Patch Perseverance
I skated the 11:45 a.m. adult freestyle at Chandler today (no Ice Café for the next 2 months). No lesson this week, so I just had patch practice. Besides the usual gang of crazies, it was nice to see Elena, Katy, and Caitlin on the session today! I had not seen Caitlin in many moons, she's been off the ice.
I ran through edges - I had to remind myself to make 5 lobes, not 4, so I took more time with them than usual. Then I ran FO8 and FI8. After that I went on to spend some time on the back edge exercise Danette gave me... the LBO is still a struggle to get the weight back on the blade.
After that I went on to work on BO8 for a bit. These were actually really nice! I'm not sure if it's because of the exercise I had just done, or what, but they just felt really easy and confident. Yay! I finished up with some time on 3s. I worked mostly on RFO3 and I did get better at holding the entry longer, and pushing down on the pinky toe as I go into the turn. So, they did improve. Then I spent a little time on LFO3 and of course these were much, much better.
All in all good practice!
I ran through edges - I had to remind myself to make 5 lobes, not 4, so I took more time with them than usual. Then I ran FO8 and FI8. After that I went on to spend some time on the back edge exercise Danette gave me... the LBO is still a struggle to get the weight back on the blade.
After that I went on to work on BO8 for a bit. These were actually really nice! I'm not sure if it's because of the exercise I had just done, or what, but they just felt really easy and confident. Yay! I finished up with some time on 3s. I worked mostly on RFO3 and I did get better at holding the entry longer, and pushing down on the pinky toe as I go into the turn. So, they did improve. Then I spent a little time on LFO3 and of course these were much, much better.
All in all good practice!
posted by Gordon @ 5:18 PM
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