Competition News
By Skater Dad | July 7, 2008
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Things have been a little quiet for the past few weeks which is why nobody has updated the blog recently. However Sk8r Grrl entered two competitions this month. One at Macquarie Ice Rink, the other at Penrith Ice Palace.
We are proud to announce she won her division at Macquarie, and came second at Penrith. If anything the second place was harder won because the competition was far larger and had she not lost two points by ’skipping’ a jump she would have won that as well!
Of course she still has a long way to go before we’d claim she is a ’significant’ skater. Currently she is still competing at the ‘Preliminary Level’ but in October she will be taking the two tests she needs in order to open up the path to the extended comptition circuit, and the higher levels of difficulty. From there on it’ll just require hard work and perseverance. Even at 8 years old she is showing the promise that she *could* go far, but of course also at that age who knows what distractions will pop up to divert her attention to other activities? 
This photo is of her ’second place’ at Penrith but she wore the same dress to Macquarie as well… the only real difference is that the grin at Macquarie was a lot wider.
So tired.
By Skater Dad | May 21, 2008
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KayJay has missed a few or her morning sessions this week. I think she’s been more tired than she let on and the excitement of those early starts has worn a bit thin!
Maybe if she was entering more competitions she’s feel more like pushing herself, but we’re happy for her to make her own pace and if she wants to lie in then she can.
We’ll be going to watch a competition on Monday, but it’ll be a few weeks before she’ll be taking part in one herself. Of course then we’ll have more idea if all this practice is paying off!
KayJay feeling better!
By Skater Dad | May 18, 2008
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As you can see, Sk8r Grrrl is feeling a lot better. Ankle and finger healed up nicely and she’s back practicing!
This girl is quite flexible. It’s painful for me to even watch her do this sort of stuff!!
Another Day
By Skaters Dad | May 18, 2008
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Well it was like a normul sunday and we wenrt do much untill my friend rang up and she asted me if i could go to her house for the day and i said yes for some strang reason and well i am going over to her house at 1:00 and first we are going to have some lunch at 12:00 and i wont to have some lovly tosted ham and cheese croissant witch is so,so nice to eat …
i wock up and i went into the back room and wached some t.v and i love to wach t.v it is so cool!!! and we always wach some t.v in the morings and near 8:00 and 9:0 but the movie normely tackes about 2 houers so we stay up untill 11:00!!!
Doing stretches.
By KayJay | May 17, 2008
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Well as you know i do skating and it is very fun in some of the bits we do off-ice and we do stretches and they hurt and we do jumps and some really cool stuff …BUT IT HURT’S…but some of the thing are cool and i will name then for you: axles, jumps, up and down, sit up, push up and lifting my leg above my head that hurts you too…
First it was her finger…
By Skater Dad | May 14, 2008
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First little KayJay fell in school and broke a finger. That took a couple of weeks to mend but seems ok now. Today I had another call from school to say she’d fallen off some rocks and sprained her ankle!
I don’t think it’s too serious… currently she’s upstairs watching a movie and eating ice-cream… but we’ll be going to the docs ‘as soon as’ just to give it the once over anyway. Let’s hope she won’t need x-rays and the like and she recovers quickly.
I’ve rung Galina to let her know we’ll probably not make the lesson tomorrow, even if it isn’t broken it *is* still sprained badly, and that I’ll have to let her know whether she’ll be able to get there on Friday afternoon and/or Saturday morning.
How this kid manages to damage herself so competently is amazing!
They’re gonna put me in the movies!
By Skater Dad | May 4, 2008
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Finally I’ve been sorting out the videos we’ve taken of Karmah skating over the past couple of years. Once they are on the computer I’ll collate them, make some compilations and upload them to YouTube or similar for people to be able to see them.
It’s quite funny watching them at the Xmas Show in Norwest two years ago… Karmah could hardly skate then but still was clearly showing ‘ability’. These movies are quite interesting.
Of course, it’ll take a while to get them ready. So far only 6 have been copied and there are 40+ lying on the desk! But at least you know they’re on their way… don’t hold your breath tho this could take more weeks yet!
Back to the rink
By Skater Dad | May 4, 2008
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Off again to Macquarie Ice Rink this morning. Temperature was down to 4ºC tho it felt lower! We arrived a little later than usual as ‘Sk8r Grrl’ decided she was too tired to get up… pah!!
Still, her coach, Galina Pachin, was even later. Didn’t ask her why she was late as there is no lesson on Monday Mornings and if she wants to come late… I’m not arguing.
Karmah wasn’t at her best today really though I thought she’d practiced fairly consistently. However when she got off the ice Galina decided to tell her off… as she does from time to time… for standing around on the ice *watching* instead of *moving*. She’s not going to make up a written practice schedule for her to go through each session until she gets it ‘right’.
As you will appreciate, Karmah went off in a sulk because she was tired and hungry… and hates being told off by Galina!
Hard luck I say. After all, if the rest of us are willing to make the effort then so must she! If she actually practices properly there is a good chance she could succeed at the sport even tho she’s got a long way to go.
My story at school
By KayJay | April 30, 2008
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Well i am going to talk to you about my story and it is called the pengin that wonted to try to fly ! and it is about a pengin that wonted to fly and he did not really like the ice that he had to so he was trying and trying but he could not find a way …
This is some of the iders that he did
1. try to do it by walking on stilts and then lepping off them.
2. geting all tipes of fethers and sliding down the slide and he nearly had it but then he lost his balens and falling it to the water
then he had it he all ways had it up there some were and he did it he..he just got a hot air ballon and lade back and all he had to do was pull a string and there you have it.
My Sisters birth day!!
By KayJay | April 26, 2008
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Well my sister is tereing 12 in a cople of…well she has oredy had here birth day it was very early and we are going to go to the shops to day and buy some things and it is gong to be so,so,so,so, much fun at the mall.
We will go and have some food and then we mite go and get some cothes and we mit go and get some shoes and find and we will get lots of things and things and we will not stop and if we do it would be for some food or looking at something and if my dad has not told you i love clothes shoping and I don’t really like food shoping.
My sister got a mp4 player and a temigochiy 5 and a pirates of the cariben game and you get to make a person and it is so cool!!!
Now here's a great place to put a photo and something about the blog... what *shall* I write I wonder?
