Saturday Zoo

I attended the public session this afternoon. It was even more zoo-like than usual, since a) there's a hockey tournament at our rink this weekend, and b) skate school was delayed starting due to a). The result was that the session, already scheduled for 12:30 - 2:30 (instead of the usual 12:30 - 4:30) due to hockey, didn't really get started until 12:45 or 12:50, and for the first half hour or so the skate school folks were on 1/3 of the ice and the public session the remainder. Not a pleasant environment, because there were hordes of hockey boys roving in packs (I mean that literally). Despite an actual ice monitor AND the skating director trying to impose order it was pretty chaotic. After an hour or so most of the hockey boys left, perhaps to play on the other ice sheet. It settled down somewhat after that and wasn't too bad.

Despite the bad conditions I did get some work done -- Mohawks, 3-turns, crossovers, and even a couple of waltz jumps. I was especially pleased that I am now able to do the RFI3 on the circle, not just in the lobe pattern. YAY! This is progress. As for the jumps -- not as good as yesterday, very little spring off the toe; but heck I was pleased to get anything under the circumstances.