Preliminary Test

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler Ice Café.  We started right away, no warmup.

Today's lesson:

• edges -- These were pretty good.  We spent a little time looking at the BI edges push to try to get a really good start with no BO edge and no flat.  I improved it somewhat. Key is to not widestep and to really turn the foot out.
• FO8 -- just okay.  The RFO was pretty weak the first 2 circles, LFO was okay.
• FI8 -- nice.
• waltz-8 -- Not so great.  Circle shape was really poor, and forget about tracing.  We spent the rest of the lesson working on this.  Lynne drew me some circles, which helped a lot -- clearly I'm not ready to take off the training wheels on these :-(.

After my lesson I spent the rest of my time working on waltz-8, BI8 and also BO8.  The BO8s were really nice :-)