So finally our first international and indeed competition has arrived. Its been a difficult build up but eventually were here! Zagreb is home of last Seasons great European placing for us and very fond memories of the arena.
Since July we only made it back home for a weekend to see family and have been in full training preparing for this tough season. We've given full focus to our training passing up tempting shows for valuable catch up time, so just hope it pays off. In the build up stage to the competition season it seems all you are able to do is eat, sleep, skate! Not that its a bad thing trying new elements, not having to worry about what people will think and just skating for the love of it. But competition is so much more exciting, having a crowd an
d judges watching your every move, get it right and everyone says how much you've improved, get it wrong and they say you haven't worked hard enough. Really its just a matter of did you keep your head in that 7mins 40seconds you have to show how good you are.
After a brief call to our federation the morning of our flight to make sure we will get picked up from the airport and a place to stay we made it quickly to our destination for the second time this year. We just wanted to make it a brief competition to warm us up for NHK, but the plan back fired when we booked our flight to come home early and they changed the schedule! We now have to skate our long programme then get on a bus to go home straight away. Anyway without worrying too much about this our first practice went well, elements felt great just
our heads still feel up in the clouds with our flight crew. But after practice we were shocked to find ourselves thrown into a televised interview with the head of Parliament in Croatia, who seemed very interested in what we thought of her city.
That's all for now but i will update to let you know how we do!
Since July we only made it back home for a weekend to see family and have been in full training preparing for this tough season. We've given full focus to our training passing up tempting shows for valuable catch up time, so just hope it pays off. In the build up stage to the competition season it seems all you are able to do is eat, sleep, skate! Not that its a bad thing trying new elements, not having to worry about what people will think and just skating for the love of it. But competition is so much more exciting, having a crowd an
d judges watching your every move, get it right and everyone says how much you've improved, get it wrong and they say you haven't worked hard enough. Really its just a matter of did you keep your head in that 7mins 40seconds you have to show how good you are.After a brief call to our federation the morning of our flight to make sure we will get picked up from the airport and a place to stay we made it quickly to our destination for the second time this year. We just wanted to make it a brief competition to warm us up for NHK, but the plan back fired when we booked our flight to come home early and they changed the schedule! We now have to skate our long programme then get on a bus to go home straight away. Anyway without worrying too much about this our first practice went well, elements felt great just
our heads still feel up in the clouds with our flight crew. But after practice we were shocked to find ourselves thrown into a televised interview with the head of Parliament in Croatia, who seemed very interested in what we thought of her city.That's all for now but i will update to let you know how we do!
