Recent content by Clarice

I’m going! I don’t feel ready yet either and I’m currently injured, so…

Yes, the pairs at my rink do a LOT of lift practice off the ice. Sometimes they will also practice with different partners, so the person learning the lift is working with someone who already knows how to do it.

Solo pattern dances are what they are - you skate the pattern of the dance. In solo free dance there are required elements. Those include step sequences, twizzles, spins, and edge elements like spirals or spread eagles. I do Adult Silver solo free dance. My dance has a pivot and a spiral for the...

Learning how to track with a partner is a skill unique to partnered dance. If you have only tested solo, you don't know how to work with a partner and so you need to go back to the beginning to learn that. It can be dangerous otherwise.

My daughter moved to southern Maine about a year and a half ago. She says The Sharper Edge is where the hardcore skaters go. In Portland, she uses Back Bay Skate - so far, so good.

Yeah, it's closer to $5000 for the spinner, and you still need the harness. https://championskatingharness.com/web/index.php?siteid=397

This thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrU6lzm0AT8 It's really expensive, though.

The hardest part of videotaping an ice dance test is having empty ice for the test. I did one for one of my students, and we were able to be on an empty freestyle. I've also been present for tests where other skaters were asked to clear the ice to tape the test, but you're going to make people...

No rink where I have skated has required skaters to wear masks on the ice. I do, though, especially when partnering. This is Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin.

My refund came through yesterday. We were refunded the entry fees, but not the administration fee.

I’m walking, doing elliptical in my basement, and practicing ballet and belly dance as best I can. I broke out my PIC skates yesterday, and want to get my spinner out today.

My rink has been closed for a week already, but it was planned, for ice maintenance. We are scheduled to be out for another week. Will we reopen on the 30th as planned? Who knows? Meanwhile, I have ice available at a mall about an hour away. However, I'm not sure whether it's socially...

Oh, of course! But if they want me to partner them, there's no way around contact. Thanks for the link!

Dance coach here, so I can't avoid touching students. My rink is currently closed for two weeks for ice maintenance anyway, but assuming we get to go back, I was going to bring in hand sanitizer to have at the boards (more as a visual reassurance, since I carry it anyway). I'll also rotate and...

I had music upload issues this year. First, Mids did not present the option to upload music for the solo pattern dances. That has been corrected. Then, the system would not recognize that my tracks were in mp3 format, so I had to have headquarters upload them for me. My latest theory is that EMS...