Moves

 My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  Good ice, about 10 skaters.  I had about a 25 minute warmup, so I did circle-8 and perimeter XOs.

Today's lesson:

• power-3s -- ran them twice.  They were better!  The threes were better, even on the RFO3.  Gliding backward on two feet before the step forward is helping me do a better step.  Hopefully I'm building muscle memory.  Holly says eventually we'll trick me by picking up one foot :-).  We'll see. Still need to hold the entrance a little longer but even that was bette.r
• circle-8 -- just like in practice yesterday, I was able to get around the whole time -- barely.  I did make the circles a little smaller too, which helped.
• 5-step mohawk -- we did these a couple of times and then just worked on the L foot.  I use this mohawk for my spin entrance (it's okay there), so I tried to go into it as if I were going to do a spin.  I think that helped, because I was able to hold the BI edge (2nd step) a bit longer so it wasn't so choppy.  These are better.

Holly wants me to test, and I do too, but  I still feel like I need to be a bit more solid on this.  I need more ice time!

I'm going to send my skates for sharpening next week or so.  It's definitely time.