Karmah has done a few competitions since that time but sadly didn;t place in any of them. However last Wednesday she *did* pass the first of her NSWISA tests, the ‘Preliminary’ so she is now officially on her way to becoming a ‘Junior’.

Might not sound a lot but it’s one step at a time.

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.

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!

This girl is quite flexible. It’s painful for me to even watch her do this sort of stuff!!

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!!! 

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!

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!

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.

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.