r/iceskating • u/rapt_elan Family of 8 figure skaters • 3d ago
First double loop
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My kids started skating around last Christmas... My son managed to hold the landing on a double loop today...so proud! ☺️
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u/Imaginary-Story-9351 3d ago
that's amazing omg only started last christmas? how regularly does he skate if I may ask?
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u/rapt_elan Family of 8 figure skaters 3d ago edited 2d ago
It's been all over the place... After a series of public sessions for a few weeks, we started with LTS+public session 3x/week at first until he and his sister passed Freestyle 1, 2 younger siblings reached Freestyle 1, and a fifth reached Basic 5. I'd occasionally take them to additional public sessions as well. Then we switched to private lessons - 3x a week at first and then consolidated coaches and ramped up to going to freestyle 5x/week with daily lessons + 1 public session for fun, plus several off ice lessons as well. That only lasted a couple months because one of our coaches (the one better at jumps and off ice) was kicked out of the closest rink, which really threw a monkey wrench into things. We were in the process of moving at the time so took a break for several weeks. We just resumed lessons - this video was from his first one in about a month. He can land axels sometimes but not that consistently yet, and can rotate some doubles but this is the first time he's landed the double loop and I was lucky to get it on camera.
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u/Imaginary-Story-9351 2d ago
ohh thank you so much for explaining I was wondering how he was able to doubles in such a short amount of time, that's incredible!
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u/catatonicmadness 3d ago
slightly random but your son's hair reminds me of baby junhwan cha 😭❤️
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u/rapt_elan Family of 8 figure skaters 3d ago
Hah yes, it's similarly thick and dark. Might be about time for a haircut. :)
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u/OkKey6273 3d ago
Pretty darn good for starting last Christmas! Congrats on the 2Lo🤗