Still Workin' It

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler Ice Cafe as usual.  I warmed up with edges and scribed my circles as usual. Good ice and only 3 skaters and 1 coach.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- since I'd not warmed up, we went ahead and laid out FO8 (and FI8) in random places on the ice.  FO8 was okay, for not being warmed up.  A bit of trouble on the 2nd LFO as I didn't hold my free shoulder back.  Circle size was okay, tracing not bad and I made the first RFO an okay size for once, yay!
• FI8 -- a random layout.  This was actually pretty good.  Good tracing, and circle size, while still smaller than FO, was more comparable than it's been.
• waltz-8 -- almost 20 minutes on these.  It was all over the place, but did improve.  I find that it's really hard for me to retain my progress though.  I really need to find more patch time.  The step forward is still the biggest hurdle.  I did find that counting to 8 on the BO edge helps me a lot -- I really need to remember to do this every time!