Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  I warmed up with Bronze moves (just perimeter XOs and power-3s).

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- 2 laps.  I am definitely going faster.  I need to work on my hockey stops because there's no way I can stop from this fast w/a snowplow or T-stop.
• slaloms -- ugh.  Soo tiring and they still stink, I am not keeping my feet together.
• pushing -- of course.  Instead of braking with the toepicks, now she's using a full-on snowplow stop from each foot. I did manage it though!
• FXOs -- I still feel really out of control though I am getting a pretty good underpush on the easier side, not so much on the other side.  I really need to bend my knees more, I assume, and lean over that FO edge to feel more secure.  They are definitely faster though.
• slaloms on the circle -- ugh these are even harder than down the rink.  These led right into...
• power pull intro -- as she explained, basically the slalom on one foot (I knew this).    We did these on the big circle. You need a kind of down into the FI edge and rise up for the FO.  We did both directions and they were generally pretty horrible, though they did get slightly better.
• FI3/twizzle thing -- don't know how to describe this.  Basically an FI3/BO3/spinning kind of thing alternating down the line, almost like a twizzle.  I kind of did this, but they were pretty rough.

After my lesson I stayed for a few minutes and worked on toe loop and salchow.  Judge Ken said the toe loops are much improved, and Scott mentioned that I am definitely skating faster, which is nice ot hear.