Edges & Crossover Exercise

My lesson with JJ on the 7:30 a.m. FS at Gilbert.

Today's lesson:

• edge drill -- we continued working on (just) the FO drill (skate fwd on flat, FO edge around in a circle).  I still stink at getting the circle smaller but at least I'm improving my  body position a bit.  So some progress.
• crossover drill -- I went out and did the crossover drill just fine... then couldn't get myself to do it again for several minutes.  Geez!  JJ wanted me to do cross-n'-hold, then uncross into an inside spread eagle.  Ugh.  I was able to do the cross-n'-hold AND the spread eagle, but not the uncross the way he wants it.  Ugh.  Needs work.  I did manage to make myself bend my knees more so that's progress too.

This all seems very elementary to me and yet since I struggle with this stuff I think it really is the right thing to be working on.