Moves

 My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  Not so great ice -- 10 skaters and 3 coaches.

I got my freestyle skates back from my amazing tech on Monday, so I wasn't looking forward to the adjustment period.  I had about 20 minutes to warm up, though, so by the end of that I was fine.  Once again we worked on Bronze moves.

• circle-8 -- I was hoping that newly sharpened blades would fix all my issues with these, but alas it was not so.  Indeed I was having trouble even on the LFO, which had been okay in the past.  We worked on it a bit without much success, then moved on.
• 5-step mohawk -- not bad, actually.  I'm doing better at remembering to really push back onto the 3rd step (BO edge).  I did have some issues on the first left foot set but other than that pretty good.
• BXOs to BO edges -- these were pretty nice.  I'm doing a better job at really pushing into each BO edge and getting a nice rip.  Hopefully that will impress the judges :-)
• power-3s -- I'm still cheating the step forward (2-foot entrance) for the R foot.  It's all getting better though.  We worked on holding the entrance a bit longer and making some progress on that too.  They're still not as clean as I would like but I feel like I'm making progress.

All in all a good lesson!