Exhibition

Today the Phoenix adult skaters had our send-off exhibition at Oceanside Ice Arena. Erika Rietz and a cast of thousands (okay, not that many) organized this.  We had about 14 skaters and 18 starts, in 3 warmup groups.  I skated my free skate, as well as running music for the exhibition.  Many thanks to Melissa for running music for *me* lol!

 We had a 6 minute warmup, which I was really grateful for since I had not skated freestyle all week!  Ugh.  So I had some time to warmup on the ice.  Warmup was okay although the salchow was still being wonky. What's up with that?

 For my free skate, I decided to face the audience (my stepmom came!).  Not a big deal.  Program started off well, I did once of the nicest pivots I think I've ever done :-) and into the toe loop at good speed and it was really good! Well, cheated, but really good.

 Unfortunately, the skate gods giveth... and they taketh away :p  After the toe loop I stepped forward and hit my toepick and wham! Down on the ice.  Didn't hurt or anything but I was sliding across the ice and it took me a bit to get up, so I was behind.  From there the spin was ... okay.  The salchow was weird on the landing, not good.  Footwork was okay but I was slow.  Spiral was a bit slow also.  Waltz-toe was actually okay, and final spin and pose more or less okay, though of course I ended late since I fell.  Since I'll be skating up to Bronze I'm not worried about it since I have 10 extra seconds anyway.

 All in all, for not having skated, really not bad.  I really hate these unexpected falls!  But it was okay.

 After that I ran music for the rest of the event, and we hung out for a bit and took a pic. Loads of fun and I hope it's bigger and better next year!