F8, Waltz-8 and Serpentine

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club.  Good ice as usual and Lynne gave me time for a good warmup today :-)

Today's lesson:

• F8s -- I had warmed these up well, I just wanted Lynne to video them so that I could see what I look like (I'll post them below).   I'm a bit hunched over, but not as bad as I thought.  I still would like to have a little more speed on these but in general they are okay.   On the video the first RFO is pretty icky though :-(.
• Waltz-8 -- these are definitely improved.  For one thing I pretty much always make it back to center, which didn't happen all that much in the past.  Second, on the L side I am actually turning my foot before pushing onto the LFO from the step forward, which didn't happen before.  True my circles are still rather egg-shaped but they are getting better.  Yay!
• Serpentine -- we worked mostly on trying to keep the free shoulder firmly checked back while the free leg is forward (the cross-body stretch).  The change of edge is actually okay.   The biggest hurdle is that I don't have nearly enough speed to make it through the whole FI circle after the change of edge.  I'm going to have to push a lot harder for that.

All in all I'm pleased with my progress.  Slow and steady seems to be doing it for me.

Here's the video of my FI8:

And here's the FO8: