Power

My power lesson with Holly on the adult skate at Gilbert.

I was running a bit late today and only had about 5 minutes to warm up before my lesson.  Ugh.

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- I think I was faster last week; but I am definitely faster than a month ago.  Yay!
• slaloms -- ugh, I really hate these, they are really hard on my quads and I don't do a good job of keeping my feet together.
• slalom-jumps -- down the line, and then down the rink.  Do a slalom, jump from both feet. Lather, rinse, repeat.  Kinda scary going forward.  Holly held my hand at first then I did them on my own. Eeep.
• backward swizzle-tap -- down the rink. I think Holly held my hand last week but no more!
• pushing -- pushing Holly down the ice while she's braking w/her toepicks. I'm getting better at this.
• lunges -- pushing Holly down the ice doing alternate lunges.  Yow.  These are getting better and I have a lot better kneebend than I used to.
• cross-strokes -- I had done these in Naomi's ice dance class but these are tighter.  Not so great but I did them.

I made it through 20 minutes and I was okay (though tired).  Yay!  I do feel like this is helping and worthwhile.