Basics

My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler Ice Cafe.  Nice ice, 5 skaters.  I warmed up with edges, scribed circles, and ran through FO8 and FI8.  I had a little extra time so I started working on my step forward.

Today's lesson:

• step forward -- we worked on these on the line, and then on the hockey circle.  Ugh.  A large part of it is the upper body position, and keeping my back to the circle.  Yikes.
• waltz-8 -- just a couple of minutes on this, doing the steps on the hockey circle and not on a smaller circle.
• 3s -- we naturally flowed into these from the waltz-8.  Working to not force the turn and to try to keep the upper body quieter.  I did some nice ones, but a lot of not-so-nice ones also.  eeep.