Jump Entrances

Today's lesson was at coffee club since the morning FS schedule was changed. As it turned out there were only 7 or 8 people there anyway, so it was a nice environment. I talked to Anna about the Zimmerman clinic and how it went.

Today's lesson:

• salchow entrance -- since I told Anna that I had looked at the salchow entrance, she decided to work it a little bit; just an LFO edge, LFO3, hold the LBI and then curve it in while bringing the free leg in. It's not too hard, actually; it's just important to control the LBI edge.
• toe loop entrance -- we looked at this one too, very briefly. The main point Anna made was to make the RFI3 very straight and hold the RBO almost on a flat -- she had me do it on the blue line.
• 5-step Mohawk -- we spent some time on these. The first and second steps are not too bad. We worked on the slide chassé for a bit -- went around the hockey circle doing slide chassés, then came back to doing the 5-step. Also worked on the step to the BO edge, to get more of a push onto it. Anna says I'm tending to stick my tush out on this 3rd step -- not sure if that will improve as I get more comfortable or if I just need to work on standing up straighter or what. She made me do a sequence of 4 of them down the line, which is the first time I've done that many in a row, I think.
  
• BO edges -- we'd not looked at these in a while. The good news is that the push is getting better. The free leg position (and upper body) still needs work, though -- need more tension in the free leg. I did manage to do it better once or twice though.
  
• BI edges -- these were looking pretty good. Nice draw through, nice free leg position coming back to the line. Anna says I need to get that same free leg position on the BO edges.

That was it! After my lesson I had some time, so I did some spins and my requisite 10 waltz jumps. Not much to say, there is slight improvement I suppose. They are at least comfortable, anyway.

Ice Update: The front ice is back up! There was a hockey practice going on when I was leaving the rink. It looks nice. We are still on the back ice this week; I believe they will be taking the back ice down next week or so.