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- Feb 5, 2004
Joesitz said:Except for a very few skaters, dealing with the music as a musical piece is not easy in the early ages. They are basically training for skating tricks and do not train those tricks to the music. Every thing a young ballet dancer trains for is with the music constantly. Young skaters, unfortunately, don't get the music while training except for repititious insignificant background tunes. So when they are faced with a program, they have no clue that their music is important. It's the tricks that count.
I would think that only really bad coaches would do this. Even the little ice princesses at my rink who are struggling with their doubles hve to reptitively do their programs over and over again to their music. Once the skaters "get" an element the coach then puts into a series of connected moves which the sklaters then repeat constantly when they do the element. You rarely see the girls just hammering away at their doubles its nearly always small segments of their programs.
The junior national champ who trains some of the time at my rink already has her program music sorted...she's barely got enough program choreographed to practice it so she does the snippets they've done exactly on time with the music and at the moment you can see her building up her confidence in the choreography so that she starts doing the elemtns to the music not despite of it.
I think all the girsl at our rink are taught this way - i'd have thought most are.
Ant