Bronze Moves, Jumps

My lesson with Holly on the 7:30 a.m. FS at Gilbert -- our new timeslot.  Nice ice and just 4 or 5 skaters!

I warmed up with stroking, some crossovers and some work on circle-8.

Today's lesson:

• perimeter XOs -- meh.  Still slow, FXOs still stinky.  Other than that not too bad.
• power-3s -- still stinky.
• BXOs to BO edges -- mostly okay.  Still too slow and need to bring the pattern into the boards more.
• circle-8 -- uck.  This was my best move when I tested and now it's just awful.  I don't know what's going here. 
• 5 step mohawk -- still scratchy and uncontrolled, but better than it was.
• more circle-8 -- we spent several minutes trying to improve my push and flow, without much progress. :-(
• jumps  -- a couple of waltz jumps (okay) and a number of salchows (meh). My salchows are not as good as they were a couple of weeks ago -- either I just step over them, or I jump too late.  Grr.
• 3s -- a couple of minutes at the very end -- just working on the RFO3 to get it more controlled.  Yuck.

No lesson next week due to scheduling issues :-(.