XOs, Again

Today's lesson was with Sonya (Kelli is out this week) on the 8:15 FS, just a 15 minute lesson as Sonya had an appointment she had to go to. The ice was really astonishingly gorgeous (fresh) and I had it all to myself!

Today's lesson:

• FXOs -- Sonya showed me a drill she'd like me to work on, a variation of a power drill, that consists of two pushes, cross & hold and two underpushes. Ukk. Can't do the two underpushes yet, and just doing the first two pushes gets me going a bit faster than I like. In other words, a good drill :-). She was very pleased with my progress on my bad side FXOs.
• BXOs -- the remainder of the lesson. We worked on sitting back/down more and bending the knees more, also keeping the hip pulled back. I seem to have a very hard time bending that back knee for whatever reason. I feel pretty stuck on these, it's very frustrating.

After my lesson I worked a bunch of stuff. I worked on my FO8 and FI8 and actually got around the whole circle on each foot! The ice being so smooth helped a lot. I also worked more on my FXOs and BXOs and waltz-8. I also spent some time on the APB Moves 3-turn pattern, especially the LFI3 side since it's my bad side. I swear I must look like some kind of drunken sailor on these. The first lobe, especially, is bad. After that they improve, strangely enough. I have to figure out why that is. When I look at the tracings, the turns themselves actually aren't bad, though the placement is still pretty bad. I need to remember what Sonya's told me a million times -- I can take my time, especially on the back lobe.