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Preparing for competitions is a fun and exciting way to master your skills, and skaters can compete at any level. It's a great way to add purpose to your skating and put what you've learned into a meaningful context.
Aimée is always happy to work with the skaters that she coaches to put together a skating program (routine) and prepare the skater for competition!
Be a part of Compete USA!
Excel Beginner Free Skate:
Bronze Medal: Aashritha Jaiganesh
Sloane Kreha: 5th Place
Excel High Beginner Free Skate:
Efstathia Bermudez Petrakos: 5th Place
The Skating Club of New York
Gold Medal: Showcase - Light Entertainment Beginner/High Beginner
Silver Medal: Showcase - Interpretive Beginner/High Beginner
Bronze Medal: Excel High Beginner Free Skate
The Skating Club of New York
Bronze Medal: Adult Pre-Bronze Free Skate
Skating Club of Morris
Gold Medal: Basic 4 Elements
Silver Medal: Basic 4 Program
North Jersey Figure Skating Club
Gold Medal: Compulsory Moves Excel Beginner
Bronze Medal: Excel Beginner Free Skate
Skating Club of Morris NJ
Bronze Medal: Excel Beginner Free Skate
North Jersey Figure Skating Club
Bronze Medal: Basic 4 Program
Learn to Skate USA
Gold Medal: Adult Free Skate 3
Skating Club of Morris NJ
Silver Medal: Basic 4 Elements
Bronze Medal: Basic 4 Program
Honorary Bronze Medal
For being supportive and a future competitor!
Congratulations!
The Skating Club of New York
Bronze Medal: High Beginner Jumps
Excel High Beginner Free Skate: 5th Place
Mennen Learn to Skate
Gold Medal: Basic 4 Elements
Silver Medal: Basic 4 Program - Boys
North Jersey Figure Skating Club
Excel Beginner Free Skate (Group C): 6th Place
Skating Club of Morris NJ
Excel Beginner Free Skate (Group B): 6th Place
North Jersey Figure Skating Club
Silver Medal: Basic 4 Elements
Pewter Medal: Basic 4 Program - Girls
Essex Skating Club of NJ
Pewter Medal: Adult Pre-Bronze Free Skate
Skating Club of Morris NJ
Pewter Medal: Basic 4 Program - Boys
Lyrical Pop - No Test:
Efstathia Bermudez Petrakos, SC of New York - Bronze Medal
Character Performance - No Test:
Efstathia Bermudez Petrakos, SC of New York - Bronze Medal
Sloane Kreha, SC of Morris NJ - Pewter Medal
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Codey Arena at South Mountain Reservation, West Orange, NJ
Compete USA competition. More details to come!
Codey Arena at South Mountain Reservation, West Orange, NJ
Rye Playland Ice Casino, Rye, NY
Official Excel Series & Compete USA competition. Registration deadline March 24, 2023: https://m.usfigureskating.org/competition/32083?id=32...
Rye Playland Ice Casino, Rye, NY
Ice Vault Arena, 10 Nevins Rd., Wayne, NJ
Info coming soon!
Ice Vault Arena, 10 Nevins Rd., Wayne, NJ
Until you reach the Juvenile level, most competitions, including Compete USA competitions, still use 6.0 scoring.
6.0 is the longstanding judging system for figure skating. Scoring for figure skating is different from how any other sport is scored!
In this video, I explain everything you need to know about 6.0 scoring for Compete USA!
I'm going over some REAL examples of 6.0 placements that I found interesting so that you can better understand scoring works.
If you've ever been involved in a figure skating competition where there were some confusing placements or even a tie, this video can help you understand how they sorted that out.
The Excel Program bridges the transition from Learn to Skate USA to U.S. Figure Skating.
Excel is for skaters that are more focused on testing than competing.
Find out more about the USFSA Excel Program & Excel Series in this video!
What is the U.S. Figure Skating Excel Program, and what has changed for 2023?
I explain all about USFSA Excel in this video!
IJS scoring provides a measurable number associated with each required element and the program components. A competition recently used IJS for the lower levels. This is a great opportunity to see how these levels are scored with IJS and improve your results in a competition!
Have you ever watched figure skating on TV and been completely confused by the scoring? Maybe you wondered why someone that fell got the gold? Or, maybe you thought one skater was better, but someone else outscored them you didn't understand why.
Well, you're not alone!
Figure skating scoring is complicated and can be difficult to understand. Like gymnastics and diving competitions, judging in figure skating is intrinsically subjective. I'm (hopefully) going to simplify it so that you can better understand what you are watching.
The ISU and U.S. Figure Skating have just made some big updates for the 2022 to 2023 season, which is already underway. Like many things in figure skating, changes can be really confusing. There are a whole lot of changes for this year, including minimum scores for tests, penalties for pre-rotation on jumps, step sequences, choreographic sequences, spin levels, and more. Hopefully, I'll be able to help you by explaining a lot of them.
There are always the most questions about spins. That makes a lot of sense because spins carry a lot of weight when it comes to increasing your scores. In this video,
I take a deep dive into the rule changes for spins in effect for the 2022-2023 season!
Figure skating used to have five components. Now, we only have three components!
Component marks are a critical part of a figure skater's score! Find out the new components and how you can improve your PCS score this season!
In this video, I focus on difficult variations of spins in IJS. A feature in a spin would increase its level. And, ultimately, the spin's value. There are various features and ways that you can increase your level.
This video can also help you if you're competing at 6.0. Because many of the judges are now so fluent in IJS that they're using similar criteria, even if you compete at 6.0.
I've done a lot of videos about IJS. It's a complicated topic that requires constant education. In this video, I discuss Base Values and how you can get positive Grades of Execution (GOEs) – when it comes to jumps. Whether you are competing for the first time under IJS scoring or have been competing or even coaching for IJS for a while, you can always learn something new!
Understanding IJS can feel overwhelming. It is a complicated system. Whether you're a skater, parent of a skater, coach, or even a fan who wants to understand the scoring as best they can, my goal is to break it all down for you so that you feel less intimidated by the International Judging System.
In this video, I will review all the basics of IJS from the technical side. I'll help you understand the technical panel. If you are already familiar with IJS, this video can also help refresh your memory and maybe even discover something new.
I'm highlighting some potential rule changes proposed at this year's U.S. Figure Skating Governing Council, called Requests for Action, that will impact figure skaters and coaches in testing and competing. This is your preview of what's to come!
Recreational Ice Skating Magazine - Competitors' Corner
Knowledge is power! Here's some information from Recreational Ice Skating magazine to make you a more powerful ISI skater.
This guide can help skaters, parents, coaches with EMS!
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