Eastern Synchronized Skating Analysis

Three major traits I have gained include time management, teamwork, and diligence. Managing time requires an abundance of practice, and my typical schedule, as a full time mechanical engineering undergraduate student and a part time employee, forced me to plan my days effectively in order to complete all of my work in a timely manner. Much of this work involved participating with teams of people with various backgrounds and personalities. My high school career had little focus on group assignments; however, the university places a major emphasis on working on teams. With this extensive practice, I have developed the ability to work alongside people with extremely different dispositions and backgrounds. Succeeding in the mechanical engineering degree program is not easy, and as a result, I have spent several weeks focused solely on school. Diligently completing difficult assignments has gotten me to where I am today. During my first year of college, an upperclassman told me, “Although the work does not get easier, you get better at it.” The virtues of time management, teamwork, and diligence are evidence that this statement holds

Cutting bits of me that cannot handle the pressure and stress; developing pieces of the more disciplined me; testing my concentration; forcing my mentality to be flexible; enlarging the best of me: my determination, integrity, confidence, ingenuity, independence. Ultimately, skating leaves me more focused, more disciplined and more confident. It shapes my character, reminding me that success only feels worthwhile if it has a bit of blood behind it; skating tells me to try again, to keep working. Perseverance has been my grace. And as my skating career comes to a close, I have taken the time to teach those around me. The young skaters I teach think I am inspiring them, but they change who I am, altering me into a more caring, compassionate person.

As you go through life there are many things that shape you as a person, many things that you learn and grow from. I have experienced all of these from one thing, hockey. I started skating when I was about 4 years old, persuaded into the sport by my dad, who came from a big hockey family. I was so young I do not remember my first reaction to it or if I even liked it, but there must have been a reason that I stuck with it. Hockey has caused me much stress and tribulation but every second of pain is worth the reward.

Planning and organizing skills, I enjoy figuring out what is required in getting a job done and working out how and when it can be done. This can be seen in how I develop a personal study timetable and managing time around work and studies.

I know that my weak spot is time management but I am always looking and thinking of ways to help. I try to do my work as soon as it is assigned. To help improve my time management skills I have set

One specific skill was time management. In the fifth grade I was involved in so many extracurricular activities, and believe it or not I had to manage my studies with other outside involvements. I was involved in basketball, track, choir, first communion, boys and girls club, and soccer. I had so many practices that I had to attend throughout that school year, but I had a mindset that school came first. To get the opportunity to do everything I had to develop a great schedule. My mom taught me that there isn’t anything more important than my education, so sports and other family events came second. Another skill I picked up from this award was to be self-dependent in my studies, which meant I didn’t need help anymore. I didn’t need anyone to check my homework, help me study, or help me do my projects and

Having to balance practice almost every day after school for weeks at a time has allowed me to develop better time management. My experience with that allows me to be efficient with the time that I have. While in high school I had multiple pre-AP, AP, and will take dual credit classes that challenge me and offer a workload closer to that of a college.

Teamwork was the skill I learned the most about. I helped out with basketball practices, I helped my Uncle move into his new apartment, and I did a few more service projects. During the basketball practices they had to work together as a team to accomplish their main task: winning the game. Also during the move

That quote, from the documentary Freeling, sums up skating. Fall a lot but you get back up; learn not to give up even when the going gets rough. When you land the trick, it washes all away; you forget the bad and just remember the good of landing it. I personally can say that this life lesson has already proved very crucial in my life. Whether it is when I’m working outside in 100 degree weather, putting together my 3-inch thick eagle project binder, or going for a run. It all comes down to the mental aspect.

Last year, I took roller skating lessons as my physical education class. Because since childhood, I have admired those kids who were skating in front of me like floating. So I took this opportunity to learn roller skating very hard. And with the practice, I felt more and more that roller skating was benefit to our health. It was not a serious threat but an innocent toy.

As a student am I am always on time to class and also when I get to class I like to learn right away. Another thing is that I never get into trouble with any teacher. I don’t like to slack off during class or not pay attention. Also I am a student who helps out other students when they need help. Finally, I am a student who likes to likes to do extra work for a class.

For the past nine years of my life, I have been a competitive figure skating. Every morning before school and every afternoon following, I spent every minute of my free time bettering myself. I trained intensely 6 days a week, followed by a one day rest. I took an innumerable amount of workout classes and maintained a strict, no carb diet for four years. When I was 14 years old, I hit puberty. The body I knew so well, was able to balance on a ¼ of an inch blade, had completely changed overnight. I became unable to do almost every single jump and spin, things that had become second nature to me. I was completely devastated and cried every time I glided onto the ice. My whole career as a figure skater had completely crumbled in my mittened hands.

In my mind, going skating has little to do with the art of skating – it has more to do with socializing. A skating rink is a safe place where you can meet up with your friends and socialize.

During a figure skating competition, many required elements must be included in the program for each skater. Depending on what level of competition the skater is in, the techniques and difficulty increases. A triple axel is one of the most difficult figure skating jumps. The skater needs to jump from the outside edge of his or her blade, while moving in a forward rotation, rotating three and a half revolutions in the air, and then landing on the opposite foot which they took off from. A triple axel is a lot more complicated than performing a single or double axel because it requires an enormous amount of strength to get high up enough to have time to spin, as well as the ability to rotate quickly.

Coming into wrestling I was a different person I was shy, wasn't good with people and didn't take the risks I would take now. I didn't have some of the skills that i have now that help me on a day to day basis. Time management is a skill I have picked up during my time wrestling. Before I learned this I wasn't good at managing my time I sometimes would wait until the last minute to do things and they usually would not get done or just be something thrown together last minute. Going to practice, and having other things to do showed me I had to choose what was the most important thing to do that day, and when I got home if I had homework I had to do that first before I went out with my friends because I had to do what was most important . I also had to make sure I was consistant and had enough time to finish my chores if I had any.