Spins, Backspin Prep

My lesson with Holly on the 8:15 FS at Gilbert.  Mediocre ice, 10 skaters and about 5 coaches.

I had not skated free style since Autumn Antics!  Between one thing and another it just hasn't worked.  So I was pretty rusty on my warmup!  Ugh.  I warmed up with some laps of stroking, then worked on the spin exercise for a bit.

Today's lesson:

• spins -- we started by working on the spin exercise some more, then from the windup.  I actually got some pretty good ones!  It was encouraging.
• backspin prep -- we had talked about me learning something new (it seems it's been forever since I learned something new), so we decided to work on backspin.  I had worked on this a bit with JJ a long time ago, but never got very far.  Holly had me do a variation on the forward spin exercise I've been doing just to get the feel for spinning on the opposite foot. Eeep!  It's so weird.  Anyway, a good start and clearly I will need to work on this a lot.