Bronze Moves; 3s; Jumps

My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  This is my last lesson in this time slot 'til fall, sigh!  As usual nice ice and just 3 skaters!

I warmed up with stroking and some edges and circle-8, which was not so great.

Today's lesson:

• perimeter XOs -- still too slow, and no underpush on FXOs.  But the pattern is good and the BXOs were mostly okay.
• power-3s  -- ugh. Still pretty horrible, but I get through them.
• BXOs to BO edges -- getting better.  I mostly remembered to get my arms right, speed was better and the pattern was okay.  I need to hold the last one out a bit more.  I don't think I look comfortable going backward though and I have to fix that as I think I got dinged on it on the test before.
• circle-8 -- better than in my warmup.  Actually it was fine except I didn't make it around on the RFI circle, I just didn't push hard enough.  The rest of it was good though.
• 5-step mohawk -- this is getting better. Still dragging my toepick on the BO edge on the L foot though.  But pushing "out" more on the LFI mohawk really fixed that side a lot, thank goodness.
• 3s -- after running the test (which took about... 15 minutes?) we worked on power-3s and especially the step forward into the 3.  I think we made some progress.
• jumps -- we finished with a waltz jump, which was pretty good, and one salchow -- which was really good! Good takeoff and landed on one foot!  I was stoked.

I am off the ice next week, and when we come back we will be in our new timeslot (Friday mornings early, ugh!)