Ice Skating 155: The Ice gets Busy

With the need to practice her program, the 1/3 ice classes on Saturday morning feels restrictive, especially when it is always so crowded plus so many small people skating around blindly. Lil Shauna had been looking forward to her full ice lessons. Not only does she get to practice with the music and even if not, there is a lot more space and no little blind skaters.

Now that the competition is right around the corner, the ice gets really crowded and every skater wants to practice their program with the music. There is a Q system and it becomes stricter with the crowd. The skaters had to submit their CD. This will also be used for the actual competition. Coach Raymond nicely prepped this for us.

Bcos of the crowd, Lil Shauna only got to practice her program with music 2x. The 1st was a mess, it was so obvious; she was too focused on chasing the music than doing what she needed too properly. The 2nd time was fortunately a lot better. The rest of the time was spent on practicing and improving her program elements.

She had worked hard, red-faced and panting and all. There is still a lot of room for improvement. For one, she needed to stroke a lot more harder. I even recorded what looked like her competitor and showed her how much harder that girl was stroking. Hohoho. Yes, I am mummy spy.

We have 4 more full ice lesson to go and no 1/3 ie lesson for March bcos Coach Raymond or us or the rink is busy.

Mummy Lim