Ninja!

My lesson with JJ on the 7:30 a.m. freestyle at Gilbert.  We had agreed to have a 45 minute lesson, starting at 7:45.

Today's lesson:

• Power-3s -- we started with these because I needed a bit more warmup.  The L side is...not good, and the R side is pretty bad.  I felt totally out of control.  Yuck.

• Choreography -- we started working on the new program today.  Eeep.  It's a good thing we had extra time.  We only got maybe 1/4 done, although we did get in agreement on what we are trying to do so it should go faster.  Basically we are going for a warrior/ninja kind of theme.  Program elements will be about the same, although we agreed we should put a jump sequence (probably waltz-salchow) in that wasn't in the previous program.  The first part looks like:
• Opening pose -- head down, arms up to the sides, palms out
• Music begins, arms down, clench fists, head up, spin or pivot.
• Push out on L foot, kick
• Step to R foot, kick
• Step to L foot, LFO3, BXO
• 2-foot back glide, weight L, arms up then down
• Same w/weight R.

That's all we had time for!  Much to do... This program is going to be very demanding in terms of energy and focus, it's all about the character.  I'm looking forward to it.