Spin Progress!

My spins lesson with Lynne on the 7:30 a.m. FS at Ice Den Chandler.

I had a half hour before my lesson so I ran through the Bronze moves.  I actually did a complete runthrough including the dreaded power-3s.  I didn't die :-). Still kind of concerned about whether I can make enough progress on these between now and Jan. 30 to actually pass though as the power-3s and 5-step seem quite a ways from passing still and I'm not likely to be above on anything else to make up for it.

Today's lesson:

• standing start -- we didn't draw any half-circles for me to use as a guide today, and that was fine.  After a rough start I started doing much better... was able to relax a bit more.  They were good, they got worse, then they got better again ... very encouraged as usually once they're bad, they're bad and they don't improve.  I got several 3-rev spins and even one 4-rev spin!  Very exciting.
• windup -- these are still kinda rough.  The first dozen were not so good (way too rushed) but by the end I did manage a good 3-rev spin.  Yay! 

All in all I'm quite excited by this progress.  I just pray it lasts :-)

Here's a pic of my 4-rev spin (entrance from the right):