Back Mohawk & Posture

Today's lesson started a little late (the rink opened a little late and Sonya was running behind) so I had a good long warmup beforehand. During the week I had sent Sonya and Kelli a note outlining my thoughts on what I needed to work on in order to improve my skating per the feedback I got on my test.

Today's lesson:

• Back mohawk -- a.k.a. "step forward". We spent about half the lesson working on this, to have a better back edge with more control, then a better step forward. The edge is improving but I'm still having difficulty stepping onto an FO edge, it's usually a flat or FI.
• Posture -- we worked just on stroking while keeping the head up and a better posture. Eeep. This is not easy and it's annoying, but necessary. Bleah!