Patch Perseverance
I skated the Chandler coffee club for patch practice. Due to a work commitment I was running late so I only got to skate for 45 minutes. Nice ice and only 6 skaters.
I warmed up with edges as usual, then drew my circles w/my scribe and did the FO8, FI8 and waltz-8. I then spent all but the last 5 minutes of my skate working on waltz-8... bleah. The FO3s are actually a bit better. I'm realizing (again) that I'm not going to be able to fix the step forward on this until I can get my weight off of my toe (further back on the blade) so that I can actually have my weight under me and turn the blade. If I were in freestyle blades I'd just be pushing off the toepick and wouldn't notice, probably, but of course I have no toepick to push from!
Of course astute readers will realize that this is fundamentally the same issue I was working on this very morning with Lynne on the BO3! Agh.
I warmed up with edges as usual, then drew my circles w/my scribe and did the FO8, FI8 and waltz-8. I then spent all but the last 5 minutes of my skate working on waltz-8... bleah. The FO3s are actually a bit better. I'm realizing (again) that I'm not going to be able to fix the step forward on this until I can get my weight off of my toe (further back on the blade) so that I can actually have my weight under me and turn the blade. If I were in freestyle blades I'd just be pushing off the toepick and wouldn't notice, probably, but of course I have no toepick to push from!
Of course astute readers will realize that this is fundamentally the same issue I was working on this very morning with Lynne on the BO3! Agh.
posted by Gordon @ 2:06 PM
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