Edges And Spins

My lesson with Sonya on the morning FS at WSC.

I got to the rink around 7:15 and Sonya finished a lesson with Sierra about 7:45 so she gave me 15 minutes then, and 15 minutes after the 8 a.m. ice cut.  I was on the ice a total of an hour and 15 min.

Today's lesson:

• spins -- more of the same.  I actually made some progress on getting my free leg back on the entrance and also bringing the free leg around... but I cannot quite make myself bring it allll the way in for some reason.  Grrr.  Still I felt we made some good progress.
• backspin -- we worked on these some more.  It seems like I can either get the arms to open, or get the free leg brought in and snap the hips... but not really both. Grrr.
• edges -- we spent some time just working on edge drills.  The forward edges were decent but I had a really hard time sitting back on the backward edges, esp. BO -- I tend to be up on my toe (as usual).  It was good to work on these in my FS blades as I usually do this stuff in my patch blades and they are flatter in every sense.

After my lesson I worked some more on spins and enjoyed watching Chloe and Logan working on their new program.  They are a lot of fun to watch.