Book review on finding the edge part 5

I really enjoy reading books but one of my favorite books has to be Finding the Edge by Karen Chen who is a US National Champion in Figure Skating!! Her book is awesome and it tells about her life and how it was when she was growing up.

Karen was a good student and she would always practice her jumps and spins off the ice. Her mom even set up a camera so that Karen could practice her double axel. She could then watch herself and find and fix any mistakes.

Karen started her intermediate season in 2011 around Santa Rosa for a skating showcase. She really liked the theme of the rink because it was snoopy themed. It was more of a showcase and not a competition so skaters just get used to being in the spotlight so they are not that nervous when it is an actual competition. Karen loved the song “The Gold Pond” and she did her show to that.

When Karen finished her showcase she won her showcase and she got recalled that night which means you can skate your program again and you can win a prize. After she skated the judges announced a different girls name and Karen was disappointed. She asked herself “How come she won and I didn’t win”? And then later she told her mom “it is just an award I will win nationals and that is even better.”

For the second straight season Karen win the Central pacific regionals as an intermediate skater. Since she won Regional’s she qualified for the US Junior Championships held in Salt Lake City in Utah.

In my opinion Karen is a very talented and good skater. I also think that she trains and works very hard to achieve what she has done. I wish that I would be like Karen and be able to skate and train a lot so that I would be good at ice skating.