Waltz-8, B8s

Today's figures lesson on the Chandler coffee club.  Due to insane work schedule etc.  I had not skated since last Thursday!  eep :-(.  Fortunately Lynne gave me a good half hour to warm up and get my legs back under me. In the warmup my RFO8s were looking really good!  LFO8 much better also :-).

Today's lesson:

• waltz-8 -- we spent almost half the lesson on these   My key learning (sorry, an Intel-ism) is that I really when I do the step forward I really need to actually turn the soon-to-be-not-skating foot, just like I would to push onto any kind of edge (e.g. starting an FO8).  Hmm.  These are improving, and I am actually able to come back to center about 30% of the time; but the circle is pretty egg-shaped due to the FO edge going out too far.
• BO8 -- these are coming along.  The RBO8 is not too bad, I get around the circle pretty much every time and usually the circle size and centering are not bad.  LBO8 is a lot rougher, I'm still having troubles coming back to center.
• BI8 -- these are slowly improving also.  The push is still lacking though, it's not quite enough to get me around.  We worked esp. on the 2nd half of the RBI8.  I am tending to open my hip up here and Lynne thinks I should keep it more closed in order to not bring the circle in too much.  It's a bit tricky to do this and still extend the free leg.

All in all I'm pretty pleased with my progress.   I need to get back into my practice routine though!