BXOs, Spins, Sit Spin Prep

My lesson with JJ this morning.  Due to a commitment, JJ moved our lesson up to 7:15 a.m. and I was on the ice at about 7:10.

Today's lesson:

• BXOs to landing position -- since we had the rink to ourselves I wanted to work on these since it's a pretty blind move.  The pattern is pretty good.  JJ reminded me to lift the head (especially) and be lifted up (core strong) and stay off the toe.  In general  I think this move is pretty good but it would be good to be faster, and look a little more confident.
• Spins -- ugh.  We spent quite a bit of time on these and they are just really stinky.  I was forgetting to do even basic things I've done well in the past.  I was not at all happy with them.
• Sit spin prep -- we finished up with a little bit of exercise (starting at the boards) to learn the basic sit spin position.  JJ had me stand facing the boards with the R foot extended and bend down on the L knee.  I didn't get it horizontal but JJ said the most important thing is to learn the basic position so that it would be a recognizable sit spin even if the position will have to be improved.  We worked on these a little bit away from the wall and I can kind of do the position... but considering how my spins stink (see above) I'm pretty skeptical.  Oh well.

After my lesson I stayed for the rest of the session and worked on the rest of my moves.  I actually made some progress on the power-3s, to where I could do one "good" LFO3 (the subsequent one was still pretty bad) and one better-but-still-bad RFO3.  Ugh.