Competition Prep

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler coffee club.  I had a longer warmup than usual, so I went through the Preliminary test, then did a couple more layouts of FO8 since I'm competing those too.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- did a couple more layouts of these with Lynne.  In general they are pretty good but I really need to watch the LFO; need to velcro the R shoulder back :-) and really press into the edge so it's solid.
• BO8 -- these are really pretty good.  I was tracing relatively well and doing a good job of returning to center.  I think the main point now is to keep my concentration up so that I do what I need to do, and it should be okay.
• BI8 -- still pretty rough, but getting better.  I did some poor layouts, then a good one, then several poor ones and another good one.  The poor ones are mostly a matter of keeping my eye on my mark as I'm skating the circle, and remembering to get a good solid push.  Circles are still too small but I'm not going to worry about that too much at this point.

After my lesson I had about five minutes left so I did some serpentines.  They were pretty ukky.