Preliminary Test

My lesson with Lynne on the Chandler adult FS today... nice ice, 5 skaters.

I warmed up with edges and FO8/FI8, followed by some 3s.  My FO8 was horrible and 3s were not cooperating on the R foot.

Today's lesson:

• blade issue -- I had Lynne look at my R blade. It is a little uneven, but only at the very front end of the blade so it's not likely to be an operational problem. *phew*
• FO8 -- yuck!  We worked on it for probably 10 minutes before I was mostly getting around okay, esp. on R foot (but not exclusively).  It's all upper body position, plus Lynne said that when I started the first time, I set my R foot and then turned it out as I actually started!  Eeep.
• FI8 -- not bad, actually. Could have a little more flow.
• waltz-8 -- only 10 minutes on this.  Actually the L side was not bad but I was having issues with the RFO3, especially on the restart -- I come in a bit fast and on a bit of a flat so I could not get myself to even attempt the turn. We spent a lot of time on this. Yuck.  I'll have to spend quality time on this on Tuesday as it was just a massive time suck :-(