Workin' It

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club.  I warmed up with the Preliminary test as usual,which was really necessary since I'd not skated in my patch blades for over a week.

Today's lesson:

• waltz-8 -- we continued working on these since I had just finished them when Lynne came on the ice.  These are improving but at a verrrry slowww rate.  Grr.
• BO8 -- Just one layout.  Actually really nice today!  I was really happy.  Tracing not so great, but I had really good flow on both sides and came back to center pretty well.
• BI8 -- these are definitely a work in progress.  Lynne and I both agreed that I need to improve my BI edges if I'm going to have more success with my 3s to center.. speaking of which..
• 3s to center -- these are improving..  The 3 itself is generally pretty good!  And reasonable flow through the turn, but then I'm not doing a good job of checking and esp. of controlling the BI edge after.  Evil thought -- I should work on the FI3s at some point.. before Lynne thinks of it..
• serpentines -- these are coming along as well.  I actually made it around the full 1.5 circles twice, both times on the R foot.  L foot still lagging a bit.  In order to get around I have to have both a really good push AND good flow through the change of edge.  As I told Lynne, I don't have enough slop in my technique to make it around if I don't do great at both of those.  By the time I test these I'll have to have both points a bit higher than absolutely necessary to account for nerves etc.

All in all a really good lesson, I thought.  After my lesson I worked on BI8s a bit.