Exhibition program emergency

The exhibition on Nutcracker music is going to be Sunday. And, I'm... not ready...

From when I've written the last post, I've skated 3 time. My biggest worry was if my old program was gonna fit to the music, and I think it kind of does. But I've never really get to skate the program to the end, that's not encouraging.

These are the problems I've countered. I'm skating faster then when the program was created, and I tested it. My skating skills are improved... That's great! Also, I enjoy the music a lot and I'm able to interpret and project emotion in a natural manner. That's great too! What it's not great is that I haven't improved the jumps and spins, as I haven't worked on them much, and I cannot do them with the extra speed and emotion. So I will have to calm down and go a little slower.

Trying to skate the program on the music, I found myself tempted to add a step here and there. I have no experience in improvising, and it confuses me... enough to make me hesitate on the next steps. The conclusion is that I'll stay with the choreography.

I wanted to challenge myself a little and do a back spin. I wanted to put it at the end but I found myself all worked out and without the patience to concentrate on it. It is also a very slow spin for me and the end is on a crescent rhythm, it just doesn't work. The new idea is to put in in the middle of the program... The bigger problem is that I've messed with this spin's entrance so much, I ended up not able to enter the spin at all, at points.

I'll skate again on Friday. After the warm up I'll have to immediately work at the quality of the jumps and spins by themselves, not in the program, with special attention to the back spin. I'll also work on in from the steps. Then put everything on music. I'm thinking I might have the time to do the back spin, AND a simple forward spin immediately after in the middle of the program, then, at the end to do a scratch spin. Then, I'll work on the moves test, to clear my mind. Then I'll do the program again. If the back spin is not working I'll have the forward spin in the middle of the program and the scratch spin at the end. I'm rarely finding the scratch spin appropriate in programs 9to match the feeling of the music0, but, as I said this end of the music has a crescent feeling, so it works.

Hopefully, on Friday I'll have a clear plan on what I'll do for the actual exhibition. I mean I have to...