BI8, Waltz-8, Serpentines, 3s To Center

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club.  Lynne needed a later start today so I had a much longer warmup than usual.  I ran through the Preliminary test, then worked on BO8.

Today's lesson:

• BI8 -- these are slowly getting better.  Lynne worked with me on the LBI push -- I really need to turn that skating foot (R foot in this case) before the step-down and get a good push.  We made some progress.
• waltz-8 -- some progress on these as well -- this set was much better than in my warmup :-).  I still need to work harder and flowing it across the top of the circle (the BO edge) as the top of the BO edge tends to be shifted early... grrr.
• serpentines -- ugh. still working to get the FOI change of edge to be more definite and quick.  Grrr.
• 3s to center --  I'm getting pretty good flow through the turn now on these, but still need to check better.  Lynne says that now that I can reliably do the turn I need to almost anticipate the check so that I come out stronger and more checked.  Eeep.

After my lesson, I talked with Lynne about back-3s (I had discussed these with JJ this morning).  I'm going to have an additional 20-minute lesson with Lynne to work on these about every other week.  We'll work on them in my freestyle blades, not patch.  We're starting this Friday!  I'm stoked.