Salchow & Spins

Today's lesson on the 8:15 FS... as usual, wonderful ice (I'm so spoiled! But the rink schedule will change in a month or so and I'll lose this session for the summer :-().

Today's lesson:

• Salchow -- we worked on this on the ice and a little at the boards as well. I'm actually making progress on jumping *earlier* (yay!) and the setup/entry is pretty good, but I'm still having issues bringing the free leg/side through correctly. I think it is getting better though.
• Spins -- we did a few two-foot spins (they are on the ABP FS test); Sonya's feedback was mostly to watch the posture (don't hunch) and keep the feet close together. I generally get at least 3 revs so I'm not too worried about this, but I do need to practice them regularly. Then we went on to the one-foot spin; we mostly worked on keeping the free foot close. In the past I've tried to keep the *knee* close but apparently this allows me to do the "stork" thing with the free leg, so... keep the free foot close it will be. We had some improvement. The two issues I'm facing are 1) not keeping the free foot close and 2) spinning too high on the blade and bouncing off the toepick. I'm hoping the spinner will help me with both of these; we'll see.