Sloggin' Along

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club.  Pretty deserted today, just 4 or 5 skaters and 2 coaches.

Today's lesson:

• F8s -- just a little review.  The good part is I have good flow and I'm tracing relatively well.  My form is very inconsistent though. After all this time!  Oh well.  Like I told Lynne, the good news is that when I really truly fix my posture issues it will fix a whole bunch of problems in my skating.  I WILL get there.
• BO8s -- Not too bad.  Still having issues with the last half of the LBO8, I need to work on that position (BO edge, free leg and arm back) more so that I can lean into the circle more.  I'm still kind of impressed I can do these at all though :-).
• Waltz-8 -- these actually are improving.  It wasn't that long ago I couldn't get back to center at all!  Now I usually do. My 3s are a bit skidded (esp. LFO3! What's up with that?) and I still need to hold the BO edge longer but the step forward has improved a lot.  Good stuff.
• Serpentine -- we had not looked at these in quite some time.  Once I actually managed to get a good RFO (we worked on the RF serpentine first) the change of edge is pretty decent and I made it about 3/4 of the RFI circle.... an improvement!  LFO not nearly as good.  I need better flow and a stronger push for these.

All in all a good lesson. After my lesson I spent some time on BI8s and then I had to leave.