Power

I had my power lesson with Holly (makeup for last week's missed lesson) today on the Gilbert adult skate. Nice ice, as always, and just 3 skaters and 2 coaches.  I worked on the forward-8 from Bronze moves and it flows really nicely, which does make me think the blade alignment is a lot better now.

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- of course.  Just one lap.  Holly thinks I look more steady with these boots.  I'm not so sure.
• slaloms -- one lap.
• swizzles -- forward and back, a lap each.  Not too bad.
• half-swizzles -- around the circle, each side for... a while.  Ugh.  My quads weren't happy after the first couple of circles.
• power-3s -- just the LFO side.  We worked on the back lobe, mostly -- stepping to a a BI (not BO) edge after the 3, getting the head turned and a real BXO.  Some progress, I think.  I really hate these things, and this was the good side!

She kind of took it easy on me, I think, since this was our first time back in a while AND I have new boots.  I was still pretty wiped out though.