Preliminary Test, BO8, 3s

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler Ice Café. I warmed up with edges and scribed circles.  I had had my blades sharpened on Saturday but they were fine.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- weird.  I couldn't make it around on the RFO. It happened 4 times!  I am assuming something about the sharpening was weird.  Oh well.  I fixed it.
• FI8 - good.
• waltz-8 -- some progress here.  I don't know if it was having sharp blades or what but I was doing a better job of holding the circle on the BO edge and stepping forward without stepping out so much.  We did this a couple of times and worked on some specific parts.  Yay!  Still a long way to go.
• BO8 -- ugh.  Not so great, in particular getting that first circle was really rough and I kept running out of steam or cutting into the circle.  Yuck.
• 3s to center -- About the same.

After my lesson I worked a little on alternating 3s.  They were a little better.