Perseverance

I managed to get to the adult skate today and got in about 70 minutes of skating. It was a good workout! I spent time on most things: edges, crossovers, stroking, 3s, Mohawks, waltz jumps, and some spirals and lunges.

The FI3s are continuing to improve (albeit slowly). I worked on the waltz jump entrance but was too chicken to actually try the jump from the entrance -- grr. On the stroking, I had a mini-breakthrough; if I really think about where my skating knee is, and try to get it over the front of my boot, voila! I can get and hold some nice extension because my weight's in the right place. Simple, I know, but wow, I was much more consistent on my extension with this, even on the right foot. Good stuff! Toward the end of the session I managed a pretty nice LF spiral. Jan said it's improving.