Duet Practice

Melissa and I met up for duet practice today on the 9:30 a.m. FS at Gilbert -- no ice at Chandler today and not much at Gilbert either.  It was rather more crowded than I'd hoped... about 11 skaters and maybe 6 coaches.

I took about 15 minutes to warm up and then we started working.  We worked on the stroking and crossovers part (slowed it down) and I was able to get over it and actually do them so that was good.  Then we spent some time on fixing the second part of the program in our heads better since we both seem to have a little trouble remembering the sequence.  We practiced this a number of times and got it much better.  Then we ran it with music once and it was pretty good, actually -- we kept up with the music fairly well.  We still struggled to remember part of the choreography though in spite of the earlier practice!

We had a suggestion from our local dance expert (lol) to consider switching sides on the side-by-side stroking to make us more comfortable.  It does indeed help but does require a little bit more work.  We'll discuss it with Lynne tomorrow I'm sure.

All in all a good practice -- it went by really fast but it was a ton o' fun.  Yay!