Test Stuff, 3s To Center

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club as usual.

Before I got on the ice I was inspecting my blades (I am about due for a sharpening) and found that I basically have no inside edge in the middle of my L blade (there is still some edge at the ends of the blade).  Weird!  I need to get them sharpened.

For today's lesson I had only done my edges (FO/FI, BO/BI) for warmup, so Lynne decided we should continue with the other figures from the Preliminary test as if it were a test.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 --a little shaky at the beginning (hey, I had almost no warmup) but not bad; I think they were passable.
• FI8 -- decent.
• Waltz-8 -- ugh.  I put my foot down like twice and had real difficulties returning to center on my very egg-shaped circles.  Yuck.  Yep, these need a lot more work.  After the first one set we moved and did some more, and then spent some time just working the step forward.    Sheesh.
• 3s to center -- we continued with these (they are on the 1st test, not the Preliminary test).   They are slowly improving.  On the L side in particular I have problems getting really turned into the circle for the turn.