Ice Skating 65

We bought a speaker recently hoping that it can help Lil Shauna to practice the program with music on the ice.

Knowing that the ice will be crowded, we intentionally headed down a little later, hoping that it would be less crowded plus allowing us to stay a while later after her class. Sound like a plan, right?

Just that the plan didn't work out the desired way. The ice was crowded and it was impossible to practice her program without having to stop bcos somebody was in her way. We tried using the speaker but it was no fight against the noise. Lil Shauna could almost hear nothing when the song was starting. Teacher Raymond's speaker was probably 100x more powerful; I could hear the song across the rink.

We gave up after a while and Lil Shauna went over to the 1/3 ice to practice. She had to do it without music as I couldn't go over to the 1/3 and there was nobody to help her hold the speaker.

She tried hard, especially on her spiral and spins. Teacher Raymond helped her practice her compulsory solo items before teaching her 1 last hadn't action. It seems like her program is completed! She got to practice 2 more times with the music and both times managed to complete almost when the music ended! It was so nice  (in mummy's my-daughter-is-the-best perspective), I can feel tears in my eyes! Teacher Raymond spent the rest of the time practicing her spins.

Lil Shauna has max 3 more lessons to go before her competition. We had to miss next Saturday bcos of the CNL church camp. The next session will be on a weekday early morning, where she will practice on the entire ice and I had booked an entire hour class. I think it will feel very different as she had been practicing all this while on 1/3 ice. Teacher Raymond said that the session will be spent practicing the program repetitively with the music to really familiarise the "what happened at which part of the music". She will also needs to be in full costume and hair do to get used to the feeling. I will remember to take more pictures.

The rink was so much more emptier in the 2nd session but the little girl was too exhausted and refused to practice more.

Counting down...

Mummy Lim