Bronze Moves

My lesson with JJ at our new timeslot, the 6 a.m. FS at Gilbert (*yawn*).

I'd not been on the "first FS of the day" at a rink in quite some time... and of course I was there 15 minutes beforehand only to find the doors weren't even open.  Staff arrived at maybe 8 minutes before (to be fair they probably aren't paid to be there early).  So of course I was a little late getting on the session.  Grrr. I had my blades sharpened when I was in Portland over the weekend but they were just fine. I had my blades sharpened when I was in Portland over the weekend but they were just fine.

Today's lesson:

• perimeter XOs -- meh.  I'm slow.  Pattern is okay, but I think one side of my BXOs are not fully crossed.
• power-3s -- ugh.  I got through them but the R side is still pretty ugly.  I'm starting to almost like the L side though.
• BXOs to BO edges -- these are okay.  I just need to be aware of the things I need to do and make them happen and then they are okay.
• circle-8 -- just okay.  I really need to work on these more as doing them in my FS blades is waaaay harder and different than my patch blades.
• 5-step mohawk -- we spent a little time on these.  The R side is okay but I'm still jumping the L side so we worked it with Le Stic.  I need to stand up straighter.

They are slowly coming along.  I think I really just need to keep practicing them a lot.  Not sure how I feel about the concept of testing these 1/30 though.