Perseverance

I went to the public session tonight. However, the ice wasn't surfaced after hockey, so for the first 50 minutes it was pretty dreadful and kept me from attempting anything at all challenging or worthwhile. After the Z-break I was able to get some good skating in.

I spent most of the quality time working on the waltz jump walkthrough that Anna had showed me last week. I worked on it first against the boards until I could do it without actually touching the boards. Then I tried it out on the ice, and was able to do it without falling (so, a major accomplishment). It's not pretty, and it's not confident, but I was able to do it several times, so I decided that was enough for one night.

I also spent some time on 3-turns and Mohawks. My FI Mohawks are improving, in that they are much smoother. On the other hand I'm still not usually holding the edge afterward, but pretty much put my foot down immediately. So, there's still much to be done. My 3s are about the same. I don't think I've seen much improvement on them in a while; I still tend to force them and make too much of the upper body movement, and not enough from the hips.

Finally, I did spend a little time on spins and got some good ones. I'm hoping to look at these Friday in my lesson. I wonder how much longer it will be before I start doing "real" 1-foot spins...