My friend and I took videos of ourselves today - I didn't post hers although she's about the same level as me.

I mostly filmed my pre-bronze moves in the field...I'd LOVE if someone could go and critique me, tell me what areas I need the most work with. You won't hurt my feelings - as you can see from our videos we were cracking up the whole time so we know what we look like lol. Don't mind the commentary - or the VERY poor video quality....a camera woman my friend is NOT. lol

There are also some videos of jumps and spins and assorted funny stuff. Feel free to critique any of this as well.

And if you happen to see something that I do well, feel free to mention that too - it can't all be bad right?

Okay - here's the link! www.philosotree.com - under "Skating Videos!" post, obviously

I tried to watch it but the videos wouldn't work for me. Sorry.

They're in quicktime format I believe...do you have quicktime?

I thought I did. Hmmm...

If you can take stills off the video it'd be better - I'm WAYYYY over our monthly download and my paernts will KILL me if I download a video to watch!!!!

Managed to watch your videos! You should get your friend to zoom in abit on your spins and three-turns.
Saw that loads of people gave really detailed replies on the skatingfoums, don't think i can beat those.
I like the way you have quick rotation on your jumps, but on alot of the jumps you don't really JUMP. (sorry) It's hard to get nice height on these jumps as you have to trust youself not to fall and have faith in your knees to help you land as well.
You manage to complete the rotation though, congrats! Getting higher and being able to 'hang' in the air for abit during your jump will help you prepare for those doubles.

When i don't jump as high as i can for my jumps, my coach would laugh and remind me that its a 'waltz jump' not a 'waltz step', and that kinda helps me remember to bend my knee and jump! up as high as i can (thus the username)

It's great to see more videos of you! And i like that sit spin variation that you tried, I'm trying it too Keep up the super work!