"You will only reach your own potential if you help others reach theirs"

It is amazing what happens to you when your focus goes to helping others.
I have been so blessed in my teaching figure skating that I have had such wonderful young people to work with.
When your focus switches from yourself to others , a real transformation happens.
In order to reach another level you need both views from the inside out and the outside in.

Knowledge needs to be shared to grow !!!

It is very exciting for me to watch Brian Orser having made that transformation. He is a wonderful and extremely talented person. The future of skating is in great hands…Anybody is lucky to have him as a coach.
I am so proud of him and am looking forward to seeing where he will take this!!!

On the Beauty of skating...

Many people take physics classes but few are physicists.

Many take music lessons but few become musicians etc

In the same way , many are taking skating lessons and few become skaters…

We are not born to swim and we are not born to skate, but as humans we can adapt to pretty much anything. But adapting needs training.

When we walk we are vertical, when you swim you have to learn to be horizontal in the water and when you skate you have to be in a natural lean towards the ice.

One of the basics of Hydro-Blading TM is to take the fear out of leaning.

The true beauty of skating emerges when the blade is being played like an instrument (violin, guitar etc) instead of being used merely to transport the skater from point A to point B. It is now 18 years that figures have been eliminated from our sport and I can tell you from experience, it is very difficult to get the level of skill needed to create poetry in motion, with the grammar having been eliminated so long ago. Along with having exercise and movement education almost eliminated in the school system it has created a great challenge to produce that high level of skill.

Oh well, I always loved a challenge…

Pennies in Action goes global...

Thanks to the hope bus tour for coming to IceWorks in Aston Pa (www.thehopebus.org)
We had a family FUNd day , lots of kids came out . We had a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch Pennies in Action going global.
Tanith Belbin/Ben Agosto (USA), Oksana Domnina (Russia), Helena Nyman from the Hope Bus Tour ,and Jim McGinn from Aston Township helped me cut the ribbon.
Then Helena lit a torch and 12 other torches were lit from that one to signify the unity and outreach to each other to help others
The torches were lit by representatives from USA,Canada, Russia, Latvia, Germany and Switzerland to signify our global outreach.
My grandson Corey held a torch for all the young children that we hope will never have to deal with the horrors of cancer.
The Mchugh Irish dancing school, and Top gun Black Belt Academy gave great performances.
Kids loved the Flyers games and the moon bounce,the engine"63" from the Greenridge fire company and all the games that the committee had for them.
Pinnoccio’s donated the food and Coke the drinks.
Fun was had by all.
All this would have never happened if Kelsey Little ,one of our skaters would not have put a group on face book about pennies in Action. That is how the hope bus tour found out about us.
Thank you sooooooo much Kelsey…

Great victory for www.penniesinaction.org

Through getting the message out about Dr.Czerniecki's breast cancer vaccine trials, a new patient from many miles away found her way to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and was found to be eligible and is now enrolled in the trial.
Thanks to all my friends on facebook and twitter who were and are helping to get the message out.
Please send everybody you know to the site www.penniesinaction.org.
Everyone who had or might get breast cancer needs to know about these new developments. It will save many lives...
PLEASE HELP !!!
Interview with Dr. Czerniecki:
http://rglvideo.com/Proof/Proof/Cure.html

New Hope for Breast cancer prevention and recurrance prevention...

I am so thrilled to be able to share with you the exclusive interview that Dr. Czerniecki granted Pennies in Action to explain in his own words what his research is all about.
Please share it with all your friends , because you never know who needs to have this information…
http://rglvideo.com/Proof/Proof/Cure.html
I am always interested in your comments …

(Dr. Czerniecki,Pam Keon, Uschi Keszler)

Great international relations while having fun...

Thursday we had an international festival at ICEWORKS for our skaters from many different nations.
It was fun for everyone. Everyone brought some food of their native country. We had an American barbeque to go with it
We had a waterslide and dunk tank. It was great to see when the kids dunked the coaches. China went in first then Japan, Switzerland and to top it off the little Korean girls dunked their coach from Korea. The smiles on their faces afterwards were priceless…I must say I chickened out, oh well…(so did some other countries, but Asia came on strong or soaked lol…)
Thanks to the president of the ICEWORKS skating club, Lisa Shaw, and Skating Director Joey Suchodolsky fun was had by all.

Why do we tear down others so easily?...

We are so great in supporting the underdog. As soon as the underdog gets ahead, we switch and are busily looking for reasons to tear them down again.
My motto has always been: “Do not rain on anybodies parade.”
Soon after their success (that we readily celebrated) we are starting to look for reasons how to cut them back down to size.
Apparently , no one is spared.
Why do you think that is?
Please comment…