FO8, FI8, BO8

My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler Ice Café.

I had a half-hour warmup -- scribed circles, did edges, FO8, FI8, and waltz-8.  I have been off the ice for 2 weeks and was feeling quite rusty. Yuck.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- we used the scribed circles at first.  My pushes need to be closer to the long axis.  We also worked a little on upper body position.
• FI8 -- scribed circles.  Not too bad, but need to keep straighter posture from the beginning and not be forward.
• layouts -- we laid out FO8 and FI8 in random spots.  Generally pretty good.
• BO8 -- we worked on keeping the skating shoulder back on the first part of the circle (R side) and then to do a better push (keep the free foot in front!) on the L side.  The R side is looking good, the L side needs more work.

We discussed the upcoming competition -- we decided I'll do FO8, FI8 and BO8 (eep).