My favorite competition of the year, I suppose until we go Olympics it'll be the biggest event we've done. It was our 3rd senior Worlds and we had prepared the best we possibly could, turning down 3 shows with Champions on ice (staring Plusenko) to focus on being at our very best. We decided to drive from Poland with Mariusz and Dorota which for us was a first. A ferry from Germany to Sweden, with a cabin so we could sleep and got to see lots of countryside whilst driving there! We arrived at Goteborg a quiet harbour town nice and relaxed ready for our final event.
My parents were coming out with some friends and the president of our new club Axel Mr Marek Kalisek, not that we get to see them a lot at competitions but was still a little upset Stacey's mum couldn't afford to come when she'd not seen us skate all season. Stacey didn't seem too bothered, we spent most our time on quiet walks to a nice little cafe or eating in a fantastic little Italian. We have all our food provided by ISU but sometimes you need to get away from the hustle and bustle of the other 200 competitors with however many coaches and team leaders on top of that. Lets put it this way in such a competitive sport you need big boney elbows to get the last piece of cake.
Practise's went really well i was very happy, consistent to the last. It all fell nicely for us, we only had one skate at the practice rink compared to ladies and men who were lucky if they got a practice on the main arena. But the pairs practice rink was rather interesting, we had to get a bus to the warm up area and the ice machine had a plug attached like a hoover, I'd never seen it before. Again full run throughs, felt strong and powerful really waiting to make a good impression, which in the short it looked like we did. A slight touchdown on the throw and a slip by me in the step but very strong lifts and twist put us in 13th place, again 6 place's higher than the short the previous year so we were very pleased. In the long we just didn't seem to have the magic that was there at Europeans, throws didn't go, lifts and twist downgraded so we ended in 15th, which is still an improvement on 17th from last year but we should of held on to 13th.
All in all a good finish to a topsy turvey season. You never know what will happen when you change coaches, you may struggle to adapt to the new techniques and it could take a long time to see improvements. We finished Worlds being strong potential for the future though, and that's good enough for me right now. Lets just wait and see what happens next season shall we!
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