Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- more of the same... pushing harder, doing c-cuts across the ends instead of crossovers.  Eeep.  Really fast! Did these in each direction.
• slaloms -- laps of these in each direction. So tiring!
• jogging on ice -- OMG this was scary!  Running on the ice (not on toepicks).  I was kind of able to do these when Holly was holding my hands but by myself, just scary.
• harness -- Holly put the harness on me and had me pull her while she braked.  Ugh!  Hard.
• back swizzles-tap -- wow.  Doing back swizzles then at the end of each swizzle jumping up and tapping the feet together.  So hard!  And kinda scary.  It got better as it went on but I really struggled with this.

There were more slalom laps in between all this. Eeep.  I was totally wiped out at the end of this but I feel like I am accomplishing something.