More Mohawks

For our lesson tonight we had the 3 of us, plus Desiree (who had missed the last two lessons) returned. We started out by learning a T-stop, which Glenn had taught me about a month ago. I'm pretty proficient at them, but my fellow student Ashley had a hard time getting her free foot into the right position. After a few minutes on that it was a little bit of forward stroking, then back to the mohawks again. I got some more individualized attention but I'm still not quite there yet. For some reason I'm really scared to work on them by myself -- I really need to get over that.

After class I stayed until 9:15 working on a number of things. I worked on my LFO 3-turn and it is getting respectable, at least as respectable as it can be for someone who can't hold a back edge yet. My two-foot turn is getting to be pretty good -- even young Tate said "that was a good turn!". I spent a good chunk of time still working on getting a good one-foot backward glide, with some amount of success. I got a couple of 3-4 second glides in and I'm starting to feel where my weight should be -- mostly for me it seems to get my weight further back, not all in my toe, and feeling my weight firmly on the ice. I think I'm getting a lot closer to having this.

Besides the backward 1-foot glide, I'm really hoping to get back to the forward crossovers next week. Glenn said he might not be teaching us next week due to a schedule conflict though, so we'll see how that goes.