The SASH!

Choreography Day 2 - We finished the remaining 1/3 of the choreography today during our lesson so now we are just in the polish and presentation phase! Best part about today was that I got to wear the sash! I know it's a minor thing to most skaters but it was my first time wearing the sash because I've never run a program before. I love how powerful it made me feel. All skaters must make room for me! MUAHAHAHA! In addition to how awesome wearing the sash felt, it felt amazing being able to hear my music through the rink's speakers and actually skate to it. Pretty cool. So, here's what we got:

• Starting pose with pretty arms, 360 rotation, pretty arms again 
• LFO three turn into single CW back crossover, switch to single CCW back crossover
• Backward one foot glide in landing position with pretty arms
• Step forward, switch feet to lunge with pretty arms halfway through
• Exit lunge with LFO three turn into three CCW back crossovers
• Waltz jump
• Airplane (that's what I'm calling it but it's a pretty glide on a curve with arms)
• Left one-foot glide with wavey arms to center
• Pivot into two foot spin
• Exit spin to half flip (thus starting footwork sequence)
• Brief one foot glide into to LFI mohawk/crossover sequence
• Hold backward glide with pretty arms
• Step forward to LFO three turn 
• Three turn sequence (x2) with pretty arms, hold landing position into step forward
• Step forward to LFO three turn into four CCW back crossovers with pretty arms during last two (end footwork sequence)
• Salchow
• CW turn out of landing position plus two CW forward crossovers
• Left one foot glide in attitude position through center
• Position glide with arm feature
• CCW forward crossovers (x4) with pretty arms during last two
• Pivot into one-foot spin
• End pose facing judges but not staring directly at them because that's creepy. Look into the ether ;) 

Christopher told me that these steps are not set in stone. We may amend them for timing meaning we might add or delete elements once I get this up to speed. We did a run through and I made it through with one fall (I got up and tried to catch up to the music per instructions). Yesterday's freestyle session involved me getting what I knew as smooth as possible so I'm glad that parts of this are decent. Overall, it's pretty sloppy but it will get better the more comfortable I get with it. I'm still shooting for an April 13th test date but honestly, I think Christopher will have the final say. If it's still sloppy by April, we may push testing out a month to May. I know I want to test both MIF and Free Skate on the same day. Since test days are always on a Friday, I need to take a day off work and I would rather just take one day off and test both than take two days off to test each separately. Also, my dress still has not arrived yet so that may be a factor as well. I'm starting to think it won't get here in time for April even though I was promised it would. Fingers crossed. This is all so exciting!!!