Perseverance

I skated for an hour at the public session at Shiny Rink this morning. It was uncrowded, maybe 6 kids, 4 adults and one figure skater (besides me!).

I'm happy to say that my progress on my bad side FXOs has stuck. I even tried doing them in the Moves pattern and was able to do them with an underpush on both sides -- yea! Of course they are very slow and deliberate but they are quality :-).

I worked some on waltz-8, BXOs and LFI3s including a little of the APB 3-turn pattern -- eep. The bad side of those (LFI3) seems to be scarier than it was before; I don't understand that. Grr.  ¶ 10:22 PM

 

Progress!

I skated the Sunday afternoon public session. Since it's Memorial Day weekend it wasn't too crowded, although there were several 6 year olds with an amazing ability to teleport themselves into my way from (seemingly) across the rink. Grr.

I had a great skate! We actually had TWO ice cuts for the 3 hour session (I missed the first 45 minutes). Nice ice. I worked on waltz-8s quite a bit and managed to get my 3s moved out about 3 or 4 feet so they are almost in the right place! Then, I made some great progress on my underpush on the bad side FXOs. I got into some kind of groove on it so I just practiced and practiced them to build that muscle memory. Yea! Finally, I did some spins and had a couple that were substantially better than before, so I was pretty happy about that. I'm still having trouble holding my position and I'm tending to slip off the sweet spot, but it's getting better. All in all I was really pleased with my skate. Yea!  ¶ 5:45 PM

 

Perseverance

I managed to skate the last 45 minutes of the public session today. It wasn't too crowded. I worked FXOs, LFI3, and BXOs. On my BXOs it occurred to me that I should try going back to back 1/2 swizzle pumps around the circle, so I did a bunch of those. Sure enough, even on those I have a hard time sitting down/back and tend to get up on my toes. I'll have to work 'em some more and see if that helps fix things. Finished up with some waltz jumps that felt nice.  ¶ 11:38 PM

 

Perseverance

I skated the 6 p.m. FS as usual. It was quite uncrowded today, only 6 skaters and one coach. I worked mostly on FXOs and BXOs, I am trying to get myself to "sit back/down" more on the BXOs. Not much success there. Also worked 3s a lot, on the wall and on the ice.

After my skate I got my skates sharpened -- I was a bit overdue!  ¶ 8:42 PM

 

Sunday Zoo

I skated the last 1.5 hours (well, with Z-break an hour and 15 minutes) of the public session at Shiny Rink today. It was very uncrowded due to the awesome weather outside... good skating conditions.

I worked a lot on 3s, both on the wall and on the hockey circle. Also FXOs, BXOs, and 3-turn pattern (do I sound like a broken record yet?). A good skate all in all.

No lessons this week as both Sonya and Kelli are out of town. I have a lot to work on though. I need to get my blades sharpened too.  ¶ 9:23 PM

 

Perseverance

I got to skate at coffee club today, for about 75 minutes. Had a pretty good skate. Worked on almost all my problem areas -- 3s, waltz-8, FXOs, BXOs (no spins or jumps). I felt pretty good, awake and alert and relaxed. After the session I came out of the rink and it was warm (we're having a heat wave) and sunny. It made me very homesick!  ¶ 4:09 PM

 

Push-off & 3s

Today's figures lesson was on the 8:15 FS as usual. I had the ice to myself! Yea!

We spent the first few minutes talking about the push-off and how to get better power (I was playing around with this on Sunday). I made some slight improvements.

The bulk of our lesson, as I asked, was on 3-turns. We worked on doing 2-foot turns on the middle circle, then moved to the boards to work on getting a better roll up to the toe (onto the rocker is maybe a better way to describe) and down again. I'm really tending to use my hip to force the turn waaaay too much.

After the lesson I spent a lot more time on 3s and also worked a bit on bad side FXOs and also back Russian stroking and the 3-turn pattern.  ¶ 10:41 AM