Figures

Today was my first time back on the ice since Saturday when I hurt my wrist. Wow, it seemed like a long, long time since I'd skated. I guess that's what happens when you are used to skating almost every day. I wore my wrist brace just in case.

Since I was just getting back I took it fairly easy, working on edges, 3s, Mohawks, stroking and some crossovers. I was able to do some nice FI3s, which made me feel better about things.

Toward the end of the session a few of the regulars pulled out a scribe and drew 3 figure circles and started working them. I'd never had an opportunity to try doing any kind of figures at all, so I worked on just skating one circle on an outside edge. It's harder than it looks! On an LFO I couldn't quite get all the way around the circle; on the RFO I only made it about 3/4 around. It's hard to get a good push for that! The actual following the circle part wasn't too hard, although I tended to get confused between the Moves patterns that I've worked so much and this stuff. All in all it was a lot of fun and definitely a good exercise. I can see how you could learn a lot by working this stuff.