Ice Skating 156: Last One before a Long Time

We had our last SISA ice last Wednesday before Coach Raymond heads for his 2-week long holiday. The ice was so crowded as the skaters crowd to practice with their music. I think there were like 15 skaters at least and Lil Shauna was 9th in Q. Then some of the very advanced skaters had 2 chances bcos they had 2 different songs/ programs.

I kept reminding Lil Shauna to sieze the opportunity bcos full ice with music is so precious. In the end, she only managed to practice once before the hour was up. Aiya, it was almost her turn again, only if the session was another 5 mins longer. At least the practice with music wasnt too bad.

Coach Raymond did ask her to try her 1st axle on ice! It was a mess. Lol. An axle jump is a 1.5 round jump and she barely did 1 round.

I was just reminded that are a lot more to learn and progressed after we are done with the competition. That sounded nice; she was stuck for months due to her ligament injury last year.

Her next lesson will be at the end of the March, which is like a couple of days before her competition. Coach Raymond's parting words, "bring her for practice if we can". Lol.

Of course we did practice. We were at the rink on Saturday morning for a good 1.5 hour. Mummy worked her very hard without coach; tearing down the program into small segments and concentrating on improving the small movements and overall asthetic. I had wanted to do it with the Jabra wireless earphones that we bought for the same purpose the last competition but the bluetooth pairing didnt work. Ended up, it was video and repeating numerous times tweaking and improving as we go. She worked hard and even went back to the ice an extra 15 mins after resurfacing to try the entire program bcos ice earlier was just too crowded with little people. We tried working on her camel spin too, baby steps, baby steps.

We went back to the ice this afternoon after church for an hour. This time, I got the Jabra to pair but the music went off at certain distance. Zzzz. I dont remember having this issue then. Nevertheless, Lil Shauna managed to practice a big part with or without music but was super irritated again by little people.

Side tracked, we finally gave away Lil Shauna's old skates. Her last pair was given to one of Coach Raymond's students. I had actually wanted to keep that pair for Zaky's leisure use but some miscommunications took place. Never mind, at least it was put to good use. Her very 1st pair of figure skates was given to the niece of one of the adult skaters that we always see at the rink. This pair had been around for over 2 years and Zaky recently grew out of. Now, the cupboard is so empty. Haha.

Mummy Lim