Sunday, February 3, 2019

Ice Skating 151: Music Please

We were back on SISA ice last Wednesday and my eyes feasted on the skaters fly around on the ice. I can keep repeating that; they are so so good.

The competition assessment is out. The moment we saw Coach Raymond, he mentioned that there is only 1 combi jump allowed and something about the program will now be more similar to her last one competition one. Ok lor, what to do.

Lil Shauna started her warm up with the rest of the skaters sharp at 7.30pm. She has definitely improved in her speed but many other skaters fly past her. Yes, try are very fast but fortunately most of them are also very skilled and clashes happened infrequently.

I was happily on my phone having some precious "me-time". When I happened to look up, Lil Shauna was in that yellow vest, indicating her doing the program with her song. I fumbled with my phone and was fortunately able to capture almost all her 1st practive with song. Hohoho.

There were indeed some differences between this program and the last one, particularly her jumps and dance steps. She appeared to struggle some towards the 2nd part of the program but completed it fine. This was so much better than she 1st did her program with music while prepping for her last competition. Then, she was constantly chasing after the song and barely made it. At least this one, I didnt get the chasing that she was running after the music.

Lil Shauna got to practice with the music a few more times, I recorded 3 videos but she said that she did 5; I must be dreaming. However, it was obvious that she was more and more tired with each program practice.

The rest of the time was spent on improving her jumps and spins. Her back spins still CMI.
Lil Shauna was exhausted after the hour's class. Coach Raymond mentioned that she wasnt too bad after class. Yeah!

We spent time on the way home watching the videos and spotting where she had to improve. Mummy is so useful. Haha. I told her that she needed to push harder to look more energetic. While she insisted that she already did push very hard, she said Coach Raymond said the same thing. She still has a lot of work to do, not only the jumps and spins but the little hand movements, facial expressions etc. Fighting!

Mummy Lim


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