Looks like I probably won't be competing this season after all.
So frustrating… In November, me and one other girl who had just joined the skating club started talking to our coach(es) about putting together a program to compete in the spring. It kept getting postponed and postponed. The competitions has been pushed forward 1 week, so it is now taking place between March 7th and 8th. Do you think I have a program yet? Of course not.
This Sunday the coach asked me to come 20 minutes earlier to practice, so that we could start working on the choreography. However, they had a busier-than-expected session with the kids who skate before us, so she didn’t have time for me. Then, when she finally played my music, she tells me that the intro (which is slower, quieter) is too long… I’d sent her a version of the song months ago and the final mix two days prior to the practice session, so that she could listen to it. (I personally don't think the intro is such a huge problem - it's slow, yes, but you can skate fast to slower music. Everyone does it.)
Now she might squeeze me into an early morning (6:45 early) session tomorrow. I’m still trying to put together some mix of the music that’s not too boring, but it’s not easy, since the tracks I’m using only have so many different segments… and it’s obviously too late to pick a different music, because that takes time, plus my costume is made and all.
And don’t even get me started on the fact that even if she choreographs my entire program tomorrow morning, I will barely have a week and half to learn the whole thing, practice it and get the elements to stick.
I’ve half the mind not to compete at all this season… and I probably won’t, because after the 3 or 4 hours of ice time I’ll get to practice, I won’t be confident enough to actually go out there and skate my program.
I mean, I get it that us adults are not a priority in terms of coaching and ice time, but if she’s coaching us, she should do a proper job and take the time for us, just like she takes time for the younger skaters.
If I tell the coach now that I won’t be competing, though, she probably won’t make my program at all at this point, because it’s too much work… that’s what she told the other girl who’s also program-less. She has some sort of knee program and couldn’t jump the last two practices, so the coach told her that if she’s not going to jump, she won’t be able to compete and thus her program is going to be put on hold.
My costume didn’t quite turn out as nice as I’d hoped, either - mostly the skin-colored panels bother me, because they don’t match my complexion. It will look better with rhinestones, hopefully - which I am still fucking waiting for, because they delayed my order due to incompetency.
I don’t know, I’m just sick of it. I’m even sick of my music at this point.
If I hadn’t just spent a 150€ on the damn onesie, I’d just scrap it all, save the rhinestones for another project, pick some other music and get her to make me a proper program to compete with next season.
This Sunday the coach asked me to come 20 minutes earlier to practice, so that we could start working on the choreography. However, they had a busier-than-expected session with the kids who skate before us, so she didn’t have time for me. Then, when she finally played my music, she tells me that the intro (which is slower, quieter) is too long… I’d sent her a version of the song months ago and the final mix two days prior to the practice session, so that she could listen to it. (I personally don't think the intro is such a huge problem - it's slow, yes, but you can skate fast to slower music. Everyone does it.)
Now she might squeeze me into an early morning (6:45 early) session tomorrow. I’m still trying to put together some mix of the music that’s not too boring, but it’s not easy, since the tracks I’m using only have so many different segments… and it’s obviously too late to pick a different music, because that takes time, plus my costume is made and all.
And don’t even get me started on the fact that even if she choreographs my entire program tomorrow morning, I will barely have a week and half to learn the whole thing, practice it and get the elements to stick.
I’ve half the mind not to compete at all this season… and I probably won’t, because after the 3 or 4 hours of ice time I’ll get to practice, I won’t be confident enough to actually go out there and skate my program.
I mean, I get it that us adults are not a priority in terms of coaching and ice time, but if she’s coaching us, she should do a proper job and take the time for us, just like she takes time for the younger skaters.
If I tell the coach now that I won’t be competing, though, she probably won’t make my program at all at this point, because it’s too much work… that’s what she told the other girl who’s also program-less. She has some sort of knee program and couldn’t jump the last two practices, so the coach told her that if she’s not going to jump, she won’t be able to compete and thus her program is going to be put on hold.
My costume didn’t quite turn out as nice as I’d hoped, either - mostly the skin-colored panels bother me, because they don’t match my complexion. It will look better with rhinestones, hopefully - which I am still fucking waiting for, because they delayed my order due to incompetency.
I don’t know, I’m just sick of it. I’m even sick of my music at this point.
If I hadn’t just spent a 150€ on the damn onesie, I’d just scrap it all, save the rhinestones for another project, pick some other music and get her to make me a proper program to compete with next season.