Progress!

Today's figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club as usual.  The figures class Lynne teaches right before was delayed so I had a good 10-15 minutes of warmup time with the (freshly-Zammed) ice to myself -- nice!

Today's lesson:

• FI8 -- we decided to start with these and O MY GOD!  I did the best FI8s I have EVER done. Of the 6 circles, all but the last one on the R foot were near-flawless, good push, had no trouble getting around and the tracings were separated by 4" or less.  WOW.  I was SO happy I could have just died, it felt so awesome!  The last one on the R foot was slightly wonky, I had a small balance issue at the start but still pretty good.  I don't know where that came from but it was awesome!
• FO8 -- so of course we moved on to these.  Not nearly as good as the FI8s of course but not too bad, I was getting around the circle just fine and circle size was pretty good but I am tending to not fill out the 2nd half of the circle very well.
• Waltz-8 -- these are improving also.  The FO3 is not bad albeit a bit skidded esp. on the R foot.  The step forward is improving, I only fell 3 or 4 times and most of the time I make it but I'm usually stepping to an FI edge instead of FO (sometimes a flat).  It's getting better though.

The FI8s today were such a good feeling... I will treasure that.  It's a welcome reminder of why I like this sport so much.   That feeling of perfection that is so rare!  Awesome.