Slogging Through

Figures lesson at Chandler coffee club as usual. I was pleased to see my sk8 buddy Bob up from Tucson!

Today's lesson:

• F edges -- FOs are still a bit sloppy. FIs not bad. Lynne always catches me right when I get on the ice (almost) so I am always warming up during my lesson. I don't know if it's on purpose or not, I expect it is.
• B edges -- LBO is still wonky but slightly better. RBO is soooo much better. BI edges pretty good.
• FI8s -- I did a better job of making my circles about the right size. These were mostly okay.
• FO8s -- a big time investment on these. LFO8 took most of our time... finally started getting a good edge from the start, which works a lot better than trying to fix it after I've started. RFO8 is better.

And that's all we had time for today! Geez. After my lesson I worked on my FO3s and then also step forward (so a mini-Waltz-8). I fell twice on the step forward -- I am tending to lean forward which is not recoverable in patch blades :-). When I actually get my body turned to continue in the same direction it works soooo much better!