Patch Perseverance
I skated the Chandler coffee club for patch practice. Only 5 skaters and nice fresh ice!
I warmed up with edges, FO8, FI8, and waltz-8, then drew some circles on top of my waltz-8 print so I could compare it... not as bad as I feared. FO3s were about a foot early, other than that about the same as I've been doing without the scribe so I guess that's good.
After that I spent all but 8 minutes on the waltz-8. I do a lot better when I let the BO edge be slower and try to relax. Still not doing a great job of leaning into the FO edge after the step forward.
For the last part of the session I worked on serpentines. RFOI was about the same, but LFOI! I managed to make myself push considerably harder and although I had a hard time holding the edge (wound up touching my foot down briefly) I actually made it around 1.5 circles to start the RFIO! YAY! I managed this 3 times or so. So.. I need to keep pushing that hard and then work on leaning into the edge a bit more.
At the end of the session I wound up talking to a new skater I'd not met before. His name is Rosswell and he's.. late 60s? 70s? Hard to say. I'd say fairly old but quite spry. He's a hockey boy :-). He seems pretty cool, we had a nice albeit brief conversation.
I warmed up with edges, FO8, FI8, and waltz-8, then drew some circles on top of my waltz-8 print so I could compare it... not as bad as I feared. FO3s were about a foot early, other than that about the same as I've been doing without the scribe so I guess that's good.
After that I spent all but 8 minutes on the waltz-8. I do a lot better when I let the BO edge be slower and try to relax. Still not doing a great job of leaning into the FO edge after the step forward.
For the last part of the session I worked on serpentines. RFOI was about the same, but LFOI! I managed to make myself push considerably harder and although I had a hard time holding the edge (wound up touching my foot down briefly) I actually made it around 1.5 circles to start the RFIO! YAY! I managed this 3 times or so. So.. I need to keep pushing that hard and then work on leaning into the edge a bit more.
At the end of the session I wound up talking to a new skater I'd not met before. His name is Rosswell and he's.. late 60s? 70s? Hard to say. I'd say fairly old but quite spry. He's a hockey boy :-). He seems pretty cool, we had a nice albeit brief conversation.
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