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12th March Adult figure skating competition didisk8r 278 views I messed up the footwork and the combo spin, but I think it was pretty well.
4th december figure skating competition didisk8r 172 views My first program with an axel 2footed of course :D. I'm 4th out of 5 girls. I really think I can do better :/ Can you tell I've improved? P.S. Sorry about the bad quality o...
Figure skating August 2010 didisk8r 134 views Axel and double jumps attempts. These videos are from the beginning of August. I have improved since then - I have backspin position on all my jumps but I still land them d...
My very first figure skating competition March 2008 didisk8r 200 views Decided to upload my first competition because after all that time I've improved so much that watching it makes me feel like I did a lot :D Before you laugh keep in mind th...
30 april artistic roller skate didisk8r 350 views It's so hard to get used to quad roller skates :S I feel so much better on ice :) I'm still really afraid to jump and I land almost everything on 2 feet. Iv4etoK ( http://...
Last skating for the season didisk8r 79 views The video is really short, just like the season :D We had great fun at the last skating session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldn061QcGUU&playnext_from=TL&videos=ssDhiOA-n...
27th March Adult figure skating competition - Silver didisk8r 1,408 views I'm 5th out of 6. At first I thought it's a bad day but now I see it's just all I can do. Before that competition I felt like my skating was way better than before. Well I ...
Figure skating competition 19th December 2009 didisk8r 267 views My 4th competition:) I'm second out of 6 girls. I loved that competition :) A lot of things could be better but I had fun :))
25th november sit spin didisk8r 72 views Really really bad sit spin (especially compared to my sit spins at the beginning of the season) But at least the entry is kinda interesting. Tips and comments are wellcome :)
14th October figure skating didisk8r 127 views Spirals, a lot of flips - at least landed on 1 foot :D and a scratch spin. Comments and tips are welcome ;)

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Jan 20, 2012

Date Joined

Jul 2, 2008

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Hi :) if you want a long story about me it's in the end. here's just the general:
I love figure skating and artistic roller skating (because I don't have ice all the time :S ) I compete in adult competitions in Silver level. I'm also a student in university but skating is what makes me happy :)
What I can do:
Jumps:
Toe-loop
Salchow - I don't like that jump :D
Loop
Flip - my favourite
Lutz - not really good but I'm working on it
Axel - I can do it off-ice but on ice I'm too scared to do it
Doubles - not yet
Spins:
Scratch
Back scratch - working on getting it better
Sit spin - my favourite
Sit-change-sit
Camel - not consistent
Attitude spin
Layback - just poor attempts
What I can't do (well):
skate fast - I'm still too scared to gain speed I feel like I can do it but I'm afraid to do it
Landing - I have horrible landing position and I can't hold it long enough. Working on fixing that
Footwork - I know a lot of moves but I can't do them with good speed
remember step sequenses - it takes forever :D
Spirals - my free leg is always bent :(
My figure skating story:
How it happened...
Five years ago an old school mate said "let's go skating" so I took Mom's old skates and went at the rink. I was skating horible and the hardest thing I wanted to learn was to skate backwards. But I liked it and went skating quite often with friends or family. I loved to watch the figure skaters but I thought 14 was too late to start.
But the next season I decided to go to group lessons. I went only on Saturdays because it wasn't fun at all all the others were kids who are about to start with a coach and they were progressing faster than me. But one saturday morning I was really really tired from a party and I said I'll go on Sunday. The next day a young coach asked me how old I am. I said I was 15 and she said that it's a bit late for freestyle skating and I might try Synchro skating. She was just forming a new team she had to teach us all the basics. It was the end of the season I didn't even manage to learn 3-turns. I was very enthusiastic for the next season and I wanted quad roller skates to practice in the summer. I got them for my birthday and I started skating on my own. I did crossovers, swizzles, crossrols, spirals - simple stuff you can do without a lot work with a coach.
The school year came and I understood that my gym class teacher who's an ex figure skater and coach was starting artistic roller skating practises. She's the best coach ever :))) She allowed me to jump and spin clockwise, she didn't care I was older and she was really nice. There I learned the basics and started easy jumps like waltz, salchow and toe-loop. I remember that the "almost full rotation" of the salchow was scaring me. But people started quiting and the place where we were skating was closed for repairment and it seemed like I'll never skate with a coach again.
For the next Cristmas I had my first own ice figure skates. Nothing special just for public skating. My goal was to learn waltz jump and one leg spin. I skated a few times with my old coach and started getting on ice what I learned on quad skates. And then I heard about a figure skating competition for amateurs. I said I want to go, I had only a 2 months to learn the single jumps and 2 spins. I couldn't jump at all. And I was really scared like stunned at the competition. Now as I see the video I can't imagine that with no technique or artisty or any visible talent I stepped on ice. But I did it.
Since then I'm trying to skate and practice as much as I can. I had knee issues but they didn't stop me. Now I dream a for lot more than a waltz jump - I'm doing axels and double rotations off ice.
For these five years I fell in love.

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Sofia

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Bulgaria

Interests

figure skating, artistic roller skating

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