Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.

Today's lesson:

• stroking - of course.
• lunges -- right after stroking, and I was going (relatively) fast, so I was like "at this speed?!!" and of course she said "yes".  Actually they were not bad, and they don't scare me anymore so that's good.
• BXOs -- alternating down the length of the rink for a whole lap.  I was not impressed but Holly says they are not that bad.
• slaloms -- of course.  2 laps!! Ugh.  Although I was kind of okay for the first lap, it's after that that it was bad.  They have improved, though.
• BXOs -- on the circle.  As it happened we started with the harder side first.  I did get some improvement in staying down and decreasing the amount of scraping.  When we switched to the easier side, it was like night and day :-).  They actually weren't bad at all.
• toe hops -- ugh.  alternating toe hops to each side down the line.  They got much better but I wouldn't say they weren't awkward.
• and of course -- another lap :-)

And with that... I skated every day this week!  A total of about 5 hours.  Not bad.