So we bombed...

Sectionals... that is.

We kinda knew it would happen, but oh well. Unfortunately, we took quite the dramatic crash during our Original Dance. I ended up in the hospital. However, I have to point out that we finished the rest of our program! I just kept thinking.... during that pivitol (what seems like slow motion) moment right after you fall and you have to decide if you stay down or get up... if we don't finish, we don't qualify! So we kept going.
The good news....we qualified. We're going to Lake Placid and the National Championships.
The other good news? Nothing's broken. We are just both banged up and bruised. Based on the fact that we were in the middle of a scary, upside-down lift, it could have been much worse. Thankfully it wasn't. And many, many wonderful people were kind enough to help me out afterwards when I wasn't feeling so hot.

So, the BIG news? We're changing our whole program! Yep, four weeks before Nationals and we are changing music, changing costumes, changing everything! Sectionals was a real wake-up call that the music we're skating to now (street dance/hip-hop)doesn't really suit our skating style. And we learned the hard way that you just can't fight that. So, we're changing. Big time. We'll be skating an Asian folk dance to beautiful, soulful music. We love it already. It's a little scary to change things last minute like this, but we also know that if we don't, we won't fare any better at Nationals. And we want to go feeling like we have a chance, and feeling good about how we skate.
So, onward! Practice, practice, practice!

Until Next Time,
---J