consistent but U-G-L-Y.  Also, I haven't landed a clean double harder than the toe loop since the mid 90s...


Otherwise -

1) Pass Senior MITF
2) Pass Gold Dances (I'm only on silver, so this is a long term list item)
3) Do a butterfly
4) Skate in Lake Placid

[ice.idk]

1. Get new boots and blades 

2. Get a new coach that I connect with and like the way they teach

3. Get up to my double axel

4. Pass Juvenile and Intermediate Moves In The Field Test

5. Improve flexibility

6. Have a program that I love

7. Go to regionals

8. get a full russian split jump 

9. Long term - compete novice and go to nationals place third or higher  dream big

[AgnesNitt]

My coach is convinced I can do foot work. Meh. I'm not convinced.

[ChristyRN]

1. Scratch spin, then a gorgeous lay back.

2. All my single jumps, up to and including axel.

3. Quiet, upright skating.

4. Adult nationals. Possible Obersdorf. I can talk hubby into it after he retires.

5. I'd love to get all the way to gold moves, but since my coach won't let me use the "mature" exemption, I'll probably never get there. Working on bronze that I was supposed to test in November before I bashed my skull open. 

6. Skating until I'm too infirm to walk.

[ls99]

Do a perfect waltz jump.

Hopefully in another three years, at age 70. And that is the only jump I am interested in.

[PhysicsOnIce]

1. Have a consistent Double Axel and at least two Triples
2. Have a level 3/4 Bielleman/Layback
3. Compete at Spanish National at the senior level (Medaling would be the icing on the cake)
4. Be a good role model to the younger skaters
5. Skate until I am too OLD and fragile tie my own skates
6. Get proposed to on the ice ( or have my "first dance" on the ice) - This was is really specially because my boyfriend and I started dating on the ice.
7. Make my career skating related.  (Still now sure how to do this one, yet , but I'd like to combine my research career with skating)

[robinsnest]

1. AN

So many other thoughts about levels and axels and really beautiful free dances but mostly I just want to keep skating.  Sky's the limit!   

[karne]

1. Private lesson with Ilia Kulik. With a bit of luck, this might actually happen next year.


2. Axel.


3. Adult Nationals.

[Loops]

A Belita style axel.  If I can achieve that, I will die happy.

[alejeather]

1. Qualify to compete in the championship gold event at Adult Nationals.
2. Compete at Oberstdorf
3. Get a double flip
4. Skate a program that moves people
5. Pass through Senior Moves
6. Maybe compete in dance with a partner?

[Live2Sk8]

Great thread!  I've had a figure skating bucket list for awhile.

1.  Pass Bronze FS test  (and yay, it happened recently!)
2.  Go to Adult Nationals once.
3.  Do a dance lift where partner twirls me around in stag jump position (not in an actual performance, just for fun).
4.  Get camel spin 3+ revolutions.
5.  Learn loop-loop jump.
6.  Double salchow - most likely an out-of-reach goal!
7.  Pass Silver MIF - most likely an out-of-reach goal!

It's a fairly modest list but items 4-7 will be real challenges for me.  I thought #1 might never happen, too, though.  #3 just depends on finding a willing person to do the lift. 


I guess it's a fairly modest list. 

[Laneybug7]

1. A delayed, floating effortless axel would be nice
2. Compete at National Showcase
3. Medal at National Showcase
4. Coach Artistry in Motion because that sounds like fun
5. Get the attention of this skater guy that I have a crush on
6. A duet with skater guy I have a crush on...(yea right he can do a back tuck on the ice)
7. Become a well known choreographer;)
8. Super floaty doubles would be nice too
9. Go to ANs at least once.
10. An illusion spin or some kind of incredible looking spin(yea right, I need the flexibility first)

[figureskatehockeylove]

Do an axel and Russian split jump and eventually try ice dance:)

[nicklaszlo]

#3 just depends on finding a willing person to do the lift. 

I volunteer.  (hint: it's not hard)

[figureskatehockeylove]

Haha really? lol ok

[PinkLaces]

I really want one of those gold medalist jackets. That means I have to get through Silver Moves and Gold.

I also want to got back to AN and place higher than last like I did last time. That is not really in the cards for a couple of years though.

[Doubletoe]

Thinking about this made me realize I'd already achieved a number of my bucket list items:
1. Axel
2. Landing a clean double jump in competition (2S)
3. Getting a level 4 element called at Adult Nationals
4. Medaling in Championship Gold at Adult Nationals.

Unfortunately, I never did land my dream jump, the double flip, and at 50 years old, I have no intention of banging myself up working on double jumps anymore.  Buuuuut. . .  Here's a bucket list item I'm going to go for for the first time this year:

5.  Ending a program in a split on the ice (without falling over and/or needing to be carried off in a stretcher)

[celia]

1. Be able to do an axel again, not pre-rotated please.
2. Be able to do a double salchow again, more than 75% consistent, please.
3. Land any other double jump, even once counts if it's clean
4. Be able to do solo scratch/sit/camel spins both forwards and back.
5. While I'm at it, get a layback spin.
6. Get a spiral higher than hip level, both sides.
7. Straight line Ina Bauer.
8. Pass Adult Gold Moves and Freestyle.
9. As a special extra reach item, someday pass Senior Moves.
10. As an extra special I can only dream item, pass my Second Figure Test.

[nicklaszlo]

Haha really? lol ok

Yes.

[nicklaszlo]

3. Getting a level 4 element called at Adult Nationals

I still wish they had leveled step sequences.

[ChristyRN]

I really want one of those gold medalist jackets. That means I have to get through Silver Moves and Gold.

One of our teen age skaters got hers last year and told me she'd make sure I got one when I pass gold.