Moves

My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate. Nice ice and only 4 skaters!

I warmed up with stroking, some spins, circle-8 and some crossovers.

Today's lesson:

• circle-8 -- Holly wanted to see how this looks with the blade change.  I'm getting almost all the way around, but not quite.  I feel like the remainder of the problem is definitely me -- need a better push and a little better edge.
• power-3 -- Quite a bit of time on these.  We worked on fixing the back lobe to have a real BXO which feels weird, but actually made the 3 a little better.  I think I need to be more thoughtful when I practice these to really do good BXOs and 3s.
• 5-step mohawk -- eep.  The R side is much better, but even that's a bit rough.  We worked on getting me off my toe on the BO edge.  Holly reminded me to push into it, which helps a bit to get me off the toe.  Grr.
• perimeter XOs -- just once through these.  Actually a bit better.  Holly reminded me to come into the boards more on the 2nd and 4th lobes on the FXOs -- when I do that I don't have issues with running out of rink.  The BXOs are mostly okay.

Holly asked me when I want to try to test these.  I honestly don't know.  If I can get consistent practice time then maybe the end of summer?