October update
Once the excitement of the Streatham summer competition was over numbers in the team reduced dramatically due to holidays and other interests. The core team members decided to make a commitment to building a team to take part in adult synchro competitions. Recognising this will mean a lot of hard work we focused on practising core skills, getting our knees bent, gaining control and speed.
We’d managed to get our numbers up to 10 members for the competition, but in September we were reduced to 6. A new member, Adrian, has now joined us and we’re working hard to find more skaters to get our number up to 12 – the minimum for an adult team to meet the requirements of governing body, NISA (National Ice Skating Association) http://www.iceskating.org.uk/.
We’ve added lots of new steps into our programme which at the moment we are far from mastering. Lots of three turns, mohawks (let the wonderful Dmitri show you how http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTrTX-r7PHM) and quick switches between steps are tripping us up at the moment. We’re undaunted though and all have faith that we’ll have it mastered in time for the Christmas show.
