Moves

My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  Nice ice and about 7 skaters.  I warmed up with stroking and crossovers, and a little time on 3s and circle-8.

Today's lesson:

• 3s -- about 10 minutes on these, sort of a continuation of my work with Danette yesterday.  We worked these on the crease.  They were about the same.
• circle-8 -- about the same as before -- still having problems getting around on the R foot.  Ugh.
• BXOs to BO edges -- These are actually not bad.
• power-3s -- we ran these and then worked on the back lobe.  I need to pull the shoulder back on the back lobe as I'm coming into the back choctaw; as it is I'm blocking myself from being able to step forward.  Ugh.

In the middle of looking at the circle-8, we spent some time looking at the blade alignment on my right skate.  I never feel like I'm quite over my blade on the right foot and it's difficult to feel I have a good RO edge.  Holly thinks my right blade is not aligned correctly, so I'm going to take it to Kelly to take a look and perhaps move it, just a little bit.