Layouts

Today's figures lesson on Chandler coffee club as usual.  The session was very deserted -- most of the adults were in the patch class on the other sheet so when Lynne and I started my lesson it was just us and one other skater.  Pretty neat!

We spent the whole lesson working on layouts -- starting on clean ice with a start that was not on any line or mark.  We did about 5 different layouts, I think it was 3 or 4 for FI8 and 1 or 2 for FO8.  In general it went pretty well!  I still need a bit more control especially on the FO8, and I need to be careful about not cutting off the bottom of the circle on the FO8s.  In general, though, I am doing a pretty good job of getting my circles the right size, getting back to center, and tracing my previous circles.  I was pretty happy with it.

Here's a pretty neat article about figures way back when.  Czech it out!