Plugging Along

My figures lesson with Lynne on the Chandler Ice Café.  Nice ice and just 2 skaters!  I scribed circles and warmed up with edges.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- random layout.  First RFO still kind of large, and some other issues.  We did another layout and it was better so we moved on.
• FI8 -- random layout.  Some small issues but generally okay.
• waltz-8 -- About the same.  We took some time to work on the 3s as they were being a little problematic and I'm having issues holding the exit, which throws me off a bit subsequently.  We were able to make a good improvement in the 3s -- not so jumpy.  The trick is to come "up" but not too far up!  Still feel the ball of the foot/rocker pressing into the ice.  This helped a lot.

After my lesson I worked a bit on BO8 and serpentines.