Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  I just had a very brief warmup (stroking, perimeter XOs) and then we got started...

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- as usual.  This is still scary and I think I could probably go a little bit faster than I am.  Eeep.
• FXOs -- we did these around the circle for a bit, in both directions.  The CW ones were not as bad as I was expecting.  I tend to push so that I'm too forward on the blade on the inside foot, though, and that is unsettling/scary/unstable.  Trying to fix that.
• FXO pattern --  I whined about how slow I am in the perimeter FXOs, so we spent a little time working on that.  We fixed some things but I still feel like I'm slow :-(.
• lunges --  one length of the rink pushing Holly and then a whole lap around the rink on my own (first time).  Yikes.  I was able to do them though they were pretty awkward at times.
• fast swizzles -- a lap of swizzles as fast as I could go.  My quads were already aching from the lunges!  yikes.

All in all good stuff.