Preliminary Test Runthrough

My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler Ice Café.  Nice ice and 4 skaters.

I warmed up with edges, FO8 and FI8 and scribed some circles (we wound up not using them).

For today's lesson Danette wanted to run through the Preliminary test:

• Edges -- generally quite good, except the BO8 I pushed too hard on the 2nd lobe and almost fell forward, then trying to recover the lobe was huuuuuge. I did manage to keep going though. The BI edges were really nice!
• FO8 -- layout in a random spot.  These were pretty good, some small wobbles.  I was having a hard time seeing my axis mark.
• FI8 -- layout in a random spot. I chose a spot where there was paint so I could see my mark.  Not bad.
• waltz-8 -- ugh. We did this twice.  The good part was that I didn't fall and I did skate the figure, but it was not good.  Return to center was elongated so my circle was an egg. Ugh.

About what I expected.