Preliminary Test, BO8

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler Ice Cafe.

Today's lesson:

• edges -- pretty good.  BI lobes are still smaller than I'd like but okay.  The rest was good.
• FO8 -- pretty decent.
• FI8 -- pretty good.
• waltz-8 -- about the same, unfortunately.  Still struggling with the step forward and checking the 3.  We tried pulling part of my scribe out to use as a stick (like this morning w/JJ) but the issue on the step forward here isn't really to turn the upper body quite so much -- if I do then I set up too much rotation and can't hold the edge.  So that was a nice idea that didn't quite work.  Hmmph.
• BO8 -- ahhh.  These were a little rough at first but after a bit of work they were really quite nice!  I love doing these.

After my lesson I had a couple of minutes so I worked on BI8 (yikes) and serpentines.

I think we need to try a different approach on the waltz-8.  Break it down somehow or something.